You are welcome. But I have never heard about "inbound PGP encryption". Does that mean they would encrypt inbound emails with your key? Email is inherently unsecure communication (unless encrypted before sending), so I wonder how much security/privacy does that actually provide.

I have been using Runbox for several years and I'm happy with them. I choose them because they are one of the few email providers that allow you to create aliases/identities.

They are not non-profit, but they say they take ethical (and other) responsibilities very seriously. They do use LLM, but again they say they use it only as a tool and it is used responsibly. They do take transparency seriously, so they have all this information written on their website.

O.o They allowed meetings without registration again? That's nice!

Last time I checked (long time ago), they reguired an account for a meeting, however their platform didn't support registrations... which made no sense.

From what I could gather:

RCS is not supported by the Android system - probably because Gurgle doesn't want to (not sure about iOS). Also quite few carriers still do not support it. So if you manage to send a message, you have no guarantee that it would arrive in the same format you would expect.

The only advantage it has is that you don't have to create an account anywhere and you can simply use a phone number to send it. However, that is also it's biggest downside, because you would have to give your phone number to other people or services, which is not a good idea in this age.

It may have been a good idea around 2007, but it's too late now.

Someone please enlighten me. I cannot figure out why does RCS even exist? It does not solve any problems... unless the problem was that Gurgle didn't have everyone's phone number yet.

Seriously, If I understand it correctly, RCS requires data (either mobile or wifi), so it cannot be used instead of SMS. But if you already have data, then you can use the communication app you use normally (Matrix, Signal, WhataCrapApp, ...). There is no point in using RCS at all.

EDIT: I should have posted this as a reply to one of the comments here... too late.

It's a great app. I just wish they would improve the list layout by adding edit and delete buttons. And especially making the edit window bigger and resizable. Right now it is so small that I don't even see the game's folder's full name in the path input field, not to mention full absolute path.

I do have a tendency to check where the link leads before clicking on it, so the difference between those two is quite obvious to me: http://example.com/ vs http://xn--exmple-4nf.com/, but a lot of people probably do not do that.

I would definitely not click on the second one.

It there any TV brand that we can still buy?

I'm not really sure how I will be able to setup TV or something that allows watching TV at this point.

I seriously need editable TODO tasks and calendar running on the desktop wtih CalDAV support and reminders (Linux, wayland).

Maybe something like that exists, but I haven't found it yet. I will probably have to make it myself when I find the time.

Hey, I was looking for SSH client/terminal app the other day as well, but I still haven't decided what to go with. Is termux really the best? Isn't it cumbersome to use on a mobile device?

I have found other apps (Conduit, Haven Terminal) that may be better, but I don't really trust them on the first glance. They are too new and could have been made with AI. Not sure if anyone knows anything about them.

Japanese language is highly contextual. Quite often they omit the Subject in sentences because it is "obvious" from the context... although the context could come from a conversation that happened before. Sometimes they even omit the Object or the Verb. Not sure if it works the same for Mandarin. Anyway, in some cases the context could help you understand even if you don't know the words, so it could be similar to Mandarin.

Japanese people are always trying to be friendly, so if you start speaking (even broken) Japanese, their eyes will start to glow and will start saying how your Japanese is perfect (even if it may not true). So, if you speak a broken Japanese, they will try to understand you and sometimes even correct you if you say something wrong. So this is probably similar to Chinese people.

As someone who has been learning Japanese for a very long time, I can tell confirm that Japanese grammar is quite complicated, as others have said. One example could be that adjective clauses go before the noun, instead of after the noun, which could be hard to wrap one's head around it.

The other issue is that the sentence structure is different from other languages. Japanese language uses Subject-Object-Verb structure instead of Subject-Verb-Object - to put it simply, sentences end with a verb. It could be a problem for a beginner, or even when you get to the intermediate level, where you could start hearing 3 complete sentences before getting to the first verb.

And another potential issue is that there are multiple levels of politeness. Each level changes how you say verbs and some other words. The highest levels even change some verbs to different verbs with the same meaning. But this is mainly issue only when you are planning to live there or work in Japanese company.

I don't know much about Mandarin Chinese other than that it uses different tones to pronounce words. And if you are like me, who doesn't hear those tones, it could be impossible to learn.

I believe learning Japanese pronounciation is going to be easier for some people, but it really depends where you come from. I never had to learn Japanese pronounciation because it is almost identical to my own (slavic) language.