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.

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

Been working on Samurai Champloo and had a triple feature last night with Delicious in Dungeon and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

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

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

Badly

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”

We try to, but when you’re living paycheck to paycheck, trying to find solutions to the moving target that is your wife’s fibromyalgia, have a growing, energetic baby boy, sometimes you can’t afford paying twice as much or more for the product that isn’t sold on amazon, assuming such an alternative exists.

Unfortunately, lots of people can’t afford to shop with a conscience

Living without amazon prime is easy; living without amazon at all is more challenging with various manufacturers using amazon as their only storefront

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

Yeah this is news to me, I love dragonforce

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

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

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This is literally the setup for the show Leverage

I’m glad to know that there’s a synth wave community! That sounds fun

Alan Parsons’ Turn of a Friendly Card is one of my favorite albums; the whole suite on side two is phenomenal

This would make an awesome album cover

That’s definitely easier to understand and smoother to use IMO

Nah, my memory’s not that good

I have just started using it, but I’m planing to migrate my small Discord group over to Revolt.

If you go to their website revolt.chat it’ll offer a download for desktop or a link to the web app, but they’re basically the same. They’re working on an updated client called Frontend which you can get a beta of from GitHub.

I’m on an iPhone and I used the save to Home Screen function in Safari while in the web app to get an icon for it, and I think it works pretty well! It can even do push notifications, but some weird artifacts of using the web app on mobile mean you’ll only get notifications from mentions in a server or a direct message (or group message).