Well, that is about getting a medic to a patient and not transporting a patient. So a completely different usecase.

(And getting a quadcopter like in the OP reliable enough to make it suitable for anything other that emergency transport of a patient that might otherwise die would be challenging).

Situations where a medic can reach a patient but then the patient needs to be transported by air lift for less than 15km seem rather rare outside combat situations. Maybe if you use it to transport the medic to the site first to have them stabilize and prepare the patient for transport and then do a second flight to pic the medic up again.

An SMS app provided by the carrier? That seems highly unusual.

No, why would give sending SMS give access to your contact list? The carrier has no system access to the phone contacts app.

Edit: The phone contact app includes a lot more details than just the number. Names, alternative numbers, associated email addresses etc are all in the contacts app and potentially accessible to WhatsApp.

What the carrier has is no different to what WhatsApp gets when you use a number on their service.

It is also inconvenient in many other ways, because Meta makes it intentionally annoying to use WhatsApp without contact permissions 🤷

And no, your carrier does not have access to your phone’s contact list. There is a lot more privacy relevant details in it than pure calling information.

This is literally the main thing Meta is interested in. DO NOT EVER DO THAT, please.

This app can be used as a work around to add contacts in WhatsApp: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.theolm.wwc/

Or this one: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.vinaygopinath.launchchat/

then makes the non Muslim women already living there a target by male Muslim fanatics.

This is complete non-sense. The only women really affected by this are second generation immigrant ones that grew up in western society but whom their families do not want to drop the traditional values they brought with them.

No, sadly no active fork of Alexandrite that I could find.

We found a nice fork of the mymlm (old.) frontend though.

How much work do you think would it be to also create a FOSS backend, maybe utilizing an existing xmpp server for federation?

Where do tractors mainly transport people (or cargo)?

A boat is clearly closer to your definition of a car than a tractor.

By that definition a tractor isn’t a car.

You’re calling me a clown when you don’t even know what a car is?? 🤡

You are making up arbitrary definitions to suit your silly argument. A boat is a form of personalized transport with an ICE engine, a steering wheel and seats, even a windshield etc. so it is clearly a “car” 🤡

And boats are a variety of car if they have an ICE, right? 🤡

You are also arguing in bad faith, because cars are not the same as internal combustion engines. You might be able to argue correctly that tractors replaced farm animals for productive use, but tractors are not cars.

The point is that horses got replaced by trains, trams and bicycles for most people long before cars became widely used.

Having used both (and I agree that Element is pretty shit), I think the advantage of teams mostly boils down to the integration with Office365, which is hard to replicate for Element even if it wasn’t shit otherwise.

I think much of the critique is never the less justified, but out of interest, how much do you think it has to do with the integration on Teams with Office365, or put differently, if the EC would stop using Office365, would the percieved advantage of Teams disappear?

It’s not that hard, but Matrix is driven by bad ideas (decentralized rooms that function similar to a blockchain, basically mandatory e2ee compatible with large public chats where it makes no sense, etc) and those actively harm it being used as a chat program and bind developer resources.

Imagine someone could have predicted this inevitable outcome and could have invested that money into reneweable local energy sources /s

Well, the Index also had a kind of similar port in the front and no one really made anything with it.

I guess the Frame being stand-alone makes it slightly more likely we will see some prototypes of interesting stuff.