Why do people use signal? It has one centralized server and phone number registration. There are many better alternatives.

How far developed is asahi now? Is every hardware working? Last time i looked into it wifi didn't work, i think. So i thought it was not useful for me.

Interesting. Ease of use is one thing but requiring a phone number or email to setup an account is in my opinion annoying.

Looked first like the a photo from the game iron lung.

isn't there a solution for a decentralized dns? Like DHTs or so? Maybe just switch your dns to a more open one. DNS over https could be better. Run your own dns roor server?

I use deltachat/arcanechat. It uses the mailchat protocol. There's also tox, simplex, matrix, xmpp(conversations) these can do e2e, you can self host it or use a public server, everything distributed through app stores can be compromised. Every app were you rely on a central server can be shutdown. You also don't know how the server software works of for example "signal", what data they collect. Although messages are encrypted you can still log metadata like when where iplocation, with who?

The problem i guess with thr alternatives is bad service in terms of audio and video chat. The benefit of ms teams for example is their huge cdn. it just works nearly all over the world. Whatsapp/discord is used by so many that it's difficult to stay in contact otherwise.

yeah hdmi i really use often, hopefully they getting it working