Looks like that might be changing https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/article/rcs-encryption-a-leap-towards-secure-and-interoperable-messaging/

It really is a shame that it looks so terrible. It’s a really solid office suite otherwise, but I agree that it’s not a pleasure to use simply because of how ugly it is

I’m also looking to migrate and was recommended this service when I asked a similar question to OP. https://www.migadu.com/index.html

Unlimited inboxes. You’re just limited to inbox space, but you can have multiple domains.

I’ll be moving over to them when my current subscription runs out with my current provider

SSH is the answer.

Another approach would be to use WSL (windows subsystem for linux) and basically just communicate from one Linus box to another

How do you get around the requirement to run the official app somewhere?

I run a WhatsApp and signal bridge, but not recommend running the official app on a phone

I’m not sure I fully understand.

This generates garbage if it thinks the client making the request is an ai crawler. That much I get.

What I don’t understand is when it talks about trapping the crawler. What does that mean?

I know… Even with this information, I can confirm that my friend and I are both in the EU

I’m afraid I and my friend are both in the EU. Chinese companies will and do find ways…

I think this is pretty standard for Chinese companies. My friend works for one, and she doesn’t get sick days. They must come out of her holiday allowance.

She gets treated better than her Chinese counterparts, though. For Chinese public holidays, they get the day off, but are then expected to give it back to the company at the weekend

Not sure if this could work, but did you try using a VPN to log in from an EU country?

Honestly don’t know how the GDPR might affect this, but might be worth a try

Can you share where to find the android app? I can’t see it in the play store or fdroid

I don’t know where to look. How can I find out?

Same. Hasnt let me down. Super thorough, and makes adding/removing anything a breeze

No worries. Thanks for your help! I’ll post here if/when I find a solution

Unlikely to be something wrong with that, tbh. Everything else on that network has internet access. The issue is limited to the laptop

I did, but no response

I changed to a different router and can at least ping that now, but still no internet

So that looks similar to what I have. Wonder why it’s not working

Nope. Destination host is unreachable when pinging

I changed to a different router and can at least ping that now, but still no internet

I’m not entirely sure which of the list is the default route is, but absolutely see my WiFi router on the list. Took a picture as recommended by @CameronDev

The output was pretty much the same from this as from netstat -nr

I would share it here, but I can’t access the internet from that machine