I did all of that in my parent comment. It’s only stupid if the government can prove it’s not true, which they can’t.

I just looked into it again out of curiosity. It no longer requires a Google login (nor does it even require Google Play services, because I don’t have them. This will probably change once they go paid, which they’ve apparently rolled back since the iMessage debacle).

It says it supports SMS/RCS, but it actually supports neither. All it does is connect to your Google messages web account. This is an absolute joke for an app that bills itself at the top of it’s home page as “all your chats in one app” and it doesn’t even support the most common chat method.

As far as I can tell the app is still closed source.

Bambu is in the initial phase of enshittification.

I wish they were more open

This is how you can tell.

Also every time someone links to a print on their website it begs me to download their app.

Cannot recommend.

It doesn’t help that Steam store is a nightmare to navigate.

Releasing demos is a great way to succeed. It doesn’t take me more than 5 minutes to decide if it’s something I want to continue playing.

Putting videos of nothing but cut-scenes is a great way to ensure I keep scrolling but every title seems to take this approach.

“we have reason to believe” is a lot longer headline than “could”.

Typically I prefer my appliances soulless.

I just can’t do $100k for an oversized monster like the Lightning

Lightning is like $50k now. But yeah I get it. I just saw one of the 43574 Chinese brands made a small truck.

This isn’t gaslighting

It is though, because they’re trying to convince you (and the government) that that’s not the reason.

Search engines are a dead end. The future is a LLM that can tie its results to sources.

I’m pretty sure we’ve already seen that that’s a dead end.

Well first of all these games were never listed on GoG.

Secondly, they can’t (legally) do anything about a publisher refusing to sell games anymore. That’s their IP and they have the legal right to make that decision.

What they can do is ensure games that you’ve already purchased continue to work in the future.

🤔

As always, Apple is gaslighting you. The only reason is because Google is paying them tens of b-b-billions of dollars a year not to. And they don’t want to give that up.

Not really anything they can do.

The best software doesn’t need to be trusted because it’s open source and self-hosted.

I haven’t looked into this in a while but I believe the current Beeper app only allows you to use Beeper servers, is not open source, and requires you to connect it to a Google account for unknown reason, for those reasons, I say no.

The previous “Beeper Cloud” was open source and you could theoretically self host it and run it on your own server. Probably still can.

But I stopped using it for a completely different reason:

Its intended to do something that the services it uses DO NOT want you doing. For that reason, they make it intentionally difficult to do. Apple demonstrated this really well when they predictably “patched” the iMessage loophole PyPush found. You’ll be logged out constantly, there are constant bugs caused by server-side changes, and your accounts will be flagged for “automated activity”.

Any convenience it’s supposed to give you is just negated by these complications.

Also it was acquired by Automattic a while back, which is, on it’s own, a great reason to avoid it.

So, yeah, there are many reasons not to trust it.

Not sure if serious.

I don’t really understand RCS. It’s supposed to be an open standard but unfortunately it’s only available in 1 of 2 Android apps, which are controlled by Samsung or Google. Personally, I don’t have a Google or Samsung account, and these don’t work without them.

They could have just used the actually open standard they already used 10 years ago (XMPP) but for some reason they’ve found some other one that doesn’t appear to be very open.

Because it’s better than what we have. And people are too dumb to know any better.

1. Of course it does. Everything that’s not an iPhone does.

2. Doubt. Pixels have had the best photos for several years.

Tech Jesus made a tribute video.

The workers, hired by Jinjiang Construction Brazil

Why am I unsurprised that they’re Chinese.

I dunno, is it?