What a stupid waste of time

Let's save the NSA the trouble of hacking into all our secure chat clients and just drop our authentication for everything into an app they made.

There is no evidence that Element was "made" by the NSA. Element is developed by New Vector Ltd., a UK company.

If you get good at chess, what exactly are you good at? Winning a board game? Is that worth 3-4 years of your life?

Chess is a hobby, nobody locks you in a gravity chamber the day you decide to start practicing. You are perfectly free to do other things, so "spending years" is rather hyperbolic, I feel.

Is it worth it? Probably not, but who the hell lives life like that? I defy you to show me a person who never devoted a moment of their lives to something fun, yet pointless.

Having owned 5 Pixels so far I can honestly say never again to MBG, Android and especially Pixel, and even Google Fi. These products suck. The QA is awful. The Google store customer service and Google Fi service is a nightmare.

Very happy with my TMobile $15 unlimited plan w 2.5Gig of data and 5G, paired with the iPhone 13pm.

This phone looks like the Nexus 6P, which was plagued with QA issues. Google is not qualified to make a phone, or run an MVNO.