Phones encrypt the data by default, your password or pin is also needed to authorise the connection with a computer.

However, many people do insecure things like storing passwords etc in Notes applications, or having simple PINs that are easy to guess, don’t update their devices, or even turning off security features (if they can) because they won’t take a small amount of time to understand them.

But that’s pretty much the standard answer to any suggestion for improvement.

I just tried it and it’s doing the same thing for me. I’m sure it worked previously.

For me it’s certain settings such as System dark/light mode and Open links in default browser that turn themselves off occasionally following an update.

Not unusual at all. Everyone I know does this. Nothing wrong with you it’s just that age (and birthdays) becomes less important. Also once past a certain age you actively want to forget that you’re old, so you need to consciously think about it.

But don’t worry, once you get into your 80s it becomes a badge of honour and the older you get the more you’ll think about it.

You’ve misunderstood. You’ll only be able to add a PWA to the Home Screen if it uses WebKit.

I think it’s only if you use a WebKit based browser ?

Generally, the reasons for a phone number are:

Account recovery 2FA

If you don’t want to use your number then consider a pre-pay sim. Depending what country you are in this will cost pennies per year.

I would suggest something like ProtonMail or most paid email services won’t require a number.

I hope so, good luck

Mould eats the fibres and dye, so it might be a permanent change I’m afraid. There are specialist mould removers but they might bleach coloured fabric.

No it’s not and most people don’t know how to read the results anyway.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-i-know-im-not-the-only-conscious-being-in-the-universe/

It’s impossible to prove that anyone else or anything else exists. It’s also impossible to know whether my brain is deceiving me.

I think this depends what country you are from. Generally, most countries it’s the normal thing to be pleasant and show an interest in people. It actually helps you as well because being insular ultimately ends in loneliness.

But no one should pressurise you into doing something you don’t want.

I’d say companies THINK they will make more money. That might be true with big, complex software that can be sold as a service that people will use (Photoshop, Windows, Office etc) or services that offer a lot (like the original version of Netflix or Amazon Prime)

But it’s not true for things you can take or leave. (Such as most mobile apps which now have to really on sales to boost conversion rates from Free tier to subscription).

Then you also have the issue of a fragmented market so even previously successful services like Prime are looking to get more money by adding extra costs (eg Prime Video will have adverts from the summer unless you pay $40 extra per year as a new top up subscription)

So it’s more of a theoretical reliable income.

We do actually know quite a bit about the Internal Monologue and other forms of intrapersonal communication.

There isn’t one single use for it or benefit of it (in the same way water has many uses)

If you are on iOS and you uninstall then the cache is deleted. So it wasn’t a cache issue.

I remember that post you were told what was happening.

Why do you think it’s a cache issue?

It wouldn’t get to the full amount of storage. Full storage or cache wouldn’t make it slow as it only gets what it needs from the cache.

What exactly will having lots of empty space do for you right now ?

You don’t need to worry about it on iOS. If storage (or memory) gets low then caches will automatically be cleared.

Most operating systems work like this. There’s no point in having gigabytes of free space when it could be put to work speeding up your app.

They don’t expose the controls to the cache either. Android does but it’s in a minority.

Interesting links to Three Body Problem there.