Same website (granted, different author, but), same inflammatory language, same vendor, referencing previous erroneous article…I’m not even gonna read this one. Just going to copy/paste my previous response from the previous post:

At a certain point it’s the consumer’s (and blog writer’s) fault, and that’s after EoL. Not patching a supported one and just getting rid of support, saying buy a newer one? Yeah, that’s bad.

Continuing to not support an EoL model that you already don’t support due to EoL (or even dropping support for an EoL model that no one expected you to support in the first place due to EoL)? Non-issue.

Doesn’t he have a rather large role in the party of small government?

Yeah, I’m not saying it’s hard, just illogical. To me, it came across similar as: “I’m moving to this other distro because they have Firefox.” Your current distro also has Firefox, so why are you moving again?

then rebased to ublue image because it has flatpak included in the image.

From Silverblue’s Getting Started Guide:

Flatpak is the primary way that apps can be installed on Fedora Silverblue (for more information, see flatpak.org). Flatpak works out of the box in Fedora Silverblue…

Just seems very odd to distrohop for one main reason (flatpak in this scenario), without even checking if that reason is available in your current distro…which it is, out of the box.

…when my Google search doesn’t take me where I need to go.

Tried Kagi?

It’s the whole “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” But I guess the downvoters are perfectly fine with having their data harvested for “free.”

Even duck duck go is getting dubious.

Tried Kagi?

Inside or outside the US? That’s the trick. In my experience, the US uses a lot of SMS but also usually have unlimited plans. Most other places don’t use SMS, pay for it…but have cheaper and less capped data.

I have like 5 years using Niagara and paying for it…

If you would’ve paid for the lifetime, you only pay once and it’s cheaper than annual once you hit 3+ years.

Yearly subscription: $9.99/9.99€/₹120 a year Lifetime purchase: $29.99/29.99€/₹360 (once)

Verso 4K+ is good…

Vero V is here

basically means “unable to serve”. This includes dead, injured, captured, deserted etc.

Ah, I didn’t know that. I now envision it sometimes going like:
“Poor Steve, a casualty of war.”
“What do you mean, he snuck back home and is watching TV in his mom’s basement!”

the metadata they can read such as your details and who you contact…Every provider of communication services can.

Signal does not, since they use Sealed Sender.

Android users aren’t in such a tiny minority over there.

Yep, Android makes up around 40-45% of the mobile OS in America, depending on what site and when you look.

I get that, but the person I replied to said “digital trespassing.” In my mind, that’s like physical trespassing in that they can’t enter your house (or collect data) without your consent. But if the EULA has the consent backed in it, the user agrees…then it’ll probably be legal.

Except the device is already in your home, and most people leave their account logged in. That’s basically like you inviting someone into your house, they hang out in your spare bedroom…and they’re still there. So no need to re-grant consent to a situation that hasn’t changed. Unless you mean it auto-logs out (or you log out) and have to re-grant consent then? Most do require consent on logging in, and the average consumer would hate having to log in every time and would probably use weak passwords because of this.

But, you can at least kick them out (revoke consent).

I just don’t see how a proper law/regulation would fix/restrict this, except to make certain personalization attempts (targeted ads) illegal.

They (manufacturer) would just put it in the ToS that the user grants them that access, because very few actually reads those and just hit Accept.

Thought RCS used the Signal Protocol?

Edit for source: Technical paper: Messages end-to-end encryption

Members of our community are excited to try out Beeper Mini, an “iMessage for Android” platform which actually works natively on your device, unlike Nothing’s ill-fated cloud iMessage offering.

Welp, that didn’t last long.

No Homers Club

You need to dream bigger. That should be the companies (Google, Apple, carriers, etc) working together and using a non-proprietary standard (an open RCS). Mini Beeper, to me, was just a proof of concept to show something akin to what Apple could do.