This isn’t about restrictiveness - it’s a problem of RCS being ass-backwards garbage.

This isn’t a an Android issue, it’s a Google and cell provider issue. And that RCS (like SMS), are based on ancient technology/concepts, and both need to just die.

SMS is based on the physical architecture of cellular networks, and has no error handling whatsoever - it’s a Best Effort transmission.

RCS uses a hardware-bound ID, something we decided was a Bad Idea 40 years ago, and is wholly dependent on cell provider support.

We have a protocol, TCP-IP, that eliminates all these issues. It’s been the networking standard since the mid-90’s when even Netware decided it was a superior solution to IPX/SPX. It’s wholly hardware independent (it’s not tied to a physical device’s ID), so you can transmit/receive from any device without having to update everyone else that this is your new device.

We have numerous IP-based instant messaging systems today, with one in particular (XMPP) being open, flexible, extensible.

There’s no use for an archaic solution like RCS, except keeping your messaging in a system controlled by Google and carriers.

Now that’s just mean!

(Enjoy my upvote, haha)

My pronouns are fuck you AI

You’re overlooking 500 people in congress, their hangers-on, governors, their hangers-on, etc.

Politics is the nature of groups of people.

Al you always completely honest with everyone you talk to?

Read Machiavelli. This is all just human nature at scale.

Are you me? Lol

Even driving cross-country when I can get to cruise it’s hard to make a difference.

I can make a significant dent in time, but it’s over an 8 hour drive with no traffic. Then I can cut perhaps an hour if I’m doing 10 mph over consistently.

But this only works if you’re on a quiet road, say a “blue highway” in the midwest/western US, not an interstate.

I’ve driven like an old person since forever.

Done the math too many times - you can’t out-maneuver traffic or time.

Hahahahahahaha

I only rarely heard it misused before those maroons (and their ilk) popularized the misuse.

Nah, we already have one.

Just because idiots misuse it…

Why does anyone kill anyone else?

There’s a million reasons.

Who bothers with wired headphones these days?

And a real shower thought!

Despite Steve’s deserved reputation, from what I’ve read this time was truly just bad timing/accident.

Steve probably was too close though.

I’ve had a smart phone since before the term existed.

Paper calendars still have their uses.

This is a stupid question

Take your nonsense back to reddit

Bingo.

I haven’t had Starbucks in 14 years, even then I would get one on occasion only because that was the coffee shop on my work campus.

You both get up votes for your properly referenced sources.

I’d say $50k - make THAT risk really hurt.

There’s no excuse for the crap we have today. Every Enterprise I’ve worked in since the mid-90’s has had strong password policy and controls.

Yes, every single last woman in “the south” are exactly like this.

Yes, that’s sarcasm.

You never met a jackass like this in “the north”? Like say NY city, Baltimore, DC?

Current Windows (the NT line) has fuck all to do with Apple. It’s DEC Alpha through and through as MS hired the core Alpha team when they were laid off.

Mark Minasi wrote an article about it in 1998, and showed exactly how NT is Alpha.

And DEC predates Apple by years.