Does “reset and recovery” mean “wipe the hard disk and put a fresh licensed Windows install on”?

Not needing a license for a Linux distro means that’s straightforward without a special tool.

That was the original joke.

https://sr.ht/ ?

And for alerts like texts, this single pop for the same reason.

https://freesound.org/people/Vilkas_Sound/sounds/463390/

A recording of me heavily exhaling so that nobody but me notices when it rings. I never have to put my phone on silent.

My memory was that there were exclusive players for TV stations. But all the consumer ones could record.

Maybe severely reduced bandwidth is the idea.

I’m a big aesthetic fan of 1-bit dithered images and art. But it’s hard to believe it’s actually saving any energy.

For my family member who moved out of country, signal’s voice quality was not very good. WhatsApp’s quality was better than a regular phone call, very impressive.

Also, outside the US WhatsApp is some kind of standard the way rich Americans think iMessage is. Companies will ask her to contact them on WhatsApp, so she’ll have to have it regardless of your personal involvement.

There’s also jitsi.