I'd buy it in a hot heartbeat, so long as they don't make the same mistake as their predecessor: I MUST be able to root the phone. The last Blackberries had all sorts of enhancements to make that quite impossible. No thanks.

I'm old enough to remember NCSA Mosaic, and actually used it.

Did you conveniently forget Netscape Navigator Vs. Internet Explorer? Netscape lost, badly. And I still clung to Netscape for the longest time, because at least it wasn't IE - I didn't jump ship until Seamonkey.

Point is, we actually have quite a few more options these days. Me, I mostly use Pale Moon.

Will be "hacked" within 24 hours of its public release.

r/Drama is one of the most malevolent, cruel, coldhearted online communities you'll ever find, and even as a supporter of free speech it appalls me that Reddit would allow such a vile, festering hub of bigotry and sadism to exist. You think [slur]town was bad?

That subreddit, if you pick up on the dog-whistles (and many don't even bother with that-- say want you want about Stormfront, at least it bans "n[slur]"), will reveal itself to you as Reddit's number one hub for the web's most hardened Nazis, Klansmen, Fascists, and Gamergaters.

You'll notice on the sidebar that it encourages members to be as dramatic as possible. That's intentional. They encourage arguments in the comments section. That's intentional.

You know the Three Minute Hate (it's from this underrated book 1985, give it a read, it's scary how much it parallels our society)? It's like that, they want to stoke the flames of reactionary rage so they continue to dogpile every progressive and minority who enters the subreddit, normalizing these evil feelings.

They brigade from subreddit to subreddit, having an entire cabal of mods spanning hundreds of communities, gaslighting lived experiences of the oppressed and unashamedly bolstering Reddit's homegrown white supremacy movement. They've kink-shamed hundreds of people too, some even... to death.

I fear that r/drama may be producing an entire army of Dylann Roofs and Elliot Rogers, and I highly suggest that nobody dares visit that horrible subreddit, lest you potentially fall victim to its corruptive aura.

Of COURSE I'll go back to the physical store - the entire experience of ordering online groceries has been bad.

1) Highly limited slots. Until recently, you had to wait a full two weeks before any slots were available. Sometimes even that wasn't enough, all slots were taken even a full two weeks out - too bad, try again tomorrow. My partner and I had to take to setting up our own accounts and alternating every other week between two different stores.

2) No substitutions! If the exact brand of butter you wanted is out? Fuck you, see you in two weeks. So our every other week order was missing 50% or more of what we ordered. As a result we have been forced to over-order. Instead of ordering one brand of butter, we order two different ones. Maybe we'll get one of them. Or both. Or none.

3) Delays. We've sat there in a parking lot like a couple of assholes for an hour, more than once, because our order wasn't ready when they explicitly told us that it was, in fact, ready to be picked up at the appropirate time. To their credit, sometimes we were informed before we left the house there was a delay, and we adjusted our plans.

1) Get a VPS. I've been on transip.eu for quite a few years now.
2) Install your distro. I use Debian, YMMV.
3) Install iRedMail (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iredmail.org%2F). It automates the installation of your mail server, and protects it with fail2ban.
4) Point your domain name toward the VPS

Done, probably.

I work for a small startup company. We had a user whose computer had a bad hard drive, and he needed to get back online ASAP. I had a Linux Mint machine I was working on (XFCE, not Cinnamon), so I temporarily lent that to him. I installed Chromium and Slack, which should have given it everything he needed. I came in the next day to find the computer I had lent him gone and back by my desk.

He freaked straight the fuck out. It wasn't Windows, so he just straight panicked and didn't know what to do with himself. The very act of attempting a change was too much for the guy, he chose instead to work off of his phone for a few hours until his old computer was restored.

In short, unless it looks and acts just like Windows, users will reject it out of hand.

I escaped it.

I purchased a phone that could be rooted, and did so. Then I installed xPrivacy.

xPrivacy feeds false location information to all apps on the phone. So far as all of my apps are concerned I am standing on Chistmas Island. Similarly, I am also feeding my apps false advertising IDs and false phone ID numbers.

I read all of William Gibson's books from Neuromancer all the way through All Tomorrow's Parties, and I gave the hell up. None of them even approach the quality of Neuromancer. The only one that was any good at all was Idoru, and that was no Neuromancer.

At this stage I am convinced that William Gibson didn't actually write Neuromancer, at least not on his own. I think, at best, it was a joint project with John Shirley and Bruce Sterling, and Gibson himself may or may not have been involved.