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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Yeah that’s the thing that people who want this don’t realize. Is that you are forced to use Google Messages with Google Jibe for RCS. But it’s really picky about the hardware it runs on Android wise. It won’t even let me send RCS messages on GrapheneOS which is a custom rom that forces you to have a unrooted version of Android. So to me this is monopolistic and terrible behavior on Google’s part. Where they force carriers and now Apple to pay billions of dollars just to message Android users with end to end encryption. But like it doesn’t run on my phone because you need a stock up to date version of Android that isn’t too out of date either or else it also won’t run. Nor does it run on my Android 11 flip phone because it’s too out of date and has been blocklisted by Google as a whole. Honestly if Google just opened up Jibe to third party apps I would use it. But with the forced AI integration that you can barely turn off among other things. I’ll probably stick to textra and switch away from using a smartphone as a whole when carriers in the United States demand that your phone support it in order to use it on their network.









  • I’ve legitimately lost hundreds of dollars of content without even getting refunded; So consider yourself lucky! To get a gift card instead; ANYWAY I now pirate all my things minus idk I guess my video game consumption but even then I had the luxury to pirate shit I bought on steam just to have it again. In the end of the day though you don’t really own anything unless you own it physical and even then its still illegal to use makemkv to dump your blurays and dvds onto your nas and watch them outside of the physical media they were put on. But I guess thats just living in the future for ya!