As far as I am aware, open street maps is the most mature non corporate maps app, I think unfortunately at present you have to deal with its quirks or run apple or google maps.

Matrix is also a way to go, granted their VoIP leaves a little to be desired at present. https://matrix.org/

It does not matter whether you encrypt illegal content, things do not magically turn legal once they are encrypted.

I wasn’t suggesting it was, I was just pointing out that it wouldn’t be easily provable that you were in possession of such content.

Plaintext cannot be set up to be E2EE, that is a contradiction in itself. Rooms can be either unencrypted or encrypted. If they are, messages are encrypted.

I feel this is a bit pedantic as I would assume that you understood that I meant text messages, unless you are saying that all forms of messages, including media like images and videos, are encrypted in e2ee rooms, in which case that is information I did not have.

Is there anything about the standard for xmpp that guarantees e2e messaging, I was unable to find anything that even claimed it had the ability. I know that practice is under attack, but while it is still legal to do so I would like to support e2e forms of communication as much as possible.

One issue is: As rooms are decentralised, if someone posts illegal content and your server downloads it, that could lead to legal trouble, especially as you’d then also host it.

That should only be an issue for media though shouldn’t it, since all plain text can be set up to be e2e.

The encryption often fails, leading to the meme “Message cannot be decrypted”.

Is that still the case, I have been using matrix for about a year now and I haven’t ever had an issue sending and receiving except for a day which the vector.org servers were down. I hear that hosting a synapse server is a pain in the ass, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

I respect both gog and steam, but for very different reasons.

Gog is built on no DRM and providing unadulterated access to games which is great since it means that they have very little avenues to screw you if they turn into a bad actor.

On the other hand I don’t care too much for the storefront that steam provides since it gives them far more ways to screw you, what actually has my respect is their integration with their server infrastructure, I admire that game developers basically just have to have their game on steam to take advantage of it, which even with the likes of epic and amazon has not been done well.

Overall though both of them are great from the very superficial standpoint of they are some of the last remaining tech companies that still put their customers first which is incredibly rare nowadays.

My parents are still on Windows, as they are too old to switch. But they also don’t actively use anything from Microsoft, let alone cloud services. I could switch them, but I also don’t quite see the point. It’s just a lot of time and effort on my part, for no actual benefit.

I’ve been saying since ms rolled out recall that any banking or other important tasks should not be done on windows anymore since it is insanely poorly disguised spyware, but if that is not reason enough, I now hold my opinion even more strongly since every update this year and a couple from prior years has proven that ms is vibe coding the os to the point that the old stability that made windows viable is quickly being destroyed.

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