Fucking finally, Jesus Christ

You’re right, I just don’t understand that mentality though. You don’t have to stop using FB Messenger immediately if people you know use it. If you want something better though, you have to start using other products, and eventually it will be big enough that you can ditch Messenger. Plus I’m actively asking you to message me on Signal, so just do it. What is the problem? I have apps that I actively dislike and are bad for privacy, like Snapchat for example, solely for one person, just because they’re busy and prefer it and I care about them and keeping in contact. Why do so few people seem to do the same for Signal, even when they complain about the mainstream apps?

I haven’t had any issues 🤷🏻‍♂️ I guess video calls are occasionally choppy when I call a friend in another country who has bad internet. But yeah, that’s just going to be the case on that situation.

I don’t know why, but I’ve gotten more resistance for suggesting that than Linux. Switched my wife to Linux no problem, another girl I know was like “do you really think it will run on my laptop with a Celeron? I will look into it.” IT people I work with are like “yeah Microsoft sucks but I’m not ready”.

People get REALLY comfortable with their shitty proprietary apps though, even tech literate people. I’m not even including stuff like Adobe which are great and people have spent years using processionally. I mean like Signal, which is functionally the same as any other messaging app and takes two seconds to get up and running.

No

But then the only use case is if you literally take someone’s phone, switch the default SMS app to Signal, and they don’t know how to switch it back themselves. If they’re that tech illiterate, they’ll probably call you for tech support as to why text isnt working, instead of switching to Signal. And even if they then agree to do it your way, the mythical user you described is no longer mythical, it is easier to make a mistake in the Ui for someone tech illiterate. You will often see a person’s phone number in their Signal profile, after all, it’s not unthinkable.

Also, as time goes on, more people start using Signal as more people see how fascist some governments are getting and how intense social engineering is with spam calls/texts/whatnot. I know a random 60 year old bus driver who switched to Signal and made other privacy changes like turning on Safari’s relay because her accounts got hacked and she was using the same password for everything. To someone that is blind Googling something they don’t have context for, Signal is a trusted encrypted app, therefore anything I send through Signal should be trusted. I don’t think it is as impossible as you think. And again, to what benefit? There is some benefit to prevent Google possibly scanning your messages, but there are also plenty of other SMS apps which can avoid this, if it is avoidable at all.

Signal is more stable & simple to set up. So for its intended use, getting people to actually talk to me on it, it’s better.

Matrix is obviously better as a Discord replacement. It doesn’t require a phone number which is also good. Not centrally managed so easier to decouple from big tech corruption. So it is better in those ways.

That’s why they removed it actually, people think being the default SMS app means you’re actually sending encrypted messages now. Nope, it just means you’re sending regular old SMS but with thr Signal app.

That’s good to hear! I tried it earlier this year and it was responsive and all (when not buggy) but sitting at 3 or 4 GB of RAM idle. I might give it another go.

Favorite: KDE. The GOAT babyyy

Least Favorite: Deepin, due to the privacy concerns

First DE: XFCE

Honorable Mention: Cosmic. It is sexy with decent balance of customization & strong unified vision. It is early on though so not quite ready for prime time. Some bugs, and resource consumption could be better.

Current DE: KDE

Potential Future DE: Might see what thr fuss is about with WMs like Niri. It seems more complicated to set up than it needs to be, but I like the tiling and use of desktops sort of like GNOME but better.

Longest used DE: KDE

Current distro: Fedora KDE

Most Japanese titles are like that. Sexy subtitle? Intriguing name? Nope, you get Gun Shooter 4. At least they’re extremely clear about what you get, like the anime I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job (that one is real)

I wonder if recompiling will be the new emulation, since architecture for consoles has gotten more complicated.

I am not a hacker, but what I gathered from the article is that this is due to shims with vulnerabilities being left as trusted instead of being revoked. If that’s the case, wouldn’t the hacker be using a modified version of a compromised shim? It shouldn’t have to be a shim that you actually use right? Or does the signed shim have to correspond to thr correct OS that signed it?

Originally it meant what it sounds like: to be awake and alert about what is really going in around you, and not being pulled into a false sense of security or fooled by propaganda. This is as old as the 1930s, then got repopularized by Eryka Badu in the 90s. There were some minor memes about it like “wake up sheeple!” poking fun at truthers, or “woke vs broke”. Sometimes a meme, sometimes legit messaging.

Broke: Racism is over bro, and slavery was a million years ago.

Woke: Racism has gotten more hidden and insidious. There have been systematic changes to keep racial minorities in the poor parts of town with lots of crime, the FBI introduced crack cocaine to inner cities in the 80s, and then fake post racism truthers glorified gangs and the drug trade and praised it as “black culture”. Then they proceed to have private prisons and have young black men perform slave labor in jail when they are inevitably arrested, as a way to get around traditional slave labor."

Then the state of high budget media devolved into what it now is: pandering, fake “woke” garbage with race swapping popular characters. Inevitably this rage baited a lot of people, even minorities that are supposedly being “represented” now. So “woke” became an ironic term to mean “fake woke”, rainbow capitalism as one example.

Then this ironic use got way out of hand and just means “any positive messaging about anything remotely progressive” or “acknowledging that nonwhite males exist sometimes” or even “something that I don’t like”. In a way, this in a way is back to the original meaning. Reactionary conservatives hate anything that breaks them out of their fragile bubble and makes them consider reality for what it is.

Both original meaning and ironic meaning is somewhat usable still, but only if I have already gotten to know someone and where they stand politically and ethically. To have someone I don’t know well bring up the term unprompted in a non joking way throws up red flags.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

Actually yes, at least for LBP specifically, I have done it myself. RPCSN is a built in PSN emulator, and there are multiple major fan maintained servers with archived user content from before it went down. As well as new content from the PS3 emulation era.

Is it a horrendous idea? No. I do realize people daily it. It is just not designed for it. If something breaks on Arch, you can just check social media for an update and know it’ll be fixed shortly or what the fix is on your end. And the Arch community will probably loudly complain about it until it is back to normal, because people daily Arch. For Debian Testing/Unstable it’s more like you report an issue and they go “noted!” and if you complain they’ll go “use stable then”. A bit of an exaggeration but there are no patch notes and no dedicated security team. Security patches will get to you maybe at some point. This isn’t to trash Debian in any way, but it is what it says on the tin: the testing/unstable variant, not a rolling release.

Be careful with Debian Testing, it is prioritized last for security patch frequency of the 3 Debian versions. It is possible to daily drive but not really meant for that, and even Arch has more safeguards.

I sure am excited for gaming this year. I saw some adverts in a magazine for Half-Life, Ocarina of Time, and Resident Evil 2 and I can’t decide.

Hazbin Hotel. I don’t think it is a good show. The fandom is made up of terminally online deviants. The hate train is a bit too much though. Just block the sub, filter a few words in Mastodon or whatever, and move on.

This is a joke answer, but somehow also true.