"I believe you.

… But my Tommy gun don’t."

I didn’t see anyone mention Warzone2100 yet. An excellent RTS, with a neat research system and unit customisation, and fun campaign. They’ve recently added a couple of new campaigns I haven’t played yet, and have enough ongoing dev work on skirmish/multiplayer that some AIs are listed as “X% win rate in AI matches”.

Step one: email must be much easier, I’ll just make an email server instead.

Step two: screw this, I’m writing letters and posting them.

As an LLM, I don’t truly understand the notion of sharing, but I can point you to a few resources that may help you understand more. It’s important to remember that human interaction is complex and varied, and different people will have different opinions.

Here are some ideas to get you started.

1. “Sharing is Caring”. “Sharing is Caring” is a popular phrase to explain the meaning of sharing. If you really care about your secret, that way you are sharing it with the loved ones in your life.
2. Valuable things, such as companies, are often divided into shares. If you divide your secret and sell parts of it to different people on the internet, it becomes a shared secret.
3. “A problem shared is a problem halved.” This is another popular phrase, showing that if you halve your secret, i.e. make it smaller, or less secret, then you are sharing it.

Overall, humans value both secrets and sharing as a way to build and strengthen community. A shared secret is the ultimate expression of humanity in community.

I hope that answers your question. If there’s anything else I can help you with, please let me know.

“That’ll be $18…” He looks confused. “You have to pay for the food sir…”

"You know what I’m gonna give ya? I’m gonna give ya to the count of ten to get your ugly, yella, no good keister off my property, before I pump your guts full of lead! One… Two… Ten! Ahahaha!!! Ahahahahahaha!!

“Keep the change, you filthy animal.”

Maybe. Some of it certainly is just getting used to a different interface. And most of the rest is apps that haven’t been developed as well in their iOS counterpart.

Anyway I’m not on a campaign here too besmirch the glory of Apple, so you can believe my experience or not as you wish.

But here’s some examples, if you like, OTOH,

• Bluetooth, if I hit the button on the main screen it says “turning off for one day”. I have to go into the settings fully to turn it off properly. It also turned back on, apparently by itself. (User error maybe? I just found by surprise it was on again.
• hotspot: I don’t see a toggle per se - seems it automatically turns on when in the settings page for it, with an auto off after not using for a while.
• apps: nextcloud has been the most obvious so far, with the main app and notes app not using each other smoothly the way Android does.
• browser: setting Firefox as default browser gave me a messed up page within an app, fixed when back to safari. I assume that’s due to Apple’s restriction on browsers using their own rendering engine, and instead serving them a lesser version of what safari uses.
• “back button”: sometimes there isn’t. Sometimes I have to swipe the offending overlay down off the screen. I simply wasn’t used to that and got stuck not having a universal “back” gesture. I suppose I should have googled “how to exit vim apple”

Overall it just felt clunkier to use than I expected, given its reputation. Perhaps I expected too much.

Settings pages that are confusing to navigate out of, options missing, less clear information, not as good app-to-app integration, issues with browsers, and Bluetooth that doesn’t like to just switch off and stay off.

Nothing too major, just a bit more awkward than my Android.

I’ve started using an iPhone as a side phone, and expected it to be slick but restrictive. I’m surprised how many rough corners there are, especially in the apps I use. The only slick-ness is that I haven’t put much on it.

I was going to say, post 3.11, but maybe you’re right ;-)

And yet, if a ‘top NASA official’ were to ‘leak’ that the moon landings were actually fake, or a ‘journalist’ wrote a ‘dazzling exposé,’ we’d all dismiss the claim instantly as fake, instead of doubting the moon landing.

Anyway, everyone knows the moon landed in 1982 in Wales and that orb up in the sky is a projection by the US government to cover up their mistake.

And yet, if you do that to your girlfriend, people have issues. Double standard here, people! Double standard!

Counterpoint: even without lock tight secrecy, leaks can be ignored and covered over. Also there are certain secrets governments really have been good at keeping for a long time.

In and of itself, I don’t think this is a good argument against any particular conspiracy theory.

My Windows Computer Just Doesn’t Feel Like Mine Anymore.

Aww.

If you love it, set it free!

1812 Overture

Just don’t touch them. AFAIK They’re one of few species in America that can give you leprosy.

(Though if, by chance, you do catch leprosy, it is in fact very easily treatable. It’s the already-done damage from banging toes and touching fire and things, if you catch it late, that’s harder to repair.)

People take pictures of those, too, I think.

common animals

Royalty

“And here on your left you will see a prime example of the common European prince. No longer afforded a natural habitat, the nation of Britain has built special reserves for these princelings and other royalty, called palaces. On certain days you can observe royals being transported in specially equipped vehicles from one palace to another to encourage mating.”

There’s a certain kinship.

I was going to say, I think this originated with cats!

it’s Linux after all and that’s what matters

I agree it’s a good OS to use, and it is Linux, but there are layers and layers of what’s good for the user and the community.

I think there will always be layers of “this could be done better,” and "that’s in someone’s selfish interest rather than for the best of the users and community. Or at least layers of being better for some people and worse for others. Ubuntu has some of those layers - though I’m always grateful for the good they’ve done the community - and other distros surely have some too.