I’m only aware of GameNative because the post above this talks about it, but apparently yes

I don’t think this is something new, there has always been “spear phishing”, i.e. targeted scams. The scattergun approach to spam still exists separately, it’s just that the targeted scams are now easier to set up.

I also remember agonising over paying a quid and feeling like a jammy bastard as the service continued after I didn’t cough up

Interestingly WhatsApp used to be an exclusively premium service, I remember buying three years of it in around 2011

Snapchat still exists? This is like reading that Angry Birds is making redundancies; a flashback to the early days of smartphones that I haven’t even thought about this decade.

Lol, can’t believe I missed that

Prime gaming has been giving away codes for actual stores for the last few years at least

The PC version is on Epic so it’s not the craziest of ideas

Does it?

I can currently hold down a key (del or f12?) when powering on to choose between the Linux disk and the Windows disk, that’s my current dual-boot setup. I also installed each one with the other disk disconnected. I remember the Windows update rebooting into Linux unless I interrupted it too.

You say Windows was on a separate drive, but then you talk about dual booting. Do you mean that Windows was on another partition on a shared drive, or do you have two separate hard drives?

I assumed dual booting just means having multiple OSs installed, does it specifically mean having them on the same disk? I have separate disks, so hopefully no need for partitioning shenanigans.

What problem are you trying to solve?

Partly redundancy, if I mess up one then I’ve still got the other; partly for supporting people, I’ve set up non-techies on both and I want to be able to load up the same system myself when I need to help them.

You’re right, I’ll sleep on a big pile of possibly-broken cables like a dragon

True, I really should label which ones are actually good. Well, really I could just chuck the bad ones!

I’ve got about 5 USB-C cables but I must have accumulated about 50 micro-USBs over the years!

Maybe all the phones are better now the technology has matured a bit?

Do they last a long time? I thought one of the main criticisms was always the planned obsolescence.

I just picked him because he’s probably the most well known bullshit-merchant “face” of a tech company, feel free to swap him out for someone even worse!

Oh really? Not something I’ve ever noticed, batteries degrade and apps become more resource-hungry but most of the devices just keep on doing their thing.

Yeah who is this person and where are they getting this idea from? Are they one of those “reviewers” who tries a £100 phone from an unknown manufacturer and scoffs that it’s not as good as their £1000 iPhone?

Copy paste of my own comment:

The paranoid security-obsessed developer who is focused on making the best software to the point of being rude and isolationist is not the kind of person I’d want to hang out with but kind of is the person I want doing security work for the device I have all my personal info on. Sure it would be nicer if they weren’t so abrasive but I’d rather they channel an angry Linus Torvalds than some slick weasel-wordy Steve Jobs.