Lol that sounds about right. As someone who works in retail (please kill me now), I can def tell you that people don’t pay attention.

That’s something I did not know. Thanks for educating me!

Well that’s interesting! :O

here

Where?

Honestly, it might be I’m wrong about this since I don’t live in a big city so maybe it’s different in like NYC or some shit, but I’m under the impression that QR Codes have kinda been dead in the US. At least I hardly ever see one in the wild anymore. Mainly I presume for that reason. It’s a prime way for malware injection.

Speaking as an ignorant American who still happily uses card, I have to ask:

PEOPLE PAY FOR SHIT VIA QRCODES??? O_O

Apple Maps -OSMandMaps. Seems like a good option, but it’s not ready out the box. I need to do more tweaking with it. -Magic Earth. Haven’t tested it yet, seems good. But I’m looking for free options first before I dabble with paid stuff.

If you like OSM but want a more user-friendly interface (disclaimer: I’m an Android user so I have no idea what OSMandMaps looks like), check out CoMaps! It was forked from Organic Maps due to heavy transparency concerns surrounding the former and uses downloadable OSM maps as a backend! It’s available for iOS too!

https://www.comaps.app/download/

Google Docs -OnlyOffice. Seems like it does everything I want.

I’ve heard OnlyOffice is great, but if you don’t need or want any AI stuff, don’t mind a slightly less-modern UI, and collaboration isn’t a requirement, then LibreOffice is pretty awesome too. Just giving you another option. ;)

https://www.libreoffice.org/

NO.

LINE MUST ALWAYS GO UP.

Okay, so, originally, I was going to look it up to prove you wrong, but after looking it up across multiple sources, it seems that you’re right and I’m wrong.....mostly.

How-To Geek, Proton, and CloudFlare all mirror what you say.

However, the Wikipedia page section “Definitions” does back me up somewhat. It says:

The term “end-to-end encryption” originally only meant that the communication is never decrypted during its transport from the sender to the receiver.[23] For example, around 2003, E2EE was proposed as an additional layer of encryption for GSM[24] or TETRA,[25] ... This has been standardized by SFPG for TETRA.[26] Note that in TETRA, the keys are generated by a Key Management Centre (KMC) or a Key Management Facility (KMF), not by the communicating users.[27]

Later, around 2014, the meaning of “end-to-end encryption” started to evolve when WhatsApp encrypted a portion of its network,[28] requiring that not only the communication stays encrypted during transport,[29] but also that the provider of the communication service is not able to decrypt the communications ... This new meaning is now the widely accepted one.[30]

(Relevent text is embolded.)

So, I’m not misunderstanding, just misinformed that the definition changed.

Make no mistake, of course: I do appreciate you correcting me as I hadn’t realized the definition had changed. Lol.

Indeed.

WHAT. THE. SHIT. ಠ_ಠ

You are clearly misunderstanding me.

If the keys are stored server-side, that means it’s stored by either the “sender or recipient”. The server is among those two options.

I mean it’s in the name. A message containing media and not text is simply not a text message. Many people use them incorrectly but it’s literally in the name.

Hey, I get it now. Lol. I was just explaining what my mindset was.

RCS is (supposedly) E2EE so keys are stored locally.

Well, you can have E2EE with keys stored server-side. It’s just kind of pointless from a security/privacy standpoint, but I’ve seen it happen.

MMS is not a text message, it’s a media message (that’s what the M stands for).

See, that’s interesting because I was always taught that “text message” is just an overarching term used to describe SMS and MMS. The notion that a text message is a synonym of SMS and only SMS is a new one to me!

Yes, RCS chats are encrypted (supposedly)

Good to know! Do you happen to know if the decryption keys are stored offline or on the carrier’s end? Because if the latter, then okay it’s more secure than SMS or MMS but only in the sense that some encryption is better than none. Lol.

I know that SMS and MMS text messages are transmitted unencrypted, but are RCS text messages different? Serious question.

I will do that. Thank you. :)

That I have no problem with. You had to do that in the classic Doom too. After all, certain weapons worked better with certain enemies.

Thanks! I’ll buy it and try it out!

Oh cool.

Yeah, in Eternal, it seemed that once I got past the first few areas, if I didn’t do glory kills, I’d be, within seconds, nearly dead and almost completely out of ammo (if not out of ammo).

You’re saying Doom 2016 isn’t like that.

Like, don’t get me wrong, glory kills are awesome, but I feel they should be optional flairs to spice up gameplay, not a required function just to progress. That’s what bothered me. It effectively locked out of the game (a Doom game no less) anyone who didn’t like the glory kill mechanic. Personally, as a long-time fan of the franchise, that felt kinda cheap.

So, that’s cool. In any case, yeah, I was just going by what it said on the page. I don’t own the game, so I couldn’t check.

How much harder?

I just don’t like the anxiety that comes with constantly being low health and low ammo that happened the last time I tried Doom Eternal. (Admittedly, I’ve never played Doom 2016.)

I can?

Just be aware people that–and this should surprise no one as these features are largely online nowadays (sadly no LAN here :C )—but...

That being said, I personally won’t be buying this. Not because the game is poorly made or anything (it’s Doom–'nuff said); I’m just not really into the whole glory kill thing. Don’t like it.

No shade to anyone who does; that’s just my opinion.

Oh shit.

Well that clears things up. Thanks for the explanation. thumbs-up

Oof, yeah I forgot about the metadata… What you say is certainly true and is worrisome.

Plus, most people who use email don’t use encrypted email so even if they can’t get a transcript of a conversation from my account, they can certainly get everything from the other account if they also scrape that platform.

No worries. Like I said, I recognize it’s a nitpick so not a huge deal. I just thought I’d mention it. It doesn’t invalidate your original comment or anything. :)

Lol yeah I heard about that. Apparently they also preemptively made post-quantum encryption illegal? Yeah, I don’t like the US, but I’m not sure I’d wanna live in Sweden, that’s for sure.

.............If that is the case, I...am concerned. o_o

Okay. I don’t understand your point. It may be broken. It may even suck ass. But it’s certainly not a scam.

Proton

Signal

What are they gonna do? Download gibberish?! Lol, it’s all end-to-end encrypted with the decryption keys stored locally.

Edit: See below comment by @drascus@sh.itjust.works. Shit’s still concerning.

Aww man seriously DuckDuckGo is on the list? Ugh… Welp, does anyone know of any good alternatives? (I hear Ecosia’s not half-bad…)

Not sure about the Mail app, but the Calendar app was definitely slow, though I believe that’s because it didn’t have offline caching and just fetched from the site every time you opened it up. Terrible, lazy design IMO.

It’s not a scam. It worked perfectly first try for me back when I tried it out like a year ago.

Especially skip the ProtonVPN app if you’re on Linux.

To steal a line from LGR’s video on Redguard, it’s just so B A L L S.

If you can only get Service B by paying for Service A, then Service B isn’t really free; it’s just added value.

A nitpick, yes, but I feel it’s an important one.

Thanks. :)

Is this the GitHub repo for it?

Yeah I don’t personally like how unlike LibreWolf it doesn’t use ResistFingerprinting.

Not OP, but I’ve never heard of IronFox. Is it a comparable replacement for Mull? Gods I’m still a bit salty over how sudden that was…

LibreWolf is what I use, but I heard Zen Browser is another fork that’s been getting some traction. I don’t use it though, but I’ve heard from someone who does that it works for them. thumbs-up

As someone who’s both poly and trans.....................fuck.