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Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?

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Basically this. tl;dr: being free and being first exposure to mobile instant messenger.

in my south east Asian country, back then we did have bundle sms pricing, buy when the mobile internet infrastructure was getting big money from governments, WhatsApp came in at the right moment. advertising them being free (with a minimal $1 or something lifetime fee nobody bothered to pay for) and can do texting and sending images for free. compared to paying bundled prices for sms and MMS, it's just a no-brainer.

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Testing my new Pentax Q10

The Q10 back when it was rumored and released was my obsession to get. It's just so cute and diminutive. This was back I. college, where my peers all went to the expected APS-C sized canons and nikons, here I was looking at small interchangeable lens cameras like this and naturally m43. I settled on an Olympus epl6 used that somehow has a 7 badge? and like most college kids that got sucked in fads, I never really took up photography.

I still have the EPL, just that idk how much it would cost to refurbish it, or find anybody that can.

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Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers

If android is truly getting locked down, I'll just get the cheapest smartphone I can get because everything here in my country needs their own smartphone app for their own 2FA and they all want Play Integrity. It's getting really annoying to bypass all these asinine roadblocks on my fucking phone.

Banks and online shopping apps can get bent policing my phone.

And I'll just carry a small Linux laptop to do all my other internet and computing needs. Shit's fucked up. And carry a Faraday bag just for the phone.

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Perfect Rating ⭐/5

Still weird to me that 3/5 is accepted as bad. It's middle of the score; it's average. I have plenty of 3 star movies I watched and I like it just fine.

But yes mostly nowadays I just watch with the right cat's eyes lol