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- Comment on 100% tru btw 5 days ago:
Tall buff tomboy gf that will protect my frail ass is a dream <( ’ ’ <)
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 5 days ago:
That’s called algospeak.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 5 days ago:
Iv already started seeing games with older versions of BE and EAC say consumer windows 10 isn’t supported any more and not working.
Trying to stay on windows 10 and be a gamer is quickly going to become a nightmare with more compatibility issues then Linux.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 5 days ago:
You literally insulted Linux tho…?
- Comment on wild 6 days ago:
One does not master vore. Unless one is a snake furry, Or dragon, Or shark…
Come to think of it there’s a lot of the furry world that has weird mouth fixations.
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 week ago:
The 80% rule is rather out of date and doesn’t apply to modern batteries. Lithium doesn’t care, and most batteries naturally report 100% at 80%. So it’s already accounted for when needed.
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 week ago:
Slow charging is marginally better for battery life so as long as it charges faster then it drains your fine.
Really the only problem you have to keep in mind for charging is heat generation. As long as the tempature is fine. Then it doesn’t matter how fast or slow you charge.
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
By this logic, then no one should celebrate the death of a serial murder if they are killed by a rapist.
One bad person is dead. That’s good no matter how you cut it. Just cause the shit isnt over and there’s still bad people doesn’t mean we arnt happy things have improved.
If you only ever settle for perfection then you might as well just let the pedos go uncontested. Cause you can’t stop all of them in one go.
- Comment on big facts 1 week ago:
Purple sparkle and the color gang approves this message.
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 1 week ago:
Yes… I did… How did you know…?
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
A weirdly large amount of people seem to think frozen foods or persevered foods in general are all evil and will kill you. Like ALL of it.
Like fucking salted meats and refrigeration are a god send. People are fucking stupid.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 1 week ago:
To be fair, it’s also inconvenient convoluted and confusing to non-technical users… So yeah it works and some people can use it and others need their handheld quite a bit to even get halfway.
The same problem matrix as. If you’re trying to talk about a discord alternative, you need to aim for the demographic. That is the bottom 50% of the bell curve. If your explanation needs to be longer than two to four sentences on how to use something, then it’s already too complicated and will never take off for the use case.
If you’re looking for a usable open standard that is reliable, xmpp is incredibly good. It’s just not a discord replacement. It’s a discord alternative sure. And a good one at that.
But again till the user experience problem can be solved. Like with most open source things they will never be average user friendly.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 1 week ago:
That might be the stupidest fucking statement ever.
Your basically asking if unicorns shit gold would you take the unicorn poop.
It’s nonsensical. It doesn’t reflect the reality of the situation. Anyone can make up b******* hypotheticals to make something sound bad. It’s still b*******.
Why the fuck would anyone give a fuck about the plutonium stuff? Kick starters, investment backing, and crowd funding are all standard ways to generate initial revenue. It’s a f****** company. It needs money to buy hardware in paper server costs. Development isn’t free and if you want people to work full-time on something you have to get this pay them.
He basically asked for $300k to start full-time development and Kickstart the company after he left closed development. He provided a full proof of service documentation in history of his closed development.
The only people who have any issue with the plutonium stuff are those who are either too f****** retarded to understand basic business or a too far up their own asses to think that everything should be free in life.
If you self-host you don’t have to pay f****** wild concept considering how many self-toast services actually charge you money for full service. So that alone is already one up on a lot of stuff.
A basic subscription is far more reliable than donations if you want a company to be able to actually function. A subscription provides a reliable income so you can actually plan your costs and budgets. It’s a far better option than microtransactions that discord seems to want to push.
Cuz again server costs and vitamin costs aren’t free. Remember FOSS stands for free as in freedom to do what you want with the software within the license not free as in it doesn’t cost you f****** anything.
If fluxer had come out of the gate with no proof of concept, no history. No explanation of the credentials of the developer. No business license and no source code on demonstration and just said hey. Trust me bro. I need 300 Grand then. Yeah it would be an issue. But lo and behold the reality is none of that’s true.
Could it all go poof belly up and a month time 2 months a year? Yes of course, small businesses die all the time. 300K is not a lot of money for a small business. Frankly, the fact he only asked for $300k is more of a red flag than he asked for money at all. Cuz he’s going to have to pull a lot f****** more money if you wants to do anything remotely clothes to what his goal is. If he had shot for a 500k 600k somewhere in that vicinity. I would personally be more trusting than him asking for $300k. Much more than 600k and I would start asking questions as that’s a little bit much for a initial investment backing.
Seriously, the more I look around on Lemmy the more, I think that nobody here seems to actually understand that s*** costs money.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 1 week ago:
Unlikely. They make for poor discord community replacements. There’s just too much complexity at the door.
Most things are looking towards fluxer as the replacement. Since it’s actually a discord replacement unlike xmpp or matrix. Which are alternatives not replacements.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 1 week ago:
Closest your going to get is fluxer. It unfortunately only just entered open beta. So the self host option while there… Is not simple yet.
Tho it’s on the road map.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 1 week ago:
It broke 100,000 users and growing. The $300,000 the dev raised with his backer Kickstarter thing really is going to get stretched thin really quick with how fast it’s growing.
He’s already had to roll out more servers a few times to my understandings too. Well, self-hosting is currently a thing. It’s still under active development in that really needs to finish up quick to help offload some of the load.
Honestly, once the mobile app is finished and the self-hosting is more stable, it’s basically going to be like the old days of TeamSpeak 3 s when everyone actually liked it.
But with all the modern conveniences and benefits of discord.
It is the only thing currently going around. That’s actually trying to be a replacement for discord. Keyword replacement not alternative.
Like xmpp is an alternative, not a replacement.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 1 week ago:
The ever continuing trend of foss enthusiasts having less then no fuckinf clue the FUCK normal people use computers for.
Xmpp is great but you are 100% right. It’s not a discord replacement. It never will be. It is court replacement and it is not trying to be a discord replacement. People need to stop trying to force it to be one. The same thing goes with matrix though to a lesser extent.
Matrix at least is trying to be a team’s replacement, which is a legitimate alternative to what discord does for the average user.
Matrix has a whole host of other problems that will make and never be a viable alternative. But none of them are technical in nature. It’s mostly just the fragmentation will nature of it. And how confusing it is to navigate.
At the moment the only two legitimate replacement options are stoat and fluxer. Stoat is a dead end and unluckly to go anywhere. While fluxer is only like 2 weeks into its open beta just released its code base to the public after a long-ass time of closed development. And barely has enough funding even with their Kickstarter thing. Fluxer has passed 100,000 user Mark already and growing.
It’s also the only thing that’s actually trying to be an app for your average user. It’s actually targeting the same demographic discord was.
Which matters a lot. Matrix xmpp all these other things aren’t targeting the same demographic. They are not trying to be a replacement. I mean, I’m sure they’re happy to scoop up some new users and help expand their reach a little bit who doesn’t want to see their project grow after all.
But all these people trying to push matrix xmpp and what not is like going to a construction site telling a worker. Hey, your pickup truck is old and s***** you should stop using it and go use this nice moped while they look at you. Like you’re a f****** retard as they have to lug around a ton and a half of materials and tools everyday in the moped. Why perfectly good means of conveyance will do the job better than the pickup truck as the purpose of a vehicle cannot fully fulfill the same role that the pickup truck fills.
- Comment on No lowballs, please. I know what I have. 1 week ago:
They never do… The lids went even real. We all just collectively think they had lids. It’s all a lie.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
Matt Smith as neo would be amazing
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 1 week ago:
End of the day, shit cost money. As much as people love to live in bullshit denial about that fact.
Unless people are willing to pony up said money for free out of their own goodness with no strings attached AND you find people that are entirely trust worthy to manage those funds and put them entirely and only towards the intent they were given.
You will always find the same problem. Shit HAS to be centralized. You can have more then one central pillar that stand together but at the end of the day all your doing is spreading the load.
You can’t have an infinite number of pillars either it’s just not possible. And that’s the “idea” behind shit like federation. That some magic bullshit will happen and we will totally spread the load, costs and burder so perfectly that it can’t be knocked down.
When in reality it’s even more fragile than a single pillar supporting everything.
You have to find a middle ground, a number of central pillars that support each other. But you have to accept your just creating a more unstable house of cards.
Where a single sole pillar is easily corrupted, a group is easily toppled.
The frediverse is slowly learning that the idea behind it is a lot more iffy in reality then on paper. Hopefully it will adapt and not just stubbornly ignore the problem because of stupid shit. Because I fully believe that given enough effort the “decentralized” path as laughable as that term is. Is the right one forward.
I have very little faith in people to not be stupid tho.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 week ago:
You would basically have to convince a few hundred million people to not use the internet for months at a time with out a single percentage of them breaking the boycott to actually even start to hit aws.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 week ago:
Expect for you know the fact Amazon ran 40% of businesses out of business and covid killed another 40%.
Your option in the vast majority of the case is to get fucked or use Amazon/AliExpress which is just Amazon China edition.
- Comment on men’s chests, bellies, backs, pits, legs, arms, happy trails, bulges, feet, underwear, smell make me feel some type of way 1 week ago:
As someone with an allergy to most every form of artificial fragrance…
It’s worse. So much fucking worse.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Yes. It’s literally the only one for the options thats an actual replacement to discord. Not some half shit fucked project that everyone’s trying to shoe horn into being one.
We have loads of alternatives, but no actual replacements other then fluxer.
There’s also the problem that the current trend of open source decentralized bullshit going on is well meaning and has their hearts in the right place. But are so out of touch with reality that unless your chugging the Kool aid you can’t in good faith say anything is actually acceptable for normal users. Maybe in another 5 years and if somehow the foss community pulls some UX developers out of their collective asses. But that’s unlikely.
Even fluxer is months away from being ready for prime time. It needs more servers, better support for self hosting and just time. But it at least is actually trying to be a replacement and the developer behind it is actually targeting normal users. Not crack head foss people with no standards and more time then they know what to do with.
I love me a good over complicated poorly designed nightmare thats overly engineered as much as the next guy. And I do mean that legitimately. Tinkering is what I live for.
But fuck man… This is a problem that needs a solution that NORMAL USERS can just understand with no explanation. Which is something the foss community is famously unable to do with out a sacrifice of biblical proportions.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Fluxer isn’t entirely centralized. It has self hosting support.
It’s quasi centralized pretty much the same as matrix.
You can just opt to not use the central server for hosting services.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 1 week ago:
It hasn’t improved in two years. It’s not going to. Teamspeak developers are slower than Wayland’s.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Fluxer exists and is a near 1:1 drop in replacement.
It’s current only real problem is the servers are overloaded. But it has a self host option to bypass that very problem.
- Comment on Picture of a cat 1 week ago:
The pussy cat pussy?
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 2 weeks ago:
It’s more steam just does fucking nothing. Everyone is equally allowed to be as awful as they want.
Which means the far right who are the worse of us all, get to be infact the worse of everyone on steam. And because they are the worse they stand out the most.
Valve has ALWAYS basically been as hands off as possible in moderation. For the worse.
Gabe has always been behind this too. He believes pretty publicly that people should be allowed to say what ever the fuck they want.
Death threats, racism, sexism? All allowed. Just as positivity, kind gestures, and inclusivity is allowed.
Just the negative assholes are Infinitly louder then positive people. Because positive people just shut up and go quiet instead of defending themselves or engaging with the assholes.
Which to be fair is the right call you can’t beat an asshole at his own game. He has more experience shit talking.
Dota, counter strike, and now deadlock all are pretty great examples of valves moderation style even beyond steam.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 2 weeks ago:
Rossman has always been a very classic example of a shit person who is right about one thing in a very toxic way.
He’s entirely right about right to repair. He’s also toxic as fuck about it, runs with shady people and has always had very questionable motives.
But he is right about right to repair.