And people wonder why I have hundreds of PDFs for shit I don’t own.

Love that column of buttons up the left side. Really screams late 90’s/early 2000’s.

With you.

Fuck RCS. It’s trash. Who benefits from a messenger, in the 21st century, that’s tied to a phone number?

They’re working on something other protocols have had for years. 🤦🏼‍♂️

RCS has been around since 2010

15 years and it’s still problematic? Sounds like something that just needs to be let go.

Stop pushing this garbage that’s tied to hardware/sim/phone number on us. What value is that for the end user, seriously? Why would an end user today want a messenger that’s tied to a phone number?

Fully-functional, cross-platform, network-based, open-source instant messaging has been available (even on mobile) since 2009, maybe earlier.

What I always ask about RCS: who benefits today from a messaging system that’s hard-bound to a phone number?

And this “everyone” thing is a straw man.

If everyone in my neighborhood alone set them off, it would be thousands of people doing this in an area about 0.5 Sq mile/1.29 Sq km/129 ha.

As is, it’s about 20. And even that is quite entertaining.

Charging batteries typically loses 20%-40% of energy to heat.

And ignores the typical 20%-40% of energy lost to heat during charging for most batteries.

Well, he’s slowly bringing Twitter down, which fits with his description of Twitter before he bought it.

Seems like he’s doing what he saw as needed doing - create space for other platforms to compete with Twitter.

🤦🏼‍♂️

Which he obliquely said he was going to do, before he bought it.

By slowly killing it, room is made for multiple other platforms to grow.

Care to clarify?

Lol.

May be those fees are annual licensing fees. And who knows what else is tied to that (support contracts, etc)?

I once enabled my company to forgo a license renewal of $10k…after 3 months of heavy work. Not really a big savings. But it also then eliminated an annual $1 mil in servicing fees that they would’ve had to pay for 10 years, by contract (so saved $10 mil). That we didn’t know when I started.

Hahahaha, suckers!

Think we need more info, like maybe a photo of the bike or a link to it.

And yet when I put quotes around something… It ignores that. Well Google would anyway. Decent search engines don’t.

Signal sucks from a UI/UX standpoint, when they dropped SMS support I lost any ability to convince people to switch, and everyone who had already switched left.

Then there’s the seamless switching between devices…which it doesn’t do.

And yet searx respects operators.

So a mix of the Matrix and They Live?

Standing by your bed while you’re asleep and berating you isn’t manipulative?

Nah, to needs to leave, now. No sense hanging around to see what this escalates to. Not worth putting in the effort for someone who’s demonstrated they need to grow up.