I think it’s not the first doomed generation. The previous one already had pretty high chances of being worse off than their parents (i.e. us). But sad - and quite frankly scared - though I am to recognize it, this one is in even more dire straights.

And the reason I’m scared is, desperate people are rightfully driven to do radical things. I’m fairly sure the desperate kids of today is the generation that will eventually drive the world off the cliff and into WW3. And I won’t even blame them.

Damn, I guess Trump’s tariffs didn’t work: they did jack-squat to convince the Brazilians not to serve justice to their own fascist leader. All they did was hurt the American consumers. What a surprise…

I’m so glad my kids have long been out of the house and have well-established job situations at this point, because I genuinely wouldn’t know what to tell a teenager about career opportunities that wouldn’t cause them to fall into a deep depression. All I can foresee in the near future is mass unemployment and war. And goodness knows I’m normally an optimist.

Ah right okay.

The Android version of Signal works well in Waydroid in Ubuntu Touch also, bu running it permanently in the background like Signal is designed to do is problematic for several reasons that make it kind of a painful proposition. But if I needed it just to send or receive a message punctually, it would be a great solution.

Okay then, it sounds like Whisperfish might work well enough as a primary Signal client to make SailfishOS worth giving a spin. Thanks!

I meant have you tried it? Do you know if it’s any good?

I’m curious: I’m currently evaluating mobile Linux OSes to transition away from Android. What I got going right now is Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 5, but there’s one big drawback with this one for me: the lack of a decent native Signal client.

I’ve always planned to give Sailfish OS a spin, and I’m almost certain I can install it on the FP5 easily. But I’m not all that keen on ruining my Ubuntu Touch install, and possibly not being able to reinstall it if I want to go back.

So before I install Sailfish OS on it, can you tell me if it has a decent Signal client? If it doesn’t, then maybe it’s not really worth investigating in the first place for me.

The poster would be more convincing if you hadn’t inverted apt-get update and apt-get upgrade…