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This Anker does all of the above. Its switching speed is 10ms, so it fits the UPS niche as well.

Meanwhile, I've had nothing but trouble with consumer APC and find Cyberpower's bullet proof. Had one that went 10yrs before any issues, and a second with 3+ and counting, no problem.

An alternative to both is the burgeoning battery banks for camping/emergency power. Most of these offer UPS quality switching times, so they can act as a UPS when not in use for an emergency. Ecoflow/ anker solix/etc. A big advantage of these is the battery chemistry is very long lived and much better than UPS lead acid. Dont expect a pure sinewave, but you weren't going to get that from most consumer UPS anyway.

I have no doubt that there were "drug lord" amounts of drugs around 80s David Bowie.

They didnt buy ARM. They tried to, but the buy out failed. Biden's FTC shut that merger down.

They've got 18 other people to see that day, and most of them probably want help. Might as well go help them.

Made lots and lots and lots of money selling their stake.

So yes.

You think a nearly trillion dollar public company has an internal division that writes malware against flaws in its own software in order to harvest data from its own apps. It does this to gain just a bit more data about people it already has a lot of data on, because why not purposely leave active zero days in your own software, right?

That is wildly conspiratorial thinking, and honestly plain FUD. It undermines serious, actual privacy issues the company has when you make up wild cabals that are running double secret malware attacks against themselves inside Google.

Anduril is Palmers Luckey "smart" missle/border tower company. Palmers Luckey, the alt right billionaire that sold Oculus to Facebook, whose sister is married to child rapist and former attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz. He has deep ties to alt right billionaire Peter theil, the facebook/paypal billionare, that owns the data harvesting/ai company Palentir that Israel uses to target "enemy combatants".

Theil is an outspoken monarcist who literally believes in an american king and that women should not be allowed to vote. He was the primary donor to Vance senate campaign, and a large reason he was the VP pick.

Yes, deeply fucked.

Agreed. That still doesnt mean google is not doing E2EE for its RCS service.

Im not arguing Google is trustworthy or better than Signal. I'm arguing that E2EE has a specific meaning that most people in this thread do not appear to understand.

So your stance is that Google is applying self designed malware to its own services to violate its own policies to harvest data that could bring intense legal, financial and reputational harm to it as an org it was ever discovered?

Seems far fetched.

You have the key, not the provider. They are explicit about this in the implementation.

They can only read the messages before encryption if they are backdooring all android phones in an act of global sabotage. Pretty high consequences for soke low stakes data.

E2EE means a 3rd party cant extract anything in the messages at all, by definition.

If they are doing the above, it's not E2EE, and they are liable for massive legal damages.