BladeFederation

No

But then the only use case is if you literally take someone’s phone, switch the default SMS app to Signal, and they don’t know how to switch it back themselves. If they’re that tech illiterate, they’ll probably call you for tech support as to why text isnt working, instead of switching to Signal. And even if they then agree to do it your way, the mythical user you described is no longer mythical, it is easier to make a mistake in the Ui for someone tech illiterate. You will often see a person’s phone number in their Signal profile, after all, it’s not unthinkable.

Also, as time goes on, more people start using Signal as more people see how fascist some governments are getting and how intense social engineering is with spam calls/texts/whatnot. I know a random 60 year old bus driver who switched to Signal and made other privacy changes like turning on Safari’s relay because her accounts got hacked and she was using the same password for everything. To someone that is blind Googling something they don’t have context for, Signal is a trusted encrypted app, therefore anything I send through Signal should be trusted. I don’t think it is as impossible as you think. And again, to what benefit? There is some benefit to prevent Google possibly scanning your messages, but there are also plenty of other SMS apps which can avoid this, if it is avoidable at all.

Signal is more stable & simple to set up. So for its intended use, getting people to actually talk to me on it, it’s better.

Matrix is obviously better as a Discord replacement. It doesn’t require a phone number which is also good. Not centrally managed so easier to decouple from big tech corruption. So it is better in those ways.

That’s why the removed it actually, people think being the default SMS app means you’re actually sending encrypted messages now. Nope, it just means you’re sending regular old SMS but with thr Signal app.

That’s good to hear! I tried it earlier this year and it was responsive and all (when not buggy) but sitting at 3 or 4 GB of RAM idle. I might give it another go.

Favorite: KDE. The GOAT babyyy

Least Favorite: Deepin, due to the privacy concerns

First DE: XFCE

Honorable Mention: Cosmic. It is sexy with decent balance of customization & strong unified vision. It is early on though so not quite ready for prime time. Some bugs, and resource consumption could be better.

Current DE: KDE

Potential Future DE: Might see what thr fuss is about with WMs like Niri. It seems more complicated to set up than it needs to be, but I like the tiling and use of desktops sort of like GNOME but better.

Longest used DE: KDE

Current distro: Fedora KDE

I am not a hacker, but what I gathered from the article is that this is due to shims with vulnerabilities being left as trusted instead of being revoked. If that’s the case, wouldn’t the hacker be using a modified version of a compromised shim? It shouldn’t have to be a shim that you actually use right? Or does the signed shim have to correspond to thr correct OS that signed it?

Actually yes, at least for LBP specifically, I have done it myself. RPCSN is a built in PSN emulator, and there are multiple major fan maintained servers with archived user content from before it went down. As well as new content from the PS3 emulation era.

I sure am excited for gaming this year. I saw some adverts in a magazine for Half-Life, Ocarina of Time, and Resident Evil 2 and I can’t decide.