Have they considered that they’re just not a great channel?

I didn’t say they were?

At least twelve lanes on a single track. If I recall, the cool keytar instrument you could get for… was it Rock Band 3? might be able to make a song with that track in it. Not sure how many other games or instruments could do that though.

I banned Apple from my life a long time ago.

If you’re going to make claims, you need to prove them. Let’s see real studies.

Because it is the most well researched dietary pattern out there, and has proven beyond any other to have a host of beneficial effects, provide complete nutrition, and be most associated with reductions in all-cause mortality.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9710405/

I’m so tired of this whack-a-mole game of one unfounded, usually dangerous and usually corporate-backed, dietary fad after another.

From a purely scientific and public health standpoint, the Mediterranean dietary pattern - as defined by Ancel Keys - has been the gold standard for decades, and will continue to be so unless something fundamentally changes about the human condition. Every well studied, consensus-backed reference diet from every leading nutritional authority around the world promotes some variation of that diet. If there are better diets, or diets with optimizations for specific conditions, they are still built on that foundation.

And while I tend to prefer to err on the side of no oil, if I’m going to use any added fats, it’s going to be olive oil or canola oil.

And also, there are more things to consider in diet than personal health. Go vegan.

Those don’t take gas. So, like, to set it on fire?

DRM in cars makes me want to stick to a car-free life even more.

So, going from Mealie’s instructions, having to learn how to work with Docker, whatever underlying server you’re working with, and a database system is easy 2-5 minutes?

Such as?

A large part of it is the obnoxious monetization and general enshittification and privacy violations, but that’s not all. There are a number of usability annoyances. If I’ve been away from Discord for a little while and try to continue where I left off in a thread on a server, it never properly preserves where I last stopped reading. There are often times when I get notifications but it won’t actually take me to the relevant message, and that can even result in situations where the ping just gets lost entirely.

Then there’s things inherent in Discord’s design and how people use it. It’s become a tool that people have decided is a convenient replacement for chats, wikis, and forums - but it’s a shittier version of all of those things. Pinned messages are such a tucked away and half-baked feature. The fact that people are using Discord both to organize and discuss projects - as well as using that same space to host documentation or other critical knowledge-bases has made information significantly less accessible. I don’t want to join someone’s niche club just to “learn more.” If I want to read something I would rather just go to a wiki on the actual open web.

Discord is hot garbage ultimately for the same reasons as Facebook. It’s trying to be everything to everyone, and dropping a black box on the open web by doing so. It’s just another example of people trading convenience for actually using the appropriate tools for the kind of job they’re trying to do.

How so?

Isn’t everything a pain to selfhost?

Sometimes, but my point is you don’t have to start from scratch. It’s free software. You are allowed to make extensions or even fork it.

Sure, go for it. Though XMPP has so many features at this point, it might already have Matrix, irc, Discord, and email for all we know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We really need to stop abandoning existing foss projects and thinking a whole new thing needs to be invented. Free and open-source software is not a product, it doesn’t abide by the same rules and relationships that proprietary tech does.

It’s more organic. It’s also a commons that we can continue to draw on, and reshape. If I recall correctly, there were something like three different vector graphic editors from the same codebase before Inkscape managed to be the one that gained traction.

Matrix isn’t perfect, but abandoning it just to reinvent it all over again just because some people really need a thing that works like Discord, even though Discord is absolute hot garbage; is just going to re-create all the same problems. Matrix today is better than it was two years ago. And Matrix in a year will be better from now.

The problem is they’re making it suck more, by piling their usual proprietary shitware on top of it.

I would love to have a good pair of ar glasses to play games on my Steam Deck with. Connect a controller, and not have to hold up the heavy Deck itself.

But given Apple’s propensity for walled gardens and lock-in, and Meta putting manipulative spyware into everything they make, these hypothetical glasses won’t be coming from either of those companies.

I guess that would beg the question, how much is it worth to you pay extra to not have additional spyware in your home? Or as others have said in this thread, there is at least one brand of television that still sells dumb tvs.