Maybe go read their website.

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

I dunno about 2 copies on one drive - they’re both at risk of the same drive failing, etc.

Since my current data store isn’t massive at the moment, if I have a fire (and I’m home), part of my plan is to grab my NAS on the way out.

But I still have off-site backup (and a local duplicate of my data).

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?

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)

The hero we need.

*worse

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?

If you currently have an IP camera setup, add Tailscale to your network with the Subnet Routing feature enabled.

You can then access that camera from anywhere.

Optionally also enable the Funnel feature, and you won’t even need the Tailscale client.

I like how you assume another civilization would be any more rational.

When you can’t compete, use regulation/government to stifle competitors.

DDOS can happen just from a script hammering on an exposed port trying to brute force credentials.

What?

I’ve popped up a web server and within a day had so many hits on the router (thousands per minute) that performance tanked.

Yea, no, any exposed service will get hammered. Frankly I’m surprised that machine I setup didn’t get hacked.

Interestingly (I just found this out) Android permits 1 VPN connection per user profile.

So I run a VPN in my regular profile, and found my work profile wasn’t using it. So I installed Tailscale there, and it works only in the work profile, while my regular VPN only works in my main profile.

If always assumed VPN config was a system-wide thing.

I’ve tested converting DVDs at different resolutions, and playing them on a 60" screen sitting 6’ away.

720 is just fine. I really can’t tell a difference between 720 and 1080, usually. Surprisingly.

Hence the quotes around finger