It’d work for me and probably for my wife, but my circle also has people that will already be complaining about making a shift to a new service. I’d like to keep it as simple and familiar as possible, which is why I chose element in the first place. It’s the only fully self-hostable service with text, voice, video, screen share, and different rooms in the same server, all e2ee, all in the same app. Still has some rough edges on the screen share apparently, but I’m fine with that for now, in hopes that element can sort it out eventually.

Yup. Spun up my own matrix/element server as soon as the announcement dropped. Working on adding Element Call now, but they sure don’t make it easy.

I recently switched from 320kbps to lossless, and there are very few moments where I can tell a difference. The biggest one is in the cover of “Tom’s Diner” by AnnenMayKantereit. There’s a section of the song at 320kbps where it goes almost silent, other than faint whispers of the band counting out the silence, but in lossless you can hear them actually singing the song quietly

Still increases footprint/grants more credibility to the Fediverse, which I think is a good thing. It just won’t really impact the daily experience here

I live in the PNW. I picked an instance in the PNW. Sometimes I see local news, and often I read comments from people within a few hour drive. It’s nice to have a small, local community here, while still having access to the rest of the world together. So I guess recommend picking the largest instance in your region if you don’t have any other preferences.

I’ve been struggling to accomplish this, and I’m familiar with self hosting. It’s brutal. But now that discord has shit the bed (even more) I think I can finally convince my friends to move to it, so I’m taking another crack at a matrix/element server

Someone who was filmed screaming and crying during the announcement (maybe inauguration, can’t remember which now) of the 45th president of the US

I don’t think you know the definition of sex offender, it doesn’t always mean someone’s done something to kids. You can be a sex offender and only attacked adults. Hell, you can be a sex offender without even touching another person. So “sex offender” isn’t enough here. A “pedophile sex offender works”, but even then it doesn’t show that he has done the worst sex crime that can make you a sex offender, so I’d say it’s still not enough. A “child rapist” is really the best way to ensure everyone knows exactly what he’s done.

You don’t have to give them your password, and GrapheneOS has a convenient feature to turn off biometric unlock for only unlocking the phone, but still lets you use it in apps

I use arch (btw) on my personal machine because I hate myself, but on my servers and the computers of people I move off of Windows I always install Debian and KDE/Gnome, for simplicity and stability.

That’s the lovely thing about open source: if this ruins blender, the community at large can pivot and fork blender to allow it to thrive in the way the community wants it. In small projects this type of pivot can ruin the momentum of a project, but in large-scale projects they are a lot safer.

This. I genuinely think all they had to do was make the Metaverse FOSS and it would have had a chance.

I spent the majority of my childhood using cursive in school, and I hate the way it looks personally. So much so my signature is a stylized printing. Cursive is muddy and if the writer doesn’t have great fine motor skills, it looks worse than poorly scrawled printing. I think that the point of text should be legibility, and cursive seems to be against that entirely. Even in neatly written cursive letters tend to blend together.

To each their own though, I can read it and write it so at the end of the day, I’m just an old man yelling at clouds

Yeah, doesn’t work on GrapheneOS either, bummer