I remember being upset about the exact same thing when 4G first launched.

Uh, I assumed that was a minimum viable product requirement.

Pretty much. How to guarantee I will never buy your brand ever again. Not that I would ever buy a Samsung anyway. Or anything preloaded with Facebook for that matter.

In the winter months, I live off of unsweetened herbal tea with no caffeine.

Not sure how exactly that would work. Do you have any ideas? Is there a free translation API that could be used?

Thank you! I’ll give this another try this weekend!

What lists do you have? They pretty much all came up for me. I tried it again with ublock origin to compare, but none showed up with ublock origin.

This is one of the ones I used

I set up pihole a few months ago. I added a few dozen of the highest recommended block lists, but I wasn’t impressed at all. It didn’t seem very effective at blocking ads in both real world tests and tests that I found online specifically for testing your adblocker.

Good food in convenience stores.

That technology just hasn’t made it to the US yet.

Here in Texas it’s not irregular for Christmas to be 80°F (26.5°C).

And even though its 72°F (22°C) today, it looks like tomorrow will be 57°F (14°C)

As long as it’s possible to turn off the shake and do it with a button. Motion controls are not accessibility friendly.

I have my Steam Deck attached to my TV. It’s great for watching pirated sports streams via web browser.

And that’s fine, because no one uses it here. So they wouldn’t be messaging anyone.

This was when he was in highschool, by the way.

It does suck that Google gave themselves a monopoly on it on Android. But I personally find it much better than Signal as far as features go. I think Signal tries too hard to be secure at the expense of features. My old phone broke and I lost all my messages. Nothing I can do to get them back. Luckily I only used it when my parents were out of the country, but if I had old messages and photos from a friend that passed, I would have been heartbroken. Signal was basically dead to me after I realized that sometimes I can lose messages.

I still have my texts from when my wife and I started dating almost 15 years ago.

My friend was once accused of plagiarism because one of those automated programs came back saying there was a match. It was his name. He has a very common first and last name. He went to plead his case to his teacher, and she wouldn’t even hear him out.

I’m so glad I went to school before those things existed.

I guess it depends on how you define “worse”. With RCS, you have SMS fallback, so anyone with a phone number can get your message when you send it. There’s a lot of value in that. Even with dedicated IM services having more features, if everyone I know can’t agree on one of those, I dont want to have 5 messaging apps on my phone and have to check them all every day. Very few people that I know even use one of those, and those people are all using different ones.

It’s great for Europeans where WhatsApp is ubiquitous, but here in the US, I don’t know a single person who uses WhatsApp. I’d someone asked me to use it, I would just tell them to text me because I don’t want to use a product owned by Facebook.

The closest thing we have here that most people use is Discord, but the older people I know can’t figure it out.

It’s not for me, but what other people do with their time is their business.

What do you not like about it? It seems like a huge improvement over SMS/MMS to me.