sibachian

the devil you know, ...and all that.

considering telegram is basically the only modern and stable non-electron chat that runs buttery smooth, such a matrix client would be a game changer.

i'm stuck with telegram for now because i have an m1 mbp and an ideapad tablet with linux, neither which can run more than 1-2 electron apps simultaneously without screeching to a crawl and putting itself on fire.

like, 99% of my life revolves around hating on electron; it feels like electron has become standard for modern much needed productivity software. and it makes using computers that aren't super high end basically useless. developers need to start reconsidering their end-users, because electron will never be optimized for non-highend hardware (i'm not even convinced electron run snappy on a highend computer, but i would love to be proven wrong because currently i just assume coders have gotten too lazy to care about the end-user).

i disagree. the only barrier of entry is when people are pushing the fediverse concept as a whole. for the vast majority of people; all they need to know is to go to mastodon.social and sign up, done. they'll get the wider picture on their own terms and at their own pace if left alone.

we already know bluesky is run by former twitter assholes. but it's the same with everything. people disappointed in new facebook policies move to band...

there are better alternatives, guaranteed not to turn into a heap of shit because of designed safeguards - but people don't like those things; they always opt for the devil they already know.

firefox uses the standard, chrome are adding some non-standard crap to be anti-competitive. same shit microsoft did with internet explorer and caused it to eventually be replaced by chrome waybackwhen once law finally told them to back off.

it's not up to firefox, it's up to the law to step in and prevent google from doing anti-competitive non-standard shit.

why? safari is faster and far less bloatad? chrome is literally a fork off safari.

so what you're saying is; this will bring old-school computer repair shops back? i'm sort of in favor of that 😂

When I lived in thailand someone stole my netflix account and selected the most expensive option which was paid from my card... I called them immediately to cancel, but Netflix said sorry but we have no legal requirements to refund you.

Netflix, at the time, didn't even cover Thailand so I couldn't even fucking use it.

Subscriptions only exists because they blatantly ignore consumer laws.

when i lived in Bangkok I had to pay for each local wifi IP from the standard router in my apartment which i had to buy from them in order to use a 4G internet subscription service.

It's even more ridiculous than the OP ridiculous greed shittification.

I mean, if I could be cloned, that'd be great? I'd love to have clones. Immortality, baby!

what's wrong with glass, metal, and wood? the way i see it, the only reason we changed to plastic is because as long as we have oil wars, the cost for plastic will be lower. go, capitalism. and all that.

I see a lot of people mention WIRE recently. Did everyone collectively forget how they sold out in 2019 and removed their canary (aka. compromised)?

In July 2019 Wire raised $8.2m investment from Morpheus Ventures and others. On July 18 of the same month, 100% of the company's shares have been taken over by Wire Holdings Inc., Delaware, USA.