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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IRCv3 seems pretty broadly supported by most of the relevant IRC client and server makers, and should be backwards compatible with clients that support it. That being said, I’m with you on being cynical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wheel That Went to Court (or, did you know Pixar sued DMA Design - who ended up becoming Rockstar North - because they made a game about a unicycle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pixar are such douches. Uniracers was a god damned masterpiece and one of the most fun, if rarely heard of, games on the SNES.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Statement From The White House⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they said and meant it like that, there wouldn’t be a problem. It is more like: “I got this from Aldis”, “I’m going to Aldis”, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have, and am, selfhosting Matrix, and it isn’t that big of a deal if you’re someone that, you know , self hosts things. That is just outside of what most people can or are willing to do. That’s totally fine, but finding a FOSS platform that will host a VoIP/video server for you and not try to monetize you is almost certainly going to be rare or short lived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is spot on. Discord and Matrix are, IMO, quite different. Matrix is more like Slack or Teams. You can do voice and video calls, if you configure it to do so, but it isn’t like Discord in that regard at all. If you don’t use Discord for that and mostly just chat with your friends then sure, but you have a lot of choices in that case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Statement From The White House⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is more like the unrelated, and annoying, phenomenon where people inexplicably add an ‘s’ to brand names. I swear if I hear my in-laws tell me about their stuff from “Aldis” one more time I’ll lose it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, no problem. I’m sure you’ll get a basic server up and running, it isn’t too bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you just need a chat server for your and some friends and family, that is almost certainly will work for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not trying to say that you can’t/shouldn’t federate with others. You don’t need to federate everything, all channels, etc, nor should you IMO. I found out really quickly that the small server I had set aside for it was not up to the task when I decided to sync up the matrix.org main channels. You need lots of ram, FAST storage, and a good internet connection at bare minimum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you plan on federating, it can end up being pretty resource heavy, so consider either not federating or planning ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What launcher should I replace Nova with?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the lack of distractions is the man draw I believe (also the qwerty keyboard on it is pretty nice), but it had rough edges that prevent me from recommending it. I had a feeling it would be like that since it is the first and only phone that company had made, but hope springs eternal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What launcher should I replace Nova with?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen any. My wife has a Minimal Phone, which is android, but heavily nerfed in what it can actually run. I can’t recommend it though until they fix the connectivity issues. It frequently has problems with wifi and bluetooth, also poor general cellular signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to sound gatekeepy, but a flood of new users into an IRC network would be pretty unpleasant for the existing users. There isn’t generally any form of support, so that burden falls to the other users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have many friends have that ported their bots from other platforms to Matrix, but these are technically capable people that created bots to begin with so YMMV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They likely mean because LLMs will scrape it hard and give the form the hug of death. This is a real issue, but seriously fuck Discord. I have specifically excluded many potential solutions for both work and home because I saw that their support was done in Discord. I refuse to use it, and this any project that makes it mandatory for support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, still on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed on all counts. Also, I truly miss my 4a. I kept it for nearly 5 years until Google killed it’s utility with that update despite claiming that my IMEI was excluded by the battery issue/payout offer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You would choose it for security hardening in general. E.g. it is harder for malware to infect, harder for unauthorized parties to gain access to data when the phone is locked, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My company does the same, but you start with 5 days and get more the longer you’re with the company. You max out at 25 days after 10 years as an employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond All Reason⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Making your own AI variations was one of the coolest things about SupCom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it probably affect tifa and aerith saves as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Voice actor page leaks Xenoblade game for 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have quite a few!

  I believe I mentioned many of them in my original comment, but I’ll list some of my completely subjective gripes here:

  • very underpowered system, even at launch.
  • most multiplatform games for the Switch are absolutely the worst version of the game, even for Indie titles that shouldn’t need the performance (I can give examples in spades)
  • I feel that it is a poor handheld console (too large, too short battery life, bad/uncomfortable controls)
  • I feel that it is a poor standalone console (iffy dock instead of just a power cord, controllers need to be physically attached and reattached to use, poor performance (already mentioned), too expensive for this purpose, battery dying prevents it from working standalone (sadly learned this the hard way))
  • bad included controller (tiny buttons, no dpad, analog stick constantly had issues and needed repair, batch charging mechanism (already mentioned))

  The Switch tries to be two consoles and ends up just being too many compromises while still being quite expensive. Add on to Nintendo’s knack for price gouging for games and accessories/replacements and I am just done with them. If they had released an “unSwitch” or something that just had a regular controller like the “pro” controller that was stationary and thus lacked a screen, battery, joycons, an $80 dock, it would have been much better for the half of the users that didn’t or couldn’t use it as a handheld and could have been cheaper. It still wouldn’t fix the performance stuff, but it wouldbe easier to forgive if it had been a budget console, not one that the previous gen of consoles trounced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Voice actor page leaks Xenoblade game for 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Xenogames were the only reason I even bought the Switch to begin with. I was, and still am, so disappointed with that console. No chance I am buying a Switch 2 for more Xenoblade games this time. I would love for them to become detached from Nintendo honestly. Sony and MS are at least receptive to PC ports, with Nintendo they are forever trapped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Voice actor page leaks Xenoblade game for 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but we both sadly know it’ll never happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your extremely expensive try-hard sequel to a just OK game didn’t blow everyone away? Womp womp. Obsidian died when MS bought them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If there wasn’t always such an atrocious line at the Costco gas station, maybe I could check out the ad-free utopia heh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How accurate is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse, it was AOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How accurate is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I worked retail, that also included cleaning the bathrooms (who needs janitors when you have minimum wage kids!), so I got the worst of all worlds. And I’d still much prefer that over doing call center work every again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why you leave your work laptop at work and tunnel in from home!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arcade 1Up Has Reportedly Closed Its Door And Is Shutting Down Operations - NewsBreak⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The 3/4th size honestly kills it for me. I still loved seeing them out there and giving prominence to the better known arcade classics.