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I recall already having to use an iphone 6 instead of an iphone 4 to be able to use signal at all a few years ago. Now I got a banner telling me that support will be dropped in mid August.

I feel this is a very stupid move: it is probably true security is harder to guarantee with old devices, but whatsapp/telegram support them without problem, and the "durability" aspect should count for something in their decision-process…

What do people around here recommend doing? Taking the networking effect into account, pushing people to something like matrix will probably be quite hard…

I'm failing to find a job after a PhD in mathematics in Europe. One of the big problems is that most people in my situation seem to get jobs in trading and/or blockchain, both of which I'm uncomfortable with.

I'd be thankful for any idea thrown my way (be it actual companies, domains or just vague career plans).

Cheers

As far as I can see, people today often play on the opposition between "high" and "low" tech. The idea being that "high" tech is often:

* not ecological;

* not repairable;

* not robust (inflexible, finicky, buggy, etc);

* not democratic;

whereas "low" tech fares better in those respects. I understand it as high-tech being a kind of black-box which final users can only consume without the possibility to tweak, repair, understand and evolve.

I'm looking for examples of what I would call "gradual" or "integrated" technology, in the sense that the object makes use of high tech concepts, either in its conception, or its operation, but where the high-tech aspect does not preclude low-tech use and tweakability/repairability/understandability/evolvability. Said differently, the high-tech aspect only _adds_ to the product, and does not subtract anything.

I know it's a bit of a vaguely question, but hopefully someone can come along and help me crystallize it :)