Effort is not really a part of the equation for a lot of people. Usually it’s just “I don’t want to switch”.

That’s great but this does not account for the dynamics of a Discord server.

Let’s say 8 people are hanging out in Discord, playing games or whatever. Should I then message all 8 of them a link to join a separate voice chat? The response would be “no, just join Discord of you want to talk”. That also requires me to know who are in the call (therefore already using Discord anyways), since if I just message one or two of them I would be splitting the party, which they won’t do.

The whole “hanging out in Discord and whoever wants to join just joins” dynamic is difficult to replace with a zoom-type voice chat that requires you to initiate a call with a link.

I have already tried switching people to signal from Facebook messenger. Didn’t work. All it takes is one person to not want to switch and the whole group will end up going back. And that’s just a messaging service. Discord is way more complicated to switch from since it is more of an all-in-one thing.

Counterpoint: My friends don’t use them (and won’t switch)

I mean OP just said “nah” when asked to follow the rules. That would be enough for me to remove the post but then again I’m not the mod

Not 0.05% but I was top 0.5% of The Strokes listeners who have 12.6M monthly listeners. Not sure what that number can tell you though

I did. I don’t see how Linux Mint changes anything I said though.

Any OS is resistant if you disable the usb ports but other than that there is not much you can do. Just dont plug in random cables or usb sticks into your computer

Isn’t that one of the colors Bob Ross was always using?

Isn’t this basically what happens in that x-men movie when magneto breaks out of prison?

I’m European. My whole family (except me) uses iMessage and all my friends use iMessage or Facebook messenger. Its a problem here too.

I agree with you, but as always its not that simple. For a lot of people all their friends use iMessage and refuse to use anything else because “it’s what I already use”. When you have a PlayStation and all your friends use Xbox, then being able to talk to them despite the security implications becomes quite an attractive feature.

JavaScript is wrong

History and cookies are not generally a security vulnerability. Cookies can be a vulnerability but only if the hacker gets access to your device somehow, either by stealing it or through a virus for example. You don’t really have to worry about cookies or history for security reasons, only privacy reasons.

Who cares? She obviously has the qualifications and competence so what does it matter if she is into herbs and shit?

I feel like this metaphor is getting out of hand

Not necessarily. If you know that your pants are at the bottom then you can just plunge your hand into the pile and grab them without any searching.

🚫 Insulting the intelligence of the recipient by way of apology:

• “I’m sorry for not being more clear”
• “I’m sorry about being so misleading”

How are those insulting? Saying that I should have been more clear means I am the one who messed up by not communicating properly. Something like “sorry that you misunderstood” would be insulting since it places the blame on the recipient’s intelligence.

It was just an example. There are a thousand other ways to break the latch without messing up the rest of the car

I mean I like bashing on Tesla as much as the next guy, but any car can end up like this regardless of price. They probably bumped into something that broke the locking mechanism and this is probably just a temporary solution until they get it replaced.

I have no idea what that sentence means