That‘s the fault of capitalism. Which the right supports even harder than the democratic party (which also completely supports it).

I think people don't actively notice most of these things. But they sure as hell notice when you take them away after. A good example of this is ProMotion. People don't notice high refresh rate when they first get a Pro. but they do notice when you use it for a few weeks and then go back to 60hz. Same for a lot of other things.

They use both. Especially for their cloud customers. They offer Cloud GPU as well as Cloud TPU as a service on Google Cloud.

Nice. Now please finally give us iOS cloud backups before i break or loose my phone and years of conversations get evaporated.

I'd settle for full sync of chats between my own devices. If I can sync between my laptop and my phone, that's sufficient, since I already back up my laptop.

Counterpoint:

I don't want backups for IM. I don't want my counter-parties to have backups for e2e encrypted IM. I don't want IM to last. Why record every conversation on your permanent record? It's nuts.

For me, having a searchable record of everything said defeats the whole purpose if IM and e2e encryption. I'm sure the NSA like it.

Reasonable people may differ on it.

> I don't want my counter-parties to have backups for e2e encrypted IM.

That's not your choice to make.

Are you happy with anyone you talk to secretly bugging the conversation and transcribing it?

I don't want to be randomly assaulted on the street, also not my choice to make. Doesn't make it ok imho.

They can do that in any case if they want to, just by taking photos of their phone screen.

what's stopping someone from just showing another person their phone screen with your messages?

Ok but I can already do it on desktop (and it's even easier on Android), it's only missing on iOS. So this point is kinda moot...

The encryption key is in cleartext on desktop and the SQLite db is right next to it: ~/Library/Application Support/Signal/config.json

The lack of any kind of backup/export for iOS is the main thing keeping me from recommending Signal.

Sadly, from what I’ve seen in similar threads online, it seems the devs are opposed to backups in principle (they believe that chats should be ephemeral and backing up is antithetical to this).

> The lack of any kind of backup/export for iOS is the main thing keeping me from recommending Signal.

"No one can read your chats, including you." — Signal

The devs are working on a cloud backup solution so not quite true, but it's also the one thing that's keeping me from recommending Signal https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html

Run a windows VM, install signal desktop, bob's your auntie.

This is basically what I do, just replace Windows vs Mac.

Still, I feel it's much more inconvenient than it really needs to be; the correct UX is a button press.

Why iOS cloud backup? Why not a universal backup way, OS / cloud vendor independent?

I‘ll take it. Even offline backups would be an improvement.

For people worried about having not consented to other peoples backup. They could implement ephemeral-only chats, or backup-excluded chats where both parties have to agree to changes.

Just happened to me a couple of months ago. Cannot agree with you more.

You may be able to install something like https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android in the EU ... eventually.

Or auto-reject.

> Passkeys are not cross-vendor transferable!

They are when using a third party password manager like 1password or dashlane. At least in they are device agnostic. Haven‘t yet tried to export a passkey to another manager.

> people will just change it back to Google in the settings

No they wouldn‘t. A lot of testing and (probably?) research has shown that a massive amount of regular normie users will never change any defaults of any kind. Many would probably not even notice what search engine they‘re using. Defaults are incredibly powerful. They would easily accept a marginally worse product.

Would be cool once they would allow geforce now. Plug in phone to display, connect mouse/keyboard and play AAA games at 4K60+.

Hmm, I was doing that on an iPad last winter, albeit with an XBox One controller.

For some of us usenet never died. Use cases might have changed though. Iykyk.

A media player like nvidia shield or apple tv is just a lot more performant and gets updated for ages. TV firmware mostly gets abandoned when the next generation releases. The interface gets laggy and slow very quickly.

Also, some people have Plex/Kodi setups with a NAS. Not fun to try to play UHD Bluray remuxes on a TV directly.