recklessengagement

@recklessengagement@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Empty words. Their actions tell a different story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being single⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dated a string of people who didn’t deserve my trust, so I know that gut-wrenching feeling all too well. Life is more peaceful without it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Quit discord last year. Moved my core friend group onto Signal.

  Potential alternatives and their issues:

  • Guilded: owned by Roblox, faces same data/privacy concerns
  • Discourse: backed by venture capital, same as above
  • Revolt: slow development, no game streaming, otherwise decent
  • Matrix: high technical barrier of entry, but promising.

  If you’re looking to kick discord as well:

  For game streaming, try Parsec (with their echo cancellation trick)

  For movie/video streaming, try Hyperbeam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clips from what I'm playing 😼🚋 Jazztronauts — Plunder the Steam Workshop for money⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks neat. Great writeup!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to ban myself from that game as I’d fall off the face of the earth for weeks at a time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's first commercial biological computer is here, powered by human brain cells⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But can it run Doom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ultra Gullible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, are you telling me I can get rid of all my e-waste if I just stick a maga sticker on it and put it on Craigslist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. And besides, the only people actually taking significant risk here are the instance hosters storing the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New year new brew⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they were referencing Breaking Bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corn? I DAUHN REMEMBAH EATING ANY CORN!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  High kicks, high kicks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers keep Spotify Car Thing alive with custom firmware⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah. When they first came out, I had a feeling this would happen. I bought 3 when they were on sale.

  Its genuinely useful in my old car, but it has incredible potential for all kinds of random gadgets. One already serves as a little desktop controller for my audio at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was very on board with your comment until the Meyers-Briggs pseudoscience BS and then you lost me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is testing verified checkmarks in search⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so stupid. God forbid they actually police their ads for malware. No, instead let’s push the responsibility onto the individual, by adding get another “Papers, Please”-esque stamp that very few people will know about and even less will actually use.

  Hard pass. The day I saw them promoting malware above legitimate search results is the day I turned on ad blocking for my entire org, and a stupid little pay-to-verify badge isn’t going to change that.

  /end rant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But neither have seamless voice chat/screen sharing, which is a staple of Discord that users are very used to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a fantastic read. I wasnt around for the prime days of forums but I did experience them a bit.

  I’m becoming extremely concerned about the number of topics and projects that are migrating to Discord. My main issue is that it is not and never will be publically indexed, and among other problems, is itself a corporate walled garden we consider to be “one of the good ones”.

  I really hope we find and establish a “low executive cost” solution before the next time Discord fumbles (which is inevitable) and we can claw some of that activity back.

  But people are so used to seamless voice and video chat nowadays - and that’s a technical hurdle that AFAIK, no open-source self-hostable projects have come close to solving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenBudgeteer: a selfhosted budgeting app made for Bucket Budgeting⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I need this thread. I’ve been all over the place ever since Mint shut down.