But why does it always have to be a mobile app?

Because the devices involved are mobiles? What else would you use.

Almost all end–user devices are mobiles. When everyone had a desktop you made a desktop app. When everyone has a mobile you use a mobile app. When everyone has brain implants you'll make a brain implant app.

That's if you want to reach the most people. If you want to reach the much smaller community of people who oppose the current thing, you'll make a different type of app.

As opposed to what?

Tbh, anything that is not a proprietary closed garden. Why access to the clubs/interest groups now requires to compromise the privacy?

Wait, you're saying that using Signal or Telegram is compromising privacy?

I'm really curious what you're hoping for?

>Wait, you're saying that using Signal or Telegram is compromising privacy?

How come after all these years even people here still don't know telegram by default has no end to end encryption at all making it worse than facebooks WhatsApp? At this point it deserves to be called telegram distortion field.

For starters, not sending a notification "he is now using this app!" to everyone who has my phone number.

I'm a bit glad that it's no longer Facebook groups. But WhatsApp is also disappointing. I have to keep an account on my 'throwaway' phone for junk apps just to communicate with those groups and clubs. And usually WhatsApp is the only way with them.

What is Apple doing to blur the line between desktop and mobile? Is it the abomination they call iPadOS? It's a joke, it's nothing more than iOS+.

They've made it perfectly clear that they want to keep desktop and mobile separate in order to convince their customers to buy all their devices.

MacOS can now run a lot of IOS applications. They have icloud to sync a bunch of things. But only for their own applications. But maybe it's more clear if we limit the discussion to just phones. The key question, why do people only buy 1 iphone? Is it because it's perfect for every situation? Or because they can't play nice together?

Switching from one to the other is a PITA. What if that was seamless. You just pick one up and now everything is there. You might have a phone for work, going out, hiking, etc. You might have phones matching different iphones. Apple could be selling you many phones. Losing a phone would be a lot less dramatic because you'd have multiple spares. Do they all have to have the same screen size? Do all of them even need a screen?

Apple sells lots of phones. They could be selling 2-3x more. That's just phones. The way they positioned their VR device and watch is kind of telling. They are both kind of satellite devices. But apparently that requires special apps and a new OS (for both).

I don't get your point. Are you saying that Apple can sell more specialized iPhones?

But that's exactly what is the problem with modern Apple - software is shit. It's limited on purpose, so that the users are forced to buy more Apple devices. So no, they don't need to sell more iPhones, they need to make their software better, so it won't be like a cult where you need to keep buying a bunch of different devices. But then they won't get easy money from the followers, so they will never do this.

My experience was slightly different. I mean, yes, there pretty much no 'non crappy' German internet providers, but nothing was as bad as Vodafone.

Not true.

https://www.lwlhome.de/

I didn't say there are none at all. And I've heard that internet from small internet providers can actually be good.

But after living in 3 different apartments there, I never had a luxury to be able to connect the internet from a small provider. Their coverage is very, very limited. So it always was Telekom/Vodafone/o2.

Thats cool and all but the majority of the country still has one, or at most two choices :/

same as https://www.m-net.de/ Advantage over telekom: they own the city and the can lay fiber whereever they want without state intervention.

It's not perfect simply because it's a mobile-first app. That's Signal's main problem.

Yeah, most people don't even have a phone, let alone use it as their main method of communication...

I was in a similar situation in Egypt once. At the specified time a train arrives, I board it. Only to see that my seat is occupied. We started to discuss the situation and the other passenger showed me his ticket - it was one of the previous delayed trains. We figured it just in time for me to jump out of the wrong train before it left the station :)

The term "AI" didn't make sense from the beginning, but I guess it sounded cool and that's why everything is "AI" now. And I doubt it will change, regardless of its correctness.

John McCarthy coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" in the 1950s. I doubt he was trying to be cool. The whole field of research involved in getting computers to do intelligent things has been referred to as AI for many decades.

Oh, I didn't mean the term "Artificial Intelligence" itself. I was talking about referring to what we have now as "AI".

To be honest, I've never had any issues with 'Platinum' games on Proton. But I somewhat agree, starting with 'Gold' and below, it was a hit-or-miss situation.

I've been using CachyOS with Plasma desktop for a long time now. Including my gaming PC. Zero problems. But I don't play any online games.

The problem with Synology type NAS is that they still treat you like a product. If you go this way, you have to accept the limitations. Or you have to do everything yourself.