A big part is also residuals, they don’t want to have to keep paying actors, directors, and others involved with production, after the fact on a losing property. If there is zero income there are zero continued payments.

Awesome, I actually use this docker container that implements it https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api

If you’re ok using Signal I use https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli for sending myself texts through command line

I disagree, the vast majority just need a browser, your use case may be quite common, but definitely not the majority.

Those are potential connections, outside will be how many you are actually connected to. The potential connections number also isn’t live so don’t take it as fact.

Yeah it’s pretty cool! Star Trek had been a bit of a directors boot camp for a while, I know several members from TNG, DS9, and Voyager went on into directing.