Zworf @ Zworf @beehaw.org

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Unfortunately as of the elections last month now our government will itself be an extreme-right cesspool. They will actually belong on Twitter :'(

Especially the single-use ones are really bad for the environment. I don't mind this.

However I think vaping is a good way for people to detox off cigarettes (by slowly reducing nicotine content) so banning vaping as a whole phenomenon is a bad thing IMO. Perhaps it could be prescription based for people who are trying to kick cigarettes.

Ugh they are also the ones dumping this stupid celeb news on Samsung phones (called upday). First thing I remove from my phone, unfortunately Samsung still dumps it on every phone (be careful it often runs in the background without noticing, and it's built into the home screen).

If we keep giving them some scraps and some patched up cold war writeoffs then yeah.. What are they going to do. Both sides have lost momentum.

The whole thing feels like a stalemate now.

Not news as it's 100% in line with their previous releases. I assume they are just paid by the console makers for exclusivity (though in this case not platform exclusivity but console in general).

The good thing is that the PC version usually gets the version that's graphically improved, like the next-gen version of GTA V that came for Xbone as opposed to the launch version for Xbox 360.

I'm not really excited for it anymore anyway. GTA V was a huge disappointment, as no single-player DLC was ever released. I've never been interested in the online stuff so the whole game is a distant memory for me. I also thought the story lacked the depth of previous games. The three characters felt too generic.

What I'd be really stoked for is GTA: San Andreas for Oculus Quest. It was announced by Meta 2 years ago and there has been zero info about it since so I doubt it's still coming. But if it did I'd jump on it <3

Yes but you still need one and you still lose access to your account if you lose your number.

It works great for me for personal use yes.

And Element X as client.

They are kinda shooting themselves in the foot with all their big rewrites though. Like Vector, Riot, Element, Element X (and I think before vector/riot there was another official client). And Synapse/dendrite... It feels like they spread their development over too many fronts.

Yeah you could even communicate between facebook and google easily. The world didn't have to be full of walled gardens.

Will the same apply if you're in a lot of open group chats though?

Yeah it's the hostility to forks and federation I genuinely don't like. Federation is important, and forks are important so I can use the service as I wish, not as they wish me to.

Of course it's a market and I can vote with my feet and I have. I just linked it to Matrix for availability but I don't actively use it from my end. And I have a grand total of 1 person regularly communicating with me through it :P Versus about 50 on whatsapp and another 50 on telegram (not to mention the countless telegram groups I'm in). But they all end up in one and the same matrix for me <3

Self-hosting all these bridges used to be a royal PITA but there's some very kind people that made this amazing ansible playbook that takes care of it all now.

3x is too much tbh. It's more like 2x in total, at least going by european points of view - I don't know what would make the US more expensive though with even less welfare. And office space in these days is a diminishing cost of course with all the hybrid/remote options. Laptops cost is pretty negligible. I think Signal does have a lot of hosting costs though.

That is indeed a lot. They must have most of these in Silicon Valley.

However it is their choice to do so. They don't have to be in the most expensive place in the world for developers.

I prefer sponsoring matrix though as it's really open. Signal is just a slightly nicer walled garden. Also, Matrix doesn't need to be linked to my mobile number which is a godsend because I tend to change those once in a while and it's a real nightmare bringing all whatsapp contacts over.

No but they do have commercial clients, even some government departments.

They're also trying to sell Element One directly to end users which involved a few bridges like connection to whatsapp, signal and telegram. Not a bad deal for 5 bucks a month IMO, though I run mine myself because I want to.

There's also beeper which sells a service with (a lot) more bridges than Element One but costs twice the price. Their company sponsors most of the bridge development as they employ the main bridge developer.

The costs are distributed as there is not one single instance. Just like with Lemmy.

Although there is one huge instance on matrix (matrix.org), a bit like lemmy.ml here. But it doesn't have to be like that, they can close signups or discourage them similar to the way lemmy.ml is doing that now.

Yes of course but you have humans in the house who exhale H2O all the time. A datacenter doesn't have many of those (per square metre or foot or whatever you measure your datacenters in)

That low? Wow.. Your skin must have got chapped every time you went in there.

Yeah and too much is bad too, because it can condense on coolers. I've been told it's also bad for bearings in HDDs when it's too low.

Of course in a datacenter being low on humidity is a much more likely thing as there is nothing to emit humidity (e.g. humans).

Yeah I made a bitcoin payment recently and I was very suprised to learn that my wallet (CakeWallet) doesn't support Lightning payments at all. So I had to do it the old way.

Very weird because bitcoin advocates always pushed it as the holy grail. But I guess bitcoin as an actual payment method is just really too niche for it to take off.

It probably is still a lot easier to make potable than sewer water or even river water though. At lease you know exactly what contamination is in it.