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UNIX Neckbeard here:

Magnets use to affect the magnetic hard drives (spinning platter, HDD) that were inside computers. This was especially bad because it would erase data permanently. It was the main concern about magnet+computer that everyone was worried about. CRT monitors were affected by magnets, but the inbuilt degauss or a handheld degaussing coil would usually correct the issue.

If your device has solid state storage (basically everything nowadays) that concern went away. Any other issues (like affecting the compass or accelerometer in a phone) are only temporary.

I have never heard of a magnetic field damaging an LCD and a quick google search says that's a myth. Pressing on an LCD will damage it, so maybe a really strong magnet that was placed on an LCD that had ferrous metal behind it physically broke some LCDs and the myth was born, when really it was just pressure that broke the LCD.

What about batting?

Do you want it to be so complicated that no one you know in real life is able to use it for more than two weeks before they make some kind of mistake or change that deletes their entire message history and identity? Matrix

Do you want a slim chance that friends and family might use it, but you have to listen to privacy nutjobs tell you your app is a CIA NSA PsyOp and you might as well cc: potus(at)whitehouse(dot)gov all your messages, it's run by an american non-profit obviously it can't be trusted? Signal

Depends on who is writing the history books

Reagan only won 50.7% of the popular vote. However because of the electoral college, he "won" the vast majority of states.

Read up on the Electoral College for details on how that works.

it's been a hot minute since ive been on reddit, but iirc shadowbanned means "it appears I can interact, but in fact my posts and comments are silently being hidden from other users"

it looks like you're just straight up being banned.

You're not being judged for looking at Yu-Gi-Oh porn, you're being judged for not cropping it out of a publicly distributed screenshot.

I solemnly swear that even in 26.3.1 it is not reading my keypresses properly.

I used to type like a fiend but for several years the typing experience is degraded. Is is multitouch somehow trying to read something between my two thumbs?

Also that period key that appears when I'm in the URL bar but typing a search with spaces that are all suddenly dots and it thinks it's a malformed URL? OMG move it or kill it with fire.

The client is open source, so it doesn't matter what the server code is, you can see everything the client sends and therefore tell what possible data is being collected.

It's run by a non-profit so there's no shareholders to please.

Your messages and decryption key are not stored on their servers.

It's been independently audited.

They have publicly posted responses to user information requests where they only provide the account creation date and last access time.

The (admittedly incompetent) US government recommends using Signal (for non-classified information) and top officials have been caught using it (Houthi Working Group).

You can never be 100% sure, but it appears to have excellent security and privacy.

I just leave the bowl empty of water, then flush with a separate bucket I fill from the bathtub tap.

Sure, the bowl is covered in shit stains, but at least I don't have to experience Poseidon's Kiss.

become a great chef; start cooksmaxxing.

pretty sure youtube is going to win that lil bluff.