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It actually became more frequent when sms became free in my country around 2010 / when people switched to services instead of sms.
But it has also become easier to block messages on most services so it keeps the balance.
The age doesn’t matter. If anything, they usually become creepier the older the guy is.

In Germany they provide relief from the constant fear your vpn might leak and you’ll receive mail.

1. Question is often not showing
2. On the email regex question, it says option 1 is correct but the explanation says option 3 would be correct

I can’t upload images ATM since there is something wrong with my instance

It’s pre-installed on phones (accessibility> sound notifications).
The purpose is to get notified on things like smoke alarms going off etc when you are hearing impaired.

Edit: here’s the full list of what comes preconfigured:

The memory leak only affects the host.

You’re hosting a multiplayer game?

Rotation of an image is stored in the exif data.
When you take an image with your phone in a non upright position the phone will rotate the picture to look like you expect it and write into the exif data.
But the image itself will still be the way it was taken, meaning the data of the image itself is unaltered.

Usually when you send the picture or upload it software will read the exif data and display the image accordingly (rotated). But some sites or some software will ignore or strip the exif data and display the image how it originally looks (non-rotated).

Ys Nordic is only released in Japan yet as far as I know.
Ys 8 is a good starting point.
The stories aren’t that connected besides some characters and a lot of Easter eggs / references so you can play them in pretty much any order you want.