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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Let's not forget an even bigger problem with Discord: It locks your communities, including contacts and years of content and discussions created by members, behind some corporation's ~~terms and conditions~~ whims. You (or your friends, or the "server" admin) can lose access to it all at any time, without warning. They can and have used this as leverage to extort personal info from people. A policy change, accident, or technical glitch can leave you out in the cold.

This alone is reason enough to avoid it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Mumble for voice chat. (It already beats Discord in that department.) A server can be self-hosted, or rented for dirt cheap.

Matrix is getting better all the time, and although it won't replace all of Discord's features today, it is catching up. I already use it for text chat, and wouldn't be surprised if it could take over for video, screen share, etc. in the next year or so.

Tip for people wanting to try Matrix now: Consider disabling encryption on your Discord replacement rooms until Matrix 2.0 is fully released, to avoid occasional frustrating glitches. That won't be a loss coming from Discord, which doesn't have end-to-end encryption anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Please be at least as good as the first one. <3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Looks similar to Firefox with Multi-Account Containers, but with a different browser engine (one that is not from Google). Maybe cool?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Anyone know if the save game files are compatible with the original?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Anyone know if the save games are compatible with the original?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

The funniest part is their claim that people were being salty and should chill, at a time when there were almost no comments, and none were salty. Bot?

[–] [email protected] 104 points 3 days ago

For reference, even Deban Stable has been at glibc 2.31 or newer for three major versions now, and another major version is on its way this year. I don't think this will affect many people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Then whomever tested it "to death" wasn't particularly comprehensive. I speak from more than a little personal experience.

Of course it won't help in every case, nor did I claim it would. That's not the point, and your contrarianism doesn't help anyone. Good day.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

Lots of people comment on this subject pointing out that some games don't run on Linux, and conclude that Linux is still behind Windows. This fails to recognize a distinct advantage that Linux has: More efficient use of hardware.

If your system doesn't have an especially fast SSD or lots of RAM, you might find that Linux gives a better gaming experience. It can often do more with less.

Edit to add: When I consider the fact that we're mostly talking about games designed and built just for Windows, I find this really damn impressive. And it just keeps getting better.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Anti-cheat is allowed. There are a handful of anti-cheat systems that can't work on Linux, but IIRC, they are in the minority.

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Hi, folks.

Almost all of my communities still show up as "Subscribe Pending", regardless of what instance hosts them, even a week after I subscribed to them.

Re-subscribing doesn't seem to help.

I'm new to feddit.org. Is this a known problem here?

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