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They have a bunch of Macs acting like iMessage servers that you connect to.

True, but that's also a well-known machine learning technique called adversarial training, often used in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or when teaching a model to play games like chess or Go.

The issue is that it's designed to be disposable. The subscription is to get you a new one of them frequently.

Education edition is the best edition. It does not have ads, which is not true of Pro.

Beeper adds more polish, meaning that you don't need to manually configure bridges or maintain the Synapse server. It also gives you better indications of what bridge a room is from than Element does. If you know how to set up a Matrix server, you probably don't need it, but it's nice to have the option.

Yes. "Beeper adding support" is really them making a new Matrix bridge, and they open source all of their bridges, so just use theirs. It's here: https://github.com/mautrix/gmessages/tree/main

No, it's very useful. They open-sourced the bridge, so you can easily add it to your own Matrix server: https://github.com/mautrix/gmessages/tree/main

I don't see any downside, especially since it is mostly open source, so you can make your own server if you want. You'll get Element and Synapse rather than Beeper's fork, but it works well.

I had the same issue. I don't currently have access to my computer to find logs, but I'll try when I do.

I don't care about the distro. You can get basically the same thing from Vanilla OS, uBlue, Fedora Silverblue, and many others with just a small amount of configuration.

You use Distrobox from the terminal, but distrobox export lets you install graphical apps in a Distrobox container but integrate them with the host. BlendOS (and Vanilla OS) just combine it into a package manager. It's also not "important and big," it's just a container—basically just WSL for Linux.

Distrobox doesn't work with Android. I was talking about the "install any package from any distro" part. BlendOS just adds in Waydroid support.

No, it does not. It's just Waydroid, which IIRC requires x86 apps.

It's just a few distrobox containers. It's not hard to maintain, and you can do it on your own distro.

I totally agree on strawberries. They're really easy to grow (once they're in place, they survive through winters and you actually have to stop them from spreading), and the berries are so good.