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Federation with Meta will probably not have a huge effect on Lemmy. Threads has no communities after all.

It will probably be mostly a Mastodon thing.

That is the case for every PWA from every browser afaik.

Both Firefox and Kiwi PWA seem go ignore your default browser selection

yeah, that's going to be my phone of choice as well, after my Galaxy S9 dies.

American drivers licenses are basically just EU style ID cards. For new licenses you even need biometric data. State IDs and the "Passport Card" are (somewhat obscure) alternatives.

Europeans only need to apply for ID cards at around the age, were the average American gets their driver's license.

A young American adult is probably almost just as identifiable by their government, as a young European adult would be by theirs.

Seeing regulations like the REAL ID act, I would say that America is headed towards more identification, rather than less.

Hardware-wise: Samsung Galaxy S series or Sony Xperia

Software-wise: Google Pixel >>>>> Fairphone > OnePlus

I use the Kiwi Browser for that. Open source browser with addon support. Is Chromium-based tho.

PWAs don't work correctly in non-Chromium browsers. Firefox does not officially support them.

Doesn't every American have a social security number? That's basically a national ID, just without any security features tho.

Maybe you could try to convince through other features, like sending sharper images, videos, audio messages or video calling etc.

If you get closer with her friend circle (or if she gets closer to your friend circle), you could propose to make a group chat, where you can keep each other up to date or plan future activities together. Your wife will probably not want to miss out on that.

Don't talk about encryption or security to normal people, who are not into tech. They do not care. Only talk about features, that they can actually use, and only in situations were this would be useful. Don't be preachy about your messenger use, don't make them feel stupid.

How did that happen? Have you all used Signal from the beginning or did you switch over from something else

Apparently there was/is a messaging service somewhere hidden in the core Fi service. I just copy pasted this list from someone else tho. No idea how accurate this is.

Believe it or not, I have not actually used all these services on the list lol

I don't get it. Are Google employees completely ignoring all the negative press their messaging apps get?

Everyone online agrees, that all these messaging apps that Google keeps pumping, just hurt each other.

Here is a list of every messaging app that Google has ever produced:

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        Android SMS

    Bump!

    Cloud to Device Messaging

    Chat (not the same as Google Chat)

    Disco

    Dodgeball

    Firebase Cloud Messaging

    Gizmo5

    Gmail

    GTalkService

    Google+

    Google+ Hangouts (not the same as Google Hangouts)

    Google+ Messenger

    Google.com/talk

    Google Allo

    Google Assistant (it really did once have its own text feature)

    Google Assistant Messages (and then this but only in a family group)

    Google Buzz

    Google Chat

    Google Cloud Messaging

    Google Docs

    Google Docs Editor Chat

    Google Duo

    Google Fi

    Google Friend Connect

    Google Groups

    Google Hangouts

    Google Hangouts Chat

    Google Hangouts Meet

    Google Helpouts

    Google Huddle

    Google Latitude

    Google Maps Messages

    Google Meet

    Google Messenger SMS

    Google Pay Messages

    Google Phone Messaging

    Google Photos Messages

    Google Schemer

    Google Spaces (this was basically Google's version of Instagram and it lasted less than a year)

    Google Stadia Messages

    Google Talk

    Google Voice

    Google Voice Legacy

    Google Voice Third-party Apps

    Google Voice for G Suite

    Google Voice FXO VoIP Gateway (Obihai)

    Google Wave

    GrandCentral Communications

    Jaiku

    Jibe Mobile

    Meebo

    Messages

    Orkut

    Postini

    Slide

    Sparrow

    YouTube Messages
  

OpenStreetMap. Google Maps is probably the best product in the field tho, even among paid solutions.

Redesigns are always perceived poorly. Every decrease in performance, every lost feature, every relocated setting is heavily felt by all the power-users. For new users tho, K9 probably became more viable/attractive.

Eventually people will get used to the design, performance issues will get fixed, new features will be (re)added and the rating will improve again.

Same thing happened with the Firefox Android Browser.

For me personally, K9's design seemed very unintuitive and complicated, when I first tried it almost 10 years ago. FairEmail for me is a great compromise between usability and feature-richness.

K9 is probably completely different from a decade ago, but I guess I will wait until K9 has merged completely with Thunderbird, before I look into it again.

• Etar (Calendar App)
• Kiwi Browser
• Firefox
• E-Scooter Apps
• Sleep as Android
• Revanced, PurpleTV, Spotify, Soundcloud
• SD Maid
• Local Gym App
• Wallme
• FairEmail
• KDE Connect
• Five Prayers (FOSS Islamic App from Fdroid)
• AnkiDroid
• Habitica
• WhatsApp + Discord

Shift phone seems like an interesting Fairphone alternative, but availability in the US seems tough. Hopefully the new EU law on replaceable batteries will make improve the situation worldwide.

If you had to buy a new phone today, what would you pick? LG is sadly dead.

If you had to buy a new phone today, would you stick to Nokia or would you choose something else?

Would you choose a Moto G phone again, if you had to replace your phone today?