Lemmy.
Telegram.
Telegram Will die, Matrix will takeover
Mr. Anderson!
Is matrix more of a discord alternate or telegram
Originally a federated E2EE alternative to IRC. But it can replace any instant messengers (Discord, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, ICQ, Jabber, etc.).
Does “replace” mean I can use it to communicate with people who are on any of these apps?
Sorry, by ‘replace’ I meant ‘use as an alternative’.
Matrix has bridges, but they have to be configured on a backend (instance) and I don’t know any instances that allow them at no charge.
Telegram, viber etc.
Why is it dying? Is matrix as easy to use? telegram is very user friendly but matrix from what I remember has you use servers or something else and it gets complicated for normies
Bro, it’s same as lemmy. In few years it will be more advanced, and users too. Why bigger communities risk to be banned on telegram? Maybe more better to host your community on matrix?
telegram is unencrypted by default. Use something else if you value your privacy
I am willing to sacrifice my privacy for accessing the 2nd largest chat mobile app.
None of my family, friends or assosiates uses Telegram as a main chat platform.
So i use Telegram as my space to exchange and talk about NSFW content.
I second this! That being said, I’ve been successful in recruiting almost my entire friend group over the last few years. All of the people I talk to daily or regularly are on it. Once people use it they realize how superior it is to anything else we’ve been using and end up staying.
Honestly, hope more people start fixing their own stuff
This has inspired me. My Instant Pot has been throwing a lot of errors lately, I bet I can rig something up…
You know, of all the things to fix, an instant pot would make me nervous. Don’t mess with the safety valve.
I’ve recently been trying to focus on this! A few years ago I looked at my collection of various things I don’t really need and realized how little I know about maintaining them properly; I just bought things with no regard to how long it would be around. If I were to actually do the recommended weekly maintenance on everything including home, it’d probably be a full time job. I’ve since taken a step back and slowly worked one thing at a time into my weekly schedule while minimizing, and it feels pretty rewarding. It changed the way I value things, both at their peak of function and that have a small issue I wouldn’t have considered fixing before.
It’s so satisfying fixing things
Especially when I find them near a dumpster or on the curb
Playing with my penis
Most unexpected yet reasonable answer in this thread, seriously
Imagine a bunch of gay guys standing in line outside your house…
Most of my hobbies are geared toward getting away from people so not sure how to answer this one.
Lol do you ride motorcycles because that’s how I generally feel.
Privacy.
Learning how to get better at critical thinking.
I study rhetoric and argumentation for fun. Rhetoric is for understanding how people persuade me, argumentation is for understanding the tactics they use to achieve that goal. I’ve developed a certain style of rhetoric and argumentation that I like a lot. Essentially, I think people should learn to identify their own assumptions and make them explicit. Far fewer misunderstandings would happen if people know wtf they themselves were saying.
That’s a hobby?
Why wouldn’t it be? It’s not something I’m doing for school or work. It’s purely for personal growth and enjoyment, like writing and/or reading.
Well, to me it sounds more like a skill rather than a hobby.
Getting better at a hobby makes it a skill. Get better at pottery and its a skill, doesnt mean its not a hobby.
Yeah, fair. What I thought was that critical thinking is a skill that everyone should have, which makes it a life skill rather than a hobby where everyone has a different one and its fine not to have.
Though something like learning multiple languages or even just a second language is another example where it could be classified as both hobby and crucial life skill in my books.
It shouldn’t be just a hobby. I think it should be taught in schools. It is the source of most of the world’s problems.
I got recommended to read Thinking Fast and Slow on lemmy and I’ve been really enjoying it, much of it is about hidden assumptions and critical thinking
How would someone get started doing this?
I really got started by reading Thank For Arguing. It was a quick and dirty introduction to rhetoric. But what struck me was quotes like
A successful argument, like anything about the future, cannot stick to the facts.
or
The audience’s beliefs are at least as important as the facts
I grew up in a world were facts and logic were esteemed, but, for whatever reason, people don’t even know basic logic and facts are selectively chosen. There was an obvious disconnect that this book explained really well.
And then it went on to explain how to do it yourself. So, that was nice, too.
Check out David McRaney if you haven’t already. I have the same interests. Most people don’t explore what actually motivates their beliefs. It’s a fascinating subject.
That articles reminds me of when I listened How to Talk to a Science Denier. They’re fascinating because their beliefs are so obviously wrong even as they proclaim the real facts and flawless logic are on their side. It’s a wonder how people end up believing what they believe.
And then I take a step back and wonder…what am I motivated to believe? And I get where some of my axioms come from.
In any case, that looks like a useful book! Thanks for the recommendation.
I sadly don’t have any programming friends
Neither do I.
What kinda programming you do?
Reading math books, Linux, Lemmy, and Extreme metal. I have nothing to talk about with people IRL other than the fucking weather (that I actually want to talk about).
The overlap between math and death metal fans is larger than im comfortable with.
That’s why we have Mathcore. Also if this is you, please check out this programming themed prog album.
Death, Black, Grindcore, Slam, blackened deathmetal, shoegaze, Deathgaze…hit me up :D
RPGs that aren’t dnd
I was literally going to post that exact thing.
Like every part of DND has something that makes me grind my teeth and yet it’s so popular! People say it’s “easy” and simple and I’m like “WHAT BONUS IS 15 STRENGTH? WHY??”
Does Pathfinder 2e count?
That’s like the blues brothers bit “we’ve got both kinds of music here. Country and western”.
I think pf2e is better in many ways but it also has a lot of the same stuff.
Linux
The biggest thing holding back the mainstream adoption of Linux on the desktop is that it basically needs to become a hobby. Generally speaking, people want an operating system that gets out of their way so they can use the computer to do stuff they enjoy.
Yeah, isn’t true anymore.
And hasn’t been for some time, since the nvidia drivers stopped killing your X-server every so often, making sure you remember your console commands.
Most things people complain about (partitioning drives, installing an os, setting up dualboot) isn’t something that is deliberately made complicated by Linux either. It’s only necessary because Windows is in the way, because your pc came preconfigured with it. and with Windows, these things are actually even way more complicated.
Tl;dr: Computers are complicated machines. Maintaining them requires knowledge. That has nothing to do with the OS. Also: Buy a PC that comes with Linux if you want Linux easy. (As you do with Windows or MacOS)
people want an operating system that gets out of their way
They have been existing for along time now. Only that the public don’t know about.
KDE Neon and Zorin OS come to my mind. I recommend trying them out if you haven’t done already.
I just watched a video on KDE Neon, within 2:30 he was into the terminal to run a command to get the standard home directory folders so browsers would have a downloads folder to download to. It also seemed pretty slow, and maybe it was running in a VM, but my experience with KDE was always that it was slow and rather quirky with all the panel stuff.
When I checked out a Zorin OS video it took 1 minute for him to say using the command line would really level up your experience and then he tried to push a course on Linux mastery. After the sales pitch he talked about the new upgrade app that made things super easy, but I couldn’t really tell what was going on. It kept opening browsers and made it look like he had to pay for an update? There was some kind of “pro” version. He also mentioned it doesn’t do automatic updates and it’s up to the user, because that’s “the Linux way”. Average users aren’t going to do updates on their own, ever.
Not a great start. Not to mention all the research someone would have to do to even arrive at these distros as their short list. There is more to making an OS usable and not a hobby than just copying the old Windows start menu. Picking a distro is its own hobby.
I did like what I saw with Zorin when it came to having a simple settings option to pick the preferred desktop layout, rather than making people switch desktop environments and install and bunch of plugins and customizations to get to what most people probably want. The way wine was integrated it was interesting, nice if it works well, but I think it might hold some people back form finding proper Linux alternatives to some of their apps (which is another hobby in and of itself).
I may look into Zorin OS a little more, but I still don’t think I’d recommend it to someone who wasn’t looking for a new hobby, assuming they need more than just a web browser.
I have been running KDE Neon on my 10 year old laptop for a couple of years and I haven’t done anything you’ve mentioned here. KDE Neon gives you a notification when system updates are available and it’s just a mouse click if you decide to do it. No terminal involved.
As far as resources usages, it’s by far the lightest desktop among the “heavyweights” like Gnome etc. KDE used to be a resource hog in the past but it is not the case any more. In fact it has not been the case for a few years now. I installed latest Fedora Gnome last month and immediately went back to KDE because Gnome (or Fedora) took too much resources that the laptop was practically unusable.
I have also run Zorin OS in the past. The pro version is to get extra themes and customer support. You are not missing any functions in the free version.
I think it’s come to the point that it only becomes a hobby because software isn’t built for Linux, like adobe or games. Everything else it is genuinely easier than windows
I wish there were more normal people who play magic. Going to any shop to play is always a gamble, half the time the people you end up playing with smell bad or are socially inept, sometimes both. It’s a fun game if you have actual good people to play with.
I don’t play Magic, but that issue definitely overlaps with tabletop gaming. Early into my start into the hobby, I played in a public campaign at my FLGS and the whole table was kind of sad stereotypes. Thankfully on my way out that night, I met some other folks who were looking for another player in their private game and they were all more socially adept, sanitary, and welcoming.
I unfortunately had to stop going to our local board gaming meetup because of this.
Most people were fine but there was this one creep who kept making weird comments if I did something like, you know, be a woman and dare to bend over to get something from a bag. And then a guy who smelled like pretty much the worst thing I’ve ever smelled and always wanted to be in the same games as me.
I was so excited to find the group but I did not last long there.
I feel ya man. I refuse to play with “my mat is literal Hentai” people and “I don’t shower ever and think it’s okay to subject other people to that” people. Don’t show me your weird fetish porn when we are playing games, and don’t gas me out with your filth, because I will absolutely say something and you won’t like it.
Conlangs, we could reform the language world.
Saluton mi amiko!
Working from home.
Meditation
Everything I do is pretty nerdy, I just wish there were more women, gaming, chess, progamming, etc.
