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smileyhead , to technology in Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year

Still features like that would be kinda neat for all the devices that RCS don’t support, like Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, ChromeOS, HarmonyOS, Android Open Source Project, Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS…

smileyhead , to technology in Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year

Also RCS is build that way. It has more features than SMS, but underneath is even worse than it. Why in the 2023 people massively want to go back tying their chat app with mobile carrier? Like, giving what Internet standards we now have RCS should really be considered deprecated, hope we won’t be stuck with it for next 30 years.

smileyhead , to technology in Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year

It’s really bad that we sill would live in a ancient model when in order to use the protocol app need some specialized system API to the baseband modem. I thought it was all fixed with just the IP (Internet)?

smileyhead , to technology in Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year

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    smileyhead , to technology in Google originally did not want to make any money from Android's app store

    Android SDK source code is available, in theory and in theory you can build yourself. In practice binaries provided by Google come with restricting licence how you can use them while source is so scattered around weird control systems that noone knows if it’s actually complete source and possible to use.

    There was a project to provide FOSS builds of the SDK, but is unmaintained. gitlab.com/android-rebuilds/autoDebian also has android-sdk in it’s repos, but 23 is the max API level now.

    I don’t know how F-Droid build apps today, it seems like a big problem.

    smileyhead , to lemmyshitpost in another 30 hour tutorial

    When your grandparent got a cheap Xiaomi and next weeks you would spend teaching where are the buttons to close ads, notifications about Xiaomi products, promotions, suggested content, very useful tips, manual system cleanup reminders, sign in to Google dialogs, sign in to Xiaomi Cloud dialogs, sponsored content on lockscreen, daily lockscreen wallpaper suggestions, system update reminders, weather forecasts and daily step count.

    smileyhead , to technology in [Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why

    And how much of a pain in the ass is it to buy DVD box sets and rip them? Presumably that’s legal for personal use? Is that the only way? :(

    It can be a pain at first when you figure out a schema, look for software etc., then just a matter of inserting a disc and pressing a button. DVDs are easy to rip, there are fully open source programs to do it, for example libcss from VLC team. And DVDs don’t require using leaked decryption keys like BluRays.

    It is legal depending on the country. In US it’s in gray area as you strip down DRM. In country I live in (Poland) from my research there are no such measures and copyright works differently. In Poland the movie/music is untied from medium you bought it on, so copying is legal but selling or giving those copies without destroying other copies you have is illegal.

    My advice is that for first dozens of movies don’t play with Jellyfin and storing them. DVD player on USB is the best and rip just to have movies for a trip or on a phone. Just out of simplicity, why spend time managing backups, storage shares and additional machines when there is only a few titles to manage.

    smileyhead , to technology in [Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why

    Then they should gives us options to give them money. I’ll happly pay for all the songs I want to have, but this is not real now. The only way to legally buy music in my country are CDs. For best bands I buy them and rip, but what about a radio song stuck in the head for a week? I don’t want to order a whole album in CD box, carry it home and rip just to delete month after. So I record internet radio stations, download from YouTube, etc. which is not much illegal like torrenting, but I would much rather have an app with search bar and “buy” button on songs for buck or two than play in gray areas.

    smileyhead , to technology in China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, can transmit 150 4K movies a second

    But I guess no externally routable Internet address?

    smileyhead , to technology in Google originally did not want to make any money from Android's app store

    Remember Open Handset Alliance (www.openhandsetalliance.com)?

    Or when it was actually possible to make an app for Android using open source tools?

    smileyhead , to technology in Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS

    Doesn’t help much in terms of privacy. But still is very important. gnu.org/…/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

    For a bank or any system you would not have control over anyway, it does not have to be open, only the client software you run on your computer should be. But messaging, document editing (like Google Docs), etc. are personal tasks that could be done via a local program, so a remote program should be give you freedom from it’s provider.

    smileyhead , to android in Mishaal Rahman: "Android 14 seems to have quietly eliminated a trick some apps were using to keep themselves alive when the OS tried to kill them"

    This really was a trick and was mostly exploited.

    An app that actually needs being in the background would just show a persistant notification.

    smileyhead , to technology in If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text.

    The ElementX developemnt is looking really really good!

    smileyhead , to technology in Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS

    In other words: “Some of the messaging community believes that software that can be controled by the user and is clear how it works is doing what the user wants it to. It is our view that it is not.”

    They are just like the rest of big companies. Remember when Facebook was a privacy respecting and friendly alternative for MySpace? Or Apple for IBM? Or Google for other search engines?

    smileyhead , to technology in Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS

    XMPP was never Google only, it always had free implementations of both client and server while having community using it outside of Google. While RCS is really not possible to use now without Google.

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