Im not exactly sure the mechanics of it, but when a new number is activated (or a number changes carriers, etc) it pings some database that spammers have access to, and know that that number is live. Ive had it happen every time ive hanged carriers or set up a phone for someone. Dies down to normal levels in a couple months.

I do that with the windows key…

Youre looking for an Onyx Boox tablet - a little pricey, but worth it for the un-enshitified tablet.

This about the only i still use reddit for

Same. I got a set of porter cable tools that are still going strong 19 years later (though I am on my third set of batteries).

I think every system I had prior to buildig my own a year ago had at least one drive that was secured only by cables, gravity, and misguided optimism

I take the stairs cause the elevator takes like forever to show up if you dont catch it right away

A Child is advocating for a Back Surgeon who has made a General Call? Am I reading that right?

So google manufactured a (possibly false) security risk to force users into updating to manifest v3 software?

Someone once said that using limewire was like having unprotected sex with the internet and that person was right.

Until a couple years from now when they wonder why other companies are destroying them, and they become a shell of their former self. THE literal case study on this is GE.

Ahhh, the truest sign of a company in decline, cutting costs by firing talented people.

Ive installed ReviOS on my media pcs and have been very happy with it. You install over top of a clean windows install and it takes care of all debloating automatically.

Not that I am a fan of google, but those people signed a contract that prohibits certain behavior, so I cant really blame the company this time.

$8million isn’t even a rounding error to them…

But just imagine being the one to prove the existence of the insulindian phasmid!

Im using ReviOS on my non-gaming/work systems right now as a trial - its windows 11,but strips out all the crapware. So far Im liking it.

My old apartment had one int the bathroom medicine cabinet, and that building was built in 1974.

…that wasn’t water #chemistry

*Glad it all worked out of your end.