There are giant swaths of area with no coverage, especially in the mountains of arizona, including the freeways and especially highways. The entire western US can be spotty with signal out in the great wide open. It isn’t until the Midwest and more east that one should largely not worry about signal coverage anymore.

What is a non-mechanical mechanical part?

Google Maps is always dead on for me. I regularly drive very long distances across the US. The time estimates are within minutes of accurate even when there are sudden or extreme backups like in Los Angeles. There’s plenty to criticize Google for, but it isn’t Google maps for me.

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The irony seems lost on you. It’s like calling up your ex to tell her you’re not thinking about her.

I wouldn’t mind if they moved Signal to use smart contracts for messaging, but call they have to come up with is crypto? Lol.

You do not need crypto to call with it. It is simply a payment mechanism. I don’t see anything wrong with it. If anyone is uninterested, they can simply turn it off or not use it. Conversely, burning up fees to interact with smart contracts to message is what seems more silly to me. There’d be no opting out of that.

I hear what you’re saying and I’m not trying to promote Whatsapp, but want to note that backups do offer encryption. They did not use to and I believe it is off by default, however.

I’ve used it for years and somehow had no clue they even had sms support. Doesn’t really matter to me because SMS is wildly unreliable for the location I’m at anyway. I’d rather use the actual app if still given the choice. I can understand the move to drop support for it, to be honest.

I can infer what you mean by “particular things”, but I’ve never really heard of that amongst anyone I know. Many people think that of whatsapp, too.

After 20+ years of working primarily with Debian, I was giving Alma a shot recently and honestly, have really liked it. Guess I’ll be going back to the ole’ tried and true Debian.

While it is certainly nice to have continued support, I think I’d disagree that forcing companies to maintain software on legacy/outdated hardware is something that should be legislated. I think that would greatly stifle innovation in a lot of cases.

I’d be a supporter of something like @Emerald_Earth@lemmy.world’s suggestion, though. If they are no longer able to support security updates, then they should open it up to be able to maintain it yourself/community-maintainable. Expecting a company to maintain support through continued development on a 10 or 20 year old device that in some cases may not even be physically able to handle the updates is a big ask.