Not sure, but I’ll give that a go this weekend when I have some time to play around with it. Many thanks!

Since all of the “Linux is easy” folk are here I’ll ask a question even though I’m not near my PC:

I’m dual booting W11 and ZorinOS, I have 3 drives and only the OS drive mounts at boot. The other 2, games SSD and a storage HDD, have to mounted manually. An online search yielded that this was “expected behaviour” and “how it’s designed to work” but unfortunately it confuses Steam each time I boot because as far as Steam is concerned the drive ceases to exist.

Has anyone else had the same issue? I think I could use crontab to mount the drives at boot but it seems like something that shouldn’t be happening at all.

There was a pretty famous Venezuelan one recently.

Do they though? As a side note, I read the documentation for the proposed system of scanning and it was actually really well designed for privacy. The problem was if they were forced to expand the scope to include other material such as, for example, proof of protest against a regime.

Tbf maybe eodur is from the short-form generation and doesn’t realise YouTube has long form content. With that it mind it would seem strange to compare it to PeerTube which is more like Netflix. /s

Damn that would be hilarious. It could absolutely turn into a no-win scenario for the orange clown. Turn away free healthcare by running the ships out of town or let them stay and piss off the American healthcare operators?

We all know which option he’d choose. He’d have a lot more friends running the system than stuck inside of it.

That’s great to hear and pretty cool that it can be done as P2P. I’ll definitely give it a go now!

Is screen sharing available for self hosting? Last I checked (6 months ago) the TS server version wasn’t publicly available yet.

If it is I’ll give it another go!

Spacebar sounded really promising when I checked them out years ago.

The big Discord.com features currently left unimplemented or with partial implementations are: Voice/Video support (WebRTC protocol support implemented, but lacking UDP protocol implementation)

Unfortunately, seems like it’s still not at a point where it could cover basic Discord functionality.

Edit: I should be clear, I’m not trying to discourage it. I really hope it succeeds to the goal of parity with Discord! Love to hear from someone who has used it a bit.

I looked into Stoat around the time of their name change announcement.

On the one hand it looks good and is definitely the closest Discord clone at the moment. I was disappointed about a couple of things though:

• They have a self hosted server option but it doesn’t have the full feature suite and seems like they’ve decided that it won’t in the foreseeable future.

• They’re aware of federation and have no plans to head down that path for the software.

Bit of a shame because if I could self host the full software that’d be pretty damn good as a replacement for all of my friends. If it could be federated in a way where servers could work in tandem that’d be a great distributed alternative to Discord for the entire community! I understand why they’re not pursuing those avenues but it’s still a shame.

That… would actually make a lot of sense.

Not to mention every building in Taiwan is laced with explosives

Be me in a different life, changing a lightbulb in my Taiwanese home. Slip on the ladder and grab the light holder tearing it from the wall. The wiring breaks against the det. cord causing a neighbourhood wide chain reaction that can be seen from space.

Standing in front of St. Peter with 50 other rather angry neighbours.

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I agree. My Plex server is majority 720p with decent bitrate with a lot of 1080p with decent bitrate and a tiny amount of 4K with subpar bitrate (otherwise it’s too large). The 720p is noticeable on the big screen but good luck spotting between 1080p and 4K. It might be different with full 4K Blueray rips but I’m not using 50-80Gb per movie.

To quote an old comment of mine:

Meanwhile Steam is a feature rich platform with a bunch of features that regular C-suite types would never green light because they don’t have a direct ROI.

Direct profit is the main driving factor for decision making by C-suite types. EGS is a great example of this: it has the very bare bones of what constitutes an online store, you can see products and make purchases. Almost everything else is half assed and tacked on. It’s frankly amazing that a system like Steam exists when they could (and still could) enshittify really badly.

Link to my other comment.

That’s it! That’s the last straw! I’m pulling all of my LMY (Lemmy) stocks from the market and cancelling all advertising deals with Tim Lemmy because your comment contained a no-no word.

I hope you’re happy. /s

But for real, fuck corporate self censorship bullshit right in the c-suite bungholeo.

I bought some RAM about 6 months ago. It costs me $299AUD for 64Gb, the same set from the same store is now $1,399. That’s an insane increase.

That’s what I want to know too! Did Windows blip out of existence in the UK for a month or something?

The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA

They put “make sure there are no bugs” into their copilot prompt, what else do you want from them?! /s

Don’t forget GrapheneOS and Jellyfin! Anything else you can think of? It’ll be a lot easier if they can convert everything in one go.

Stoat made a small mention in their name change blog that there’s a big update in the pipeline to bring in voice chat and screen sharing, two of the fundamental functions used by every Discord user that I know. If Stoat manages to bring those two features in at a similar parity to Discord then it’ll be a legitimate candidate for a Discord replacement.

Unfortunately, from my research most other platforms either don’t have voice and screen share at all or they do but it’s implemented in a way that’s far from optimal.