Haha, basically the same. I actually bought another 4a 5G a year or two ago to replace my old one that died because I want to run GrapheneOS and it was the last model with a headphone jack.

Nope. Once the bubble bursts the squeeze-out of the middle class will be truly begun as pensions fail and governments on the edge of default are forced to squeeze them to repay their debts to the wealthy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pUKaB4P5Qns

Sounds great on paper but my bet is it’ll take a decade or more and cost tens of billions to hire and retool everything. It’s not just install Linux on all the machines of every beurocrat and call it a day. So much SharePoint, Netsuite, Salesforce, and more need alternatives built out. Thousands of hours or more spent retraining decades of learned computer skills. A deep lack of technical talent due to brain drain over the last two decades thanks to huge US tech salaries.

Not saying they shouldn’t. I’m just expecting a big push and then a bunch of failed projects to move that leave systems spread across two platforms.

Not much different than a link to change your password that had those two random values added as a query parameter (which is what the link you get effectively does). Uncommon way to do it, but no real difference in the security model. Good to see they have a way to expire the password and force you to reset it if they ever had a compromise (since they note it has less than 1 day’s validity). Another upside is that by having already changed your password to this new random value, your account should also be locked until the password is changed. That one’s a mixed bag. Could be nice to know someone tried, could be frustrating if someone uses this to mildly DoS your account.