Takeshidude

joined 10 months ago
[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

self-hosting matrix is possible, and after I got it set up, it works fine. That said, push notifications were acting up a lot at first (might have been fixed by an update since that hasn't been an issue in a while), and it is rather annoying to get your desktop and mobile clients set up to not be annoying about not being verified (iOS apps seem more fiddly with verifying than Android apps in my experience)

Despite my annoyances at first, the Element client really is the best and most mature one out there, and I do recommend it. Don't bother with any of the other ones; despite what the fluffychat settings want you to think, Element is the only client that can do any kind of audio/video calling, and most of the other clients only have web apps, so there's no hope for getting push notifications on mobile.

Ultimately it has worked for me, but my demands are three humans in a voice call once a week, no screenshare (use Parsec for that), and occasional text messages.

 
[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Spacebar looks great, and is exactly what I want, but it doesn't look close to production ready yet

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah that sounds like an employer actually providing a benefit in exchange for you working for them

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

that's an interesting (and stupid) possibility that I hadn't considered

 

idk man I just need to vent i guess

my employer "provides" health insurance in exchange for my time and labor, and for that great privilege they take $600 out of my paycheck every month (covers me, my wife, and our 1yo son)

that's half our monthly mortgage payment; it's 2/3 our monthly grocery bill

why?

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

don't leave us hanging, what's in those .txts?

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows, so we put Windows in your Windows so you can use Windows while you use Windows

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Syncthing; it's a modern miracle

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm all in for this

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've taken to the term 3rd-wave Trek for the 2010s-present shows to identify the stylistic differences in production compared to shows made in the 80s-90s or 60s.

Each era is molded by the media conventions of it's time. And there I go reinventing Marshal McLuhan again: "the medium is the message"

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (35 children)

I'm new to Linux; what's with the ThinkPad hype?

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

After 10 years of iOS, I made the switch to Graphene last month, and I'm loving it. Android Auto was functional for me, but none of the music apps were nice to use, so I've left my old iPhone in airplane mode in the car to keep playing my downloaded music.

I've not tried any other options since GrapheneOS is the only degoogled option I'm comfortable with

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

If you're okay with earbuds, Pine64's PineBuds purportedly have ANC

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