Now imagine we only had Windows and no one would create such thing because Windows and it’s programs does not have support.

one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

RISC-V

Just Google’s proprietary app connecting to Google’s proprietary servers that just happened to be preinstalled. There is nothing RCS being build to Android itself.

Now we need to wait for Android to get support too 🙃.

As long as their internet can accept incoming connections 🤷. Something something end of available IPv4 addresses and years of putting customers behind layers of NAT.

Internet ≠ Web and other stuff on the application layer. But I agree this stuff is important to fix.

We can say that for any kind of drivers needed to run a mobile phone.\ Manufacturers of components are less and less providing any documentation, just throw a binary blob and say “put it in your Android build”.

A reminder that if something can run Android or ChromeOS doesn’t mean drivers would be available for Linux. And usually they aren’t.

Linux can run Android apps since we have Waydroid too and it’s universal, no need for single device - single OS nonsense.

Data that someone don’t have.

Because every new shitty thing Microsoft does is another new argument 😊.

Google Messages is to RCS what WhatsApp is to XMPP.

And Apple is going to be no different as they deal with Google and plug into their system.

Oh, oh, yes shut up. We already know some apps are available only for certain platforms and have different set of supported drivers.

Why have the same arguments over and over. If the only disadvantage of the clearly better thing is popularity, then don’t shut up people taking time questionably promoting it.

Am I weird? I don’t mean ads, I have no problem with them.
Just make me use an open source client.

8GB of RAM is perfectly usable for basic things, but on a new computer, with that price, non-upgradable… ech…

Oh noooo. Not our 5G :(.

Off Google - super easy Off Gmail - you’ll still be fighting to get into someone inbox but there are many options still Off Chrome - getting harder and harder, the only option is Firefox Off YouTube - sorry, nowhere to go

What a nice language for constructive discussion…

And yes. Because it’s not just a simple HTML+CSS website, your browser must pull full-featured, Turing complete compiled to JavaScript code and execute it in order for GitHub website to work.
There is no much philosophical difference between running JavaScript on V8 engine in Chrome and running Kotlin code on ART in Android.

Just becasue you don’t see app icon being added to homescreen doesn’t mean there isn’t downloading and running an app.

F-Droid supports adding third-party repos, no need to create another app, right? Right?

Don’t know where this idea come from. You need to run GitHub’s proprietary app in order to create an account and do nessesary things. Meanwhile services like Codeberg have both server and client side open source and there are hosts like SourceHut that does not require running any additional code at all.