As someone who has most of her socialization on IRC now... Eww, mIRC is proprietary and for Windows. Maybe it's just me having learned about IRC only a couple years ago and thus not having a sentimental attachment, but why use it if you have open-source ones like Hexchat, Irssi or Weechat?

"And the government officials can sell this data to me. Relatively inexpensive too".

That's cool. But I doubt every place they park on the street or in counts as an official "parking spot".

Just strap them into a stroller tethered to the back of the EV.

They need data collected by Windows themselves though.

Not to mention an XMPP server is lighter than even Conduit, let alone Synapse!

If it is a public groupchat - why not?

What about using a normal, non-Cloudflare VPS for this?

I am mostly weirded out by the position of the zero. In Celsuis, zero is in the point that very visibly impacts the world. In Farenheit? Random winter temperature.

AND there have been news that RCS can be blocked for rooted phones and custom operating systems!

I really doubt an average Joe would buy a new computer once the old OS goes end-of-life. Joe would just continue using an EOL system and hope everything is alright.

Exactly. What's annoying are oblivious people, who are the majority in every single generation.