I dunno if you know this but SMS support got removed from Signal a few years ago

Its still better than any new chat protocol thats been made in the last decade. You’ll have to pry my family XMPP server out of my cold dead hands.

Well, death makes exceptions for no one, so

They’re retiring or dying of old age soon, they think now’s the time to shit all over the floor and trash the place.

We mandate that ours are left on for orchestration and maintenance purposes.

I use it at work when im having a hard time getting started on a project, because I’ll want to yell at it and tell it how its wrong, and how i can do it better.

That looks a lot like what came out my backside the other day! They call that the ol’ redneck colonoscopy

…the whiskey hasn’t been treating me well

Great! Now I can listen to my PinePods on my PineBuds which I store in my PinePod that they came with.

Honestly they would have made it a lot farther if they had just shown a fully functional device that could make calls and receive them from deep sleep. All drivers and basic functionality “just working.”

They are fighting an uphill battle against the frustration that was the PinePhone. Nobody wants to buy a flagship-priced brick thats a neat trick for a hobby project.

Meshcore also has a paid license to use the full feature set and if Plex has taught us anything, it’s to stay away from garbage like that. I’ll stick to Meshtastic, thank you.

Slavery’s gonna be back on the menu (explicitly, and I don’t mean wage slavery or prison slavery)

Everything is artificially inflated by 1.7x to 2.4x ever since covid. The inflation you are seeing is not real inflation but rather manufactured by those in high-up positions at most fortune-500 companies.

They’re not exempt from marketing. I am. I only use proof-of-use from those around me.

I don’t think it is. I know a few people like this, and im heading in that direction myself. The only kinds of “ads” that work on me are when a number of equally nerdy people I know find a new thing, and they’ve demonstrated that it has helped them with something or they are genuinely enjoying using it. Like 3D printing. Its semi-pointless most of the time but it is a genuinely fun hobby, which when combined with 3D modeling and post-processing skills becomes an actual craft. I didn’t get into it until a good number of people around me did.

I am aware.

The FAQ specifically says you need the latest version of Chrome:

Why screen mirror is not working?

Try use the latest version of Chrome.

Oh no, it’s dependent on Chrome…

The fossify apps are legit, I use them daily.

This is the same or similar situation as OpenOffice → LibreOffice or OwnCloud → NextCloud (and to a lesser extent but more similar scenario, Audacity → Tenacity or various other forks).

This is what true open source looks like in action.

You have to pay lawyers to litigate.

And the contract said it was to be open sourced, which has not happened, so litigation must now happen to enforce it.

He could, but he likely doesn’t have the financial backing or community support to pull it off.