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  • It's fine for a temporary signal account, but if you let the number expire, then someone else gets assigned that number, and that new person wants to use Signal, they'll get your account.

    They can't see your old messages, but they'll get any new ones instead of you.

  • If trump were forced out as candidate, then he'd go thermonuclear and destroy the Republicans.

    If Biden were forced out as candidate, he'd get a heads up and claim it was his idea and work with the party to transition.

    There's no way he'd leave kicking and screaming, though at the same time unless it was a done deal, he's going to claim to be 100% in, cause the second he starts to show any doubt, he's already destroyed his campaign.

  • It's a commentary on humanity and society.

    There's no records or evidence for the first jobs, so it's mostly humor with a grain of truth. Most likely trading sexual favors for some benefit likely predates most other forms of trade (but it obviously depends on the exact definition of trade, profession, prostitution, etc.)

  • Aside from needing a passkey/passphrase every time you open Signal, what would be the solution? If the user can read the unencrypted messages, then so can malware running as the user.

    Heck, even if you required some sort of authentication to open the messages, malware could just capture that.

    It's the same problem with browser credential stealing, you can grab all the cookies from an authenticated browser session and copy it to a new system.

    Really, the biggest issue is that Signal doesn't detect multiple instances running of the same session, but that's also extremely difficult to do without malware being able to work around it.

    Not saying there's no solution here, but there is not a simple solution aside from trusting your computer and cancelling sessions if you suspect someone compromised your system (or just not using a desktop app.)

  • The ONLY problem I have had with this, is the controller on the system itself defaults as controller 1, so SOME games it takes a little fiddling to use different controllers. But I have done this and it works great.

    I've used a handful of different USB to HDMI docks, and I haven't had any problems with any of them. I just use an anker dock that supports gigabit ethernet, 100W power passthrough, and HDMI, and it works just fine.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087QZVQJX/

    You can use just about any controllers using Bluetooth, I really like the wireless XBox controllers (only supported over Bluetooth) for this. But I've also used the Switch controllers and they work fine.

    It's really just a slightly expensive setup for what it is, but it's also very portable, so...