Onno (VK6FLAB)

The thing about Severance is that from a sci-fi perspective it’s a horrifically believable story that has more than shades of Stephen King about it.

I am not a fan of horror and never have been.

In this case as an experienced sci-fi reader and technology professional, it’s ringing a little too close to home.

Can you spell Neuralink?

When I next subscribe for a month so my partner can binge watch the latest season of Severance I’ll take a look, but the disappointment with the first season of Foundation was not something I will soon forget.

I watched Season 1 of Foundation.

As a long time Isaac Asimov reader and owner of most of his sci-fi books, I was appalled at the series. It manages to completely negate the scope of the Foundation book series by ignoring the time constraints on a human lifetime, mashing in a completely different storyline involving Hari Seldon and completely murdering the whole intentions of the book series.

This was not why I think that Apple TV+ is poor value for money. It does however speak to the cultural values that Apple represents.

Having paid for Apple TV+ (and been “given” “free” access by paying for a new computer), I can tell you that it’s the least bang for buck streaming service available in Australia.

It has a miniscule library which it disguises at every opportunity by mixing in content that is available from Apple, but not included in the subscription. It makes it worse by showing content from other streaming services that require their own subscription, which it’s happy to take your money for.

The entire library list fits on a web page:

• https://www.whattowatch.com/features/apple-tv-plus-originals-the-complete-list-of-series-and-movies

In my opinion, value for money this is not.

Edit: Added link to page listing the entire library.

The email address?

I hate to break it to you, but have you heard the phrase:

Rearranging the deckchairs whilst the ship is sinking.

Whilst breaking the law is as natural as breathing to these individuals, I’d suggest that you have bigger problems on your hands and expressing dissatisfaction with their lack of process here gives a certain dopamine rush, you might instead consider directing your limited personal resources to more effective forms of protest.

As opposed to overtly?

PS. The steps are:

1. Buy domain
2. Buy email
3. Configure email provider to accept messages from your domain
4. Configure domain DNS to send email to provider

This is a big question and this is just a short reply.

Buying a domain allows you to move email provider without needing to change the address.

Start with the 5GB plan with the domain you bought.

DO NOT BUY the domain from the email provider. Make the two completely separate. Otherwise you might lose control of your own domain.

Don’t worry about migrating historical email until you’re happy with whatever you set-up.

Once it’s all running, you can then go about setting up self hosting, but I’d think twice before self-hosting email. There’s a lot of scope for your email being blocked by recipients.

Another way to go is use Gmail and redirect email from your domain to Gmail (or any other provider).

Plot twist. It never even made it to the dump. His former partner saw the drive and took it before they split up.

This site provides absolutely no evidence of any of its claims and even includes the following little gem in the FAQ section on that page:

Is PayPal Safe?

Yes, all Paypal transactions are encrypted. Plus, it has two-factor authentication and fraud protection.

Safe for its customers, or safe for PayPal?

Thanks for the transcript.

In Australia there would be a legal requirement to have this fixed within a specified time. I wonder if there is a place to report this, since I suspect it likely contravenes several codes.

Forgive me, but I cannot read that.

How old are you?

I’m asking because depending on your age, you’ll likely have different options.

How do you distinguish between fake personal information and real personal information?

“Run From You”

And here I thought that the energy consumption was in the training.

Seems like natural selection in progress.

Buy a Cybertruck, fuck around, see what happens.

It also handily preselects for douche.

I get that WhatsApp is not a platform to use if you care about your privacy, but WTF is “Delta Chat” and why would I switch to it rather than say Signal?