Hey, just coming back to see how your setup’s going, and to say I’ve finally managed to get Element Call working for Matrix – I can help you get it running if you like!

I set up a simple sync service with FolderSync (similar to Syncthing) on Android for my family, that preserves their mobile files on a server hosted SMB share. Haven’t even looked at storage encryption though. You can’t underestimate a simple yet effective solution, sometimes so simple it flies under the radar.

They put a couple things behind the paywall of US$19.80/y: the ability to securely share files instead of just text, and to host TOTP authentication. As it is I prefer using other services for sharing, and while TOTP auth is nice I’m happy with Aegis.

Edited to fix Bitwarden’s price obscurity

This touches on one of the reasons I am inclined to pirate – the majority of the time it’s not the author or developer that you pay, it’s the distributor or streaming provider (who often takes a 30% cut), then the payment processor takes about 5%, then the publisher takes a significant and usually undisclosed portion, until finally (and this differs between media) the actual creator sees perhaps £10 of a £60 purchase. Until the vultures clear the field and stop taking hefty cuts, or if I trust the publisher, I am inclined to find a way to actually pay the developer, or not at all, because even though it takes effort to research the sources and distributors, I would much rather vote with my wallet and not accept astronomical distributor fees and anti-consumer practices.

When I was younger I found an album I really liked on Bandcamp. The monetisation model the artist used meant you could actually pay 0 for the music. As I was tight financially I took it but was extremely grateful. This can be seen as consensual piracy, because in my eyes that produce is worth a certain value that can be exchanged with money, even if the seller doesn’t say it. Anyway, Bandcamp takes a 15% cut which is low for the industry, and this particular artist was also independent, meaning they were their own publisher/record label, so when I could I honoured that ‘pay what you feel it’s worth’ approach and bought it a couple years or so later for more than a commercial album. Trust is also extremely infrequent in capitalism, and I appreciated the design.

The victim of this overreach was a piece of shit and a chronic bad troll by the sounds of it, misusing email aliases to harass people. Even though this was likely special treatment because they sent abusive messages to the Director of the FBI’s girlfriend, it’s hard to be anti corpo-state surveillance when assholes like that get picked off so easily. But we here all know that it starts with the scum and power always gets misused.

You know how English is a default language, a base for many multinational conversations? Everyone refers to it? Well, Euro is the easiest to refer to because it is so widely used and stable. It’s not English. It’s like the ‘English language’ of currency.

If DLSS can reach its fifth generation AI can destroy component supply for a second year

Black folk and trans folk have different backgrounds, culture and desires from the predominantly white-controlled society, which is why this isn’t quite the same. Also most demographics are in dire need of income to match the cost of living in a monetised world, where you have to work on average 4-5 times longer than someone in 1960 to purchase the same necessities, so all could do with a random windfall. That being said I appreciate the sentiment.

Oh yeah, situational awareness comes first, something that doesn’t seem to come naturally to everyone. There’s a mild need for c/LostLemmings

Which is one reason why I’ve taken to referring to currency with nation included, e.g. US$, AU$, JP¥, GB£… The Euro is the only easy standard, arguably the ‘English language’ of currency

Savage

Or quit the fucking company come on

You need to be 18+ to buy broadband or mobile contracts in the first place 😫

I like that. The machine I use to host ytdl-sub is called ourtube

Mad props to the dev for a GUI

but the advancement

OOP was possibly referring to the movie Crash, or the origin novel

Or you can play this port on Android

1. OK
2. True
3. Nothing is being watered down, dw

Ah the good old days, before the majority of America bought Apple tech and incentivised other manufacturers to follow the practice of walled gardens, intentional malware and monetised tech lifespans. Thanks to the EU regulators’ constant defense against corporations, it’s possible that charging for repairs within the first 10 years, either at a specialist centre or via manufacturer-specific tools, might just be put under ‘hidden fees’ or ‘false advertisement’. With the help of the EU we retain some semblance of owning the product we purchased

Yes! Jane Lynch. She’s playing Sue Sylvester in Glee in this meme