Rolling Resistance

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Interesting to see how no one bothered to read the article.

Funny you say that, I’ve been looking into getting one recently. They seem great.

No judgement here; but it always bothers me when a laptop only comes with Windows preinstalled, when 1) it makes the device more expensive, and 2) I don’t need it.

That’s my situation, except I haven’t deleted my partition yet, mostly because it sits on a separate physical disk. Maybe one day…

Not being able to see my old messages on desktop is a privacy benefit? I don’t think you are correct.

So just like I said, illusory security gains.

Whatever, I mean 3rd party access to messages, which includes both security and privacy.

Have you ever heard of Viber? Even though their chats are E2EE, there’s an option to sync them from mobile to desktop, and it was available for more than a decade. Messages are not stored in a central location.

Signal just isn’t good enough for anything serious. It’s a rather simple and not a very convenient app, that is getting too much attention from privacy enthusiasts.

Well, I don’t like this. The idea of sacrificing messaging history in favour of illusory security gains doesn’t sit well with me. Same goes for Signal backups.

I don’t have it on desktop anymore, but if I install it now, the desktop app won’t have any conversations that I have on my phone. I use a Matrix bridge instead that doesn’t forget messages.

Right until the reference breaks. Ask me how I know.

If only it synced messages with the mobile app properly

For SMS/MMS, I find Right Messages to be quite good. For RCS, I don’t think there are any alternatives. And surely you know about the variety of messengers (Matrix, Signal, …).

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I guess the point was to NOT buy devices that require tinkering.

I see you like when something threatens your livelihood.

Unfortunately most of our local politicians remained there with the crazies.

I have Mullvad running all the time, and I’ve had this issue with one unpopular app and one online store website.

What’s really bad is the number of captchas 🤖

Interestingly, I use Instagram with Mullvad for over a year now, both app and web. Reddit seems to be working fine too. Maybe that’s because I opened accounts without a VPN.

The standard might be complicated if you want the specifics, but for everyday use it’s incredibly simple, and I love it. The number of times I needed this information is 1, even though most of my devices, including an external monitor, are USB-C.

Do people care? You just plug in your thing and it works, fast enough in most of the cases.