Same as the golden era for SNL. No you don’t understand when I was a teenager it was way better than now.

Anyone who thinks Xbox is still going to be worth anything is a fool. They overspent on gaming studios, didn’t produce anything of value, gamepass value went down, and now everyone hates them for the constant enshittification. Even stepping back from “This is lemmy and we all hate microsoft” they have done some horrible business moves with Xbox. I don’t know anyone who is positive about the brand. They have ran it firmly into the ground.

I wonder if this is a huge demotion for the AI guy. AI teams in Microsoft are “good” right now, I wonder if he fucked up in some way and they put him on xbox.

Hey don’t discount them that much, they also can’t make games either. They’re going for full on business-only approach, consumers are not a priority for them at all anymore.

And they want us to stay hyped about games. I refuse to believe any marketing garbage because I know now they’re just measuring hype to determine if they should keep making things. That is not a long term strategy

Oh god I remember that from the Midwest. Oh you need milk? Better get in the car and drive 15-20 minutes one way to get to the closest (and most expensive) store. By the time you get back you brined at least $5 in gas, not counting the cost of the milk.

I absolutely feel you, but the best way to stick it to them is to ride transit as often as you are able with their shit schedules, and walk when you can. Metrics and ridership are what drives investment. Its stupid because it is actually backwards (investment drives ridership) but in america car is the only thing worth spending billions of dollars on.

For most of Americans this is a thought they honestly can’t grasp. Car culture and car brain are real. The first thing I head every time I see a post with a walkable neighborhood is “where is the parking?”. They truly never have thought about what life would be like without a car

Docs would be helpful, I can’t find much of anything, I think you honestly did the best writeup.

Star Trek quotes is hilarious and perfect!

Thank you! I’m going to start playing with this and see what I can figure out! I’ll be referencing this frequently!

How do you do that, I’m very interested! Also good to see you Admiral!

Ah shit sorry OP you might have received my package, I specifically ordered titties

I Will never understand why the open source community hates the GPL license. Maybe they just haven’t seen themselves how big corporations taking advantage of free individual independent developers. I still remember the core.js developer, whose code is in pretty much every giant framework out there basically begging for any sort of income for his work while his family was going hungry in Eastern Europe. Angular, react, all major frameworks absolutely depend on it and never gave them anything.

They do have this, unless I’m not understanding. I run a space (same as discords servers) and in there I have channels that are just like discord’s.

They always forget that others deserve to have places without cars. Seriously why do they need to drive through a park. It’s a park.

I’m getting there more day by day. I’ve moved over to using my own dns and email service, that was a big one, but kept my gmail for leftover items and now it’s mostly for spam. All of my oauth I’ve rolled off Google, and now use a password manager and separate emails. Phone is still the largest annoyance, but I just ordered a fairphone this week! (After google pushed a huge update which killed my battery, seriously sitting at home my battery died at 7pm last night, after barely using it. That didn’t happen even a month ago). So it’s a process.

But that’s not decentralized. It’s the same as discord, only instead of a corporation now you have a server admin.

I completely support you moving off of Discord, and I completely support you setting up Matrix. I tried a lot, I think it has the most feature parity. That being said, the biggest thing I regret when setting it up is that I went with Synapse for my backend Matrix server, when there are others.

I’ve heard very good things about Conduit (https://conduit.rs/), mostly that it’s easier to stand up and easier to maintain.

Either way, I think it’s a smart move, and it’s worth the investment. It’s not the easiest to stand up, but operationally our communication should be our own. Expect trial and error, getting one piece up and running, then the next, and then the next. Celebrate small wins like “Today I got it running” and then “Today I got federation working”, and then “Now I have voice working!”. Otherwise it’s going to feel overwhelming.

I believe in the cause, so feel free to DM me if you have any questions, or send me a DM on Matrix :)

Oh, and a very useful tool - https://federationtester.matrix.org/

This will tell you exactly what is wrong with your federation.

Could be? Soon? People they’re already doing it! Do people really not think so?

Yeah when the company is looking to cut as much cost as possible, if it’s not an indefinite strike then you’re just telling them ahead of time that they should probably just let you all go