That’s if you are using a file to store additional data. Also JPEG and other lossy formats can have all sorts of artifacts that may (depending on the size of hidden data) seem typical.
What I thought they were referring to was encryption at the filesystem level which doesn’t require file blocks to be contiguous, allowing blocks to be interlaced with the hidden data.
You’re right, it is pretty common to do that but there’s always the chance they just cancel the discount around renewal. If you have autopay then you probably already committed to the new price before you realized what happened.
I looked on the website. This is actually an “early bird” special price that is ~80% discounted. So after a while, it’s going to be $162/year and $310/2 years.
Matrix’s encryption algorithm was broken for a while and when it was fixed it it took app devs years to migrate to the new requirements. It still might even be the case for a lot of them, I haven’t looked in a while.
SimpleX should be secure AFAIK though, but I’ve heard that it may not be able to scale well to larger user bases. It seems everything has pros and cons.
I like that theme but as i understand it, having a custom css theme may reduce your anonymity while browsing, if you’re concerned about that.
For real. There’s EndeavourOS which at least uses the Archlinux repos and seems to be just better AFAIK.