Not going to disagree with the tough world out there, I’m just going to suggest / ask a few things that are at least somewhat in your realm of control that might help.

• If you are willing to divulge this information - how much are you making at your current job, how much do you pay for rent and what are your expenses?
• Do you have any family members or friends you can reach out for support?
• What does the cost of living look like in your area? Any other options?

You have an infinite number of uncles. Statistically, many of them are going to be billionaires, handsy creeps or creeps out to collect your hands.

Unpopular opinion - sure, it’s fair to point out the privileges that offsprings of Hollywood elites enjoy, but let’s not pretend the term “nepo baby” is not a backhanded sound bite to demean this particular group and devalue them in some way.

Personally if I’m a Hollywood elite, I’d be less offended if my kid is called “privileged” rather than “nepo baby”, but people choose the latter for this exact reason.

Solution: telefrag everything.

The reoccurring themes is that with great power comes great immorality.

I mean, this is a thing irrespective of superpowers. Just check out the latest headline about billionaires or how your country’s government is doing.

With great power comes great responsibilities, but also makes it very easy to skirt accountability, regardless if you are “super” or not.

Responding to this post, can’t comment and drive

What the hell is even that

It’s a great feature. A glimpse into the future of AI assistants.

E2EE means it’s End-to-End Encrypted. If it’s decrypted at any point during transit then it’s by definition not E2EE and Beeper shouldn’t be making that claim.

From the article, quoting statement from the company:

“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”

Welcome to 1999. Consultants have been testing code with HB pencils and plain paper for decades.

Interesting times up ahead (or behind) for Mike.

What size?

Galaxy Tab A series are budget tablets that can do the job. If you want more powerful and bigger you can go with the S7/8 FE series. S6 lite is another option but it’s running out of Android updates.

PSA: this feature requires you to opt-in to sending the names of apps on your phone to the developer. You cannot enable the feature without agreeing to send this data.

But this article is in fact completely, irrevocably, tastelessly flat.

WhatsApp is E2EE but it is run by Meta, so YMMV.

This tells me Nothing really doesn’t understand the human nature behind the whole “blue bubble / green bubble” deal - it’s stupid, don’t get me wrong, but it’s about status and exclusivity.

Trying to “fake it” stinks of desperation and will just bring the user more ridicule. Just embrace the green bubble and move on.

I’m kinda surprised another company hasn’t made something to legit compete with iMessage yet

WhatsApp, FB Messager, Telegram? RCS is also a legitimate competitor.

The blocker isn’t the tech, it’s Apple’s control of the ecosystem and iMessage’s integration to SMS on iOS / macOS. I’d imagine if Apple provides an option for user to “switch default SMS app” to a 3rd party one, there’d be no reason why any one of the above wouldn’t see a huge uplift.

By the way, the iMessage domination thing only really applies to North America. Rest of the world lives and breathes WhatsApp, WeChat, FB Messager etc.

Saving is optional - you don’t have to save a photo to be able to browse it. And yes, browsing it will take some storage space as well since the app has to download, cache and render the image somehow but that’s true for any device and just the way it works.

if you upload one from phone+tablet+computer or some other combo of devices,

How and when does that even happen?

Google Files app has a feature to identify and delete duplicates from the same device. Very handy.