Personally, between Fluxer, Stoat, Movim and Sharkord, I pick Movim... Is the least similar to Discord, but that's a plus for me. I don't like Discord's workflow, I find it confusing and cumbersome. I used Discord a couple times a year and everytime was confusing and unintuitive...

I find Movim more like a chat + blog + social netwotk app were I can do several things in one place if I want to or just stick with what I want and the other functions won't get in the way. Plus, since it uses the XMPP protocol, other people can communicate with Movim users using Conversations, Gajim or other XMPP apps if they prefer.

Movim still needs to add some functions to really replace Discord, but I'd rather wait for them than jump on another hyped platform (Fluxer, Sharkord, Kloak or even Stoat) with very little time under the sun, unproven protocols, no E2EE, unclear licence/monetization, etc.

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Has anyone tried Stoat (https://stoat.chat/ [External Link]) or Movim (https://movim.eu/ [External Link]) as a replacement for Discord?... I know they are not "feature complete", but they seem to be the most phylosophically close to my ethics options so far.

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After ~20 years of using Firefox, this incessant AI bull$h¡t was the final straw for me. A couple months ago I moved to LibreWolf and I'm much happier with peace of mind while I keep waiting for Servo.

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Quoting: EssojeI'd love to appreciate these small victories for Linux, but together with the RAM crisis and the news lately, all I can see here is the gruesome death of consumer PC hardware. It's like partying on top of a sinking ship.
This will likely force people who want to play games to be part of a closed garden like game consoles, or to pay for remote applications/machines. It really feels like we are going back to the remote terminal days, as ironic as that is.

I'm most likely wrong, but if I dare to speculate (and dream), maybe the RAM crisis will persuade people to stick with their current, aging PCs and what better for an aging PC than Linux?... Some people won't be able to afford a new PC to install Windows 11 so they'll try Linux.

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Not that my opinion matters much, but at least speaking for myself and my kids... I will never, under any circumstance, will ever buy/pay for a Nintendo console/device or Nintendo game... They deserve to go bankrupt... not that's ever going to happen, but I'm a huge advocate of "vote with your wallet".

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One alternative to Discort that I find interesting (although I haven't used yet) is Revolt ( https://app.revolt.chat [External Link] )... It seems like a good alternative with fairly active development, but I haven't seen anyone I know using it so far.

The developers are rewriting the whole thing and it seems like they're making good progress, check the latest version highlights in Github: https://github.com/revoltchat/frontend/releases [External Link]

I also heard some sort of controversial things about their developers, but no proof or evidence of it (https://alternativeto.net/software/revolt-chat/about/#post-146274 [External Link])...

I'd like to know people's opinions here.

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I still have an RX 470 running because to me at least it seems there has been little improvements in the bracket below 150 W. I don't need high performance, I want better efficiency. And every generation I hope there will be something worth upgrading to.

What I did in 2023 was to buy the cheapest Radeon RX 7600 (XFX Speedster SWFT210 Radeon RX 7600) which at that time was like 300 USD... Originally it's like 220W power consumption, but I underclocked it (with the awesome corectrl utility) and now is just like 10-15% slower (which still is 3 times faster than my previous Nvidia 1060 3GB) and is just ~75W of power consumption, temperatures never exceed ~60°C and I don't plant to update my card until the end of 2026, when I plan to buy a good AMD card and underclock it to lower temps and wattage again.

P.S.: I did the same with my CPU, a beefy AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. It's originally ~170W and I have it in my BIOS set to "ECO Mode" at ~65W, is like 10-15% slower, but it's a third of the power consumption.

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I know the Manjaro team has made some questionable decisions but I don't see them as deal breakers (at least so far). I'm still using Manjaro, I absolutely love it and it's been over 6 years already. Is thanks to Manjaro that I stuck with Linux when I switched from Windows 10 years ago. Before, I hopped through Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu again, Sparky Linux, Fedora and finally Manjaro ♥️.

The stability of the system after updates has improved a ton. Several years ago it was expected that from time to time (every 3 months or so) the system could break after an update and you had to spend a couple hours digging through forums on how to fix things. I never had to reinstall the system, though; so nothing too serious. These days is at most, once every couple of years, so we're talking about a massive improvement in stability after updates, which was for me the most annoying thing about a rolling-release distro.

Anyway. I hope Manjaro sticks around and regain some popularity (and make better decisions in the future to avoid too much drama/backslash). I really love it and I would only consider abandon it for Endeavour, but so far, I'm pretty happy with Manjaro.

P.S.: Old topic, but I just wanted to give my honest opinion.

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I'm actually happy Stadia is dead... The whole concept of streaming games is inherently discriminatory to the majority of the world, which doesn't have good Internet connection. At least 2 entire continents are out of this business because of this.

Also, the idea of paying for a videogame that after some time is not going to be available... nope, not for me. That's another reason why I don't like Netflix and all these streaming services. I want to HAVE what I pay for, locally.

Hopefully, the business of truly owning what you pay for is coming back in the future.

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Hah, last night I was recomending a friend new to Linux to install the Heroic Games to be able to play Epic Store stuff and she coudln't log in... It turns out this was the problem. Funny mix of bad and good luck I guess, haha.

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