m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@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

@mjdxp @cpluspatch Isn't it very close to what Oppenheimer vs Barbie is? 😄
TBH had it been not for Fedi, I probably wouldn't even know of Oppenheimer the movie's existence. Barbie? At least I've seen Ryan Gosling wearing pink outfits and I knew it had to come from some movie. Fedi is an invaluable source for all sorts of useless information 😅

@renai Is this how you walk your introverted friend without using backpack? 😅

@metallcorn
Я тоже не сразу понял почему все шутки про Уганду шутили в субботу, но я потом на Slashdot прочитал или на The Register.
С Унабомбером то же самое было, пока мне подруга не написала — и тут стало понятно к чему все эти мемы. Феди — странное место 🤪