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Also @noisytoot@mice.tel in case chinchillas eat the cables
@seabass What's wrong with CrossCountry Voyagers? They're one of the better UK trains I've been on. They have big tables and armrests even in second class, much better than the horrible Thameslink class 700s with no tables or armrests. I haven't seen any missing seat coverings, but I haven't been on one in years (since at least 2019).
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@hexaheximal @0x0 if only matrix people had spent all that money on developing better XMPP clients instead of NIH'ing their own protocol
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lots of 2020s slang
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@eloy I'm lowkirksixsevenuinely reading this bussin' dank lit article so I can farm my aura by slaying, cooking, and eating 2020s slang. No cap, bestie. Now I'm the 2020s slang GOAT (until I become washed), but when I say KMS it means Kernel Mode Setting and LuaJIT is too rizzed to be a jit (except in Ohio). Periodt.
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@wohali @alienghic There's also https://github.com/asiekierka/voirc which was intended as a joke but does actually work provided you aren't affected by flood limits (it base64-encodes voice messages and sends them directly over IRC)
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@nay I'd rather use chat.sr.ht if I was paying for an IRC bouncer than IRCCloud. It's free software (soju + gamja) and $2/month cheaper than IRCCloud (or free if you can't afford it and apply for financial support, or for some reason free for me (I think because I requested an account to test it before it was open for all sourcehut users))
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@S1m @hexaheximal I have also had fewer issues with XMPP encryption (OMEMO) than with Matrix encryption.
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@S1m @hexaheximal I don't use the official apps (except for mobile currently) because I won't touch Electron with a three-metre pole. (I tried Element Web and couldn't paste anything, and I'd rather not use a web client anyway.)
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@przmk @hexaheximal

Tuwunel is the official successor

It is not, you are confusing Conduit with Conduwuit. Conduit is still maintained.

I would like to switch to Continuwuity (the other Conduwuit fork) but neither that nor Tuwunel is currently an option anyway because the database is incompatible with the latest version of Conduit and there is currently no way to migrate.

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@hexaheximal I use Nheko and Conduit and I have had plenty of problems. For instance:

  • Currently I can’t see any quotes in Nheko
  • Nheko sometimes does [crypto] [critical] failed to restore olm account: unpickle: BAD_ACCOUNT_KEY and loses its OLM keys
  • E2EE is always broken and I cannot get Nheko and Element to verify each other
  • Heisenbridge can’t get displaynames for non-local users after they’ve joined so all displaynames appear to IRC-bridged users as an empty string unless they joined since the bridge restarted
  • Sometimes room/space joins appear take too long/appear to never happen and you need to restart the client or re-log-in due to a race condition in the database of conduit derivatives (I also had this issue with Cinny and Continuwuity on bundernet.org)
  • Messages taking 10+ minutes to arrive sometimes
  • Conduit sometimes starts taking 10+ minutes to respond to requests so they time out and it needs to be restarted
  • Conduit/RocksDB generally uses too much RAM (multiple gigabytes, compared to prosody which is using only a few megabytes)
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@hexaheximal it would be easier to do this if everything matrix-related wasn't so constantly broken
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@ielenia I use weechat and weechat-android (which connects to a weechat relay running on a VPS over SSH), and also hexchat (which I don't recommend because it's unmaintained and stuck on GTK2 and has a lot of problems, but I haven't found an adequate replacement yet (halloy lacks scripting and I haven't been able to compile it))
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@kemona_halftau It does take a bit more effort to install though. On modern chromebooks you need a Suzy-Q/CCD (Closed Case Debugging) cable to talk to the Cr50 to disable write protection, which you can either make yourself or there's a US-based debug board seller on ebay. (It is also technically possible to bypass the Cr50 by physically disconnecting and connecting the write protect pin to ground, but that's probably harder than making a debug cable yourself.)
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@kemona_halftau I've heard some chromebooks are quite nice (with MrChromebox/Chrultrabook of course, not ChromeOS). Quite a few of them have USI pen support.
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re: rant about smartphones
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@SweetCoffyy much of this is the SoC vendor's fault for not bothering to mainline their kernel patches and also the fact that there is no standard way to pass devicetrees to the kernel on ARM

that's why the phones intended to run mainline Linux like the PinePhone all have ancient SoCs like the Allwinner A64, because they have good mainline Linux support (which is ironic in that case since Allwinner is a serial GPL violator)
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I will always be salty about the fact that Android phones (or, really, devices in general) are so fucking weird with installing alternative OSes
because they aren’t UEFI or really anything that’s standard (so already, you can’t just plug in a flash drive or SD card with a bootable image and just… boot it) AND, even if you’re able to flash a custom image, it MUST be specifically made for the device (I’m aware that GSIs exist, but they seem limited to only Android OSes, no proper Linux, at least not without further fucking around with the device) so if you have a device from a relatively unknown brand, or if the name of its SoC manufacturer starts with “Media” and ends with “Tek”, you’re kinda fucked (or completely fucked if it’s the later case)
it’s just all so needlessly different and more difficult from how stuff is done on good ol’ PCs
it really pisses me off because phones are, for the most part, relatively powerful devices that consume very little power
but you can’t just plug in a storage device with a generic OS image, boot, and install because Big Phone said so
and like… these phone companies are advertising their “desktop” mode like
“yeah, this can replace your laptop!”
NO IT CAN’T. UNTIL IT RUNS A PROPER, CUSTOMIZABLE DESKTOP OS, IT CAN’T
anyways, rant’s over, have a nice day :3

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@unnick removed all the patented codecs, looks like
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