Wow, amazing pattern.

As someone else mentioned, you can usually identify a venemous snake by the head shape - it’s very different from a “friendly slithery head” (as another commenter described it!).

Still better to act on the cautious side - I certainly would’ve paused and let it go about it’s business, too.

This isn’t about restrictiveness - it’s a problem of RCS being ass-backwards garbage.

This isn’t a an Android issue, it’s a Google and cell provider issue. And that RCS (like SMS), are based on ancient technology/concepts, and both need to just die.

SMS is based on the physical architecture of cellular networks, and has no error handling whatsoever - it’s a Best Effort transmission.

RCS uses a hardware-bound ID, something we decided was a Bad Idea 40 years ago, and is wholly dependent on cell provider support.

We have a protocol, TCP-IP, that eliminates all these issues. It’s been the networking standard since the mid-90’s when even Netware decided it was a superior solution to IPX/SPX. It’s wholly hardware independent (it’s not tied to a physical device’s ID), so you can transmit/receive from any device without having to update everyone else that this is your new device.

We have numerous IP-based instant messaging systems today, with one in particular (XMPP) being open, flexible, extensible.

There’s no use for an archaic solution like RCS, except keeping your messaging in a system controlled by Google and carriers.

Now that’s just mean!

(Enjoy my upvote, haha)

There’s essentially Lineage (formerly Cyanogen, or a fork of it) and Graphene.

Ignore /e/ OS - it’s Lineage with their crap on it.

Go read about those two.

RCS is so backwards it’s not a step in the right direction.

It’s hardware bound - which tells me they want definite tracking capability.

Wow, that page has so much crap on it that it crashes because I block the crap.

Hahahaha, thanks for that.

A brilliant joke that will last forever!

My pronouns are fuck you AI

Worth quoting

Oh no, Hermes!

You’re overlooking 500 people in congress, their hangers-on, governors, their hangers-on, etc.

Politics is the nature of groups of people.

Al you always completely honest with everyone you talk to?

Read Machiavelli. This is all just human nature at scale.

Yea, I was thinking Unreal, but Quake is even closer.

Are you me? Lol

Even driving cross-country when I can get to cruise it’s hard to make a difference.

I can make a significant dent in time, but it’s over an 8 hour drive with no traffic. Then I can cut perhaps an hour if I’m doing 10 mph over consistently.

But this only works if you’re on a quiet road, say a “blue highway” in the midwest/western US, not an interstate.

I forget the rule or why, but if memory serves Beemer is car, Bimmer is bike.

Or the reverse. I don’t know why.

BMW - well there’s your problem!

I’ve driven like an old person since forever.

Done the math too many times - you can’t out-maneuver traffic or time.

Hahahahahahaha

I only rarely heard it misused before those maroons (and their ilk) popularized the misuse.

Nah, we already have one.

Just because idiots misuse it…

It doesn’t matter - people still make mistakes, whether corporate or not.