I use Asahi as a server OS on a Mac Mini where it works great. Have not tried it as a desktop.

“Early parachutes were made of silk. The most common fabric today is nylon.”

Clearly not nylon.

As soon the message arrives, reply STOP.

This sends a signal to the sender and the carrier that you didn’t want it.

Next, look for the messaging app feature to “Block and Report”. This sends a signal to Apple/Google and possibly others that the message was spam.

Now, I do these things and I continue to get political fundraising pleas over text from groups I don’t recognize.

BUT, I also work with bulk emailing and know it takes a very small number of reports, less than 1%, of messages reported as spam before the bulk-mailer/carrier blocks and penalizes the group originating the message.

I think some collective action here by a small group can make a difference.

This seems as much about converging Android and ChromeOS as anything.

You could likely have a free initial meeting with a lawyer to confirm a law had been broken and get a general idea of their fees and your odds of success.

Sounds like it would be your brother’s word against the public defenders. Sounds tough.

Yes, you could file paperwork for a lawsuit. Affording the legal help and winning the suit are different matters.

Thanks! I’ll give this a try.

They are common among US tea drinkers, but coffee seems more popular.

Or a misguided solution to prevent drug use in public stalls?

Spoken like a wise elder!

You could add a feature request in the Fuzzel bug tracker. A screenshot of how it is used in Fuzzel could be helpful there.

WordPerfect continued to thrive in the legal industry for years to come due to its “reveal codes” feature and the way it counted words.

Here’s a post about that from 2008.

https://ask.metafilter.com/96820/Why-do-so-many-laywers-use-WordPerfect

There is a newish “placeholder text” option. It could be displayed there and disappear when typing starts.

Yes. The message could be added to the prompt but it wouldn’t look the best.

I remember that this existed, but I don’t remember why.

Corel was known for a drawing program and later for WordPerfect. They were never well known for their involvement with Linux.

Correct. Not just hype but to make it “Like Windows, but free”.

Even then it could be themed to a degree and some distros tried to look more like Windows than others.

OP hasn’t met 17-bean soup yet.

I discovered this more than a year ago, but Fuzzel.

I just wrote about the new release here:

https://mark.stosberg.com/feature-packed-app-launcher-and-fuzzer/

fzf has some unique features of its own, like multi-select. Maybe one day Fuzzel will add that.

That’s right! We are just waiting for someone to focus a pinentry/fuzzel script now. All the necessary features are there it seems.