Pockets at least you can expand, I do it on all my clothing.
Pockets at least you can expand, I do it on all my clothing.
Nah, the scammers would use a bum from the street to register. Or buy stolen data, like people already do with ID scans.
Even after switching to a wireless headset (because the previous ones all broke at the wire), I would rather not use a device with no headphone jack. My headset has a very long battery life and can apparently have its battery changed fairly easily (big enough to be held together by screws). But neither of this can be said about earbuds, so my earbuds are staying wired.
I think it depends the most on whether the child has a group of friends or not.
I think if the kids want to bully, they’d just find a lonely and defenseless target and invent an excuse. If you are a potential target, having an expensive phone wouldn’t save you anyway.
As a child, I was just not given home wi-fi password, and the cell plan effectively had no internet (to be fair, parents were on the same call-and-sms only plans as well). I definitely did not want internet bad enough to wander around in search of public wi-fi.
We do have new playgrounds, but the problem is that they’re very sanitized and only really suitable for preschoolers. Tweens usually just wander around without any exact place to go.
Costs a fortune, hard to repair, no SD slot, no headphone jack, until recently could not be used with the chargers you have for everything else… At least for me it is a “no”.
I draw the line at the password manager being fully local.
You are also forgetting millions of consumers still running Windows XP or 7 and not upgrading not because something critical depends on it, but because “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”.
Verify - as in what? The algorithm is open-source. If you’re talking about the keys, yes, you can view the keys used in a conversation and check if the fingerprints match.
OMEMO is implemented, at least in major clients. I use it all the time.
Less resource-heavy than Matrix, doesn’t have the “store everything from your every chat” feature and thus requiring less space, more mature, very easy to set up.
I see SMS as a simple deanon rather than a 2FA.
For me, it is the opposite. I would need passkeys to be like my SSH keys - not dependent on some proprietary software and never touching any cloud. For now I am a little bit afraid lock-in might happen at some point, so I wait until the technology matures enough until I can use KeepassXC for it confidently.
This is also a drawback imo, as it locks out people with limited storage. Like me. I need this storage for media on my site. I don’t mind chats existing on several servers, but let people opt out of that at least.
It’s more akin to XMPP rather than IRC. From what I’ve seen, a Matrix server would be more resource-heavy than an XMPP one. Synapse one would probably not run on my weak machine at all, and Dendrite/Conduit are not feature-complete. And the primary reason I still haven’t been on Matrix is that I have very limited disk space on my VPS, and Matrix saves media from every chat its servers are on, and I still haven’t figured out how to opt out of that.
XMPP
I don’t think it is better at all. Unlike Discord, which might allow you to exist without a phone number, Telegram requires it right upfront. And it removed the ability to register from desktop, at least without spinning up an Android VM.
I use full-disk encryption on my Debian, and I honestly don’t see what’s wrong with entering your passphrase on boot.