Define “collapse”

Maybe go read their website.

Also, does RCS have encryption, cross-platform, yet, after 15 years of development?

And people wonder why I have hundreds of PDFs for shit I don’t own.

Exactly.

I’ll admit to being lazy and not enabling encryption on my Windows laptops. But if I deployed something for someone, it would be encrypted.

With you.

Fuck RCS. It’s trash. Who benefits from a messenger, in the 21st century, that’s tied to a phone number?

They’re working on something other protocols have had for years. 🤦🏼‍♂️

RCS has been around since 2010

15 years and it’s still problematic? Sounds like something that just needs to be let go.

Stop pushing this garbage that’s tied to hardware/sim/phone number on us. What value is that for the end user, seriously? Why would an end user today want a messenger that’s tied to a phone number?

Fully-functional, cross-platform, network-based, open-source instant messaging has been available (even on mobile) since 2009, maybe earlier.

What I always ask about RCS: who benefits today from a messaging system that’s hard-bound to a phone number?

Well, he’s slowly bringing Twitter down, which fits with his description of Twitter before he bought it.

Seems like he’s doing what he saw as needed doing - create space for other platforms to compete with Twitter.

Which he obliquely said he was going to do, before he bought it.

By slowly killing it, room is made for multiple other platforms to grow.

Go to your local public library and get anything by The Teaching Company on gardening, such as (these are all dvd’s, you can rip them using Format Factory or MakeMKV:

Food Gardening for Everyone

The Science of Gardening

Pioneering Skills for Everyone (there’s a section on gardening in there)

The Science of Gardening

How to Grow Anything (it’s a series of dvd’s)

Lol.

May be those fees are annual licensing fees. And who knows what else is tied to that (support contracts, etc)?

I once enabled my company to forgo a license renewal of $10k…after 3 months of heavy work. Not really a big savings. But it also then eliminated an annual $1 mil in servicing fees that they would’ve had to pay for 10 years, by contract (so saved $10 mil). That we didn’t know when I started.

The hero we need.

Bring out your ballista, or utilize your spy in the opponent king’s court. You do have a few in there, right?

Find a new company? 😆

The mall was dying by the 80’s, there was a sharp decline by then (I recall seeing numerous malls going vacant in the 90’s, around the country).

The things that drove mall popularity (especially things like large, enclosed, air-conditioned space), were no longer novel. Most cars were air-conditioned by then.

I’m sure there are many other factors, like the growth of free-standing single-vendor buildings (so construction and management costs must’ve changed).

Amazon really had nothing to do with it.

And anything going from Apple to another Apple won’t be via RCS.

Gotta use /s to ensure it’s understood.

Text lacks tone.

Plus it’s still tied to a phone number.

Why do I need another shitty messaging app that’s tied to my phone number, in the 21st century, when I’ve had proper hardware-independent network-based, cross-platform, messaging apps on my phone since 2009?

So, what’s the utility of labeling yourself a “bad person”?

Everyone, everyone is imperfect, it’s the nature of being human. And we’re all imperfect in our own way, though we may share categories or degree of imperfection with others.

What’s more useful is to acknowledge when a poor choice is made, and striving to make better choices.

Negative self-talk doesn’t help.

Run it in a VM, then get the NoCD from gamecopyworld?

(Not sure if that’s an option for securom)