Except for necessary modern features like different fractional scaling on multiple monitors…

Yeah! Release a butthole cut, you cowards!

The cat is so relaxed that you can’t tell whether it’s alive or dead without waking it up

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If the critter is close enough, their whiskers can pick up on vibrations in the air AFAIK, so they could probably still hunt.

why do you think they have you sign up with a phone number in the first place?

Again, spam & abuse prevention. We’ve been over this.

I’m sorry that not everyone thinks Signal is a god app worthy of worship. its a message app, and its not the only one. it does stuff some people don’t like. including me.

I’m not saying that Signal is a god app worthy of worship, I’m saying it’s detrimental for them to include SMS functionality, since that’s fundamentally insecure. That’s literally why they removed it. Is that so hard to understand?

That’s wishful thinking. How would anyone know that the government decided to pull someones feeding tube & use their organs? You think they can’t control the doctors & coroners? You think just because they don’t have a piece of paper saying “I consent” they can’t fake such a piece of paper?

I’m against people deciding to pull the feeding tubes of others to get more organs. At the same time, it’s a ridiculous belief to think they won’t just do that because you don’t consent. If they decide to go that far, your consent doesn’t matter in the least.

Also the keys sometimes get stuck, and the keyboard closes without saving your input when you press up in the top row.

Oh wait, that’s just Android TV. :(

Spam isn’t a binary issue, where it either exists or doesn’t. It could very well be the case that, without requiring a phone number, there’d be far more spam (since it’d be far easier to automatically create new accounts).

Again, do you have a better suggestion for spam & abuse prevention?

And still, aside from that - it doesn’t really make sense to expect Signal to offer SMS integration just because it requires a phone number for spam prevention, when offering this integration would be detrimental towards the mission of Signal (offering secure messages).

And who is going to enforce it? Why can’t they just fake it?

Do you have a better approach to prevent spam in mind? Without a barrier of entry it becomes a serious issue.

If they’re gonna go that far, do you really think your consent matters at all?

What? You use a secure messenger to send secure messages. It doesn’t make sense for a secure messenger to offer sending insecure messages (SMS).

Edit: oh, you’re probably referring to why it requires a phone number. This seems to be due to abuse/spam prevention, as otherwise creating new accounts to spam people with is basically free.

It’s arguably a very bad idea for a secure messenger to also provide an SMS interface, since those are basically cleartext

Fourteen is a terrible nickname for water

Say the line, Joyce

Sadly people literally write that and mean it. See the other reply:

They really don’t seem to be bothered by it.

Not sure what you mean - “Mario and Princess Beach” is obviously peak cinema

Sorry, classic case of Poe’s law! There are plenty of people who write what you said without any sarcasm, so without any indicators there’s no way to know.