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- Comment on 2 days ago:
You give them money for two things. Your paying the dev so he doesn’t have to work two jobs and can focus on just this one job. Which is ideal for a major project that the lead dev is full time on the project.
And two if you use someone else’s infrastructure. If you arnt using your own hardware then you should be fucking paying money and not being a free loader.
Self host if you don’t want to pay. You get all of the features, there’s no restrictions and you can do what ever you want with it.
Honestly I’m getting pissed at all the stupid projects that charge you money for self hosting. It’s stupid as fuck.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
How… Do you think projects get seed money? Like do you think daddy bezo just appears from thin air to grant people endless wealth to work on major projects?
- Comment on Why is self-hosted voice chat so hard? 3 days ago:
Look at fluxer it’s stoat developed by someone who isn’t retarded. Has done more in a fraction of the time and actually has functional features
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 3 days ago:
The age old matrix problem, every client is uniquely shitty and poorly put together.
I swear the day a feature rich and actually competent matrix client is released is the same day gnome devs will stop having stupid takes and Wayland devs will stop arguing.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
It doesn’t require the blizzard launcher. I don’t have battle.net installed and it works fine for me.
- Comment on A New Era of Safety: Facial Age Checks Now Required to Chat on Roblox | Roblox 3 days ago:
Gmod models can fool it… It’s really dumb lol
- Comment on America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs 3 days ago:
Yo be fair lossless frame gen has a number of short comings, performance issues, and quality problems compared to nividias offerings.
While it’s “possible” to run frame gen on any hardware the quality and performance is definitely a sizeable downgrade
- Comment on America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs 3 days ago:
The only thing I’ve found "AI music"good for is making unsettling endless droning. It’s actually quite good at that.
Perfect for a creepy pasta low effort YouTube bait game.
- Comment on TIL about Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream 4 days ago:
Came across her because of napple time. Her videos are fantastic! And kinda depressing.
- Comment on HP has laptop subscriptions now 4 days ago:
Dude if my parents could have paid 9.99 a month to keep my brother alive it would have saved them tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills.
That kids every existence was antithetical to the concept of safety.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 4 days ago:
An open source project that’s easy to understand and use the sun. Will devour the Earth before that happens.
Open source is great, but first and foremost it is unfortunately designed by coders and engineers, not user interface, designers and artists.
In 20 years of self-hosting servers, apps and fiddling with things, I think I’ve come across maybe two programs ever that I could call easy to set up and use from an admin perspective.
Such things just don’t exist
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
You’re more likely to see Wayland suddenly stop having in fighting and all simultaneously. Agree on every protocol going forward. Matrix having a frictionless client that is feature parody with discord.
It’s just not something that is likely ever going to happen. Matrix as a concept basically makes such a thing impossible.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
Team speak 6. Still is missing basic features and has had quality of life and basic features open as requests for ever at this point and it’s unlikely it’s ever going to happen.
Teamspeaks six’s devs have also just pretty much made it clear they aren’t really trying.
If it works for you as it currently is great, it’s acceptable and it’s fine. It’s team speaker works. But just like back in the day with TeamSpeak 3. The devs are slow, they don’t do anything and they don’t want to do anything. It’s been a problem with the app literally since day one.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
Screen sharing is broken. Group chats barely function. DMS are more or less non-existent in a realistic manner. Cross-platform voice chats break constantly audio capture with a bunch of different devices. Just straight up. Don’t work. It crashes if you try and do s*** with certain games are open on Windows.
And this is just what I’ve experienced using five or six of the most popular clients from matrix.
Matrix is a pile of crap. It has been a pile of crap. It is unlikely to ever not be a pile of crap. It is basically only acceptable for people who get a boner over security and encryption and have no friends who don’t also have a boner for security and encryption.
It is The shining example of a application designed by engineers for engineers who have never talked to a normal person once in their entire life.
The moment you try and get something like a game guild together in it it breaks and falls apart and s**** the bed. It cannot handle flexible groups like that. It is too overly complicated in the worst ways while also being too simple to be able to handle complicated tasks. It is such a weird catch-22 in almost every way.
If you’re trying to find a replacement for slack, maybe? But not discord.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
Get back to me when it’s remotely able to handle emojis, screen sharing cross platform, proper audio capture, reliable DMs and group chats.
Element even shits the bed 95% of the time when you try to use it like a discord alterative.
The fact people think matrix is remotely acceptable is just proof your avg user on lemmy has no fucking clue what your avg user wants or expects out of a chat/gamer platform.
Matrix barely makes the bar for a replacement for a enterprise chat app. Let alone something aimed at more flexible groups and communities.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
Mumble doesn’t do screen sharing, matrix screen sharing barely works and flat out doesn’t support Wayland and breaks with a number of games if your on windows. Basically making both not an option. No idea about mediamtx.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
Gabe’s son is set to inherit the family company. Remember steam is for all purposes a family business.
Assuming Gabe retires in the next decade then his son works for 20-30 years we have another 30-40 years before steam goes to shit.
Unless an out side force actively fucks with valve and Gabe’s family to force things to become worse. It’s unlikely it will get worse.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
… Steam is basically a family owned business it’s literally the exact example of what a perfectly acceptable large business is.
And fuck I ain’t here cause I know something wrong. The fuck you get that idea from. I’m here because reddit doesn’t have a good app that’s literally it. I would happily go back to reddit if i could have my old app back.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
Labeled as coming soon for years. They ain’t ever coming that dumpster fire of an app is spinning its wheels. Wayland development moves faster.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
Leaving reddit for Lemmy is a solo thing. It’s a personal choice, it doesn’t effect the others around you at fucking all.
Leaving discord for other services effects everyone around you a FUCKING LOT.
That’s the problem. You HAVE to bring your friends or not only are you giving up possibly the only way to communicate with them effectively but also fucking them over by basically threatening them with the loss of your friendship if they don’t inconvenience themselves to try some stupid new app over a problem they don’t see as remotely worth even giving a fuck about.
This is the problem most of us have right now. I have 3 servers with a total over nearly 2000 users combined. All 3 are talking about moving but the bare BARE minimum requirements in features and platform support doesn’t exist anywhere.
Discord works on every OS with all its features basically. Not a single other platform can say that. Someone somewhere gets fucked because this or that is isn’t fully supported. Or some key feature doesn’t work right.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
As far as internet user goes you basically arnt real. Your usage must be so beyond limited that any opinions you have are going to be massively skewed and you are entirely out of touch with the reality of what the modern internet user is.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 days ago:
Fundamentally the problem with leaving discord is no other platform has fucking remotely any kind of quality of life close to discord. Matrix is a flaming pile of shit that basically is an insult the very concept of user friendlyness. It also is missing about 70% of the features your avg gamer/internet deweller actually wants.
Teamspeak 6 is a barely functional trash heap that still doesn’t have a bunch of quality of life your avg normie expects. There’s been open feature requests for years that are unlikely to ever manifest.
Stoat is a half finished poorly managed train wreck that would be good if the devs actually had anything resembling a decent pace of development. Feels like Wayland moves faster then them for basic functions they should have had two years ago.
Discord is basically 5 apps in one and you can’t convert people to go from 1 universal app back to like 5. It just won’t happen.
You need actual cross platform support for voice chat on desktop ios and android, text chat, screen and window sharing, gifs, emojis, dms, group chats and THEY HAVE TO BE SIMPLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE to computer illiterate normies.
And that’s just the basics. People expect customization and personalization. You need to be able to jump around, colab, hop in and out of calls and basically have digital mobility. Which while it sucks from the outside. Inside discords walled gardens it’s a VERY open space.
Matrix gets close but it’s just so user unfriendly and 90% of clients have one or the other half of the feature set people expect.
It’s just a mess.
- 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 5 days ago:
This entire problem is because of the EU… So finding something EU based isn’t a valid solution.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 5 days ago:
Yes they do offer actual protections.
A debit card while using visas processing network is still your banks account and their responsibility.
A credit card the account is with visa, tho it may be managed by your bank thanks to partnerships and bank end integration. Depending on the circumstances you actually will be directed by your bank to contact visa or who ever directly or be forwarded by your bank.
Debit cards are not credit cards. This seems to be a weird hang up people can’t seem to understand. Doubly so when they are from Europe. It’s always struck me as odd.
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 5 days ago:
Stoat chat is still and likely always will be a flaming pile of mismanaged trash.
Matrix doesn’t actually support the features people actually use discord for. It’s a great alterative to teams or business communications but as a discord alterative it’s fucking awful.
- Comment on Performance enhancement 1 week ago:
Temporary
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
See the problem is the details keep getting higher res, but we also never stopped to ask if 32 tentacles was too much…
- Comment on An oopsie occured 1 week ago:
Regardless of if it’s real or not. I wouldn’t even fucking bat one eye at doordash for doing something like this.
But no one using doordash would ever go and actually collect the item to confirm if it’s real anyways so it’s moot.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 week ago:
That or he’s really good at hiding it…
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 week ago:
God this was my brother, by 14 he was 6’1 at one point his growing pains where so bad that a doctor gave him fucking pain killers. And the good shit at that.
Not to mention the sheer glut of food he could eat. I was a highly active runner and still growing my self and God damn he could eat circles around me.
We would have lost the house if food costs what it does now back then. My poor mother.