BearOfaTime

Many of us have been saying the ADL is shit for decades now.

Must be an associate of Achmed.

Nah, they already have your email, and Play services could track that too. They just want to make sure they're the only ones tracking your email.

Any kind of breeze. FTFY

Lol, of all the people to choose, Bev is the one that would like it the most!

You could've made a joke about her giving the pill to the captain, since she had a thing for him, and all but got down and dirty in his "ready room".

There's a current meme about her banging a ghost, haha.

Well before.

And "refuse to change their ways" - are you going to underwrite the project to implement a transition and hold all the liability for the risks?

Its not like changing systems is just a click of a button, this is an extensive project, that you better get right or you're dealing with records going the wrong way, potentially having serious life and safety implications.

Plus, you have to maintain this legacy fax system because not everyone else has migrated to something new. So for the remainder of your career, it still doesn't go away, and you'll have to continue to pay for its maintenance.

Companies have systems they've built up over years, that works. They'll move forward as it makes fiscal sense.

"embedded in many workflows"

Key statement right there.

And once people see what that really means, and what it would take to move past it (including time, cost, and risk), they may start to understand. You're dealing with it first hand, so you know what's involved.

It became the de facto way to send stuff with high confidence it went to the right place. Then tech addressed the paper-to-paper over one phone line issue with modem banks into a fax server. So all the same fundamental comm tech (so fully backwards-compatible), but a better solution for the company with that infrastructure. Such a company has little motivation to completely change to something new, since they'd have to retain this for anyone that hasn't switched. Chicken-and-egg problem, that's slowly moving forward.

It'll be a long time before it's gone completely. Perhaps in 20 years, but I suspect fax will still be around as a fallback/compatibility.

Right?

Let's see, Pythagorean theorem, is what, a couple thousand years old, and a single statement, right? And it's the foundation of geometry and trig. Hell, I regularly say it in my head (a2+b2=c2) when trying to figure out spatial relationships, for dumb stuff no less (will this table fit on my patio with room to walk around it?).

It's how you ensure anything you're trying to make square is square. In framing (shed, house, deck, whatever) it's used to ensure you setup your string in the proper orientation and don't end up with a parallelogram.

And the Periodic table.... The bloody basis of understanding chemical reactions and physics.

I guess if you're not teaching the Periodic Table, there'd be no hope if understanding evolutionary theory, since it's predicated on chemical behaviour.

So glad I've been de-googling for the last couple years.

Stay out of my data, Google.

Now that I've moved to a custom rom, it's just a few months before I disconnect the final few things from my Google account.

What's your favorite race?

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I guess there really are stupid questions after all.

My experience: most of my apps work fine without Google services. Even more advanced apps - sometimes they just can't verify licensing, so may complain occasionally. Even now, Macrodroid can't verify licensing through microG, but the dev has a process for licensing with a serial key based on your Google account.

Graphene is technically more secure than Lineage, because you can re-lock the bootloader.

But wait, the latest versions of Lineage you can re-lock the bootloader on Pixel devices (or is it with DivestOS, a Lineage fork, on Pixels? I forget). Either way, both can be re-locked on Pixel (I know, I've done it).

At that point there's little difference in my opinion, if you aren't using any kind of Google services.

Once you go to use Google services (either sandboxed on Graphene, or microG on Lineage), it can be argued that Graphene is more secure. Though Lineage and Divest install microG as user apps, so you could install them to a second profile and isolate it there.

But if you're going to run some form of Google services, you're kind of negating the advantages of Graphene at that point (though some would argue it's still more secure, again, depending on your threat model - if a state actor is after you, don't go putting Google stuff on your phone).

Really it all comes down to your threat model. I'm currently running DivestOS on a Pixel with microG, because there were a few apps I still needed. My next reset (in about 3 months) that will be gone, and I'll no longer need anything Google. But I'll probably stick with DivestOS, as there's no clear advantage for me to switch to Graphene.