You need some sort of verification that the person is a person. Phone number puts a layer between you and the service you are trying to use - the provider of the number. The provider holds your identity but only passes on a phone number.
It’s definitely not ideal, but not bad
Wikipedia is an excellent starting point for information - but saying you can absolutely trust it hell no.
I am the head of a large banking app / web in Europe. We have about 40 MiO logins, 39 are done with the app.
Personally I would prefer the web version of everything important like banking always - but the customers are all preferring apps. So yea guess where I allocate my budget.
It sucks but that’s how people operate these days
iPhone … never works, ipads always work. My wife’s iphone never updates without me doing it.
No idea why
Could be a random place in Vienna aswell, just by looking at it. Guess architecture is converging
Way too much effort when you can accomplish the exact same thing extremely easy and fast and more user-friendly with tailscale
Same as dog races - dogs are ugly af aswell
Yea as a European I don’t get into IndyCar and nascar sorry.
You should see a doctor immediately - something is obviously wrong with you.
Jk, enjoy whatever you want, I am not the gatekeeper of your enjoyment but understand you are definitely wrong in this one :)
Then how am I using it for free right now ?
Can confirm - I am on an edgerouter x for years now - you can do anything you want with it. It’s not casual friendly - just keep that in mind.
WhatsApp, telegram really covers 99% of my contacts, private or work. My parents use sms (60)
Signal is not very wide spread, mostly used for texts you want to protect for whatever reason.
I would consider it very odd if somebody writes on iMessage , iMessage was shit for groups when WhatsApp did it better.