Honestly (can’t speak for OP, but) I’ve been moving away from matrix recently.

• Element is buggy as hell on my phone and a shitty electron app on my laptop. The other apps mostly lack feature parity.
• It’s difficult for normals to use and thus difficult for me to convert and retain my contacts (and trying has likely hurt my chances at getting them to adopt another now that they’ve all fallen back to SMS).
• Parts of it like reactions aren’t encrypted and it leaks metadata hardcore
• I found out that the Matrix [.] org foundation was started by a former Amdocs employee (in fact it started as an Amdocs project before they stopped funding it and the matrix foundation was created) which raises HUGE red flags for me. Amdocs is affiliated with mossad. Even if Matrix isn’t their proximity to Amdocs who definitely is is too close for comfort.
• Lastly I understand that things in the privacy space are often exploited by bad actors and don’t directly blame Matrix for this, but the CP problem on matrix makes the public rooms basically unusable and thus removes them from the equation. First of all because of this they removed the ability to find rooms through search, which “good” but it also kneecaps innocent use of the rooms, and secondly I just don’t want to see that shit so even if I know the room addr I don’t want to join it anymore unless I need specific tech support from an official room listed on some project’s website, and then I’m in and out. Plus now I have friends asking what kind of CP app did I make them install and asking if they’ll get sent to prison for seeing that shit in the raspberry pi room, and you and I both know they won’t but also I don’t want to put them in that position in the first place.

I’ve fallen back to xmpp for now, but I’ve been trying out Delta Chat as of the last few days and I’m liking it, I think I could get the normals on it with the easy onboarding, and the “no public groups” thing might be a feature not a bug.

I really really wanted to like matrix but it boils down to A) even if I do a chat app is useless without my people on it and B) with the Amdocs connection I’m too paranoid to trust it and C) even if I can just avoid the public rooms and thus CP, the fact that someone I know like my mom or cousin could conceivably stumble upon it there isn’t a selling point at the very least.

Read to the tune of “five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.”

Dude awesome thanks! Looks like running it on linux is a whole thing but doable, now I just neef to find out what the game was.

Worse when it’s a flash game, as I understand they’re all dead now.

I just want to play the unknown snowboarding game with all the little hills to jump on again. Well that and the ever classic Kitten Cannon.

They put a porto-john outside the Kaaba now?

Was

Is.* Nicotine+ is the client to make it even better.

That shark’s liver is about to be more fucked up than mine is.

Technically I can only break ITAR but they know everything I know already, so fuck it we ball.

Awesome thanks! I run linux so no adobe for me lol, gimp will have to do (and I’m not particularly good with that either lol).

Thanks I’ll check it out! Cannon scares me because of their printers lol, I don’t need some special software to use it right, just microSD or regular SD and any PC? I’m always gunshy about buying tech these days, everything needs an app or is internet connected lol.

Wish I could trust that, but experience has shown I cannot. If someone also didn’t have a facebook (or anything except maybe Mastodon and Lemmy), maybe then I could, but I’m the only weirdo I know irl, so.

I have thought about getting a camera and becoming the photographer myself, and then I can control what gets uploaded by virtue of controlling what pics they receive to begin with, but I have absolutely no idea where to start with that lol. It’d have to be a camera better than a phone camera or people would just use that, but not too bulky as to facilitate carry, and something that’d be good for nature since that’s the only thing I enjoy photographing and so why not actually get some enjoyment too, get me out of the house more often too. Also it would have to be not a million dollars, it doesn’t need to be the best, just good enough.

I guess… if anyone has any camera recs let me know.

I avoid them because I don’t like posting pics to the internet and nobody is able to respect that wish because nobody but me cares about privacy, it usually gets uploaded to the internet since they know I don’t have a facebook and I will likely never catch them except the few times they’ve slipped up and showed me themselves.

Yeah I’ve been reading Clea, Huntress of Dragonvale. Part five of the Elves of Evermore Series.

"The Elf-Lord Fylfendell knelt upon the bed of dandelions.

"‘Young wanderer,’ quoth he, 'I have woven you

a magic breastplate…"’

Tbf I want to watch this more than any “real” movie.

*Johhny Depp bites sandwich, suddenly he starts a transformation, much like your typical Dr. Jekyll situation with the screams and the contorting the body, then when the smoke clears the only difference is he has Don King’s hair and voice/affectations.*

While true (maybe), if I find a brick of coke I’m 100% busting that down into 8balls and getting it gone quick. I know cokeheads suck but I gotta make a buck too and one isn’t that much in the grand scheme of keys.

Tbh we’re just lucky I don’t turn it into an E-40 song before I break it down.

Yeah good luck with all that lol, it’s not happening anytime soon regardless and there’s no point wasting energy about it in this thread anymore. Unless you happen to have enough votes to overturn a constitutional amendment in your pocket we’ll have to agree to disagree for now.

There’s 600,000,000 out there already that are not going anywhere, the price isn’t going down any time soon even if we make them illegal. Not to mention pipe shotguns, the LutySMG, the FGC9, countless reloaders with tonnes of components, and trillions of rounds of stashed ammo across the whole US civilians’ collections, good luck. Even if people would comply with an Aus style buyback, that would be astronomically expensive at the scale required to even get the percentage of guns they got (which was like 20%, and they are now back up to their 1996 amount of guns at 3.2mil.)

Those were different times. So you’re afraid of vikings invading if guns were to be banned?

You’re the one that thinks nobody ever invaded someone’s home before guns existed lol, that’s on you.

You’re privileged enough to tell poor people in bad neighborhoods to “just move somewhere better bro” because that’s exactly what you did. Do you think the people in bad neighborhoods stay for the ice cream trucks? No it’s because they can’t afford to move to a nicer area, hell sometimes the nicer area moves to them and pushes them out because now they can’t afford that neighborhood anymore, it’s called gentrification.

Detroit is a city often tied to black people and poverty and was usually used as every racist uncle’s example of racist bullshit, though now that is becoming Chicago it’s still basically a “Ah this is a 60-65yo republican I’m talking to” dogwhistle. Like I said I assume by “privileged European” you didn’t know that.

Would be nice if they didn’t have access to guns right?

Sure, but they did, and my money is on “not legally,” but either way they did. There’s 600,000,000+ already out there with no registry and 3d printed glocks are a thing now. They can get them and will continue to be able to, pandora’s box has been opened.

Also if you look back far enough in history: blind bet, I bet you 1,000 internet points home invasions existed before firearms. Likely before gunpowder even, actually. I mean Viking raids alone…

Selling a bit of weed is being a master criminal? Mate, what rock are you living under?

Ah you’re from a country that has never heard of sarcasm, my apologies.

Wtf, did he sell it in a back alley to a stranger or something?

Parking lot of a closed-for-the-night Veterinarian’s office on a main road to a regular customer we considered a friendly acquaintance up until that point, why? We know his government name and have met his brother (of course, we didn’t snitch and afaik he is now in prison, or maybe was, for robbing a gas station). He still stabbed my friend and sent him to the hospital. Idk what to tell you, I agree he should probably not have stabbed my friend over 2oz but he did, so, sorry?

Again, would have been great if no one had guns. Ban that shit!

Again, probably illegally possessed and won’t be gone anytime soon even if they were illegal to possess. And even if they were legal, they are already there.

Bro, maybe move to another neighborhood which isn’t a fucking war zone.

Rich and privileged European disconnected from the reality of America? Why am I not surprised?

there are places where the violence is much lower than other places like Detroit for example.

I’m going to assume based on the above observation you don’t understand the subtle racism here. It’s there though, for future reference.

Yeah that was around when they disappeared around here, maybe even a bit before that. Well hopefully they do still have it, it can come in handy.

I have lived in some pretty shit neighborhoods lol, it seems to happen more frequently the worse the area is that you’re in. Some areas would be even worse, many would be better.