You're probably right, unfortunately. The irrational hatred some people have for Bitcoin is absolutely terrifying to me.

Ratted out by a fat, jealous mom, no doubt. 🤣

Those with tats or face/body piercings are to be avoided. It's the equivalent of wearing a sign that says, "I'm emotionally damaged, impulsive, and don't understand the long-term consequences of my actions." Tats are absolutely a great filtering mechanism.

Who's your provider? I've got 1gb fiber with AT&T and Proton VPN maxes out at 250mb. That might be due in part to my insistence on using OpenVPN. I hear Wireguard is faster.

Well the good news is that it'll be optimized to play Broadway show tunes and reruns of "Below Deck." Does the text-to-speech feature have a lisp?

Interesting dude. He's old, yet "uptalks" like an 80's valley girl, and has a garish gang tattoo.

These cards are all KYC though, yeah? Kind of a deal-killer for some of us.

That's an interesting take. Sounds like MSFT has done well by your family. What's your particular beef with them? I was a MSFT fan for ages. Though retired now, I made a great living as software developer using their .NET stack and Windows. These days though I feel like MSFT has lost its way. The jam their worthless Copilot product into everything. I even saw a story the other day about how they wanted to have Windows create regular screen captures throughout the day. Horrifying. Not to mention their Windows Updates have gotten so bad I've turned off automatic updating all together. Doesn't appear that they even test before releasing them anymore. Switched all my server stuff to Linux about a year ago and now considering switching client-side to Linux as well. Kinda sad.

This is true. I think ORCL is particularly vulnerable though. Here's an article that gives the breakdown: https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-openai-kills-oracle/

MSFT will outlive us both. If you're looking for a big tech name to short, look at ORCL. Their fate is inexorably tied to OpenAI. When OpenAI dies, so will ORCL.