The duopoly keeps on adding more barriers to new entrants while alleging other reasons. Not surprised.

Getting rid of Google (and the reliance on US big tech) is more important than ever.

I know what options signal provides. I also know the defaults

Definitely, cash is critical

And Signal should take that into account

For example https://www.heise.de/en/news/iOS-Deleted-Signal-data-extracted-by-FBI-via-notification-database-11252199.html

But as I said it still is the standard and it is hard to find a better alternative

Not perfect (as recent news demonstrated) but still the standard The no-brainer choice for secure and private messaging

As if Ursula knew what she is talking about. Nevertheless, this is a terrible idea and most likely something with another agenda behind, other than the stated reasons.

With that being said, we need another president for the commission and perhaps a completely different commission. How many years until her term ends?

As a privacy consciousness individual, …

I think best to keep the same operating system (OS)

Not gonna work

doesn’t signal use empty notifications by default?

No Uncle Sam’s paper dollars? ohh boy

We definitely need to develop apps for TVs. YouTube has a great advantage because it is there by default.

This is actually pretty nice. I guess we will see similar projects popping up in the near future.

I guess it was inevitable (for multiple reasons). Fortunately, there are lighter flavors of Ubuntu. For the more experienced unwilling to spend their resources this way, there are always other distros.

GitHub has been in a downward spiral lately. Codeberg seems to be a better home for “small” open source. Large open-source organizations already use their forge.

In fact, if they have the know-how, they should switch to something else. Android nowadays isn’t much different from iOS, and I’m pretty sure that what was included in iOS will eventually land on Android too.

Fediverse already exists, with all its tools and instances (Lemmy, Mastodon, PixelFed, etc). It’s democratic, as anyone can host an instance or join an instance where they are accepted.

We don’t need more centralized copycats.