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Quoting: scaineI closed my GitHub account the moment that deal went through and I'll do the same if this happens to Discord. It's a shame, as I like the Discord experience, even though I gave up on their client (I only run it in the web now), but as an old, jaded long time techie, I won't have anything to do with Microsoft. Nothing they do absolves them of the hurt they bring to this industry day in and day out with their legal strong-arming, proprietary lock in, aggressive acquisitions and baffling licensing. They can "love Linux" all they want, I'll have nothing to do with them.

its amazing that their love for linux so far has been one sided. sided to microsofts best interest of course. everything has been centered around making linux things run smoother, and better on windows. to attract linux developers, to windows, to develop their linux things, on windows. none of it has actually benefited linux at all.

if microsoft truly loved linux like they claim, they would start opening up some important stuff. like directx. contribute to wine, etc. if they actively contributed to wine, i would feel far more comfortable with their work on WSL for example.

And WSL still runs like garbage on it :P

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Quoting: GuestNeat, hadn't heard of that one. One advantage Tox [External Link] has over it though is decentralization and possibly anonymity. You don't have to use anyone's specific server, i.e. everyone is a server since it's purely p2p.

Once the next major release of toxcore is out, group chats will have file sharing, so it will be more Element-like in that regard. But cool that there seem to be some other secure options out there. ^n.n^

Yeah, taking a real quick look at that, it reminds me that I've also played around with Jami [External Link] in the past (previously GNU Ring), but honestly the thing I like about Matrix is that it is a bit more persisent/organized in that you can administer a server, moderate it, etc. - I'm thinking more for organizing a gaming guild, or a convention... something that blurs the lines between business-focused Slack/Teams, but with better voice UI.

Just doing ad-hoc group chats, yeah - that's got a few more options, thankfully.

Ah okie, yep can't have persistence without storage, and Tox doesn't have p2p storage implemented, most likely intentionally since anonymity, privacy, and security is the goal. You also can't have users directly joining a group chat and instead they have to have one of the users of the group add them to their private contact list first. Sounds like Element might be better in that case for organizing furmeets, furry cons, etc then.

Avatar matches.

Why are you pointing out the obvious, that we're furs? X3

I'm already on Element. Actually I was using the Librem Chat client, but it's a little weird, seems Element sets up the encryption keys a lot easier.

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This game is amazing, and one of the many reasons VR exists. My biggest gripe I think with it, is there are a few too many things that I think should have been more interactive, but I understand why they didn't.

Waiting to see the other two VR games that Valve are working on.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI refused to touch Discord before this and would not see this as a reason to start.

I stayed away from it for a long time as well... and then more and more of the projects I hang out around have decided to start using it (like Foundry VTT, AtariVCS, GURPS, etc). That's the only reason I ever created an account. But much like most other chat systems, I make up info. :P

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Quoting: GuestNeat, hadn't heard of that one. One advantage Tox [External Link] has over it though is decentralization and possibly anonymity. You don't have to use anyone's specific server, i.e. everyone is a server since it's purely p2p.

Once the next major release of toxcore is out, group chats will have file sharing, so it will be more Element-like in that regard. But cool that there seem to be some other secure options out there. ^n.n^

Yeah, taking a real quick look at that, it reminds me that I've also played around with Jami [External Link] in the past (previously GNU Ring), but honestly the thing I like about Matrix is that it is a bit more persisent/organized in that you can administer a server, moderate it, etc. - I'm thinking more for organizing a gaming guild, or a convention... something that blurs the lines between business-focused Slack/Teams, but with better voice UI.

Just doing ad-hoc group chats, yeah - that's got a few more options, thankfully.

Ah okie, yep can't have persistence without storage, and Tox doesn't have p2p storage implemented, most likely intentionally since anonymity, privacy, and security is the goal. You also can't have users directly joining a group chat and instead they have to have one of the users of the group add them to their private contact list first. Sounds like Element might be better in that case for organizing furmeets, furry cons, etc then.

Avatar matches.

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Quoting: EhvisWhile I'm in no way trusting Microsoft on what they would try to do with regard to privacy. I'm not actually sure I would trust Discord itself any more than that as it is now. There is a reason why I only run this thing in complete isolation. It doesn't even have access to snoop on my running processes. And otherwise I regard it as a public discussion forum.

The lack of isolation and its built-in process snooping is one of the key reasons I gave up on the fat-client experience. But while I'm sure they'd love to snoop processes on non-Windows machines, I suspect that this move is more to get rid of competition from Teams. And my god Teams is so bad, this is the only way it'll succeed (speaking as an 8 hours a day Teams user at my work).

They tried to buy Slack before. I wonder if they'll try again?

Funny, I do the same thing with Teams (run it in a browser), not that I know if it snoops other processes, but because the Electron application is such garbage. In a browser with a styles plugin that lets me make it less garbage. I mean it still stinks, just like throwing febreze on on a pile of rotting vegetables.

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This looks fun. You know what would be killer, is something like Valheim... but in space. I guess Avorion seems like a good candidate for that. But I'm trying to get into that, and building every tiny little block of my spaceship seems a little tedious.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAnd I generally buy the ebook ones (I have so many ebooks now that I'll never read...)

The ebooks are all DRM-free?

Yeah, I've never seen them have DRM.

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Quoting: Liam DaweThey exist because it's a business and it does well.

So well that they had to sell themselves to IGN? :tongue:

IGN wouldn't have bought them if it was a failure.

Well it was after IGN bought them that the became a Steam Sale site, right? Not that I mind cheap games.

Uh, no. They're also not a Steam sale site. They sell keys for GOG, Steam, Epic, Uplay and even the Nintendo Switch on top of all the regular bundles for games, ebooks and all sorts.

I've been subscribed to it for years, and while I do see the random Epic or Uplay bundle (they're generally specific to the bundles) they are all Steam key bundles.

Now they do sell keys for gog, etc. But I only ever buy bundles there. And yeah they have had one Switch bundle I think I got? And I generally buy the ebook ones (I have so many ebooks now that I'll never read...)

I didn't mean my statement in 'they only sell Steam keys' I meant they stopped doing DRM-free for all the things, and instead you get Steam keys.

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Quoting: Liam DaweThey exist because it's a business and it does well.

So well that they had to sell themselves to IGN? :tongue:

IGN wouldn't have bought them if it was a failure.

Well it was after IGN bought them that the became a Steam Sale site, right? Not that I mind cheap games.

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