aw ...man...it isn't about shutting up.
THAT is the very LAST thing I want anyone to do at Talk here.
Others may say such things, but as long as no one is instilling hate around here or spreading fake info, I would never tell someone to shut up.
If anything, your argument was great!
it provided lots of humor to work with.
and I can personally be just as determined .
I call it the "mud puddle conundrum"
When one is young and VERY frustrated, and slips and falls on one's butt in a mud puddle, whether alone or with folks watching on,
there are times when one doesn't really want to get up out of the mud puddle....right away anyway.
Little changes when we leave childhood,
the mud puddles of life are still there, and every now and then everyone ends up on their butt in one.
You just were keen on sitting in your mud puddle for a little while there...
that is all.
Many get stubborn and are determined to sit until their butt prunes up.
I get into a "mud puddle conundrum" every now and then, not often, but I spend time there on my arse.

I am considering utilizing one of the various "meta comm options" myself ..
So it amalgamates all the comms I do use into one place so I am not closing one and opening another ...etc...
Or having multiple platforms running chewing resources and battery , just so I don't miss some important communique.

Definitely you with even more juggling than I,
should be considering it for the time saving, resource and battery saving.

Of course it may take a brief learning curve to figure out one of said optional platforms, and as a has already been mentioned by another here, that they tried one of them years ago and it didn't seem ready for primetime then.
So trying out a few and seeing how well they integrate all the disparate services I or you use, is the main thing.
One of the options may handle some of the disparate comms poorly, yet the interface and service excellent.
Another may have a poor gui yet excellent handling of comms

A bit of exploration and a slight learning curve,
for myself if it saves battery and resources, and saves me 10-30 min extra out of my day from bouncing from one to another service ,
then it is worth the brief learning curve and exploration time.

30 min a day saved works out to 7 and 1/2 days per year extra time I recoup to spend doing something else completely different...
like duet yodeling with my dog,
more conversation time my cat is always complaining about,
the list goes on for me.


y'know, if anything, like me and gerbick , you too pichlo may be suffering from the embarrassing itch of "techno angst"

I just realized that,
the 3 of us most assuredly are upset with the general state of tech and how it wastes our time and increasingly demands more, instead of liberating us all the way it is supposed to , the way it has always been promised us all.