When a bridge works like the discord and the Signal and WhatsApp ones it’s amazing not to need to log in to those services anymore just to see if someone wrote something to you.
Sadly most of the bridges are either broken like the Facebook one or straight out don’t work like she KakaoTalk and WeeChat ones because the services remove capabilities which before made it possible in a hacky way.
I run it on Ubuntu and installed it with apt about 7 years ago and had zero problems, it updates itself when I run apt upgrade, it turns itself off for a couple of seconds and then it’s back up.
One cool thing is that I had no idea that this happened until I just read it on their blog even though me, my friends and family use Matrix extensively.
But all my friends who are on Matrix host their own servers because it’s quite easy, and my family uses my own server, only my brother uses a matrix.org account, but he doesn’t write much.
This is decentralization working as it’s supposed too, when enough participants are federated and not centralized.
On Lemmy the lemmy.world and the piefed.social instances are similar to matrix.org and I think all of them, including mastodon.social should close new registrations. I mean the flagship instances have their place in the beginning, but once they become so big they should be locked. The teams behind them can open another instance if they want to keep growing, but they should be run on a separate infrastructure to prevent bringing them down at the same time.
Samsung galaxy smart tags are a thing and Find too, I’m using it on a daily basis.
I use Syncthing as an alternative to iCloud to sync files between devices. But there is also NextCloud and even commercial offerings like DropBox.
For Photos I use Immich and it’s amazing.
And at least here in Korea Samsung Pay works everywhere while my wife with Apple Pay has to carry coach or a credit card with her everywhere she goes.
Yes instances can be defederated, but on a single user instance you get defederated because of what you did, not because of some other people did.
What do you mean have no reach? I’m on a single user instance and can write to any community on any instance I want.
I’m lucky enough that Linux is one of the half official OS which are allowed and half supported at work.
I’m even more lucky that IT isn’t tech savy enough to be able to do to the Linux installations what they do to Windows and Mac where they preinstalled some rootkits and don’t give you admin rights.
Therefore I’m a Linux enjoyer without involvement of IT. I need to fix all my problems myself and do security and backups myself, but that’s a price I’m more than willing to pay.
On my birthday I took my practical exam in motorcycling and got my drivers license and the first drive I did was 800 km from Germany to Poland on vacation with a friend who didn’t have a drivers license yet. My family already went there a couple of days earlier but I wanted to drive myself.
I’m using Syncthing for sharing it, so as long as one other device is online it shares the newest version of the database.
For the first time, China’s Ministry of Commerce issued policy announcements in documents only accessible via domestic software last week
There was a possibility to start sharing in a open format so everyone can read it. But they chose to use one even more closed then Microsofts format.
Sometimes more often sometimes less, but on average 4-5 times a year.
Most people do it with a plastic wrap which they then throw away and polite the environment with.
Let’s be precise, I as a Atheist doe’t believe that a god doesn’t exist, instead I say that until any evidence is presented it would be as silly for me to believe a god exists as it is for me to believe that unicorns exist.
It’s like saying:
I don’t care about morality, I only care about legality.
I have a RTX 3060 and just installed the proprietary driver on Arch with pacman and that was it.
Outliving your own child.
I’m also looking for something like that, I’m afraid of their closed source software. As a workaround right now I’m trying to move everything to some open source stuff which I can run in docker on that hardware.
There are more issues like language and culture which might be bigger issues, but yeah money can fix some of them.
I think I would like to live in a different country every couple of years, to experience many different ones.
For now I lived in:
And the most surprising thing is how little real difference there is between them.