I’m not saying this is the ideal solution, but I’ve had decent performance from the house to a shed 60 feet away using Asus ZenWifi AX XT8 nodes in the house (with one in the window at the back of the house) and an Asus RT-AX56U extender in the shed. Most days I get decent speeds, good enough to use for work and watching videos. Very occasionally there’s a bad day. I originally tried with the dual-band Asus ZenWifi AX Mini cubes, but they were not powerful enough. Their bigger tri-band units work better.

There are probably better solutions though, using directional dishes. I just did this because, like you, I didn’t want to have to mess with holes for ethernet cables, mounting dishes to poles, etc.

Oh, and I once had bad signal so I put the unit at the back of the house at what would roughly be the focal point of a large metal kitchen bowl and pointed the bowl at the shed, and the signal improved dramatically

The Asus boxes are overpriced when new, but you can get them for cheap used.

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Thanks. I’m giving it a try.

Are there any particular messaging apps fitting this description that you’d recommend?

It looks slightly prettier than the Graphene app. But functionally they seem about the same.

I have not seen any FOSS apps that can do this, or many apps at all. Certainly nothing that looks like an app you’d want to use. I don’t know what the technical reason is for this. Does Google make it deliberately difficult for third-party apps to do RCS?

That hasn’t been my experience on the Play Store.

I’ve been using it. It’s decent and basic. The only enhancement is that it doesn’t do anything annoying.

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It’s really shocking that the poors are too stupid to try this. Clearly the rich are smarter and deserve their riches.

Not using Internet Explorer causes circumcision? This just gets worse and worse. Pass the Tylenol. No, wait…

On the other hand, autism went up. So, RFK Jr., which is it? Tylenol or using the wrong browser? Or are we just not murdering enough these days? Does Tylenol prevent murder? Shit, does autism cause Tylenol?

Apparently they were never meant to be taken seriously. Dyson’s article was satirical. Techbros, unfortunately, don’t pick up on this.

Dyson spheres are a joke - Angela Collier

Another old programmer here, and I don’t see the issue. C# gets better with every release and the null coalescing assignment operator is very handy. It also exists in JavaScript.

I keep using them, but the prevalence of AI style has made me more alert to when I’m overusing them.

And if you move the drive between operating systems you’re very limited in what filesystems you can use because Windows is very limited in what filesystems it can use. So you can’t just pick a more robust filesystem.

But the most disruptive technology of all is Steve Jobs’s face.

I learned that I could never concentrate in the office over other people’s conversations, that the boss could and would interrupt me with trivial matters every few minutes regardless of what I’m working on, that Steve on my right was more concerned to be seen working when sick than to prevent others getting sick, that colleagues will always shout out questions they could answer themselves in a few seconds, thus prompting an hour of random chat, that Steve was always sick, and that Steve was the noisiest eater in the world of the most garlicy food in the world, which made him gassy, that the boss’s assessment of my productivity was chiefly based on hours visibly spent suffering Steve, that Steve considers shopping online to be a social activity, and that the boss can detect headphones going on your head and music starting from 50 feet away and instantly be behind you with a burning question that doesn’t make any sense. Working at home has been more productive for us all, except that the boss and Steve don’t seem to know that Teams offers chat channels other than “General”.

I miss casually bumping into people and chatting, but not because it ever helped with the work.

Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.

I disabled all animations in Android after the recent announcement of a vulnerability in which invisible animations could be used to trick users into unwitting actions. The sudden transitions without animation were a bit odd at first, but I was surprised how much faster and more responsive the phone feels with animations turned off. I like it better this way and feel no need to turn them back on.