It wont last long unless they move to somewhere like the south pole, surveillance and authoritarianism is becoming normalized everywhere in the world

living below neighbors with no privacy, and all the conflicts suck, if only there is a middle ground

Niantic is a google company

I wish I had a 3d printer at Home to repair many broken appliances that only needed a small spare part.

I’ve come to hate everything made of plastic these last few years. most my electronics went out of service because of how flimsy they were made.

Me with a stick poking at LinuxMint : hey, wake up, do something, you have piled-up enough money under the bed already

XMPP is a shitshow of its own, very fragmented architecture. different incomplete implementations. each server can chose which features (extensions) to turn on and which not) so you can’t be sure that the person you are trying to talk to on the other server can have access to the same features, like threads or voip.

I have previously read that omemo 2 implementation is insecure. my previous experience with it 4 years ago made me give up after encrypted messages were getting lost when messaging between different clients

there is no one flagship app for XMPP that works cross platefrom and has all features implemented. heck I can’t even find a windows that support voip. and their will be none. cause xmpp has lost all traction.

As for Movim, I hate using web apps. bad user experience in general. add to that I don’t remember it ever having been audited

I understand the concern, and I find it fishy that the matrix team didn’t try and address that (maybe they did but I just didn’t come across that)

but on the other hand many governments and ministries like the French MOD have deployed matrix locally for their private usage. not sure they want to use a software that the mossad can directly tap into

Intuitiveness aside, it is very messy, unorganized and painful to navigate

How did you adjust to not having layer styles in gimp, the workarounds are very tiresome

That and shape layers are what holding me from using gimp fulltime