Cant wait for the day I can delete Discord and never look back.
Oddlama/gentoo-install is great for this.
I don’t see an issue with OP bragging a little. It is difficult and time-consuming to install Gentoo for the first time. “😑” did a good job and should be proud of themselves for completing it!
If we’re bragging, I installed gentoo back in 2005 from stage1 tarball.
Oh yes, my moment! 2002, stage 1 off a DVD with no internet connection on a Pentium 2. Accidentally selected everything including open office, Firefox and done other stuff I don’t remember then hit emerge world. One week of compiling later it was finally ready for the next input 😂
Jesus dude
Also in case anyone wants the original wallpaper posted in the image, it’s “By Upload2” from an art book called The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag. I fucking love all his art
Thanks, I knew the art, but never bothered to make a note of the artist.
Just delete Discord now, promote Revolt
Until it can do voice chat and screen share, it’s going to be discord for most users.
Revolt, Matrix & XMPP
Revolt is centralized and can suffer the same fate as discord. Cinny for Matrix is currently the best Ive found.
The problem is the law of popularity. My friends wont move to an open-source decentralized alternative unless their friends do and their friends wont unless their friends do and…
Baa’s Law
In case anyone is confused by this clever comment and try looking it up (I did before thinking about it), they mean “BAA” as in the sound of literal sheep following a herd lmao
hahaha i googled it after i posted it, too, just to se if i was making it up
Honestly it works well as an alternative to saying “herd mentality” (which is unfortunately accurate in this case)
I mean, it’s not just herd mentality. I’m just not willing to lock myself out of relationships because of my principles. It’s not my fault my mum can’t be convinced to ditch Whatsapp for signal. Not willing to give up communication with her.
Herd mentality would be if you did a thing because others do it even if there wouldn’t be any loss from switching to a better thing. It’s more complex if you’d lose out a great deal from the switch.
I get what you’re saying. The fact that using different services leads to a loss of social connectivity since the majority of people use one service is more an issue of the service itself being a monopoly than it is one of herd mentality.
It always goes back to capitalism when the services that become monopolies are the ones that care the least about people, since the services have already reached the “too big to fail” public perception.
EDIT: It’s also an issue of some people being too stubborn to accept change unless it is forced upon them by everyone around them
i definitely didn’t come up with it, the internet taught me a long time ago that i never do anything original. but i do like it more that ‘herd mentality’
Be the friend you want your friends to be, ask not what your friends can do for you but what you can do for your friends, that’s one small step for Linux Users One Giant leap for friendkind, what is Oswald doing in that Book Depository?
he’s reading the CompTIA Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification
Does Revolt have screen sharing yet?
No
As much as I dislike about Discord, I can’t deny that its level of service, polish and ease of use are just superb. Especially for voice chat with friends with integrated screen sharing that just works.
There are show stoppers sometimes - occasionally messages just don’t get sent or received for whatever reason, and Discord’s handling of it is just bad. It’s pretty important for a chat app to work reliably for chat. But when it works (which is almost always), boy is it nice.
Haven’t tried Revolt and I likely can’t because of the network effect already mentioned by someone else. How does it compare in ease of use, ease of setting up, feature set for free users, etc.?
I’ve looked into Revolt and it isn’t there quite yet. But the road map is extremely promising. I’ll keep my eye on it and as soon as they finish up a couple more features I’m going to use it.
It’s been in the same state for like five years, there’s no priority on the bits that would get it over the line
Seemed ok but is very much a toxic discord all the same
I think he has Signal. (I know i have Signal) Only 1 message there, then switched back to Discord
I use arch btw
Oh, so NixOS with training wheels (actual documentation).
We laugh to hide the tears
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I must not be laughing hard enough 😭
Should be easy to fix, just edit your configuration.nix file…
you guys have just one nix file?
I have a git repo of a bunch of stowed configs and scripts, and use Arch, btw
I mean if I made something unnecessarily hard for myself, I wouldn’t be bragging about it.
It doesn’t even look that good tbh
You can argue that stock kde looks better.
Yeah, granted I cant see anything and the status bar seems to be cut off
Well technically you right about linux it’s hard to customize everything if… you pick the most barebone linux distro like Debian or Arch.
That’s why i used the most ricer linux to customize the hell out of it, like garuda moca catpuccino. If you asked me if it’s bloat ??? of course it is, because it packed so much stuff that i still understand how to used it untill now.It’s also not that hard.
- Install barebones distro (I use nix but that’s a bad example so lets take arch)
- Pacman -syu hyprland kitty
- Hyprland
- Edit like four lines in .config/hypr/hyprland.conf
