KrummsHairyBalls @ KrummsHairyBalls @lemmy.ca

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I said this a few months ago and I was downvoted lmao.

When grocery prices go from $4 to $8, that's a 100% increase. Or when prices go from $2.50 to $8 that's a 220% increase.

Might not seem so bad on paper, but when you add it all together on your full grocery bill, it's turning the final bill from $100 to $200-250, which is bat shit insane.

I bought knock off mustard yesterday. Normal sized bottle. Cost me $8.

I know I will be hated for my input, but I use Firefox, pay for YouTube Premium, and my load times are fast. My browser choice hasn't caused any slow experiences.

Not that I have to justify my purchase, but it's $25 CAD per month, and I split it between my 5 family members. $5 CAD for ad-free on all my platforms plus YouTube Music, PLUS more money going to creators (as confirmed by Technology Connections on YouTube), I am fine paying a few bucks. Content creators have to get paid, and I hate sitting through ads, so it's a win-win in my books. I also don't want to waste time using third party apps, using DNS adblocking, pihole, etc. just to get a decent experience across my devices.

I'm sure my opinion will be taken very respectfully on Lemmy.

H.265 on my phone is not 50% the size. Maybe ~25% less at maximum.

E2EE is one of the main points of iMessage. Security minded iMessage users are not going to feel comfortable if a Sunbird user is on the other end.

You could say the same about RCS. Apple's implementation of RCS next year will not have e2ee, at least not at first.

Can't wait to lose my RCS e2ee thanks to Apple.

Yes, North America between Android and iPhone.

I use RCS with everyone except iPhone users, which defaults to SMS.

Well if you look back and read, you'll see where I said I'm not sending baby pics, so no, I'm not juggling separate apps.

If someone wants to send me a pic, MMS is fine, because it's good enough quality to get the point across. If I cared about quality, I'm not using any messenger, including signal, to send my photos. I'll send them uncompressed another way.

Signal removing SMS fallback was dumb, plain and simple. I've switched to Google messages now where I can use encrypted RCS and fallback to SMS.

• Any of the million storage options (Proton Drive, OneDrive, Gmail, Mega, etc)
• Google Photos in full quality
• Sending a public link that is self hosted on my NAS

I dont use MMS, I use RCS, and even then, if I cared about quality, I am not sending it directly via any chat service as they will compress it.

Exactly.

I also prefer not to have one of the most garbage companies apps on my phone (WhatsApp). The messages may be encrypted, but the location data and storage permissions you're giving it aren't.

I.too.prefer.dots.over.spaces.

That's great. Most older people aren't juggling two apps.

I'm also not sending baby photos because fuck kids, but if I wanted to send photos, it wouldn't be compressed over signal or WhatsApp.

It's not useless in western countries. We don't all have our entire country communicating via Metas WhatsApp lol

It's not about that. It's about moving people over.

You know why RCS is picking up steam? Because it's 1 app. If the person you're talking to has RCS, you'll send messages via RCS. If they don't, it'll fall back to SMS. If RCS was a separate app from SMS, adoption would be really low.

Older people especially don't want to juggle 2 apps. If you get your dad on signal, and then his friend who uses SMS messages him, he'll be back in his SMS app and won't go back to signal, meaning the next time he messages you, or anyone else that has signal, he'll instead just send an SMS since he's already in the SMS app.

Removing SMS fallback was a surefire way to kill adoption of signal.

It's just easier to use a single app. I don't use any of the services I mention to send any private info. Like I said in a different reply, Telegram is for unraid notifications, WhatsApp is for my landlord to yell at me, and Discord is public servers.

All already public info or basic alerts. I'd prefer just not having a bunch of apps installed.

I don't use any of the services I mentioned to send any private or personal info. They could all be public tweets for all I care. I care more about my location data and other data these individual apps would get access to, over the messages I send through them.

Like Telegram is used strictly for unraid notifications, WhatsApp with my landlord, and Discord is public servers.

Nothing private at all.

I'd rather they have my messages vs WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram, etc. all having individual access to my photos, location, all of my phone sensor data, etc.

Like I said, many apps refuse to work properly if you deny them permissions, but Beeper doesn't.

Why? In Canada they offered a pre-order deal. Buy a phone, get a free $500 watch. You can sell the watch and you're laughing.

I prefer Beeper because I don't need multiple other chat apps installed and grabbing my data.

Yes, you have to trust Beeper.

I personally found it when I was forced to use WhatsApp with my landlord, and refuse to install any meta apps on my phone. I've since linked Telegram and Discord.

Not to mention many of those apps require permissions to work, but I can easily deny them on Beeper and Beeper doesn't care.

Plus dating apps. When I used to be on Tinder, a bunch of girls stopped talking to me once we moved off Tinder and my bubble showed up green lmao.

Now? They've had controls for nearly 2 years at least.

I love it. I just wish we were allowed to manually pick the 3 colours.