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with ChatGPT you can tell it to behave in certain ways. With Claude it’ll just start mimicking you.

welp there ya go! problem solved.

sure they’re leaving but…where? what’s a viable alternative?

I mean if I had it my way everyone would just go back to IRC, I still use IRC. it’s great, nothings changed, it’s perfect. combine that with like mumble or teamspeak and you’re good to go.

I checked out Stoat lastnight and it’s very slow. took well over an hour to get a verification email (I assume because many others were signing up) and the current server offerings are minimal. Also a good majority of the themes listed simply don’t work. it’s growing and I’d say it’s the best alternative right now but it’s not there yet and I worry it or the various instances of it could hold up if there was a massive Discord exodus.

Matrix is a no and xmpp ain’t much better.

potentially. it’s going to become more of the norm as more nations enforce stuff like this to “protect the kids” coughget your id and know what you’re doing onlinecough

Also keep in mind Discord is just about to launch their IPO in March so the timing lines up.

they do. desperately. it’s been stated for awhile now.

doubt it. better off just setting up channels in libera chat on IRC and doin voice via teamspeak/mumble like we used to do it back in the day.

shit, someone needs to bring back ICQ.

early internet “culture” to a younger person. They didn’t get it.

In today’s online world you openly post your photo online, where you’re from, what you do, etc and anyone can see it. I had to explain to them that back then (late 90s/early 00s) posting your photo or real name online was a no-no. it was actively discouraged. But then in turn because of the way you primarily communicated with people online either via IRC, forums, ICQ, AOL IM, etc you kinda had a closer relationship with these people even if you didn’t know what they looked like or what their names were.

Also the fact that in most cases a lot of people simply couldn’t put their photos online either because they didn’t have access to a scanner or a digital camera. I told them that one of my best friends online that I would talk to daily I still to this day have no idea what they looked like.

EVE Online. still after all these years (23) it’s still a beautiful game that I god damn am still addicted to.

It’s not so much about being “smart” to figure it out, it’s more like it needs to “click” with you. At first you’ll think it’s stupid, you’ll think it’s a tedious way to do things and configure your system. Then you’ll do something and it’ll suddenly be like “oooooh I get it now, oh man that’s awesome!”. That’s NixOS.

It’s not a distro I recommend to people, it’s one you just have to play around with yourself to see if you like it or not. But I will say I’ve found that the majority of people who do switch to it, it’s the last distro they use. Like I’ll spend a week on something else every few months to try it but I always go back to NixOS now. I just can’t use any other distro long term anymore.

nah I find it boring now and it turns into a mess very quickly. only reason I was on Arch is cause i needed a “vacation” from NixOS to get a project done. project is done so went back to NixOS.

just did this lastnight, went from Arch back to NixOS. was on Arch for like all of a week.

I’m currently using Niri and sure it’s not a DE it does an excellent job of workspaces. each monitor has its own set of workspaces by default, no configuration needed.

I don’t use Dank Material Shell or any of that but in all honesty if you wrap Niri in DMS or something like it then it actually becomes a near perfect DE. Even the Niri devs now suggest you install Niri with DMS.

I know a guy that has a @linux.com email address. And yes putting that email address on his CV and Linkedin has resulted in him getting emails daily from companies asking if he’d be interested in a position or interview. He’s even had people just straight up offer him a job because of it.

Note though he’s a web developer and pretty much all the jobs offered or interviews etc are for positions out of his skillset i.e. system admin, server manager, IT, data analyst, etc. because they all see the linux part and figure he can run a server or something.

I don’t know what it’s like in Houston but here in Toronto the entire food delivery industry would pretty much come to a stand still without e-bikes. do they kill people? no. are they dangerous? I’m sorry but with the way some of those dudes drive those things on sidewalks and the amount of times i’ve seen them hit people…yeah. We’ve also had a few literally blow up on commuter trains to the point where we out right banned them on trains.

There’s more to this that I don’t think people realize. no they don’t kill people but yes they do cause accidents because of the people driving them and feeling like they can ride them on sidewalks or…you know…the batteries will randomly explode.

All KDE has to do, literally all they have to do, is make dedicated virtual desktops/workspaces per monitor and i’d be happy. that’s it. I would daily drive Plasma if they just did that.

had this happen to me with EVE Online. What DE/WM are you using? If it’s a wayland one are you using xwayland-satellite?

This issue would only happen to me with WMs like Hyprland, Niri, Sway, etc. on KDE Plasma didn’t happen. the solution I found at least for Niri was ensuring xwayland-satellite was installed AND run the game in window mode.