CupDock

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, the hardest part of Signal is convincing everyone you text to use it. Though, once you do, it's awesome!

SMS as a protocol is pretty bunk. I'm not sure any app can save it. That's why I just stick to the default SMS app. Well, that, and because that app is made by Anrdoid and your carrier, who can already track everything anyway, so there's no (extra) privacy hit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Signal / Matrix when possible and default sms app when not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Two random nouns

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I had PB&J ice cream once. Maybe not my favorite, but it was yummy and memorable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Fed has massively increased interest rates in the past year or so to fend off a recession. That's in part what led to the recent bank failures, because the banks made stupid investments hinging on low interest rates. As a whole, it's been working wonders for the economy. Things have been stabilizing and fears of a recession have lowered.

In short, yes, 4.15% is on the good side, but it's also pretty common in the US right now. Some savings accounts have 5%+ last time I checked, though those are harder to come by and often have stupid rules attached.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I don't disagree, but it's an important distinction to make that Apple is not the bank in this scenario. Goldman Sachs is the bank. Apple is basically just whitelabeling in the same way every store nowadays wants you to get their credit card. Macy's giving you a credit card with their name on it does not make them a bank. Same goes for Apple.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, hence the unusual spike in this case

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Normally pre-loading helps to even the load. For automatic updates, Steam strategically distributes them to even the load.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Another helpful community lost to the data blackhole that is Discord :(

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why are they reimagining anything? Hasn't BattleBit proven that what Battlefield really needs is to go back to its roots? Just make Bad Company 3!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

The best argument I've hard in favor of dealers is that they introduce competition in sales of a single brand of vehicle. Instead of Ford having a monopoly on Ford vehicles and selling for MSRP only, you can shop around Ford dealerships that all sell the same product but have to compete with eachother on price or whatever.

That system starts to break down when, like in recent years, dealerships collectively decide to stop selling vehicles for MSRP or below and all tack on thousands of bullshit dealership markup fees. Also dealerships are exclusively run by scum of the Earth which massively taints the entire car shopping experience.

 
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@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they're salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they're trying to "fuck your entire site up" but I imagine it's a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they're creating, LMAO.

 
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