New take on an old adage: "A computer can not be held responsible. Therefore a computer should always be used to make management decisions so that we can cover our asses."
Clearly the water isn't atomized. But where I live, each year nature presents us with a certain amount of water to allocate as we see fit. It's not like the water the golf course uses goes to Jupiter. But you probably don't want to pay to be able to drink it after. Right?
These things you list and more have a lot of power even if there's a slight chance of them being true. The average person doesn't see any benefit to a data center near them, so they're unwilling to even risk a single drawback. The best case as they see it is that a new data center will result in no net gain for themselves.
Lots of people like them, but it's clear from the complaints there's another large group for whom they are problematic. Enthusiasts are going to have to actually address those issues if they want adoption.
Yeah I lost my phone some months ago. Quite the panick because I am also MS365 admin for 2 orgs... 3 hr later a trucker called my wife using the iPhone emergency contact feature (what a hero). Now I bought an iPad that stays at home and has all the apps. Honestly, I should also put a second phone somewhere else.
Also frees me up to experiment a bit more on the Phone side (just got a Pixel 10 with GrapheneOS), although, so far it all just works (with Google Services of course).
It's annoying that you really do need either Android or iOS nowadays. If only we could virtualize one of those platforms properly (and free as in freedomly).
At one time I heeded advice not to rely on 2FA SMS because you know it's not secure, so I kept everything in a 2FA app.
Well through an unfortunate sequence of button clicks I wiped my 2FA state and had a hell of a time getting into the apps that I removed my SMS from.
In theory yes SMS is an attack vector but personally the safety and convenience of SMS is more valuable than the odds that someone impersonates me at my mobile provider.
(Also I stopped using that 2FA app and just use a keepass db stored in onedrive).
Interestingly, I've never had anyone scan my DL barcode. About 10% of them look at my ID and manually enter it. The rest look at my gray beard, ask me for my birthdate, and key in whatever random plausible date I give them. :) (There's one store where the gray beard is enough and they remotely approve me at the self checkout, no questions asked. The misery of it is that I only buy NA beer and that still requires an ID.)
I lost my old one, so ordered a replacement. Later I found the lost one, so I have two... The number is different, though, so I'm sure the old one is invalidated in the database. (Oregon)
If we lose ours, they reprint it with the same expiration date as the lost one, but the new one has "DUPLICATE 1" printed on it (presumably that 1 is a counter). But our drivers license number stays the same for life.
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