I umderstand your reasoning and I sure hope the fediverse will succeed. I doubt the normies will come over any time soon, but that is not really a bad thing. What is bad tho, is the fragmentation of data over so many instances, duplicate communities not knowing about each other and the censorship some instances apply. I don’t even know how some of these will get fixed or if they will ever, as they are core part of a decentralized architecture. I miss infinity tho, eternity for lemmy worked for a while but it’s no longer maintained :(

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So where do you go for tech advice, niche hobbies and obscure activities?

I wish… 8C with heavy rain is pretty far from ideal. Light jacket is enough, but umbrella and weather proof shoes also needed. YMMV

That litter box looks tiny or these are some very large tiles. Either way it’s probably worth getting a covered litter box, no more sand everywhere

Beep boop ah shiet… They done got me this time… runs away leaking oil and steam

Not all bots are bad, the piped bot is nice and there are others too

Same place where you go bankrupt by calling an ambulance… And they consider themselves a developed country lol

This… Also my water already comes at 10C in the summer, even less in the winter… Any colder and you’d have to bite and chew it rather than drink…

You know what didn’t die yet? My 8 year old earbuds that have a wire and plugs into the jack. And guess what, I don’t even have to charge them or worry about losing one of them.

Fuck wireless headphones.

Zwave is nice, but a lot more expensive due to hardware certification costs

2.4GHz ia good in theory, in practice tho, every technology especially the open protocols use it so there is a lot of interference. I know that because I had to lower the 2.4GHz wifi power by a lot so it doesn’t cause issues with the zigbee mesh.

As for tv I would agree if TVs came with gigabit NIC, but the majority comes with 100mbps card, so if you want to stream some high quality 100+mbps content you have no other option but to use the wifi or give up the usb port for a usb ethernet nic or use a usb hub. Not pretty solitions for sure.

And then you have the robot vacuum which can only use 2.4GHz wifi for obvious reasons. And people might have IPcams which are also on wifi.

Unfortunately Zigbee is precisely 2.4GHz, which isn’t used much for phones and laptops, but still widely used in TVs, vacuum robots and other smart devices that don’t need much bandwidth.

Judging by the amount of downvotes, I think the /s would’ve helped at the end.

So far, the only reasons I’ve seen people switch from 1 communication app to another, be it for gaming or just day-to-day messaging is either better features/better quality or what they’ve been using so far turned into shit. And once enough people switch to the new better thing, the rest will follow.

Unfortunately the open source alternative cannot offer either, it’s why they rarely succed.

When whatsapp first started to gain traction it was vastly superior to sms, mms was never really a big thing here.

Discord became king because Microsoft bought skype and made it shit and teamspeak/mumble were not as conveniant.

So next open source thing will have to be at least as good as discord and discord has to become really shitty before anything changes. So far, discord has been anything but flawless, but ads are the first step of the enshitification. People will likely switch to web client + adblock. And when discord decides to block that, that’s when the first massive wave of people will switch to the new big thing and probably never look back.

I am hopeful the next thing will be something open, I am very much into that, I always try to look for alternatives, but average person doesn’t care, so I wouldn’t hold my breath.

So what features do these bridges support? Does voice chat work? Can I share screen through them? Can I upload attachments?

I would love to switch to something open source, but communication with other people usually has to have the same thing on both ends.

Discord won because it offered more than mumble/teamspeak and did more and better than skype at the time and looks like even to this day. It’s even better than slack and teams when it comes to resource usage.

And how is that going to help if you’re the only one in the friends group that uses Matrix? Your messages still end up on discord and half the features won’t work. What do you achieve compared to using a throwaway account?

It probably takes 15 seconds to put the address into street view and have a look around. Shouldn’t be too dificult to validate the photo. Not sure if there are any privacy policies preventing that, but I doubt it.

I don’t think anyone would risk that with GDPR.

Which is why u get fireworks when someone plugs in a random usb drive they’ve found in the parking lot, looks at stuxnet