Same. Lol

The antitrust machine hasn’t had its scheduled maintenance for a few generations. It’s gonna take a little while to spin up.

It’s the same reason many unenforced laws exist. It’s an entrance point. As the saying goes, they didn’t get capone on his gang activity.

They don’t brick shit, don’t lie. It not booting until you swap the part back to a verified part isn’t even remotely close to a full bricking.

Why do we live in this hell? Fuckin end users man, let me roll Arch.

Sync: No it does not. Do not lie. They don’t support it, it will deliver the message to multiple endpoints, but that is not sync.

System support: The clients for desktop for signal are feature lacking trash. I want all platforms to be first class citizens and it’s VERY clear they are not.

Hoops: Bullshit bro. Bullshit. You might glance over all the steps but that doesn’t mean they’re not there.

Chat history: If I can say at all that it loses my fuckin chats, that’s a shit fucking chat application. I have plenty more trash to talk if ya need it though because that app is hot fucking garbage.

Unreliability: If you spent even a fraction of a minute googling it, you’d see that a lack of notification delivery and other bugs are extremely common. I’ve experienced them. It’s great you’ve had a happy go lucky time, but your experience isn’t the end all be all.

Lack of account based sign up: Literally a massive issue and you’re just dismissing it because it doesn’t affect you. Goodluck getting anyone to hop on board your software preference train with that kind of attitude.

Sync, system support, hoops to jump through, potential loss of chat history, unreliability, lack of account based sign up (until recently?). So many reasons to not recommend it for people. To clarify though, SMS and iMessage are both so terrible I don’t consider them “options”. They’re defaults for people who have no interest in security or interoperability, which are both major important parts of a chat system imo.

Signal is a terrible recommendation for any basic chat user. The security is solid, but you give up sooooooo much to get there. The desktop apps are garbage as well, they don’t even sync chat history.

Signal does not sync chats across devices or store chat history. Telegram has that going for it. 🤷‍♂️

I will literally never use signal until they change it so data is archivable in some form and syncable across devices. I won’t recommend people use it. I don’t care how secure it is. Security is important, but usability is where telegram has signal beat by miles. I’m not hiding nation state secrets. I’m horny posting and chatting with other weirdos that like to be animals on the internet.

Morals and principles are all good and dandy until you’re staring down daddy Google (who can take millions in losses without blinking an eye) offering you a choice between a large check or competition with a business entity that doesn’t need to be profitable . There’s not a lot of people in the world who could stand up to that, even fewer so that would want to when the alternative is a worry free life sitting on whatever millions Google paid you while sipping Mai Tais on your private island.

Printed circuit board.

Although we don’t see it, all of these developments do actually eventually make their way into battery tech. The batteries of today are not the batteries of 2014.

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China is a massive economy and country with some of the most advanced manufacturering and tooling in the entire world. Yes, it could be shoddy, but it’s in a ship and is going to be far more regoriously scrutinized by their regulatory bodies than a normal stationary battery would be. I understand the plausiblity of your comment, but it seems to be rooted in prejudice or extreme ignorance.

These batteries are likely far more complex in packaging, design, and thermal management that any consumer electronic cell. They’ll likely “fail safely” if/when they do fail.

Looks good! I love the strength of your lighting.

They’ll just buy the entire startups back using their mountain of accumulated wealth and the cycle will repeat.

GM produces their own Ultium cells, but the partnership was mainly for the rest of the vehicle. (Control systems, etc, etc) so they could slap a Honda infotainment system into it and a different set of sheet metal on it and say they’ve got an ev in their fleet for tax and fleet fuel efficiency reasons.

Hear me out. What if instead we just included a respected developers open-source project into our multi billion dollar product, paid them nothing, and gave them the pressure of ensuring it’s working for millions of users at the threat of their reputation until their mental health is in shambles? 🤔