I’m open to hear if you guys disagree with me, but that is not simply about not having a smartphone as much as it is about not having cell service, not using data service. If a person uses a libre VoIP app, there is no need for cell service, and people actually can live happy lives disconnected from internet when they are outside or in public.

Society must revert their mentality and not expect constant immediate access to everything. Absolutely nothing happens on the internet for personal activity that can’t wait a few hours or the next day.

I use phone only for direct communication, zero multimedia, zero social media on phone. Everything else is done on computer. Especially banking, that is on computer website only for security, never on phone. I despise and resent using a phone for websites

I’m completely open to hearing why the Signal update notification is a concern. I don’t worry about it but you may know something that I am not seeing.

Not native Signal but it happens with Signal forks that I install after adding repository to F-Droid, I have had a notification of a Signal update, even though I’m not using native Signal.

I disable that notification in the phone app settings and wait for an F-Droid notification of an update to install.

Where is the download links for the new nightly builds?

Oh excellent, it works again!!

I did notice the livesreams have not been affected, only uploaded videos. I’m waiting for a public release with the fix.

The more personal messengers there are, the more they are all garaunteed to fail and collapse. Stick with pushing Signal into tue collective public zeitgeist, and once strangers on the street ask if you are on Signa, then we can consider other options.

Focus on dethroning Whatsapp and shut up about a messenger that 50 people out of 8 billion people have heard of before.

The pathology of the reply is a psychosis