Thanks. I’m giving it a try.

Are there any particular messaging apps fitting this description that you’d recommend?

It looks slightly prettier than the Graphene app. But functionally they seem about the same.

I have not seen any FOSS apps that can do this, or many apps at all. Certainly nothing that looks like an app you’d want to use. I don’t know what the technical reason is for this. Does Google make it deliberately difficult for third-party apps to do RCS?

That hasn’t been my experience on the Play Store.

I’ve been using it. It’s decent and basic. The only enhancement is that it doesn’t do anything annoying.

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shouldn’t other types of engines be tried?

Sure, but the tricky bit is to be more specific than that.

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Heliboard seems decent, though I don’t know anything about the developers.

They’re offering a helpful guide so others don’t have to spend ages figuring it out for themselves. There’s no need to react so negatively.

Let’s replace their customers with not-customers.

Shame everything you do on the internet supports them through AWS though. Maybe they need more outages to drive those customers away.

They only said the bed was smart.

By saying things in public like “let’s rewrite the entire operating system,” Microsoft are not giving off reassuring vibes. Rewriting the entire anything never goes smoothly, and Windows has a track record of ambitious failures followed by more conservative releases that are more successful. They’re bringing these anxious responses upon themselves.

Over in the Linux world we have a cute penguin who leaves you alone.

If I had $500 million I wouldn’t work another day in my life. You would never hear about me. I would go live somewhere quiet and have everything I could possibly want delivered to me.

That sounds like it might drive a person crazy too. I hope that after acquiring the financial freedom to choose what to do, I’d find the motivation and energy to choose to do some actually worthwhile things with other people, just staying alert to what needs doing. I agree about these guys being mentally unwell though. They’re stuck in a rut of greed for more money and power, and they lack the perspective, imagination or capacity to appreciate life that they’d need to change course.

Elon.

It does seem to put them in the same league for indirectly caused deaths as Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

The tragedy is that more of these rich people don’t test that belief against reality.