My Q1 Pro was awesome for weeks without issue, but now the motor is jammed (I can see the little gear trying and failing to move) and I've been too afraid to take it apart.
That question (or similar) comes up any time someone notices my name. I hadn't even heard of the tiles when I chose this - actually, not even sure they were a thing at that point. People also always assume my real name is Tony, which it's not.
This is my username because, last time I was looking for a username, the first X-Men movie had just come out. I read the then age-appropriate novelization and I liked the Toad's secret name, Mortimer Toynbee, and claimed it for myself. Sadly, there is at least one animated series in which they've retconned his name.
I've never intentionally used AI, but obviously it latched on to the "bee" part. I wonder what it did with the "toyn."
But relevant anecdote! After I had been using this name for many years, I got a job in Philadelphia. I lived a long drive away, so I would take the train to the city and walk to work. One day I took a different route between work and the train and randomly walked over a real life toynbee tile I hadn't known was there. I had my eyes down as I crossed over it or I wouldn't have noticed it.
It was very jarring to see my online name in real life in a city where I knew literally no one other than my coworkers, who definitely didn't know that name. I knew of the tiles by that point but didn't know they'd started (or existed) in Philly and hadn't been thinking of them at all until I read one in the street. I was so surprised that I think I stopped in the middle of a crosswalk. Seeing that tile eventually lead to me watching a documentary on the tiles, which itself was pretty interesting.
I definitely know about the spoofing - that's what made me figure it was spam initially.
The waiting for a voice response makes sense, but I've never encountered a system that didn't at least say some form of "hello." Not this persistent of one, anyway.
Recently, I've been getting calls I'm pretty sure are spam. They are all from different numbers, but all of the area codes are from where I got my phone number, which is quite far from where I live now. Additionally, they all do leave voicemails, but each and every one is exactly thirty seconds of silence.
Until I read your comment, I thought maybe you were supposed to camp in a tent that was 4" square. I was surprised there was a category for that or that anyone would find it contentious, other than for being inadequate.
Your comment made it all make sense, so thank you.
Once I read a book by Orson Scott Card. At some point, the protagonist rescued a woman in olden times and another said something like "if that were me, I would have worn you down to a stump from gratitude!"
Like many things by that author, there were problematic elements, but your comment reminded me of it.
Sorry if I was unclear; what you're saying is kind of my point. A computer without networking can still have risks, but they're a lot lower. The standards of security can change with conditions. If you have a computer on an enterprise network, it should be very secure; if on your home network, more cavalier standards can make sense. If you have a computer without any networking whatsoever, being compromised is not impossible, but it's much less likely unless you're storing something quite extraordinary on the system. That's why I referenced networks while talking about the configured security of an individual system. In general, I believe I was broadly agreeing with you.
My Q1 Pro was awesome for weeks without issue, but now the motor is jammed (I can see the little gear trying and failing to move) and I've been too afraid to take it apart.