Honestly I don’t think those things are that big of a deal. yeah it’s annoying, but very few people are going to be setting up on new devices often enough for the verification thing to matter (also it’s only needed for encrypted chats, which won’t be most of them) and most discord users either don’t care about emojis or use whatever is available on their server as part of the server. Just letting rooms (probably need a way for all rooms in a space to have them too) have a set of custom emojis tied to them should work for most people. for the people who do care about emojis and stickers, they can have any emoji or sticker they want.

I think the main issues are things like slow load times and trying to keep every room loaded at all times. the first can be alleviated by going to a less popular instance or by fixing the second. most people won’t trust instances other than the main one for a while bc they are new to the federated stuff. The second can be fixed by just not trying to load every room. you still need to check for new messages every so often but that doesn’t mean they all have to be loaded at all times. I’m also pretty sure you can turn of the verification thing in your instance account settings.

thats exactly what I mean though. the technical side is already great, if they can get the ux on par with discord (which is a very low bar) they’ll have a shot. thats something they could feasibly do in the short term.

no idea why they dont have it. i like the separate vertical and horizontal scroll on my MX master 3 but it would be nice to have a little more control.

if matrix can get some of the remaining issues fixed I think it has a decent shot at taking over, but people will probably pick another “federated” proprietary app like with bluesky

i use Niagara and I like it, but its a little different. if you want a more traditional one ive heard lawnchair is good.

gotta give this a try, looks fun.

oop probably meant from websites

defenestration

well most (tech-related) industries dont really get much traction when its just private companies. generally a private company starts something and then open-source projects keep the underlying tech working while major companies rebrand stuff every year.

thats part of why I’m so excited for the steam frame. it’ll finally give a vr platform that doesnt rely on proprietary stuff, freeing people up to do stupid things with it and accidentally make something really cool. what we really needed is for the bubble it was in to burst so the companies that had it in a chokehold would let go, but it just got smaller and they held on. its a lot like the ai situation right now where there are useful and sustainable use cases, but its too wrapped up in shareholder circlejerks for anyone to get the chance to set it up right.

also, I need to get my ender v3 working again. that thing was fun.

vr is useful but its too wrapped up in corporate bs to really take off for now. its dominated by companies obsessed with ai and by pathetic startups that never finish a product. it just needs meta to be less dominant.

i have a 1650 and as long as you have that or newer the open source drivers should just work. iirc the proprietary drivers are a little better right now but that probably wont stay for long with how close they are.

check out helion. they are trying to make small, modular reactors that are cheaper to build and maintain, so they can be deployed easier than fission reactors and the couple of fusion designs that already exist. iirc they have the actual fusion part working and are now working on actually getting the energy out of it. real engineering has some good videos about them on nebula and YouTube.

could do that, but I’d rather actually buy the eBook bc it is less likely to have weird errors than a pirated copy.

don’t worry, if they won’t sell me the book I have no issue pirating it. I’m looking for the ones that will, so I can compensate them for their work and (though one person doesnt make much difference) discourage the use of DRM.

yeah, but most platforms dont let you download the actual file

their selection seems a little lacking but free books is nice

thanks

ive been doing that so far but I also want to support the people/platforms that will just straight up sell me the book so they dont go out of business. also, pirated copies sometimes have weird issues.

its not necessarily every single user, but the vast majority of the time when you interact with a .ml account they act insane and are assholes. it may only be a vocal minority, but the mods do nothing to stop them and on .ml communities they actively support that behavior.

you’re missing the point. in subscribed view .ml content can still appear. the point is to make it so that nothing from lemmy.ml can get through at all because the people on that instance suck to interact with.