Should be opt-in, it’s a dumb feature nobody asked for.

Not at all, it has to be flipped off before you can turn it back on.

The cyber truck is 800v…?

Even the Index, Valve’s own headset has had broken functionality for years with no fixes in sight. Valve refuses to fix big stuff like the cameras, base stations not turning on, or even automatic audio switching.

Not to mention steamvr reprojection is completely broken.

Encryption extension on RCS is a non-standard addon to RCS which is not part of the standard. RCS on Android in general is also run through google servers and Jibe, and isn’t exactly an open standard to begin with.

Apple isn’t preventing cross platform encryption at all, every popular messenger (even Signal) is available in the App Store.

There’s a toggle to turn off iMessage, and the phone asks you when you set it up if you want to use iMessage or not.

SMS doesn’t support encryption, nor is Apple preventing you from downloading any number of encrypted chat apps that work cross platform.

If google didn’t release a new chat app every 6 months we might have a more widespread standard in the US already - and yes RCS is coming to the iPhone next year.

Nothing has really changed though, you could already delete comments to make the comment section look however you want.

Going to get downvoted for this, but it’s a private platform where free speech laws don’t apply.

You’re probably thinking about homerf, which was the competitor to WiFi. I don’t think Bluetooth was ever marketed as an alternative to WiFi.