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We had the power to save the earth, but we were so busy mining shitcoins we sorta forgot to care

Lol, yeah, then def not worth your time unless you're very attached to it.

Not at all familiar with this phone, but maybe check the ribbon cable connecting the display to the board. Is it possible to reflash the roms?

Because it expands google's monopoly and mass surveillance network.

I feel ya. I've had pretty limited success getting companies to get rid of bad software.

"Can't you... just... umm... patch it or something???"

So glad windows isn't my problem. But I'm sorry for your stress and loss of sleep, mate.

Thanks, I should have been more specific.

You can also layer encryption on top of xmpp like omemo and openpgp

Matrix (as a protocol) appears to be very strong end-to-end encryption and is federated/decentralized. It can do encrypted and unencrypted chats for any number of users, so it can replace discord (which is not at all private or secure) and do private 1:1 communications (which I'd say is the best use case for it). It also does not require a phone number like signal does (which is usually tied to your legal identity and can be used for geolocation).

I wouldn't trust any electron apps, which is the framework the official Matrix client, Element, is built on. It's fully open-source so there are other clients out there which may be better. Of course, the biggest weakness is probably going to be the OS/firmware of device you run it on.

Edit: The desktop element clients rely on electron (which is a webapp framework built on google chrome, which is spyware). If you're on android, the app also renders in chrome (which is spyware), but that matters a bit less because android itself is a massive pile of spyware. iOS is also spyware that openly just copies all your files to a server in the US where they are "scanned for very bad things", retained indefinitely and may be accessed by your favourite state agencies without warrant.

Signal has always looked like a honeypot operation to me. Keep in mind, too that if you run a CIAware operating system, the key can be remotely pulled off of the filesystem or extracted from memory. It's not possible to have any secure piece of software on an unsecurable OS.

Well, it's not your fault Windows is dogshit. I refuse to build, repair, admin or maintain any system running a non-FOSS operating system. 16 years later and it's still the best professional decision I ever made. Remind your employer this is their fault and the inevitable outcome for using unsecurable spyware on their machines.

Better opportunity to talk about how your machines are held hostage by closed-source fascist CIAware.

Great Firewall win