Using something like this compromises e2e encryption for you and anyone that you talk to. It’s actively inviting a man-in-the-middle into all of your chats.
It’s a shitty thing to do to your friends.
Just use Signal if you care about the green bubble stuff.
Or just buy an iPhone if that kind of thing matters to you
Good
It was a pretty bad idea, not only a privacy risk for users but for anyone those users interact with. You no longer get the guarantee that your iMessages are end to end encrypted since anyone using the service puts a man in the middle for everyone they communicate with.
But why even bother? If you’re privacy conscious and still insist on a chromium based browser just use Brave.
Use things that respect your privacy by default. Otherwise you have to be in the habit of actively opting out whenever new updates or features are added and anybody who would be that diligent about it is probably already using Firefox or Brave anyway.
Edge is entirely as privacy violating as chrome
Consider Obsidian.md
It’s basically a lightweight system for organizing markdown files, lots of great organization and search features and lots of available extensions
I have many friends with nipple piercings.
You can’t tell through a shirt.
Nobody is scrutinizing the shape of your nipples through a t shirt
Rock Climbing is a sport that gives you a lot of control over risk. Once you understand the technical safety aspects, you can evaluate risks of a particular course of action.
Climbing mellow routes with a top rope is quite low risk.
It’s a longevity sport, at crags and gyms it’s pretty normal to see people over 50 still at it.
I mean… he is the fearsome scourge of the neighborhood rodents and butterflies. But as long I can pick him up and twirl him around, he’ll always be a little guy to me.
No corporation is the “good guy”
Every product has trade offs and it all depends on what you personally value in your device
Despite that, people typically keep their iPhones much longer than they keep android phones. 3 years of software support is considered good for androids. iPhones get 6
Note the part where I said “for me”.
I’ve had plenty of different smartphones over the last 15 years. Most have been android.
I happen to currently be very happy with my iPhone.
But I mean also, despite right to repair concerns, apple has a large network of first party service centers that will do battery replacement for old phones at a pretty reasonable price.
Plus with modern fast charging, it never feels like much of an issue. I get basically all day battery from a 20 minute charge during my morning coffee.
I mean considering that iPhones have ~50% market share in the US. You can just as much say iMessage is the standard.
Factor in the other messenger services and SMS is probably a pretty small slice of the current text messaging landscape
Green is what means it’s an SMS. Whereas blue is the much more modern iMessage platform.
That’s the point, SMS sucks
Compare using a 5 year old galaxy to a 5 year old iPhone tho. Hard to beat the iPhone longevity and software support
Weirdly, the limitations of my iPhone are part of what makes it good for me. Because it lacks a lot of “power user” features like split screen multitasking, I actually end up using it less.
I appreciate that using my phone is frustrating sometimes because I put it away faster. Big plus for my adhd ass.
My other reason is the comparative privacy benefit of apple services vs google services. Apple equivalents of google things work a little less well but they harvest a lot less personal data.
I switch to signal with my android friends, vanilla SMS is rough, particularly for group messages
I did read the article, and I fail to see how this is different than other implementations.
“In a call with Beeper’s Eric Migicovsky, that’s exactly what I wanted to find out, and it seems the answer comes down to trust. Beeper as it stands today, where everything is running on Mac Minis, is being done “in the open.” The backend is largely open-source, and the company has aimed to be straightforward and transparent with every update along the way. Migicovsky adds that, soon, Beeper will be doing a full in-public security review.”
So the difference is “you can trust us”. Sounds like BS to me, you’re still routing your messages through an endpoint that is someone else’s Mac mini.