m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@NEETzsche
Stickers are also horrible in Matrix — and I think there are two separate implementations: one that you can add to your room as an extension and your own personal ones. The latter are accessible in e.g. Fluffy chat and they are synced across devices so it's definitely not some client-specific thing, but I don't know of any way to post those in Element 🤷
@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater @meso

@NEETzsche
I think they also have some embeddable thing — so, same temporary accounts. I'm just not sure it works for matrix.org
And they of course could've got rid of the terms of service and telemetry questions and do it like Discord does "By clicking okay you agree to this and that…" — but it's good that they didn't, I'd probably not trust them with such an "improvement". Overall it's perfectly balanced now, not night and day difference.
@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater @meso

@NEETzsche
Element has also seen a downgrade in fact. Like I said, when I've been signing up and it was still called Riot — there was no email verification, they probably just couldn't come up with better anti-spam measure. I think you can not have one on your server.And I've just checked — they do have invite links, I didn't even think of that as I've never used this function. And they even offer a selection of clients if you follow such a link
@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater @meso

@oku_yama_old
> новой реальности, в которой можно будет не только пить водку и читать рэп, но и жить

Как называется вера, которую исповедует этот священник? Кажется, мне она подходит 🤭
Нет, пить водку и читать рэп и сейчас можно — многие, кстати говоря, именно этим и занимаются, но ведь в этой новой — ещё и жить можно!

@neural_meduza

@NEETzsche
I don't think it's as bad as some try to paint it — I use Matrix for communicating with my non tech-savvy friends and family — all of them managed to signup without any help from me, including my mom and girls who prefer Instagram as their primary social media, none of them are bad with computers though.
My mom often complains that it takes a couple of seconds to decrypt bigger images — but that's what Telegram doesn't even have.
@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater @meso

@NEETzsche
@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater @meso
It took longer than I had expected and yes, they do have e-mail verification now — and that was the longest part. Average user probably won't be using a VPN exit point for signing up and won't have to enter ReCAPTCHA, and will definitely not get prompted about using ntfy for notifications. "Help us improve…" — it's good that they even ask.
Overall — not bad at all.
Can anyone do Discord?

@ShadowJonathan What does the green markdown mean? That you are going to rest in peace? 😅

@NEETzsche
No, I get your point, it's just a side note, but it might make a difference as they can get Telegram and Discord in Microsoft store, but they won't find Element there. On a phone, installing Element and signing up for an account on matrix.org would take roughly the same amount of clicks/touches I think.
I'm not sure what it would be for XMPP. Skype, while commercial, is a mess in this regard — it asks a lot of questions.
@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater @meso

@NEETzsche
> new install of Windows 10
Do normies even use desktop systems these days? A phone and an Android tablet or an iPad is what they have. Having a "computer" is already a geeky thing.

@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater @meso

@Cara Sounds true!
Well, the opposite is definitely true — it's just transitive law, so… 🤪

@kevinrothrock Russia better be careful with the warships still left, Syria trip didn't play out too well for the infamous Kuzya the aircraft carrier, no one knows if that "refit" ever gets finished 😅

@neural_meduza Культурный код, эксклюзив!

@fluffykittenspambot Will this kitten perform ritual sacrifice of me later in the movie? 🙀

@NEETzsche
>how many fields they need to fill out
>the fewer the better
Shouldn't Matrix fare better than everything else exactly for this reason? 😏
Some things might have changed, but matrix.org used to require neither e-mail address nor a phone number to register. Even for Telegram you have to have a phone number.
Looking your buddy up might be more complicated though because "servers", "federation".
@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater

@meso
Gajim ran fine even on my T43 with 2 gigs of RAM decades ago and it being heavier than webshit is a huge overstatment.
systemd is bad not because of 10Mb extra RAM, but because something is always happening in the background even if computer is idle, put Void on the same hardware and when it's idle — it's idle, like 98% idle. Even if you have a lot of things running. That damn thing just makes the computer run hot 🤷

@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater @NEETzsche

@meso
Is there a Drake meme with "Not using FaceBook" and "Posting on FaceBook about how bad FaceBook is?
@theorytoe @dcc @maija @dushman @sun_eater @NEETzsche @teratology

@Beaky
Why not? Makes Christmas stories even more believable 😄
@mrman

Cat-cat, I'm just a #cat ! 😸
I'm lying here, do you like that?

I find it interesting how the absence of all this "AI" shit makes it obvious that you have to put extra effort into making a photo look good.
This phone has a sensor and lens that are probably not too bad, at least not worse than in my previous phone from 2015 and yet it focuses on some weird things, like cat's fur or flowers in the background, but not cat's face! And I don't even see it, despite display also being not that bad.

@bonifartius
It still has uses for those who want to "scale" with a few clicks and it's probably useful for assessing the workload in real world conditions before getting real hardware for it, but other than that, yeah… It's supposed to be dirt cheap, but it's obvious that it even remotely isn't 😩
@graf @silverpill @brimshae