Another failed author turned librarian? :/

OnionShare is available for Android.

Buying a used phone does save resources and stops potential e-waste though.

Plus with an older phone there’s more likelihood that an alternative OS is available.

67% of phones are made in China.* Many for Western companies. Using parts and materials sourced from around the world.

• https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-handset-production-2021/

I guess it depends on what operating system you decide to use…

(There’s also Shift who make a similar product : https://www.shiftphones.com/en/)

Religion, phylosophy and science have all been seeking the answer to this question for so many centuries. It won’t surprise anyone when I admit that I don’t have the answer!

Nothing more than that, in humanity’s frame of reference, things come into being, exist, and deteriorate. I have no reason to think the Universe is any different, since it seems to be made of the same stuff.

Responding as a faithless person :

… and yet the grit in the oyster persists : in humanity’s frame of reference, something has never been created out of nothing.

:) Thank you. Yes Mail in a box has been around for a while. Still not straightforward, though.

Hehe You answered your own statement! If it were ever to become non-trivial : I’d certainly do it (even though I know people who do, are bombarded with spam).

Yes… I guess if someone were to only use Tox, the device they were using it on would have to be on all the time, with one of the Tox clients running at least in the background.

Addendum At least you know when the other person is online… There’s some advantage to that.

They’re kept on other people’s servers, is what I meant.

I’ve wondered before now about an e-mail system which hosts the emails on one’s own device, and uses the activity-pub protocol : decentralised email, I guess…

The closest I’ve seen is Tox.

I wouldn’t know : I never support them.

That’s genuinely shocking.

This is sad news. Condolences to his family and friends.

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What a remarkable bolt! Can it come and do my place when it’s finished?

… so not much has changed in a hundred years then.

Element is also available through a browser. https://app.element.io/#/welcome