End to end encrypted chat, with the possibility to host your own instance, federated or not, and voice / video calls with screensharing. However, bandwidth costs money, accordingly the free Matrix servers (remember: Discord was never free, you just paid with your data) can not provide the level of video streams that a commercial provider with a lot of money to throw at the problem can.

Also, federation of chat rooms.

Matrix is a mature chat client for secure communications, and more than that. But it is not aimed at gamers, it is not necessarily (as) trivial to use, and streaming gamers are definitely not the target group. So yeah, it’s not an alternative for a lot of what users seek from Discord, but it’s still a really good tool.

Complaining that matrix doesn’t have X & Y features of Discord is like complaining that you can’t use a Hammer to bake a cake. It’s designed for a different job :)

Microsoft. Please, scrape my comment and then leave me the fuck alone. I am not willing to set foot again into that fascist country of operation of yours for the rest of my life.

Na, a self-secure person can take a joke while acknowledging the truth in it.

you responded to a comment, not to OP :)

It’s not a nitpick for me but a relevant clarification to distinguish between two very different words.

crowdsource, not crowdfund. One is sharing the work, the other is sharing the cost.

:/

About fucking time… But knowing our corrupt overlord fucks, they will just use matrix.org free service and conclude “it’s not responsive enough, whelp, we tried…”

Pretty sure that was just a troll post.

On the power outside the atmosphere I didn’t comment because I was too lazy to look it up, the and I knew the number of the previous commenter was in the ballpark.

Regarding the surface: my apologies, I quoted a number from university that must have been a simplification for a calculation exercise, and I made the mistake of never thinking about it critically. Turns out I was wrong.

Edit: solar radiation is only 1.3kw/m2

Outside earths atmosphere. Only ~650 Watts/m^2 reach the surface of our planet.

Edit: I posted regurgitating some simplified assumption from a text book or something I must have read in the past, the 650 W/m² is wrong.

That is a really accurate and helpful observation. Thank you :) (I mean it, unironically)

Yeah you are probably right. Being able to install (or even execute) your own software would expose all those sweet security loopholes in their network to a talented hacker.

If I can’t install cygwin, a C++ compiler and an editor of choice, then it is useless. But I was assuming (probably too naive) this would be possible.

I have honestly no idea what you mean by “anti-cross platform” or “negative platform”.

If the mother country wasn’t going full on Nazi, as someone who wouldn’t install Windows on anything in my household, I would unironically have used that to test cross-platform-compatibility of my software. Although last time I was looking for renting a VM only for a week or two.

But fuck this, I will no longer care about Windows compatibility.

It was today years old when I realized I am a console lover. Mind blown.

whoa nice! Thanks!

For people trying to configure that in mozilla (I am trying to get away from it but for now :/)

• -> Edit -> Settings -> Search
• “Search Shortcuts” -> Add (to add a search engine)
• “Search Engine Name”: DuckDuckGo Lite
• “URL with %s in place of search term”: https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=%25s (this has to be =%s, lemmy keeps mutilating that to =%25s everytime I save my post)
• “Keyword (optional)”: @ddgl (or pick whatever you like - it appears @ddg is hardcoded and gets refused)
• -> Save Engine
• scroll up to the top, “Default Search Engine”
• from the dropdown list, select “DuckGuckGo Lite”

Done.

Our system (in the end it’s the same no matter where you are) is so fucked up :/ Kids need to learn empathy and selflessness as the most important school subject.

While I would love to see them never going back, here in Germany, all it takes is some corrupt politician taking a huge bribe from a lobbyist and swoosh, they are back to Microslop.

Edit: Knowing our little corrupt fuckers in charge in German politics, the bribe probably doesn’t even have to be mediocre.