No one should be shooting at tires, that isn't as easy as they make it in the movies (in this case yes it would have been). However, you should NEVER point a gun at something you do not intend to kill.
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There's your problem, the pixels since the pixel 5 have been dogshit for battery life. My wife had a bunch of problems with her 6, so we traded for a 7. Same problems. My pixel 3 was one of my best phones and I knew a bunch of people with 4s who loved them. Seems like since the 5 it's been nothing, but issues. Then they introduced their tensor chip which is just an overheating battery sucker.
Sounds like you want usability over privacy. Maybe look for another app that suits your purpose.
Don't you love when people don't even try to look for settings?
I was upset about the SMS thing as well. I also switched to Google messenger app on my phone for SMS/RCS. While they do have encryption in transit, I'm pretty sure it's not encrypted at rest on the server side like signal is.
Shit, there's a 4th? I only listened to 3 then unsubbed from audible.
I loved this series. Very entertaining and kept me engaged wanting more.
This article might help shine some light on some questions.
From what I understand, SMR is fine for NAS as long as you aren't doing a lot of reads. Like hosting a multimedia server that pulls videos and stuff from the NAS. I recently stood up a TrueNAS server a few months ago with SMR WD disks and it works fine for my use case. It's RAIDed and backed up to cloud storage. I'm now looking into standing up a media server, but I won't use that NAS storage for that.
Yup, lot of video game playing, "I would have done x instead", captain hindsight people in here. You NEVER point a gun at something you don't intend to kill.