Agreed. I'd say it counts.
Just randomly decided to automate transcoding my movie collection on multiple machines to H.265 :'D

Welcome to the boat of people wanting to automate their homes to run into the impenetrable wall of not-enough-free-time ...

Gosh, sometimes I just hate having so little to spare. Have been working on my project for a few years now evolving from simple channels to something vastly more complex ... at that point it only worked in my head :D

@jeffalyanak Mind sharing some examples?

Sounds plausible. Currently there's not much in there for business use is there?

Plus I didn't intend to say that mesh solutions would fix security issues but rather hint at the general lack of security measures in place with current solutions.
Mesh networks would provide some form of redundancy though and it would take more than just a dead relay for everything to break down.

@jeffalyanak

I personally feel like there's a lot of potential for QoL improvements (or us developers getting even lazier... depends on the PoV) but currently it is a complete and utter mess.

Security is at its minimum with possible damage at its highest with this kind of technology and since there is no established and well done standards yet it is a huge take to get anything properly working.

Also in my personal opinion most systems out there are totally flawed since they utilize a singular Hub. Now imagine that hub breaking down or getting hacked. Your whole network would be compromised. There should rather be a mesh architecture where devices discover each other within a network where permissions are strongly enforced so that even if somebody hacks your fridge you can still get your morning coffee (or in other words he doesn't gain access to much else apart from that fridge).

There's potential for a bold future but we are far far away from even getting close to it.

I am using Hangouts. Thought about others like Threema which appeals due to its API features with buttons and interactive conversations and such but I just don't feel it makes sense in a messenger (as the name implies).

Since I use a lot of devices, about four at the moment, it was mandatory that the messages remain in the cloud to provide seamless access across them unlike WhatsApp or Allo where one device acts like a proxy which is especially unfortunate when my basically dead battery decides to give up for the day :'D
(Brought its capacity down to fifty percent in just under two years...)

I am totally with you on this.
Over the past few years I was using WhatsApp (even before they were subscription based) but I got somewhat annoyed by all those little quirks in the software and especially discoveries like the end to end encryption only affecting text messages but excluding all forms of media including voice messages.

At the end of 2016 I finally bailed out from using it in a time where many important decisions were made (unfortunately much communication relating them was executed via WhatsApp) and tbh it actually was a relief. I didn't had to care about anybody spamming unrelated information and stuff like that but instead received all the important pieces through a human relay that basically filtered out everything else :P

I have to say though that I managed to get all my close friends and family to use a different messenger through some sort of miracle :D

The gist of it being that albeit hard it is totally possible to escape WhatsApp if you are committed
@linuxxx

I just passed that Mark and boy does it feel good to press the uninstall button :P