I don’t have a screenshot handy, but it was very clearly communicated through both colour and iconography whether or not a conversation was encrypted. For people who still couldn’t tell, like my elderly relatives, removing sms support meant they went from 10% encrypted communications back to zero and forced the rest of us to expose ourselves again to stay in touch
Deku SMS (on fdroid) is nice to use and all, but I’m not really sure how “ethical and pro-privacy” can apply to an sms client
I felt their reasoning was disingenuous and that supporting sms had been a massive driver of adoption, a lot of “normal” people used it as a default messenger on the advice of the nerds in their lives without any idea what signal or sms were. Removing that support was a significant rugpull and measurably detrimental to their stated goal of private communication as a default
It used to, pulling that was their biggest mistake since requiring a phone number and made me trust them a lot less
Paid hype is a red flag imo
That’s exactly what I was doing in 2002, and exactly what they thought
Magic good for dog. Make dog smarter
Oops! All Nazis
Feel like a combo would be slickest, drone dirigible type deal
See also Tubular, love the built-in SponsorBlock
KDE Connect is real slick, but brutal on battery life for me
I have nothing useful to say here, but you seem cool and I’d love a book recommendation :) typically enjoy speculative fiction, “The Dispossessed” is an all time fave, open to whatever though
I’m in the exact opposite position… hoarding bits on the cheap, all I need is ram and psu but ram now costs more than I paid for everything else put together and scavenging sources have dried up completely
When my time comes I will pass from this world with a light heart and full belly
The most money I have even seen is 18k, and in my community I’m the wealthy philanthropist people come to when their shit breaks down. Can you see how owning a home and having one million dollars handy might be perceived as unimaginable wealth from here? Or how your retirement income calculations might sound to someone who will never retire?
I really hope you’re at least getting paid to post this badly my dude
I’m not interested in arguing and have already shared my experience, hope you have a nice rest of your day. From their perspective, “texting” most people just quit working and someone had to “fix” it by switching them back to their phone’s default sms client. It’s pretty clear you haven’t been tech support for an elder, a lot of people aren’t aware of these things or making real decisions about them at all. Texting at all is a big ask, they need help looking at/sending pictures, a separate app is way too much friction