Wire, Threema, or Signal? What am I going to recommend to friends and family on WhatsApp? I leaning towards Wire right now even though I used Threema in the past.
I'm giving up on XMPP, Prosody and ChatSecure because I couldn't get it to work. The sad details are at the end of this blog post, if you're interested: https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-07_No_More_WhatsApp
There's also the part where I discover that I can't use the iPad or my Laptop to register a second Wire account without a phone number because this Purism laptop comes with PureBrowser which is an older Firefox. So I think I'm going to suggest Signal to friends and family.
@kensanata How do you find the build quality of the Purism machine? What sort of charging port has it?
I moved over to MacBooks because I couldn't find a PC laptop with a build quality that satisfied me, but I don't like Apple and am interested in the Purism laptops.
@simon_brooke I know very little about these things. Overall, I’m happy. We still have a Mac PowerBook and I no longer use it. The negatives: 1. when I got it, it soon broke down and I had to get it replaced; customer service was very friendly, though. 2. they keyboard is not perfect, sometimes shift doesn’t quite register I think it’s creaking; rare but I noticed it. 3. The lid doesn’t move easily which means opening the lid = lifting laptop, sometimes. #purism #review #shortreviews
