SomeBoyo

Does it matter? At the end of the day it's still money put in to open source.

good

chatting apps like signal work for me

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice/ might have something

You have to enable the guardian project repo.

devices not being called laptop or pc

apple users

it's directory, if you refer to it in a cli context and folder if you refer to it in a gui context

client or server side?

both don't show anything weird

manually setting my ip usually fixed it, but not this time

I thought you asked about advantages/differences in general.