Trias11

Does your FAANG support you working remotely?

I moved to Vegas from CA and twisted some arms in upper management/HR of my company to keep my salary.

Most HR's has abusive practices to cut salary if you move to cheaper place but if you have personal connections and good relationships in upper management you can solve it.

Benefits are clear.

Touch screen is silly.

I don't belong to profession that need to be productive via touching computer screen.

I'd pay more for non-touch screen laptop.

Accidental touches can and does screw things.

Just got a new touch screen laptop and hope to find a way to disable toucheability

Also natively supporting ZeroTier, which is a must for me

Off my shopping list.

If this is reasonably acceptable but you think you worth more, accept it and continue looking.

But then you'll have big advantage of FAANG in your resume to boost your income.

If Apple is indeed lowballing you - you'll be able to quickly find out by the virtue of better offers from others.

Buy second and possibly third passport and establish solid residency and business presence offshore to widen my choices and freedoms.

Stay away from liberal states. Usually high taxes and crimes. Many (but not all) of these however are good weather too. Not sure about your income and whether obscene income tax is a concern - but there are good states with no state income tax.

LAPSUS, likely from russian: "ляпсус" translated as Blunder

Unrelated (and apologies for stepping out of the post' subject), but I lived in multiple countries and then in states within USA.

In Vegas now and Republic Services' drivers in Las Vegas are the most considerate, accomodating and friendly people.

Granted I live in more friendly Vegas neighborhood but compare to CA and other places i lived in - here it's such a positive surprise.

Must be the new business model invented by genius putin.

Second thing California ought to be loved for.

First one is the weather.

CC chargeback.

Zero f*cks given. Sell me crap, pay for it yourself.

Sold few. One for crypto, few via escrow.com

Last time escrow had a problem depositing money to my bank account because "the account number you provided had too many zeros in front of it and our system cut it down".

So change your stupid system so it won't corrupt essential customer banking information!

Otherwise it went well.

Exactly. Honeypot developed by spying entity.

Otherwise anonymous usernames + passwords would perfectly do.

Just because "every platform and app is doing that" doesn't mean secure communication solution should.

If I'd be a spying agency I'd do just that - develop "secure" app that would collect unique identity of every user. Verified phone number is a perfect unique ID.

"Just give your phone number to us, and don't worry, we won't share it with anyone!".

That exactly what Signal does.

Until they allow user-created ID's with no link to any identity - the above concern stays.

STOP asking for my phone number to use your "secure" app.

I don't want to disclose my phone number to any user, platform or any app.

Just please STOP.

They don't need much of a difference. Just more control.

One Mix 4 micro laptop. I bought i5 version of it on aliexpress however amazon has higher end version of it (i7) available.

9" or so screen, full blown windows 11 laptop, extremely well built, solid. I upgraded it to Windows 11 Pro myself just for fun so I could RDP to it and control it remotely.

I bought it for narrow use case (need to control hardware device that doesn't have mobile app) and extremely pleased on how fully functioning, well built it is.

It could fit into large enough pocket and if you're in need of SMALLEST device as fully featured Windows-based computer - that's the answer.

Drawbacks: no webcam (this is plus for me actually) and small battery life (ask me which power bank i chose to solve this issue).

Quite often you want to communicate with the person on the other end without disclosing your identity.

Communication platform that enforces "KYC"-like disclosure to the platform itself is misleading their users about security.

Agree.

Stop using word "security" or "end to end" encryption and then enforcing me to disclose my phone number to use your "secure" app.

This is scam.

Slack.

It's idiotic handling of direct messages history with its enforced uneditable limit of number of conversations shown, previous conversations disappear and become unsearchable cost me waste time, wasted nerves and wasted communications.

Waze is owned by google.

You should print this on a big poster and walk on the street carrying ringing bell in your arm, trying to attract attention.

+100

Yet after reading all the scary stories people keep flocking to all the FAANG-y platforms expecting some mercy.

You're on a mercy of some glitchy AI and some random, lousy, unreachable fact checker.

Act with that knowledge.

BofA account receiving money was NOT HIS!

It would be very easy to verify and confirm for a bank.

This should be the end of the story. If bank would've been on a hook - they'd look way more carefully on it.

Same with cookies. Deny max to remain usable automatically.

>> And they'll throw their users under the bus

You cannot really throw users under the bus in highly competitive and lucrative space.

It's not that difficult to export full data from 1password and move on.

... Plus the moment you type any crypto-related statement or question you'll get flood of contacts from "friendly" individuals willing to help you to part your crypto from your wallet

Latter two are the most misleading belief that caused tons of disappointments.

FAANG, or couple months Pre-IPO with clearly defined vesting without typical startup trickery leaving option holder employees with an empty bags.