Sign me up for a graphene razr ultra please and thank you. Dont have any issue with self install if it doesnt ship that way

My apprehensions are fine thanks. You’re just not looking very hard.

Inventor of the television - John Logie Baird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird

Inventor of the telephone - Alexander Graham Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

On the MRI - per the wikipedia link you posted but may not have read thoroughly. “During the 1970s, a team led by John Mallard built the first full-body MRI scanner at the University of Aberdeen.” I’ll grant I could have been more specific.

If you want to argue invention exists at the point of theory instead of physical creation, then i suspect you will struggle find much that wasn’t posited, theorised, described or conceived in some way before America was colonised.

American exceptionalism is a thing…

I think we have a semantic disagreement there. The world wide web was another term for the global interconnected network also know as the internet. Arpanet wasn’t scalable to the internet until Tim’s work.

But if that’s your only point of dispute with my comment i think we think more in common than we disagree.

Sorry but i dont think America has given the world all that much in he grand scheme of things. 100 years seems an arbitrarily short timeline - even my local pub would be a long way from qualifying for that.

Arpanet was American, leveraging a lot of research, particularly from the UK and France. The internet though? you have the thank a Brit for that; Tim Berners-Lee was responsible for the birth of the interconnected hyperlinked network we called the internet.

The US did however invent many other recent and society altering things like enshittification, the rot economy, surveillance capitalism, felony contempt of business model, fake taxis, fake hotels, the billionaire class, and social media, the privatised prison system and its legalised slave labour force, and Epstein island. I’m sure i could think of more if i put my mind to it.

For some things invented elsewhere you could start in Scotland.
Some of these will predate 1926, but pretty much all are still pretty important in daily life.

Scots invented television, the telephone, mri machines, refrigerators, mammal cloning, penicillin, disposable contact lenses, ATM machines, colour photography, the flushing toilet and the s-bend that stops it stinking, hypodermic syringes, steam engines, fingerprinting, vacuum flasks, pneumatic tyres, tarmac, and lightbulbs.

They killed assistant and claimed the unwilling transfer as growth. Shitty journalism or a shitty headline? Either way bad …

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Home had 4 windows machines a year ago. Now 1 windows machine, a raspberry pi, and 4 linux machines… reckon theres still a real move under the data. Ai may be part but its not all or most.

I agree with you completely on the phones. Ergonomic nightmares on top of all the mtx and game quality issues.

But i think the retro handheld community deserves a bit more consideration than dismissed as museums. They allow portable access to decades of games. Most of which are far more suited to the 20-30 minutes sessions you describe than any games of more recent days. The blast you have on a 3ds? You can build on that. Either by jailbreaking other platforms (PSP?) or get a newly built device of similar size which adds greater convenience (battery life, usb-C, etc) and add the ability to emulate most consoles. Up to say, Ps3 era and you have decades of options in any genre.

Not sure you are going to find any answers if that isnt going to scratch your itch.

Ive personally never had the multiplayer itch i think you ae referring to and havent played a fraction of the games that habe intrigued me over the years.

Whether or not you can find someone based on their phone number is based on a user setting. Each person chooses whether or not they can be found by their phone number.
Go to Settings - Privacy - Phone number.

Really though, this is an excuse more than a roadblock.

I find people oddly resistant to an additional message app, yet they gleefully download a new app at every carpark they visit. People are odd.

Border pigs have cellebrite, assume they can access anything left intact.

If it botherw you, wipe it, if it doesnt, you dont really need a duress pin. But login to one profile and cellebrite can get the rest.

And yet, it does matter.

That would be an interesting proposition… under duress load profile x and delete all other profiles, apps, settings and keys.

And thats why you dont travel to countries with ropey regimes

Loading any profile allows the operating system access to root privileges, and opens potential for user privilege escalation.

I have lots of contempt for their business models. Felonious and otherwise. 😂

No airgap = no containment

In all likelihood, this is a BS piece to make people think the models are intelligent.

If its not, then openai are utterly incompetent and reckless.

Tai chi, yoga, pilates are regular targets.

Its not leadership to oversee or dictate all activity of your staff.
It is your job to resolve or remove anything that prevents, disrupts or makes it harder for your staff to do their job. Take that philosophy and you’ll do fine.

PC hardware is not vendor controlled. They can’t delete your game because sales of the sequel are low or a license agreement ran out. Buying is owning on a pc where the game can be backed up, reinstalled on new machine etc. without any need for the agreement or permission of the publisher. You bought it. Can’t do any of that on console. Cant back up to your own systems, cant copy and if the console vendor decides to withdraw it from your library and delete from your device, you cant stop them (short of never connecting the device to the internet again) Historically console physical media has had a good second hand market, no such thing without physical media.

You’ll hand your money over, own nothing and have no recourse.

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