ArcaneSlime
@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 day ago:
IMO the main advantage that Matrix-Element has for normal users is the branding: Element is Element on the web, Android and iOS.
Delta Chat has this too, it’s the same on linux/mac/win, android, and iOS. There’s also Arcane Chat for android developed by one of the devs of Delta Chat as sort of a testing ground but that’s like an if you know you know thing, like my mom just thinks we’re all on Delta Chat. One thing is they don’t have a web interface afaik, you need the app.
Simple user+password login to a hosted (non-matrixdotorg) server takes 5-6 pages to click through.
And the recovery passwords and all that just seem to be out of reach for those who just use hunter2 for everything, if the complaints I got are indicative if most people.
I was spammed with racist copypasta on XMPP once too. But being in large Matrix chats guarantees being invited/messaged.
Good news for Delta Chat is they don’t really do groups like that, you can group chat but it’s more for like friends and family than strangers, I see that as a win in this use case, where if we need xmpp/matrix style public groups we can fall back to xmpp. You also have to accept chats before they go through and there is no discoverability so you won’t get random drive bys.
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 day ago:
They no longer recommend using a traditional email account, instead recommending chatmail servers like these (there’s more as well, but they have this small list to choose from in the app or you can bring your own). They say if you have to use traditional email use a dedicated account for delta chat, not one that also gets traditional email.
I like how they are trying to address metadata as much as possible, the onboarding is so easy my literal mother can do it, video/audio calling is in beta and works pretty well (some glitches, but it’s in beta), the webXDC stuff is cool but I don’t really use it yet, and I’m sure I’m forgetting something.
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 day ago:
Personally I like XMPP over Matrix because
- Matrix clients aren’t great (even element is buggy as piss on my phone and a shitty electron app on linux)
- Matrix is too difficult for “normal” people (I agree they should get good but they don’t and what good is a chat app without recipients).
- Matrix public rooms have a CP problem, and as such I can’t recommend people join it just in case, I don’t need my mom seeing that shit.
- Matrix was started as an Amdocs project before they defunded it and the lead dev went to form The Matrix Foundation. Amdocs is a Mossad affiliated company that infiltrated American telcom companies long ago. Matrix also pisses metadata to any server it federates with, including matrix [.] org, and I have no proof that Mossad is spying on that metadata but I have no trust either, nor proof that they aren’t, so I can’t trust matrix anymore.
Though XMPP also has had it’s own problems for me, so at the moment it’s my fallback and I’m trying out Delta Chat which I have been loving.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 week ago:
For sure all this, one note, rule 0 is
encounter one at the home of a friend or family member.
If you don’t know what to do (RE: these other four rules and how to operate that specific firearm) or are nervous, don’t goddamn touch it unless you have to. If it’s a safe situation and not something out of the ordinary like kids or burglars are around and the owner is dead, go get the owner of the gun or someone who is experienced enough to handle them safely. I
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 1 week ago:
The only ads I ever click on are when I search something like “brother dcp-l2550w toner” and the first result is an ad for Staples where I was going to buy the thing anyway. Even if I saw an ad for that exact toner and said “ah, that reminds me I need more toner,” I’d still not click that ad but rather go search as described because I do not click ads.
There have been times I’ve been so annoyed by a company’s ads that instead of buying their product I go with their direct competitor out of pure spite (if I needed something like the item in question, ykwim).
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 1 week ago:
Nah fuck them, they can mail my disroot acct, or I don’t have an email and they can call me, anything else send a note home with the kid, free courier. It’s not like gmail is incompatible with email, add my addr to the mailing list and quit crying.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve heard excel the hard one to replace if you need some special functions of it, idk tbh I’ve used excel like twice and basic stuff at that so LibreOffice works fine for me.
Lol I don’t even know what visualization means in this context, I’m definitely no help on this one! Sorry!
Hope so, it seems to be more common these days! I “recently” got a Framework16, which was my first dual ssd laptop (but unfortunately doesn’t meet your size requirements).
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes 1 week ago:
It has definitely improved in your absence.
But yeah I understand needing your programs to work. For some like Office you may be able to get away with a replacement like OpenOffice or LibreOffice, maybe not. Idk what PowerBi is but it sounds like a c/196 user’s uname lol, and from a cursory search it looks like Teams is supported with a .deb and a .rpm but I can’t attest personally.
I’d also recommend using a laptop with two SSDs if possible, one for linux and one for windows, to alleviate some of the headaches in dual booting.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes 1 week ago:
Try steam/proton instead of Wine
ProtonDB says it runs well, but idk if that includes mods.
- Comment on I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers 2 weeks ago:
Wait do the nuns bugger? Thought that was only the preists.
- Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles 2 weeks ago:
Tbf there’s that one tv show about that one island in canada or something that had buried treasure and a bunch of traps but then it turned out the treasure had already been found and they think a freed slave found it when he bought the island back in the day or something like that.
Admittedly I’ve only seen one episode, a friend who watched it filled in the details on where it went lol.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 2 weeks ago:
It literally was started by Chinese people in China as an insult to Xi specifically. It isn’t racist, it isn’t applied to all Chinese people, it isn’t even “because Pooh is yellow.” People saying it is racist are just looking for a way to shut down criticisms of Xi, and crying “that’s racist” often bypasses people’s critical thinking abilities and makes them just capitulate because “well I don’t want to be seen as racist and I’m not the race in question so I don’t have the authority to decide if it is or isn’t.”
Could it be used in a racist way by some racist person who doesn’t understand the context? Sure. Does that mean “the act of making fun of a specific despotic dictator by using a children’s character he happens to resemble” is racist? No.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 2 weeks ago:
“World shocked as children learn to torrent. ‘I thought we could actually stop people from accessing things on the internet’ one dumbshit was quoted as saying…”
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- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: in America most common brands of both honey AND maple syrup are just flavored high fructose corn syrup. It’s not like we don’t have the real stuff on the same shelf, but you have to pay attention to the labels or you might get some bullshit.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t the US just kidnap Modretro?
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 weeks ago:
Tbf I carry the pepper spray for the dogs, that’s where it’s effectiveness really shines, they can’t really fight through it like people can. Also for use against people without weapons if deescalation fails, and hope they’ve never been to prison or the military (they’ll be used to it).
The gun is for the people with weapons.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 weeks ago:
Lucky you!
I have. Luckily I didn’t have to pull it though, I just put my hand on it and the guy holding the knife at me decided “I’ll catch the next one” and walked away.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 3 weeks ago:
Tbf it’s not that weird, the death was so suspicious some theorized at the time that he wasn’t even killed, the pics faked his death and the state “confirmed” it but in reality they shipped him off somewhere quiet to continue his Mossad blackmail ring.
Idk if that’s true but honestly we’re talking about a Mossad agent that had dirt on everyone and state level actors who would have been the help, it is possible, very possible, that it’s true, but afaik there’s no evidence other than speculation, so it probably isn’t. I’m agnostic on it personally.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 3 weeks ago:
LOL tbh I can see it, they look similar in those pics.
They’ve famously been seen in the same room together though, so there goes that theory.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Remember to bring clean period correct cash.
- Comment on Smarties are like the chocolate version of jellybeans 3 weeks ago:
Yes! I haven’t seen those in a good long while but I loved those so much. I think they still exist though. (Sour candy coated chewy disks, of course, for those unfamiliar.)
- Comment on Smarties are like the chocolate version of jellybeans 3 weeks ago:
I think you may be triple confusing Sweet Tarts™ (chalky semi-tart disks) with Smarties™ (chalky sweet but oddly flavorless disks) and Spree™ (not as chalky, candy coated disks) which these days are more often encountered as Chewy Spree™ (Chewy candy coated disks.)
And we haven’t even mentioned Necco Wafers™ nor Giant Sweet Tarts™!
- Comment on Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence 3 weeks ago:
So do I sometimes but that’s just ADHD, hatred of banal competition, imposter syndrome, or simply “still learning the thing.”
Yes I hate corporate self evaluations, how could you tell? Fuck it, I’ll just put “I’m the absolute best person to ever walk the earth mr bossman. Money me please” again.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 4 weeks ago:
Soap dispensers that only dispense for white hands.
IR was fine why the fuck do we have AI soap dispensers?! (Please for “Bob’s” sake tell me you made it up.)
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 4 weeks ago:
I’d try and get my work to switch, but apparently Zebra thermal printers (of which we have so many) don’t work well with CUPS, you may be able to do some weird shit to make them work but iirc it wasn’t too viable for a large scale operation.
I’d wager a lot of companies do use things that just don’t work too well on linux yet, not that they couldn’t work it’s just that none of the people smarter than me who make linux happen have worked on it yet, and until they do it’s just what it is. Before we want to capture the enterprise market we need good easy to use thermal printing software, CNC software, laser etching software, stuff like that. It can be done too for at least most things I’m sure.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s a cheap way to heighten the scary, to give you the feeling that you have no clue what you’re fucking doing but scary shit keeps happening.
- Comment on Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete 4 weeks ago:
Well, “obsolete.” Unless your average home invader starts employing nanobots in their crimes guns will still be useful, just not against state level threats that can afford nanobots. Of course, those threats already have f-35s or whatever number we’re on now so guns are already of limited effect there.
- Comment on 3D Printing’s Biggest Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought! (PLA-CF) 5 weeks ago:
Doing “Bob’s” work, thanks!
- Comment on Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol? 5 weeks ago:
Also Shaggy of It Wasn’t Me fame.