ProdigalFrog
@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification 4 days ago:
For anyone considering something similar, I’d suggest hosting a Movim instance over Matrix, as it’s far easier to set up and configure since it uses XMPP instead. Should be lighter on resources too.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 5 days ago:
We host an XMPP and Movim front-end that’s accessible to all Slrpnk members using their lemmy login (it queries the same database, AFAIK), if you’d like to try it out. It’s mentioned in our sidebar and in the monthly Meta posts (I guess that shows we might not be doing a terribly good job advertising it 😅)
- Comment on Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method? 5 days ago:
I tried a lot, I think it has the most feature parity.
Have you tried Movim? It has most of the essential features, like group video calls, screen sharing, and a better E2EE method than matrix (IMO, anyway). It’s also much easier to set up and host since it uses XMPP.
- Comment on Discord attempt to put out the fires with a clarification over new age verification 5 days ago:
Depends on what you and your friends need.
If you often use text, group video calls and screen share, Movim is probably the best option currently (though there is no application audio when screen sharing yet). It supports encryption too!
If you use mostly text, and just send video or voice files to the group to be played in-app, Deltachat is really slick and encrypted (but it doesn’t do voice calls).
- Comment on Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist 5 days ago:
I played Choas Theory’s spy vs merc multiplayer before the servers were shut down (though there are fan efforts that got it working again).
I had an absolute blast with it, and as you mention it was extremely unique, I have yet to experience anything like it.
- Comment on Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist 5 days ago:
If it helps, the developers all hated Tom Clancy’s books and the conservative politics they pushed. They basically made the first splinter cell as a parody of them (it actually casts the US in a pretty bad light, showing that it’s propping up dictators who are friendly to capital).
It’s also a running joke in the series that Sam Fisher hates Ronald Reagan with a passion.
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 5 days ago:
We’re also late on implementing good public transport, having universal healthcare, 30 days off from work per year, and more! :D
It sucks.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 6 days ago:
No prob! I’m excited for it too ^^
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 6 days ago:
If you have a link to a discussion or issue where they’re tracking this, I’d love to follow it.
They’ve mentioned needing to accelerate the development of it on their Mastodon account in light of the Discord blunder, such as here, and they just had a user poll there that resulted in Discord-like grouped channels/spaces being the most requested.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 6 days ago:
Piggybacking off this:
XMPP and Deltachat are two excellent decentralized, self-hostable, federated communication platforms. Deltachat is limited more to text (though it can send videos or audio files that can be played in the app like snapchat), but with XMPP, we could use Movim, which can do group video calls, screen sharing, differing permissions in groups, and even user blogs!
- Comment on I had a random (probably dumb) idea: Given the whole Discord Drama going on, what if there was a Discord alternative, but in the style of Lemmy? 6 days ago:
XMPP and Deltachat are federated (though not with each other). A person can self-host a server that can communicate with any other XMPP or Deltachat instance.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 1 week ago:
Star Trek is written from the perspective of post-scarcity. There is unlimited free energy, replicators that can create virtually any object from base materials, and an abolishment of money (there is no need for it in post-scarcity, as money is ostensibly just a way to distribute resources).
Rowan J Coleman explores the concepts in a 3 part series here, if you’re interested.
- Comment on Veganuary 1 week ago:
Humans synthesize Vitamin A from Beta Carotene in plants. Only a small minority of people who are genetically predisposed to less efficient conversion of Beta Carotene would need to supplement with the retinyl form (readily available in supplements)
Per the NIH:
The human diet contains two sources for vitamin A: preformed vitamin A (retinol and retinyl esters) and provitamin A carotenoids [1,5]. Preformed vitamin A is found in foods from animal sources, including dairy products, eggs, fish, and organ meats [1,2]. Provitamin A carotenoids are plant pigments that include beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, and beta-cryptoxanthin [1]. The body converts provitamin A carotenoids into vitamin A in the intestine via the beta-carotene monooxygenase type 1 BCMO1 enzyme [1,3,6], although conversion rates may have genetic variability
- Comment on Veganuary 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how you cooked your impossible burger, but personally I can’t tell the difference between those or an animal beef burger. It’s so good (IMO, obviously you feel different) that I’m puzzled why so many people say they’re waiting for lab grown meat, when we already have such an incredible, affordable plant based alternative available in most stores right now.
- Comment on Veganuary 1 week ago:
Which ones are exclusive?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How would you feel about a federated anti-authoritarian worker controlled society, as practiced in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil war? That seems to be the update to democracy that fixes most of the issues related to gaming it, and absolves the need for any type of centralized state control or leader.
- Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS? 1 week ago:
That happened a couple times to me lately as well.
- Comment on Desktop frontends for sh.itjust.works 1 week ago:
No prob. As a third option, you should be able to log into your sh.itjust.works account from the Photon front-end hosted by @Xylight@lemdro.id. This is not hosted by the sh.itjust.works team, though.
- Building an $18,000 96-channel Pipetting device for $250 with 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, and Off the shelf parts.www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on Desktop frontends for sh.itjust.works 1 week ago:
There are two alternatives listen in the sidebar on the front page.
And
- This game is my apocalypse - A thoughtful review of Terra Nil from a Solarpunk's perspectivewww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
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- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the github to Timeshift, their in-house snapshot tool.
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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That’s not a terribly good user experience if a user doesn’t want to interact with any users from a particular instance, as then it would require the user to manually block hundreds of users over a long span of time.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 2 weeks ago:
He’s already filthy rich even if he got fired tomorrow.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 2 weeks ago:
Mint has snapshots available out of the box even with ext4, the welcome screen prompts you to create a snapshot to fallback to if anything goes wrong.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 2 weeks ago:
Mint is based on 24.04, and will rebase on the next LTS when it’s released.
Alternatively, Linux Mint Debian Edition is based on Debian 13, which is currently newer than 24.04. Good option for non-nvidia users.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
User level community and instance blocks will stop you from seeing posts from those places, but it does not block their users or their comments, so you’d still be able to see them around in non-blocked communities.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The Dbzer0 folk also run a piefed instance, Anarchist.nexus, if you’d prefer to be using piefed with everything else the same.