I wouldn’t call any child, as a human, a disappointment, but I believe there are some rare occasions where their actions should be framed as disappointing.

Label the action disappointing, explain the reasoning that led to that conclusion, and explain how it could affect the future for both the parents and the child. Communication is key, and also try to leave some room for the child to grow. The less often you call something disappointing, the more powerful it can be, and can be used as a way to seriously correct behavior.

Have you tried Krita as a photoshop replacement?

Because phones have the most sensitive data out of all your devices for most people, and they are also the easiest to break, lose, get stolen, or have an unauthorized users access its contents.

Its just to protect the users from themselves and others.

You can still recycle it, but as far as factory resetting it, its probably best to ask Apple directly.

As in they are locked out of the phone?

Factory reset and send to apple for recycling.

Solar flares and even the occasional random neutron particle hitting your equipment can cause some weird issues. If its just a one time occurrence and it doesn’t happen again, I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

Yeah but 0.5.21 was never released on Arch

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/lutris/-/commits/main

I only see two? And they are just upstream updates.

Obviously you didn’t read the arch news or pay attention to the output of the pacman upgrades.

Im curious if its actually disabled then:

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9094888?sjid=1690126844643958407-NC

How Call Screen works

Screen calls automatically

You can set up Call Screen to automatically screen certain types of callers. Your Google Assistant asks callers why they’re calling. When you set up automatic call screening:

• Calls from your contacts list aren’t screened.
• Call Screen detects spam based on what a caller says, or if matched in Google’s database of known spammers and robocallers. A detected spam call is declined without alerting you.
• For calls that Call Screen doesn’t detect as spam, your phone will ring and you’ll see how the caller responds. Then you can pick up or decline the call.
• After the call, you can read the transcript and listen to the call audio in the “Home” tab. If you don’t want audio from the call screening phase recorded, in “Spam and Call Screen” settings, turn off Save Call Screen audio.

Learn how to set up automatic call screening.

Tip: To protect your privacy, transcripts and recordings are stored only on your phone.

Screen calls manually

If you tap Screen call, the caller is asked why they’re calling, and is told you’ll get a copy of the conversation. You can get a real-time transcript of what the caller is asked and how they respond. If you pick up the call, screening and transcription end immediately.

Use AI replies

AI-powered replies are generated on device based on the caller’s Call Screen responses. They’re more flexible and suit more occasions than the preset suggested replies. To use AI-powered replies, turn them on. Learn more about AI replies.

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Learn how to screen your calls.

The beauty of it being on Android is Google Assistant must be enabled and monitoring calls, rather than this feature being built into the OS.

Oh I never said it was “new”, but its really nice to have.

iOS has call screening now and it is really fucking nice.

Calling from an unknown number that isn’t on my contacts list? You have to listen to Siri ask whats the purpose of your call, and then Siri will let me know your response. Then, if available to answer based on how you responded, ill swipe to join the call.

I wouldn’t worry too much about IQ numbers falling. It doesn’t fully capture human intelligence, and definitely has some biases (IYKYK).

The IQ test has had a profound impact on psychology and society, offering a standardized measure of cognitive functioning. Yet its limitations are significant. Cultural biases, reductionism, limited predictive validity, and a history of misuse all complicate its role as a definitive measure of intelligence. While IQ tests can be useful tools, they must be interpreted cautiously and supplemented with broader measures of human ability.

Ultimately, criticisms of IQ testing remind us that intelligence is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be fully captured by a single number. The challenge moving forward is to balance the utility of IQ tests with a recognition of their limitations, ensuring that assessments of intelligence are both scientifically rigorous and ethically responsible.

https://simplyputpsych.co.uk/psych-101-1/criticism-of-the-iq-test

Keep in mind, some of the children in Alpha had their schooling methodology switched up during the Covid-19 pandemic. They went from learning in a classroom environment to learning in an online environment for a couple of years.

The teaching strategies do not translate the same across those two mediums, and the teachers had to adapt to it as fast as they could, but they were not experienced online teachers.

Teachers with 10, 15, and 20+ years of classroom experience all of a sudden had to teach their classes online. They has to learn the system themselves, as well as teach their students how to use it.

Many schools were underfunded and were not able to offer adequate technology to accommodate for this change. Many families couldn’t even afford internet, so governments had to establish voucher programs to fund low-bandwidth tiers of internet for them (which develops at the speed of red tape government).

At least one adult had to be home with their children if schools were online-only, so they had one less income earning presence in the home, unless they were able to work online themself. That affects the longterm financial goals of each family, which they might still be recovering from to this day.

By the time children went back to a classroom setting, they were missing some key skills that they would have picked up normally. Now you have 3rd graders returning to a classroom in 5th grade, but they still have 3rd grade reading levels. They have to learn 5th grade level material, and take 5th grade level testing. The online material they learned online during the covid years were a completely different set of educational material versus whats used in a classroom, so now the students have to adjust AGAIN.

Anyway, thats just my thoughts on it.

No their email verification has never worked right. They have insanely strict filters on it to “prevent spammers”.

If its an Android or iOS phone, then it will prompt for a password or pin after a few failed fingerprint scans.

Fingerprint is just there for convenience, but you can get around it in most cases.

If its an authenticator app, then its password based, as ultimately the password or pin is needed to unlock the phone.

If its a standalone authenticator device, then yes thats MFA. But like I said, its the most expensive option since you would have to purchase devices.

Fingerprint with an RFID badge is MFA with no passwords.

Something you have and something you are is the most expensive MFA combination, which is why it isn’t common.