for a mass market solution though, that’s not scalable at all, even if you try to get the cheapest, used macs possible so I can see why sunbird would claim to do this

pretty sure sunbird claimed they were able to get thousands of apple IDs to be able to work on one mac, which is something matrix bridge based iMessage solutions like Beeper don’t do

whether they’re actually being truthful about that, i would personally doubt it

ah, got you

just call it anti^3 adblock pleaseeeeeee it’s going to get ridiculous very fast

yeah but hearing about ai kind of gets boring the more I see people use it to make a quick buck and the more it spreads around onto stuff that doesn’t need it :/

I’ve become very leery of any youtube videos (esp. shorts) with advanced sounding tts now because I don’t want to support creators who make videos with mostly AI

That’s pretty fucking wild, it’s like the illusion of choice. Like staying in jail, or going out free, but to do so, you have to reach Mount Everest without a Sherpa.

It’s really making me consider sticking with Google for my next phone.

That’s foul, I was considering getting a Poco Flagship for my next phone. Though I guess if you manage to unlock the bootloader and run a custom rom, perhaps it doesn’t matter as much if you don’t get “HyperOS” updates?

This doesn’t really bode well for Xiaomi’s future though.

Agree, it’s not particularly customizable, but I’ve been using it for a week now, and it’s been the launcher I’ve been looking for.

Only issue I’ve had with it is that sometimes, the web search tries to search as if the query was a domain and not a question. Though that’s not a deal breaker.

Proprietary isn’t always a bad thing, but the developer(s) of the proprietary product have to have decent intentions which is not usually the case.

I personally am a sucker for Chinese Designed UIs, they’re really well polished and thoroughly skinned for Android, and Harmony OS (no matter what Huawei says about it, I’m still inclined to believe it’s Android) is no exception to that. The ecosystem stuff MrWhoseTheBoss showcased on Huawei products seemed pretty well done, and it made me think how good an ecosystem like Samsung’s could’ve been.

It’s proprietary though, and you can’t really get it on anything but Huawei phones. Unfortunately, these aren’t the golden days of custom roms anymore where people are porting Flyme onto their Redmi Note 5 Pros anymore :(

If it wasn’t for the obvious gripes I have about Huawei, I would probably have no problem using it, alas, I am just fine with using a custom ROM like RisingOS on my Pixel 6a anyway.

I don’t know how rare it is, but it hasn’t really been painless on laptops from my experience. I’ve had to deal with trying to find the right kernel parameters to stop my laptop from freezing, to having an incredibly high default scroll speed which I’ve still haven’t figured out how to change, to having to ask the orange alien place to figure out why my Internet card was not working. It may just seem like a hassle to some people, but I believe for most, it’s enough of a hassle to just give up and go back to Windows.