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I’m a little surprised to see someone soliciting for those platforms on Lemmy, given that they are antithetical to the values that brought most of us here.
Currently the best self-hostable, private (encrypted) and federated communication platform is XMPP/Jabber
This is a very subjective opinion. I consider XMPP to be useful for small groups that have a knowledgeable admin to offer help, but a poor fit for the unguided public if a rich feature set and long-term accounts are important. YMMV.
And after trying it, if you want to see what alternative client apps have to offer, you can find them here.
I don’t think it’s ethical to emulate the current gen.
I guess you haven’t noticed that the Switch is not current gen.
If the current gen supports the software, buy the game and play it on the current hardware.
I guess you live in a country where typical incomes can afford purchasing Nintendo games and hardware without giving up more important things, like food and shelter.
Since you mentioned self-hosting, I guess you’re talking about Matrix homeservers. Some are listed here:
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/hosting/
(Note that what Discord calls a “server” is not what anyone else in the networking community calls a server; it’s a confusing misnomer. Matrix calls it a space, but calling it a community would be understood by most people as well. Also, what Discord calls a “channel” is what Matrix calls a room.)
I know Element sucks compared to Discord
Only if you don’t care at all about privacy, agency, or continued access to your communities regardless of corporate whims.
Element can get better.
Yes, as can other Matrix clients, and the network itself. And they are. :)
I think one problem is that although ARX packs are pictured on the game’s Steam page, “ARX” doesn’t appear in the text, so you can’t control+f for it.
But they already can and already do. For example If I wanted to buy ARX for Elite Dangerous, you have to go through Frontier’s website to purchase it.
You can buy ARX on Steam now, but you don’t have to.
Thank you.
Does “Zoom platform” here refer to the China-based video conferencing service famous for lying about their encryption features, or is there some other zoom platform?
I wouldn’t be surprised to see some foundries retooling to produce DRAM in less than five years.
Civ 4 is great.
Civ 5 is mostly great if you add the Brave New World (or maybe Gods and Kings) expansion, which revises the game mechanics. My main complaint is that I don’t like how religion affects the mid-late game, but the game is still great overall.
Both can be had for cheap when they go on sale.
There’s a free and open-source Civ-like game called Unciv. I haven’t played it, but I’ve seen it mentioned often enough that it might be worth a look.
I played the tutorial, and continued the game for several hours after the tutorial part ended.
I struggled to stay awake. It was by far the most boring slog I have ever experienced in any edition of Civ. (I haven’t played Civ 7, though.)
We won’t know until it’s released.
The new Steam Controller is supposed to release early this year, so I would probably wait for that.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller
If that were not an option, I would pick up a DualSense next time it goes on sale. (Most recent sales were in June and December, I think.)
it never turns off with inactivity, so basically runs until dead unless I manually turn it off…
I think it powers off when the bluetooth connection drops, which you could trigger from your desktop if you ever decide to go wireless.
Are drifting controller sticks the new mouse jiggler?
Calibration can help with drifting sticks.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Setting_up_deadzones_and_calibration
If you want one that isn’t a bloated Electron app, there’s Minigalaxy:
Your comment is rude and misleading at best.
The thing you’re referring to was called Google Talk, introduced in 2005. XMPP was viable for the unguided public at that time mainly because Google Talk and Facebook Messenger were large public XMPP servers, supplementing the small independent servers to form a healthy ecosystem. This allowed anyone to easily discover the network, sign up to use it, and be confident that they and their contacts would remain reachable for more than couple of years.
Google Talk was replaced in 2013 by Google Hangouts, bringing an end to their XMPP support. Facebook Messenger added XMPP support in 2010 and ended it in 2015. Jabber.org, which was the only significant independent host (but still relatively small), stopped offering new accounts in 2013. The healthy ecosystem vanished over a decade ago.
Also, the rich feature set being discussed here includes modern end-to-end encryption (OTR doesn’t qualify), persistent message history with multi-device support, voice and video chat, and a variety of other things that were not supported by XMPP back then, if ever.
So no, you have not been doing this with XMPP for decades.
You can get most of those features today if you have an XMPP server implementing a pile of specific XEPs on top of the base protocol, and if you and your contacts also use clients with the same extensions implemented just right. This might be great for a small group with a well-informed system admin, or for the tiny minority of people who might stumble into a service provider that makes it easy for them, but the vast majority of the unguided public are not going to navigate those waters successfully, and even those few who do will have no reasonable assurance that their accounts will last longer than summer vacation.
I miss Jabber’s heyday, too, but to believe it can make a comeback is just wishful thinking. It doesn’t have the support that would be required for that, and there’s no sign that it ever will. That’s why I don’t recommend it outside of small groups.