You sound like those people that "can't use Mastodon" because they have to choose a server first and that's too complicated.
kpw
joined 2 years ago
Something felt wrong using Windows. It felt right when I switched to Linux.
Great. That means there is a natural demand for artists. If AI starts failing because it isn't fed enough art, the demand will rise.
Personally Linux has everything I want. Kind of per definition. If it's not available for Linux I don't care about it. I would use Windows if I had to use it for work.
Die Umfrage sagt nicht mehr aus als wer sich mit wem die Straße teilen muss.
Why CS lecturers? Have you seen the code that comes with PhD theses? Academics aren't necessarily the best programmers out there.
The whole point of XMPP or Matrix is to provide interoperability between IM services. For interoperability to exist, we must agree on standards. Matrix is not a standard, but essentially a product controlled entirely by NewVector, a venture capital funded start-up.
They are not profitable and increasingly desperate to make money. Recently they forked Element and Synapse and make contributors sign a CLA which enables them to change their software to a non-free license in the future for monetization: https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/05/Dont-sign-a-CLA.html
You might say "But they made a non-profit foundation for Matrix" which is kind of true, but not really. The "core spec team" is all people working for NewVector except a single guy. Go checkout their linked GitHub profiles.
The whole Matrix thing should build on the existing XMPP internet standard. Instead we got yet another incompatible IM protocol, effectively controlled by a single corporation and more fragmentation. Bridges don't help as they break almost all features, most regrettably end-to-end encryption. We really need proper internet standards for interoperability.
XMPP is also more lightweight and has proper native clients for all platforms instead of Electron apps. On the server side the difference is even more severe.
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Should say XMPP, the IETF internet standard for IM. Matrix is a venture capital sham not compatible with existing standards.
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No, there is a huge content gap.
Less than once a year for me. I don't remember it breaking in the last few years.
You have a wife, we get it.
Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about how the OS works. If you're very ambitious, you could try to install Arch in a virtual machine environment: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide
Installing Arch for the first time taught me a lot about how my system works, since you have to choose all the parts that make up your system yourself.
Where am I gatekeeping Linux?? Also I don't care what other people use that's entirely their problem.