GreyEyedGhost

That’s like saying sex isn’t illegal…except when it is.

Most compounds aren’t magnetic, some but not all alloys are, and there are a few advanced materials that aren’t really metallic but are still magnetic. As a general rule, non-metallic compounds aren’t magnetic, and our bodies can’t absorb most metals in their elemental state.

If you’d had those iron pills in your pocket, there’s a very good chance nothing would have happened. I wouldn’t try this on the sly for the sake of science, though. Those iron supplements would have been some iron compounds and would have as much in common with metallic iron as table salt does with metallic sodium.

A lot of these products used to be good. 25 years ago, Outlook was the only option for mail and calendar because they worked well and nothing else was as simple or integrated. Windows XP brought an enterprise-class OS with true multitasking to the consumer. MSN messenger didn’t have all the features of Teams, but it was a serious contender in the IM space. And now, I have Outlook every now and then telling me I have new mail but I cant see it until I restart the app, Windows gets shittier and more intrusive every day, and Teams on Android cant send me a notification about an upcoming meeting until the meeting actually starts, if I get a notification at all. I also wonder how they ended up this way given they were class leaders just decades ago.

Now if we can get alternatives that don’t have all the problems of Microsoft at its heyday, let alone now, that would be amazing. I already have my console alternative, just a few more pieces.

It doesn’t matter that much if it’s based on open source if you can’t modify the the unregulated parts and have absolutely no privacy.