Well good to know the chips won’t stick to anything since they’re made out of anti-seize grease.

IMO the main advantage that Matrix-Element has for normal users is the branding: Element is Element on the web, Android and iOS.

I agree, though Delta Chat has this too, it’s the same on linux/mac/win, android, and iOS. There’s also Arcane Chat for android developed by one of the devs of Delta Chat as sort of a testing ground but that’s like an if you know you know thing, like my mom just thinks we’re all on Delta Chat. One thing is they don’t have a web interface afaik, you need the app.

Simple user+password login to a hosted (non-matrixdotorg) server takes 5-6 pages to click through.

And the recovery passwords and all that just seem to be out of reach for those who just use hunter2 for everything, if the complaints I got are indicative if most people.

I was spammed with racist copypasta on XMPP once too. But being in large Matrix chats guarantees being invited/messaged.

Good news for Delta Chat is they don’t really do groups like that, you can group chat but it’s more for like friends and family than strangers, I see that as a win in this use case, where if we need xmpp/matrix style public groups we can fall back to xmpp. You also have to accept chats before they go through and there is no discoverability so you won’t get random drive bys.

They no longer recommend using a traditional email account, instead recommending chatmail servers like these (there’s more as well, but they have this small list to choose from in the app or you can bring your own). They say if you have to use traditional email use a dedicated account for delta chat, not one that also gets traditional email.

I like how they are trying to address metadata as much as possible, the onboarding is so easy my literal mother can do it, video/audio calling is in beta and works pretty well (some glitches, but it’s in beta), the webXDC stuff is cool but I don’t really use it yet, and I’m sure I’m forgetting something.

Personally I like XMPP over Matrix because

• Matrix clients aren’t great (even element is buggy as piss on my phone and a shitty electron app on linux)
• Matrix is too difficult for “normal” people (I agree they should get good but they don’t and what good is a chat app without recipients).
• Matrix public rooms have a CP problem, and as such I can’t recommend people join it just in case, I don’t need my mom seeing that shit.
• Matrix was started as an Amdocs project before they defunded it and the lead dev went to form The Matrix Foundation. Amdocs is a Mossad affiliated company that infiltrated American telcom companies long ago. Matrix also pisses metadata to any server it federates with, including matrix [.] org, and I have no proof that Mossad is spying on that metadata but I have no trust either, nor proof that they aren’t, so I can’t trust matrix anymore.

Though XMPP also has had it’s own problems for me, so at the moment it’s my fallback and I’m trying out Delta Chat which I have been loving.

Tuta sucks, they deleted an acct of mine for inactivity, then when I went to replace it they flagged the new one for manual review and said “this addr cannot send mail until the review clears, please reach out to our support team using the email we just said can’t send email for some reason.” I went with Disroot.

GrapheneOS is super easy to install, they have a walkthrough on their site.

Tbh even if I could I wouldn’t want to, the terminal is so much better for many things. I advise new users to become comfortable with it at least by following along with a few “linux terminal basics” vids like it’s a class.

Yeh

Hey kids you like plain text files right?

Me, who grew up reading/referencing text files daily on gamefaqs for cheats, secrets/eggs, and walkthroughs when stuck on various games: Yeh.

Yeah I’ve heard excel the hard one to replace if you need some special functions of it, idk tbh I’ve used excel like twice and basic stuff at that so LibreOffice works fine for me.

Lol I don’t even know what visualization means in this context, I’m definitely no help on this one! Sorry!

Hope so, it seems to be more common these days! I “recently” got a Framework16, which was my first dual ssd laptop (but unfortunately doesn’t meet your size requirements).

It has definitely improved in your absence.

But yeah I understand needing your programs to work. For some like Office you may be able to get away with a replacement like OpenOffice or LibreOffice, maybe not. Idk what PowerBi is but it sounds like a c/196 user’s uname lol, and from a cursory search it looks like Teams is supported with a .deb and a .rpm but I can’t attest personally.

I’d also recommend using a laptop with two SSDs if possible, one for linux and one for windows, to alleviate some of the headaches in dual booting.

Try steam/proton instead of Wine

https://www.protondb.com/app/24780

ProtonDB says it runs well, but idk if that includes mods.

Dude awesome! Good to know, thanks!

Put it on Soulseek once you rip it please! Others are likely looking as well!

Every so often I have to buy a DVD because it isn’t available online anywhere, and I always try to upload it somewhere as a community service when I do lol.

Idk I don’t know about & either (I know && but I’m guessing it’s different), but you can ctrl+z it, then use bg to run it in the background, then disown to divorce it from the terminal.

I’ll try firefox & when I get home and see what happens though, I’m assuming that’s what he meant.

BEST reason, I miss my Zune so much, they ruled.

Is there a version of $_ that works with mv? It just keeps renaming my files to “filedir,” I’m trying sort through a directory and move some files to another for keeping, be easier if I could do:

mv picture1.jpg /path/to/keepdirectory

then do something like

mv picture2.jpg $_

And so on. But with that I’d just be renaming all my photos “filedir” instead of moving them lol.

How the hell did a random Columbian Guerilla end up running a fucking DPMS Kitty Kat?! Of all the choices in the world, that certainly is one of them.

LOL tbh I can see it, they look similar in those pics.

They’ve famously been seen in the same room together though, so there goes that theory.

Soap dispensers that only dispense for white hands.

IR was fine why the fuck do we have AI soap dispensers?! (Please for “Bob’s” sake tell me you made it up.)

I’d try and get my work to switch, but apparently Zebra thermal printers (of which we have so many) don’t work well with CUPS, you may be able to do some weird shit to make them work but iirc it wasn’t too viable for a large scale operation.

I’d wager a lot of companies do use things that just don’t work too well on linux yet, not that they couldn’t work it’s just that none of the people smarter than me who make linux happen have worked on it yet, and until they do it’s just what it is. Before we want to capture the enterprise market we need good easy to use thermal printing software, CNC software, laser etching software, stuff like that. It can be done too for at least most things I’m sure.