This is one of the many reasons that banks should stop being hostile to password managers. Browser-integrated password managers significantly help protect against phishing because my username + password won't auto-fill on the wrong domain. So I need to take my time and look up my password. Which will at the very least make me suspicious and give me extra time to consider what I am doing.
Unfortunately even in this sub some of us need to talk to people who use privacy-unfriendly options.
So having bridges is a great way to slowly migrate to a private option. I can meet my friends where they are, stop running non-free software and then can slowly move my friends over.
Also not really comparable to Beeper:
Beeper supports:
- Facebook Messenger
- Android SMS
- Google Messages (SMS/RCS)
- Telegram
- Signal
- Matrix
- Slack
- Google Chat
- IRC (Libera.chat)
- Discord
Does EMS offer bridges? Looking at https://element.io/pricing I don't see anything. I seem to recall them having a Slack bridge in the past but don't remember them having a full suite.
Yeah, they've been talking about that a lot but it isn't clear if that will be an option or the only option. I wouldn't be surprised if they only want to keep one method around in the long term though.
Personally I don't want the bridges to run on my phone as I want the bridges to work even if my phone is off, out of batteries, not connected to the internet or fell into a volcano. Not to mention wasting battery replaying messages while I work on my computer. It isn't even clear if these on-phone bridges are synced to other devices in the account which would be an absolute deal breaker for me.
I really like this list. But another thing is job security. Generally the larger the company the more likely it is to continue existing.
This is more important for VC-funded startups that are more likely to run out of cash than continue existing, but is still true of established profitable companies.
Yeah, Beeper is kind of in a strange place now. I get why they wanted to make their own app to make the bridging experience (especially setup) more seamless. But now with a fully custom closed-source app they are even further off the open path.
What I really want from Beeper is to be able to connect to their bridges from a non-beeper Matrix account with a non-Beeper client. I would happily pay them for the service of managing bridges. I don't have much interest in having a Beeper-owned account in a custom Beeper client.
Any chat protocol without full mutli-device support is not really an option for me https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues/444.
Yeah. It kinda works but I've already been bothered by clicking in the link. I just want to highlight the link so that I can avoid it completely.
Yup. Step 1 is backup everything. Step 2 is maybe improve your reproducibility and then remove the things that can be reproduced from the backups.
Really configuration is best not backed up but created from some source of truth like a Git repo. But a backup can serve as a poor-man's version control.
Playing Slay the Spire.
It does have a native Linux version but it doesn't sync cross-platform. So since I like playing on the go it is nice to also be able to play at home on a bigger screen.