They sure have. Aussie cricketer David Boon:

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/the-ashes/great-ashes-moment-no14-david-boons-52-cans-of-beer-on-the-way-to-england-in-1989/news-story/615b08ccd6e1d73d7193454b36e03dc9

While apple did improve the design, they mostly made it “cool”. Before that they were “nerd” phones. The Motorola V3 was a “cooler “phone at the time until the iPhone came out.

Did he forget about windows mobile pda phones that predated the iPhone? I had one of these before the iPhone was a thing: https://m.gsmarena.com/o2_xda_iis-933.php

Same. It will either be amazing or terrible.

So was my first CD burner.

Same. For me it sits better than McDonald’s and I don’t feel gross afterwards.

This is exactly me. For a server it’s Linux but for everyday use/work a MacBook Pro is great. It just works. It’s great as you can fire up the command line to manage Linux servers easily. That’s how I admin my Lemmy Ansible install.

For gaming I use Windows. It’s all about the best tool for the job.

Each instance stores post thumbnails locally even if the post was on another server. It actually takes up quite a bit of hdd space.

I’m more talking global purchases. Just the email will probs be ok but if you purchase using that email and a vpn it raises flags.

Great to know! Thanks :)

I’ll be honest, when it comes to online purchases you may find that a protonmail email will require extra processing/fraud checking due to the amount of fraudsters that use it. Combine that with a vpn and it will just be a pain here and there with online purchases like additional ID verification/delayed orders etc…

Typing in maps addresses that are too complex for the voice recognition to understand.

You should still be able to do that on the car touchscreen just like the old Tom Tom etc…

They also forget that sometimes there is a passenger wanting to do this, it’s not always just the driver in the car.