In 35 years of experience I've never got it to work correctly on any OS except IOS. I've only met ONE tech who claimed it worked for them, and that was in the 2000's. He couldn't demonstrate how exactly.
I do the same thing, turn that shit off because it does not work.
The townspeople play so innocent in this story. I've lived in small towns and see right through their bullshit. The only reason they get away with it is the other party is dead and can't defend himself.
Too late, they already so effectively killed the idea I would rather ride cross country getting a root canal in a van and from a dentist high on meth, and the roads starting to get rough.
That's much preferable to what we call air travel today.
I dove way deep into this and I'm fairly certain at least a few people discovered who it was... And then they decided not to release that info because of potential harm to "Max", on numerous levels. And I'm OK with that, if that's the case I don't really want any of us to know.
I will not retrace the steps taken to arrive at that conclusion for anyone, either. First rule of fight club and all...
Funny how he never tells you his REAL name.