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"It’s also possible to install Proxmox VE 9.0 on top of Debian."

Has that always been the case? I have a faint memory of trying once and not being able to with Proxmox 7.x

I think you may be unfairly paraphrasing "we don't have enough funding to be able to work on both Element & Element X, or Synapse & Dendrite, or to have landed Threads/Spaces in Element X yet, or <insert complaint here>".

I asked in the chat what's the plan for people who are running on old servers when it comes to migrating to MAS. The general response was "Welp, should've gotten a support contract." Or maybe it was migrating from Element to Element X. I can't remember.

It feels ironic that our attempts to improve the project are characterised as "gigantic changes in direction which are enough to sink any project".

The real irony is mentioning working on both Element and Element X, Synapse and Dendrite, and not see how much work that's already been done is being completely thrown away. This is not even including all the weird 3D stuff that was once a thing. Even the all the rebranding is kind of like 'wtf is happening over there'

Jitsi is unencrypted by default.

Then why implement it? Or you could have contributed to it/fixed it instead of building something from scratch using technologies like SFU which no has has heard of before.

There's two clients. One that's fast, and one that's full featured". Well, that's true, but most people seem to feel Element X's improvements outweigh the fact it doesn't have threads/spaces yet (although they are both in dev currently).

Since when have threads and spaces been in development? Probably almost a year now. And this is not even including the bug/unimplemented feature where in the android app where clicking a message notification just takes you to the bottom of the room instead of the message itself. And what about clicking to join rooms? Matrix.to? Come on, bro.

For what it's worth, I think i've made some spectacular mistakes in running Matrix,

I wasn't talking just about you, your arrogance is kind of endearing in the right light. The community itself is so hostile to any criticism it feels like talking to toddlers.

as well as bunch of good stuff

Matrix is great. Just not ready. The communication about how it's so great and ready is probably a big reason of why people are turned off. If Matrix was still labeled beta (and people weren't afraid of New Vector one day moving development behind closed doors) I can almost guarantee the community would be so much more vibrant. The threat of New Vector going fully proprietary is the main reason we decided not to move forward with contributing to the ecosystem. (we're still looking for our messaging home).

On the Element side: does https://youtu.be/IwZ4rE_Pt64 feel like an org led by architecture astronauts?

I remember when this video first came out. I think it was around the time of MatrixConf. Element X is not ready, and starting the video by calling it "Not just the best Matrix messaging app, but the best messaging app available" is (with all due respect) delusional, or marketing-led dishonesty.

I say all the above with love. I'm someone who has developed an admin panel for our internal proof-of-concept other than the one provided by New Vector or the other half-baked open-source one (I forget what it's called). So I've really dived deep into the ecosystem. But it's not there, yet.

I can see the vision you have for Matrix. The global federated network of eventually-consistent event servers. I love it and I hope it succeeds. But when commercial interests play a role and New Vector has some sort of conflict of interest between spreading Matrix as far as possible, and making it profitable, it's hard to buy in to that utopian vision. Be Linux, not Red Hat. You can't be both, that's where the conflict of interest comes in. Yeah Matrix is an independent foundation etc. etc. but if Synapse dies, the entire ecosystem dies.

Signal is the worst of them all when it comes to self hosting.

I said most of the same things in the Matrix foundation's server. The general response from the team was: "Pay money or shut up and accept what we give you". The number of gigantic changes in direction this project has had in the past couple of years is enough to sink any project. Jitsi to Webrtc, complete change in auth system, Element to Element X. There's two clients. One that's fast, and one that's full featured. You can either skip out on features, or use something slow.

I try to be positive and supportive of project, but my experience with these guys is that they're incredibly arrogant.

It's tough finding an open-standards based IM application for corporate use.

XMPP is kinda fragmented, with no nice clients. Matrix is a clusterfuck with a BDFL who is probably too smart for his own good. Signal is open source but hostile towards self hosting.

P.S I suspect the organization is being led by Architecture Astronauts [1]. Every (including the naming) is abstracted to the point of meaninglessness.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

The tiktok-ification of netflix is coming. Good. Let the internet burn so we can start over.

"If you're not using Django, you're probably just rebuilding it poorly."

Unquestionably the best framework I've ever used. I could never learn backend javascript because why would I put in the effort when this exists.

I disagree that that's the majority of users.

The majority of users either use only web applications, or web applications and Microsoft Office.

The true majority of users are on mobile.

Windows is only unreplaceable for gamers. Which is fine, because Windows is a toy anyway.

Ironic to read this on a site that's unusable on mobile.

A big one is that Microsoft shut off the email of the president of International Criminal Court based on an order from US authorities because he dared prosecute Israeli government officials.

I have the pro. I'm not sure if the Max will do passthrough but a quick google seems to indicate that it won't. (There's a discussion on the proxmox forum)

Aoostar WTR series is one change away from being the PERFECT home server/nas. Passing the storage controller IOMMU to a VM is finicky at best. Still better than the vast majority of devices that don't allow it at all. But if they do that, I'm in homelab heaven. Unfortunately, the current iteration cannot due to a hardware limitation in the AMD chipset they're using.

Your data is incorrect. That ranking is for male vs female (higher number = female).

The hot vs not score is a separate score. (e.g you have Big Arc chicken as a 2.5. That means mostly male. It's hotness score is 5.5)

Doesn't matter at all according to who?

Nice try, restaurant owner with ugly people.

I know. I was doubling down on pretending not to understand. But guess it wasn't obvious enough.

I don't know how I feel about a tech bro being credit for an idea like this.

This is originally from The Art of War.

That's a generalization.

Joe Lauzon was a network admin. He decided that being punched in the face was a better job.

I burst out laughing when I saw the size of VR screen is the same size as the screen on the chair in front of him.

That provided no context at all, lol (I legit laughed out loud). Like that's so far out of the common framework that any context provided is lost on most people (including me.)

I'm someone who often debates religion and appreciates someone who finds a philosophy that works for them, so this is no slight against your beliefs. I just find it funny that it was used to provide 'context'.

Who said that was my goal? Literally explained my goal in the second sentence of my reply to you.

You don't have to believe me.

I didn't post it because he (and you) can search for yourselves. Literally first result for "uk illegal meme".

No. I was showing the person who claims it's not real that I can search for it.

Teach a man to fish and all that.

I googled it and found it.

Where did you read that it was very difficult to access?

Surplus panels from old technology. Absolutely amazing if you're not a consumerist moron who needs the newest technology because of FOMO.

I hate it.

"Doesn't stand out in your home" - The chromecast wasn't even visible, so this is a clear downgrade. Why would they even bring it up.

I wanted to love Google Home. I don't have Apple products, and the Alexa app was horrible. But alas, it was Googled. It became such a clusterfuck of convolution that it's not even usable for me anymore. I was using it on my Google Apps email, which I switched from to a regular gmail (because youtube premium wasn't available on Google Apps, neither was Google Home integration with my calendar), and now I can't move my devices to my new account.

All of this, on top of the fact, that Google has proven to be the least trust worthy company when it comes to managing users' data (arguably tied with Meta). I can't wait until my house starts shouting ads at me, or 24/7 listening 'to improve ad quality' becomes standard.

Take me back to IRC and phpbb.

"Find us an AI use case that we can then turn around and market without compensating you for it you researching piece of shit.

Sincerely, Activision"

Nice overall. But I hate with all my heart:

Those funky looking people in the stock photos (looksmaxxers).

The new logo. The letter weights is way off. The L looks anemic.

The logo can be saved with few tweaks. Those people in the photos need to go back to the Abercrombie website. (what should you use instead? Tux, obviously.)