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I guess you aren't living in the US either.

The iPhone is extremely popular over there, especially amongst teens the market share is over 80%. Also, because of cheap SMS and MMS people actually continued to use SMS while e.g. most of the EU quickly switched to internet messengers.

At the same internet messengers started to appear, Apple released iMessage which is a internet messenger with an SMS/MMS fallback for chatting with non-iMessage devices. This experience is worse for many reasons, notably the terrible 500KB media size limit makes videos unwatchable.

Additionally, MMS group chats are a thing in the US. This means a single non-iMessage device in a group makes the experience worse for everyone.

This lead to most people using their pre-installed messaging app, which is a worse experience on Android (SMS) than on Apple (actually modern messenger). It's not an issue in other countries because people are accustomed to instantly installing WhatsApp on their new device.

Edit: As a teen, I didn't even know MMS could do groups because ten years ago it would've been prohibitively expensive anyway.

It's probably a combination if reasons why it seems like there's less bullying.

Bullying is less physical now with online bullying existing. Also, it's difficult for outsiders to understand if someone is bullied if they don't bring it up.

E.g. some girl in my class was bullied in 8th grade, but it wasn't obvious to me as I wasn't close to them. For an outsider not paying particular attention making fun of someone a few times might just be friendly banter.

[...] transfer rooms. Not much time to flush heads in that span?

At least in my school there were 20min breaks after 90min of classes, so more than enough time to give someone a shower if they wanted. Edit: Altough I want to believe they had to be more careful so they chose less obvious forms of bullying.

No, because iMessage isn't a gatekeeper in the EU. It's comparable to Signal in size, depending on the country.

Hopefully with Apple adopting RCS they fix the spec to include e2e encryption. At the moment only Google's proprietary client does RCS with their own encryption.

Thanks for mentioning desec.io! I've read about it in c't a few years ago, but didn't find it a few months ago.

I'm behind CGNAT with months between IPv6 prefix changes. Having a separate publicly routable IP for each host is awesome.

Tailscale causes heavy battery drain on my phone (Pixel 4a GrapheneOS) so I'm now on always on plain Wireguard, which only needs 1% of my battery.

Sadly my mother doesn't have IPv6, so accessing e.g. Jellyfin is not possible.

Are youtube ads in Firefox on iOS blocked? They are with uBlock on Firefox Android, but iirc Firefox on iOS doesn't support extensions.

Thank you, I didn't know that they've changed their pricing to include a free plan.

https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free

Jellyfin MPV Shim does what you want. MPV is an open source media player like VLC, with more focus on embedded use cases (e.g. mpv is an option in Findroid, a Jellyfin Android app).

The MPV shim runs in the background and appears in Jellyfin (web or app) as a Cast device.

It's awesome since mpv has many keyboard shortcuts I'm missing with Jellyfin.

Edit: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim

Skipping sponsors automatically means you definitely won't be influenced by the marketing, so it hurts the creator because the sponsor might not work with them again because of low sales impact.

Anyway, I'll continue to use NewPipe x SponsorBlock and the Firefox addon.

I know there are concerns over how it isn't "true open source" but it's a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced.

For me, terms and definitions are very important. Just like right to repair is often misrepresented to the detriment of consumers, it's important to only talk about open source if the license actually respects your freedom [1].

Open source has a lot of positive connotations and calling some project open source while only being source available feels like taking advantage of it.

It's similar to how large corporations talking about being eco friendly with their packaging whilst making the actual devices as hard to repair as possible.

You're right, the ReVanced project is open source, but the resulting app is not, since it's modifying the official YouTube app.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd/

Hopefully this change actually helps Element to make money. It was always a problem how entangled Matrix and Element are, simply because Element finances most of Matrix. This seems to change now with the Matrix Foundation having an employee.

It's mostly a north american problem as far as I know. In Germany more than 80% of the people use WhatsApp. Almost no one uses sms anymore.

If the alternative is sms I understand why people like iMessage so much.

Edit: Some more data, it seems like iMessage has about as many users as Signal, according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/867539/top-active-social-media-platforms-in-germany/