You are right to point out that this hardware dependency on Google is bad and obviously this wouldn’t work for everyone if everyone were to switch to GrapheneOS, but you can totally buy a used Pixel if you don’t want to give more money to Google.

Doctor Mike?

I just don’t use it. Not sure what exactly I’m supposed to be missing out on.

Conversations and Dino for mobile and desktop respectively.

Why not?

This is entirely irrelevant to any member of this community that is not a US citizen.

I would appreciate if you could post things like this in a regional community to avoid generating useless noise for everyone else.

Why do you need this? I’m curious because I didn’t even notice Signal had this restriction. To me instant messenges really aren’t something that I’d ever need an archive of.

I mean sure, technically that is a limitation. Realistically though, that is long enough.

Or do you regularly not open the desktop client for more than 45 days?

None at all.

Yes