The most gen-x/millenial throwback thing about this set is the random card pack that has a chance to include a “signed cacodaemon rookie card”. Genuinely funny that you’d have to buy multiples of this set to try and collect the whole set of cards.

I don’t mind this stuff, I mean people spend stacks of cash on far more worthless and non-functional collectactables.

Most importantly - the time and people = money.

My last job had a dev, UAT, and prod environments because they knew it was important enough to the business to pay for them.

I dont pay me anything for running my home environment - so, there is only production. And lots of backups.

Yeah, means Signal would just not have a presence eg an office or local routing/CDN servers in the countries that demand backdoors.

It would mean slower service for anyone in such countries, but the service would not stop working or become less secure.

It’s negative either way, as it chips away at the legitimacy of private E2E chat, and legislators the world over seemed determined not to learn that there’s no such think as “backdoors, but just for the good guys”. You either have a resilient end-to-end zero trust encrypted system or you don’t.