I’m inclined to agree, and said so in the linked thread.

Lemmy thread and link.

Basically, anyone who can read your home directory could decrypt your Signal database. That’s about typical of traditional desktop applications, but questionable for security-oriented software. Mac OS and (sometimes) Linux have more robust credential management options, and Signal signaled (yes, pun intended) its intent to adopt them.

As a practical point, saying it in English will almost certainly communicate what you need to communicate. Almost everyone who makes international calls will recognize that you’re speaking English even if they don’t understand what you’re saying, which suggests that the Russian or Korean speaking person they’re trying to reach is not at that number.

I haven’t been following the RCS story closely. My impression is it’s a standard core on which each provider can tack on nonstandard extensions, and somehow carriers are involved even though it’s internet-based. It sounds like people who won’t adopt third-party internet messaging apps are going to continue to have a bad time.

computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong

tech CEOs: let’s add it to every product

Borrowed from here

That’s probably what everyone using Lemmy would prefer to do, but some people believe it would negatively impact their ability to stay in touch with friends or family.

So many people asking me to have my wife do something different on her end. Beloved, she is on iPhone because she doesn’t want to do anything “weird.”

Assuming using a third-party messaging app is “weird”, then she can’t send you video with acceptable quality. That’s how it is.

She can’t fix that. You can’t fix that. None of the readers here can fix that unless they work at Apple. This may improve in the future when Apple adopts RCS, but there’s a lot that real-world implementations of RCS do that isn’t in the standard, so the full details of interoperability are uncertain until we see it in the wild.

Now, why can’t I get iMessage on my android phone?

Because Apple doesn’t want you to. Apple wants situations like this one to pressure people to buy iPhones because that’s apparently easier for some people than agreeing on a messaging app.

I’d hope that’s not terribly hard when the people in question are married to each other.

RCS from what I can tell still has some significant limitations, like the version common on Android having some Google proprietary extensions it’s not clear if other vendors will fully support. I’d still recommend something like Signal to most people, though RCS improves the experience for those not using that.

SMS/MMS has really low file size limits, and iPhones may downscale a little more aggressively than required.

Just pick an internet based messaging service. I like Signal, but they all work.

I immersed an H150 in salt water for 30 minutes. There was no decrease in battery voltage, no water ingress, and no effect on function.

Skilhunt recently upgraded its charging pad to fix the sparking problem. If you buy direct, you can email them and ask whether your unit will have the upgraded port.

I’m my testing, nothing caused the old pad to output current continuously. I don’t think water is a problem. I can dunk an H150 in salt water in a few days if you’re curious.

Lemmy will never do such a thing, but specific Lemmy servers might.

It is radically public. It’s designed to broadcast your content to hundreds of other peoples’ computers running all manner of different software which might then rebroadcast it to yet more. The whole architecture is oriented toward spreading things far and wide, and what tools exist to restrict the audience or retract content already shared are little more than polite suggestions.

That’s not a flaw, but people using it should understand how it works so they don’t run into surprises.

Someone could build a light this shape using two 10880 cells in parallel. Someone should.

That’s my objection to them. Olight is interesting here in that they offer a lifetime warranty for flashlights purchased in in United States of America, Australia, China, France, or Germany in 2023 or later which explicitly covers built-in batteries. That’s surprising given that Li-ion batteries are guaranteed to wear out, but it’s pretty unambiguous.

That’s true. Describing current regulation as the premium option was an oversimplification. For household lighting, it’s usually the premium option.

That’s not the only way to dim an LED, just the cheapest. Variable current power regulators are the premium option.

A screw-in LED bulb combines LEDs and power regulating electronics. Some of them handle the variable input voltage a household dimmer provides gracefully, but that’s more expensive.

I think you’re looking for !nms@lemmy.world, but it doesn’t seem like it’s very active anymore.

Mobile check deposit is the only thing I want from my bank’s app.

I’m running LineageOS with Magisk and Play Integrity Fix. That works for my bank’s app, but I’m annoyed that they make me do it and gave their app a 1-star review on Google Play for it.