DaGeek247

I swear. I hate how modern design does misshapen/ugly/asymmetric just for the shock value, instead of because how it might actually look good.

Someone needs to fire the business student that told those engineers to make that.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/advanced_technology.png

I don't watch horror movies. I do not do well with them. It's a blanket rule for me.

Yeah. It sucks, but discord replaced all the old clients for damn good reasons. I just wish that the open source clients had the features that discord does.

I'm hoping xep-0503 gets implemented in a couple xmpp clients at some point soon. That'll make xmpp have feature parity with discord, except for ease of use, which is a barrier I'm willing to help friends/family work through in order to never have to switch chat clients ever again, since xmpp has been around for nearly thirty years now.

This isn't targeted at you, zen_shinobi, specifically, but you are the latest example of one of my pet peeves, so I'm replying here.

Mumble doesn't have text channels.

Everytime time I see a discord alternative proposed it always has at least one major feature missing. Discord isn't just popular because it has almost always works out of the box, but because it has every single feature a communication platform could want. This makes it incredibly easy to use in practically every context.

Iphones revolutionized the phone space because they combined PDAs and cell phones in a very easy to use package, not because they did something completely new.

Discord combined video, audio, AND text into an incredibly easy to use package, and became the biggest chat platform in the world because of it.

Nothing is an entirely valid discord alternative until it has feature parity, including ease of use and compatibility, and I haven't found a single alternative that does that yet. (And isn't vibecoded slop, venture funded, incredibly early alpha, difficult or impossible to set up or even connect to, or some combination of the previous).

Gamevox is a new option I'm seeing, but it's also for profit, and I'm sick and tired of switching software just to see it get sold to a vc company and enshittified right underneath me.

begoigen

New word! googles

Dammit, it's just a new typo not a new word.

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Thanks for the writeup. I will never watch these, but it's neat to be aware of what might be in the zeitgeist right now.

That sounds ethically sourced to me! Ain't nothing more ethical than a brutal takedown, fatality style.

What the fuck. That's hilarious. My first thought for this questions was 'sex toys' too, but those are easy to explain. I also have a dildo lamp, but I got that from my sister, so also very easy to explain.

My tech stuff is likely going to be the least explainable, but because it's eBay scrap parts hardware, not because I changed /home to a mounting folder though. That's crazy.

Tbh, if it's something that people know how to use and want it for it's size, it might be worth a double post on Facebook/Craigslist as 'you pick it up'. For example, anyone buying a powerhammer knows they need a bunch of equipment to move it, so they may already be factoring that into their cost analysis.

Man, there's a helluva difference between 'Craigslist has fallen out of public use' and 'Craigslist is full of murderers and robbers' goddamn. Don't spread lies like that. Craigslist has exactly the same type of people (humans) that Facebook does, just fewer of them.

Well, except for the people that use the policy to keep their bosses accountable for letting them have comparatively reasonable hours.