emptyfish
If I understood correctly the Sunbird solution is basically setting up an account on a virtual computer and then relaying imessages? That has all kinds of red flags associated if true.
The obsession with blue bubbles is really silly from all sides of it. Ironically I think Apple intended it to allow people to understand when a message was secure or not, I don’t think they thought it would become a social status marker. Don’t get me wrong, they could have put effort in to better integrate once this all started and clearly they’re leveraging the situation to retain customers - I’m one of them, I gave up and went to iOS because 99% of my family is there and I can’t convince them to adopt Signal, etc.
Having said all of that, trying to build third party middleware at the expense of user security just to fake having an iPhone app is equally silly.
Great song… there’s also a live version from Later with Jools Holland on YT that is excellent.
I’m skeptical that a FF with a majority market share would continue to be as user-centric as it is now. Honestly I sort of hope that a third option comes out, but FF is my go to option for now.
I’ve lost faith in Google (nod to your username) for sure - in general I miss disruption, everyone used to believe they could do it better so no one shied away from the idea of building a better browser engine or any other technology for that matter.
Google stopped making decisions in the best interest of anyone other than their shareholders a long time ago.
I was very fortunate to see this performed live in its entirety on the FOABP tour. My ears are still ringing. 😀 Excellent song!
Every part of this song is just epic… bass line, guitar, and of course those vocals. It was like hearing something out of another dimension.
My first choice ended up in my top played albums for two years straight, these are all frequent/recent favorites…
Totally get it, we are similar age and environment. I was fortunate to grow up around a lot of amazing people who were affectionate. I have different pockets of friends so like most things you have to adjust to what others are comfortable with; I have raised my kids as huggers and my my favorite people in the world, male or female, share the trait of being affectionate - I don’t think it’s a coincidence. It’s worth pushing outside of your comfort zone, no matter what any of us say I really believe we all thrive on contact and positive reinforcement.
For sure… it’s really frustrating, though. Family members constantly post my kids’ photos and I am somehow the tin foil hat wearing bad guy in the situation when I ask to not do it and/or crop them out. Thankfully I feel like for the most part this has settled down from its peak but I still have relatives who literally dump dozens of photos into social media per week.