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Just FYI, because I forgot to mention it - I haven’t set up Heliboard’s swipe function yet.

Sarcasm aside, you really aren’t that far off. Unfortunately, we as enthusiasts don’t make the decisions - our own social networks (the concept, not the internet shitholes) do that for us. The vast majority of regular people don’t even realize you can use a different texting app, let alone a secure one that doesn’t rely on an insecure protocol (i.e. Signal). And then you have iPhone users who don’t realize that iMessage is a wholly separate thing from SMS. You can’t really expect those kinds of people to download 4 different messaging apps just to keep in contact with their peers.

SMS is not an instant messaging protocol either.

Yes, it is. It was always an instant messaging protocol. It may not have been called instant messaging, but that was its intended purpose - initially for carriers to send alerts or other notifications to their customers. Instantly.

The very first SMS was quite literally an instant message from one person to another, saying “Merry Christmas”. In '92. Every Nokia device supported SMS by '93, and many more manufacturers were not far behind.

Sometimes they arrive quickly, sometimes they don’t arrive at all. :/

Occasional technical hiccups (e.g. not received) do not change the originally-intended function. I’ve had more issues sending/receiving RCS messages than SMS/MMS messages.

Because it’s a universal communication standard. Quite literally every phone made in the last 30 years supports SMS. The hangup is the carrier. But pretty much every carrier, at least here in the USA, offers unlimited SMS.

I used FUTO keyboard for a while, but the swipe function could not figure out certain words, or would just straight up insert a completely different word that wasn’t even close to what I was trying to swipe. Switched to Heliboard last week, so far so good.

That’s still 36 states too many without.

I’am myself an IT guy, but the unnecessary complexity of the Android phone and what the brands does… etc. make too many steps and I cannot spend ~two weeks to unbrick it.

You can thank the closed-source SoC drivers for that.

I’m liking the pixel 7 so far but it has no jack

Every Pixel starting with the Pixel 2 has omitted the headphone jack.

also it feels weirdly hollow inside, although I dropped it several times(with case on) and it’s still working

I had the 7 Pro for a couple years. I liked it, but my first one failed catastrophically after dropping it, and its warranty replacement began failing in a similar fashion after maybe 6 months. I traded it for my current 9 Pro XL the day that was released, which has worked really well. I intend on keeping this one for quite a while.

Whatever works for you. Newpipe and its forks are a solid project - I used the SponsorBlock fork of Newpipe for a little while.

Yeah, I don’t really follow the drama anymore, I got enough in my own life as it is (two teenagers will do that).

Whenever I hear about drama over a popular project, I like to find out for myself what’s actually going on and make my decisions accordingly.

Vanced/Revanced/Morphe is a patched version of the actual YouTube APK.

NewPipe is a third party FOSS frontend for YouTube that parses the actual website.

YouTube Revanced is a patched version of the YouTube APK, which disables a bunch of shit like ads and whatnot. Also ties into the SponsorBlock API, which is super nice.

It started as “YouTube Vanced”, which was, as others said, “YouTube Advanced” minus the ‘Ad’. Play on words. Haha. Looked and functioned like the original YouTube app, because it was. Just patched.

The original Vanced team did a stupid and launched an NFT, which ended up in them getting C&D’d by Google. There is some debate on this, but any idiot would know that google absolutely knew about Vanced for quite some time, but the team monetizing it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Anyway, Vanced was forked and became “ReVanced”. They ended up building a whole patcher app and offered patches for other apps like Reddit is fun (RIP), TikTok, YouTube, and many more. To get rid of ads and the like.

Drama occurred within the Revanced team, so it was forked yet again into Morphe.

Right on, that’s good to know. And you’re running totally degoogled?

I tried the first method on a degoogled phone a few months ago. Doesn’t work 😕

Been meaning to try the second method.

This is why brand loyalty is stupid.

I thought they stopped making phones a while ago. The only one I’m aware of in recent history is the ROG phone, which they seem to forget about every year.

That warning is a reminder to me that I own the device and can do whatever the fuck I want with it.

Mediatek has a mode similar to Qualcomm’s implementation. Rooting my Wyze robot vacuum required it.

KernelSU is very much an active project. Last release was just two weeks ago.

Like Magisk did with SuperSU, and SuperSU did with other root solutions, KernelSU will likely end up replacing Magisk. I’m keeping an eye on it. Magisk plateaued after topjohnwu started working for Google.

The only thing that Google won’t let the Magisk dev do is circumvent Google’s own Play Protect stuff. That’s it. He said as much when he got hired at Google years ago.

The problem is that Google is putting more and more things behind Play services instead of AOSP.