I wish people would just call it X. If that's what Elon wants, let him reap the consequences of his crazy decisions.
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It's so prone to cracking along the fold, though. You should either get the extended warranty or treat the phone as disposable, because it will likely not last more than a couple of years.
Sure, unless the username+suffix is already taken.
All the personal information you mentioned should be hashed or encrypted. For any given phone number, see how little information they have: just an account creation timestamp and a last access timestamp.
In the current Staging implementation, you pick a username (which you can change), and the app picks a two-digit suffix to your username.
Completely private messaging with accounts that have no ties to real-world identities would open the doors to spam and all kinds of abuse.
No. You still need to use a phone number to create an account. The proposed feature lets you pick a username so that you can have people contact you via the username, and you won't have to tell people what your phone number is. You would be able to change your username at any time, and usernames all have a random two-digit number suffix.
What if a compile job takes a long time? Would that be a good reason to context switch?
No, It's called X now. Elon willed it so, and I'm happy to oblige. Posts are called X-cretions (or X-crement, if they are shitposts).
What a pathetic excuse. You know what's at the other end of a USB-A cable? A USB-B connector that didn't have the symmetry problem. Also, Firewire existed around the same time (in fact, slightly earlier) and didn't have the symmetry problem.
Interesting that it is legal to withhold mail. In many countries that would be a crime.