To save battery life I suppose. Also some phones may kill a background app even when told not to thus preventing messages from being received.

Probably something that does not require a phone number while still using google firebase notification system? Basically a less buggy version of session messenger.

From my understanding briar requires both clients to be online at the same time to use?

Tesla’s made-in-China cars lead market in quality while US-made Tesla cars score lowest

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If the remaining people

According to the article around 180000 left which is around 2.5% of the population of Hong Kong 7.2 million. There basically wasn’t that many people who emigrated to cause a shift in perception.

As many have suspected it was the issue of cost of living that caused the protest. Now with easy access to more affordable goods & services across the border, the problem mostly fixed itself. If you relied on outside media narratives convincing you otherwise, you would come to the wrong conclusion.

To quote Steve Jobs

People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

Librewolf on PC.

Mull on Android

Then you should avoid going down the rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards.

I feel the mainstream lemmy instances have attracted the reddit mob mentality where any deviation from the groupthink is treated as radicals or bots.

Voyager is currently many versions ahead of the one listed on F-Droid. It is still usable but you may want to get the latest version from GitHub.

Use a phone with no Sim card and just connect to a WiFi hotspot when you need internet?

My ISP will provide an Optical network terminal with a 2.5G port. I will still need a router. Also I am not from the US.

Considering I don’t have any wired devices capable of above gigabit speeds this may not be a bad option. The openwrt based software looks like a plus as well.

Used ones are Cheap but mostly Gigabit as 2.5 Gigabit routers aren’t mainstream enough for the 2nd hand market to be flooded with them.

After some research, it seems there is a huge mark up for consumer grade routers outside of China.

For example a Asus ax6000 router with dual 2.5Gb ports cost only cost only $110 in china while a similar version I can get locally cost $300. Also there seem to be a local forum thread discussing those routers from and perhaps I am beter served finding answers there.

Also I tried pfsense some time ago with only Gigabit NIC and eventually repurposed the machine as a hypervisor. Maybe I can go back to pfsense but considering I need to get a 2.5Gb network card and the power requirements required for a software router to route 2.5G internet I am not too keen.