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@Halasham @FlihpFlorp Tenno are paracausal, i.e. they don't have to obey cause-and-effect relationships, and therefore die when they get stabbed or whatever. The key is that they don't have to, but they very well may, as elsewhere it's puzzling how they'd interact with the world around them at all. Tenno may or may not die at any given time, but keep in mind that because they're unified into a single superposition of all their alternate versions, their death is final regardless of eternalism.

@nexusband @FragmentedChicken depending who you ask.

@BearOfaTime @warm at 6", even smaller hands like mine are able to reach within .5cm of the top of the screen. At that size, the weight distribution of the phone is what makes a difference in terms of manageability. For example, the weight distribution of the Pixel 6a (6.1") makes it a breeze to use with my right hand, but a tad more difficult with my left one. Using it in reverse (had to once) is impossible one-handed.

@danielfgom @Welp_im_damned wdym? I can perfectly buy Pixels from the Google store or Amazon in Spain.

@AdmiralShat @FragmentedChicken phones that support esims have actual sim chips inside, and esims basically flash the carrier data onto that chip.

@soulfirethewolf heresy! /s

@Dave beeper is not an intermediary, it does not handle the messages. An e2e imsg from an iphone A to an iphone B goes like this: A -> apple -> B. With beeper, the only difference is that either A, B, or both, ain't an iphone. Beeper is a compatibility layer kind of like wine on Linux.

@Dave I meant this dissertation:
> ... The way Apple sees the situation: ...This tiny company [Beeper] has effectively hacked a closed protocol, and now millions of users are potentially having their messages handled by a company they’ve never heard of. What’s worse, since they’re sending blue-bubble msgs, those users will assume they’re sending encrypted msgs through a trusted source — Apple — and they’ll never know about this intermediary that promises it’s trustworthy, but who really knows?

@Dave I stopped reading the moment I saw that his thesis is based on the wrong fact that Beeper Mini relays messages through their servers. It doesn't, it connects directly w/ Apple, and the code is OSS & verifiable.

@ijeff this article is factually wrong.

@WarmSoda @Ranvier in the US, especially if you're young, you're indirectly forced. Luckily here that's not the case.

@Max_P @FurtiveFugitive you know, Chrome itself is closed source.