You sure you can’t do what you need from bash/ssh?

If you only need ssh, anything can be terminal as everything has a ssh client.

With the amount of money in this bubble, it would be better if slowly deflated instead popped.

XP was Tellytubby NT 2000.

Get off American monopoly tech. The desktop is the easiest.

A GNU/Linux desktop has endless advantages and doesn’t include the anti-features.

Linux, in some form, runs a lot of your life already, even if you don’t know it.

If your a tech, you really should deeply know Linux/UNIX anyway.

If you can do many to many, you can do 1 to 1. That’s why I see them as a single thing. Both Signal and WhatsApp do group calls as well as 1 to 1.

Most people don’t get the difference between Signal and WhatsApp, but I agree Signal is way way way more trustworthy and security. When I have to run WhatsApp, for work, which is rare, it is in a jail, with as little access as I can give it. Including a fake address book with only who I need for the call in. It’s a closed app from a data mining company. It is filth.

I think that’s probably it. Their scope is limited. They are only wanting to replaced Teams, Meet and Zoom. Which their are a few open, self-hostable, alternatives already. I want a scope to cover WhatsApp and Signal, while being backwards compatible to just make regular phones calls when nothing better is available.

Excellent podcast on the issue : https://www.npr.org/2021/02/17/968704526/why-printers-are-the-worst

SIP is what we have right now for VOIP. If you can connect to SIP, you can literally ring people over the current system. Audio only of course. Backwards compatibly is worth a lot. If they are also SIP, you should be able to do video. The providers I know are using WebRTC for a browser SIP client basically. Baresip has this as an example module, but there is commercial software that also does this. Avoid having to a local SIP client installed.

Backwards compatible laying for the win. Much easier to replace things that way.

Only if one side is SIP.

I know of a few things that do a WebRTC interface for SIP. So you can make SIP calls from your webbrowser.

It could be improve. SMB3 is far better for firewalling than SMB1/2.

A standard audio/video call protocol is great to have and SIP is everywhere already. Already supports video though this isn’t as widely used.

It could be iterated.

Can’t they invest in standardized SIP solutions? Linphone is already French.

You mean you don’t just trust the AI summaries?

18% or 21% sounds like a lot of people. Not an easy problem. :-(

I check on this. So first thing I found, literacy rates and average reading age are different things. Literacy rate, able to read at all, is clearly tracked and both countries are like 99%. Reading age seams really mushy. If you can get some numbers, please share!

Also, it won’t always be them. It will be a repair shop. If things were built to be repaired, it would be quicker and cheaper to repair them.

https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/

So we hear. But the world is not America and this is a British newspaper.

I’d rather see it finally fixed to be a fully functioning democracy. The party duopoly was always risky. A PR system with many parties is far more stable. Make it so new parties can come and go. So there is always real choice. It helps keep the nutters from getting absolute power. The UK could fall to nutters next election because of our insane FPTP system.

101 : Don’t create data you don’t want in the wrong hands.

Waze is now also Google. Apple can and does extract/extort lots rent/ransom from Google. OSM doesn’t have the pockets. They, like lots of FOSS, undermine the whole scheme.