A laptop is NOT a comparable user experience to something someone can hold in their hand while on foot:
a USB touchscreen that is smartphone-sized can be used. The culmination of all of this is a very small backpack
Very rich people and their families already have these kinds of solutions. Other people who are rich in other ways (hacker's mind and motivation) also already have these kinds of solutions.
And also already written in a parent comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42559741
that has been demonstrated to work in production even for the most user-iest of users.
And some people actually went ahead and did it. The core idea was not my original idea, it had been done already in one form or another (though not as refined as ours') quite long before. All my camp did was package it so that non-technical people could have something that "just works". Many of the users of these solutions are not technical at all.
A combination of USB and ethernet. In some of these setups the "radio" is a retail Android device that is connected to ethernet via USB.
> Then furthermore, this whole thing started with you condemning Signal itself
Nothing I wrote condemns Signal, but simply confronts the hard reality that Signal does not protect users because by virtue of the platforms Signal runs on de facto, Signal can not protect users. Signal can protect users on my camp's devices however, as was already explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42556652
> because the whole mobile-first trust-Google teetering-on-the-edge-of-proprietary thing has always left a bad taste in my mouth
I appreciate that you landed on the some of the same answers that I and others near me did. The key difference is we went ahead and acted on these concerns.
> You still have not described your answer in concrete terms
I feel I have shared more than enough that a thinking person can put 2 and 2 together. I also already already wrote "I expect someone will be able to [release this information] in a proper way this coming year." here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42560339
Your limits within reasonably expected reading comprehension have exhausted my available patience. That said, relative to the rest of the world, we likely have more in common than not.
edits: fixed some grammar