Something happened over time, and I think it coincided with the rise of Donald Trump and the emergence of Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok as the social media platforms of choice. A lot of people just stopped bothering to defend their ideas against people who disagree with them. The arguments dried up.

It’s because we’ve realized these people are a completely lost cause.

The rise of these platforms increased the ability of politicians’ ability to disinform and manipulate people ten fold.

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A computer is an appliance. In the strictest sense of the word.

I’ve heard the phrase “I saw an ad on Instagram for…” way too many fucking times.

Surprised Apple hasn’t patched this yet.

It’s being badly damaged by thousands of lazy AI-written merge requests to the extent that many have stopped accepting them entirely.

It’s also effectively DDOS’ing many open source sites (and the rest of the open internet), straining what limited funding they have.

So I would say a resounding yes.

Imagine being excited about being allowed to remove something from “your” phone.

I mean they ignore all the other laws, let’s add another to the list.

XMPP is federated

I mean only insofar as every other chat protocol “replaces” SMS. It only works if the other party is also using it. SMS and MMS will continue to be used with a completely different transmission mechanism.

Thanks. 10 minutes of video and not 1 second of actual gameplay footage. Don’t know why I even bother anymore.

AFAIK it is specifically meant as a replacement for SMS

Nope

and is used with regular pre-installed SMS Apps.

Only works with 3 proprietary apps, that I’m aware of. Google and Samsung Messages and iMessage.

Any non-YT link? Can’t watch shit on YT anymore

Breaking news: AI is worthless. Stop using it.

I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly

No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.

I don’t know anybody who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate.

RCS is neither.

I dunno what that means. I gave what I felt like a very simple take and this person started to argue with me, not the other way around.

You did say simple…

Newsom running for Pres?

If it has a apt package, it’s as easy as “sudo apt install xyz”

This is the kind of ignorant shit that relegates Linux to nerd circles. What do you do with this information? What is xyz, and exactly xyz because if you get a single letter wrong it does not work. Further the user has to already know what they want, which a new user will not.

LOL sure