By the way you do realise that Samsung's most major marketing feature is Bixby right? The thing I agreed with you is a cancer in this world? (How contrarian of me agreeing with you). And you think that means I work for Samsung?

Please don't use Slashdot drunk. Have some respect for intelligent conversation.

And yet I described a system. You should read the entire dictionary so that you're able to parse basic English.

I know it may be difficult for you to understand that everyone in the world is not you. Unfortunately for you some of us just have Samsung phones and devices, (and in my case a Huawei fitness tracker) and using Samsung apps is the path of least resistance for many.

One man's bloat is another man's important feature. I'm happy for you that you don't want to use these apps. Don't. It's your prerogative. However I'm less happy that people like you think your personal opinion and personal use case is the only one in the world.

So yes, I am a contrarian to you, I have a brain and recognise other people exist in the world.

It's not confusing at all. You said yourself it's a superset. And again it has a specific set of features that are fully backwards compatible. Google has zero control over RCS. Everyone can implement RCS as per the GSMA standard and send messages to and from Google devices with no issue. The fact that it doesn't support Google's end to end encryption has nothing to do with the standard and is of no impact to developers nor does it affect functionality of users.

False. The main problem was that Apple was deliberately degrading any message and capabilities related to RCS. It wasn't anything to do with encryption. They didn't implement some of the basic standard functionality, and when they did they also did client side degradations as well: e.g. auto-resize images to a significantly lower quality before sending them as an RCS vs an iMessage for absolutely no reason what so ever.

Just safer, not necessarily faster. OpenWRT is a great package, but the reality is that cutting edge routers do not support it. You want a top of the line 802.11be WiFi network expanded through your house with 802.11s mesh points, then good luck finding something that runs OpenWRT.

ISPs should be blocking any inbound traffic that's not part of an established session

You have to treat the plastic screen with more care than the modern glass screen.

I think they see a clear attack point. Big enough to make it worth trying it. It also helps that these computers are incredibly cheap to build not just because the leftover parts but because it's literally just a phone SOC.

5-6 million pieces is a far cry from 'limited edition' in my opinion...

No PC vendor is seriously worried about a $600 Mac iPad w/ keyboard attached - they mostly all offer a lower price model Windows laptop.

It's an interesting product, it's targeted at the lower-end of the market, but it's not going put a serious crimp in any Win laptop Mfg sales.

When you have a product made from leftover rejected parts the supply is guaranteed to be limited.

So you hype it as "for a limited time" and people go hog wild with FOMO.

coming soon: "The Neo is Back."

Yeah, "LLM's are gods" and "statistical ML networks are good at finding defective code patterns" are extremely different claims.

The people who are True Believers on both extremes look pretty silly.

I appreciate really good closed captioning while having no use for chatbots. Both ends get to call me a heretic!

Just watch the patches and CVE's trickling out.

It's not like OpenBSD is going to sit on a vulnerability for 90 days or whatever.

Issuing a patch doesn't give away the details about how it was found.

Firefox introduced vertical tabs in 2025
Edge introduced them in 2021.
Chrome had extensions for them before both of these dates.

Come on man your UID is missing a few zeros to not know your IT history. Don't let the old-guard nerds down like that.