Words evolve, and sometimes, they gain new meanings. “Bare metal” is not a scientific terms, and so it can be bent depending on the context.

You can either accept that or not, it doesn’t change the fact that that’s what it now can mean.

It’s just what it means in this specific context.

They’re not running directly on the host, with directly meaning directly.

If you go by definition, I agree with you, but the definition is not always the thing to go off of.

Have you read my comment? It’s about where the packages and services are installed.

In this case, they’re installed in the container, not on the host

Not in this context. Bare metal means all packages and services installed and running directly on the host, not through docker/lxc/vms

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it’s satire

Yep, guess that’d do it.

You’d still have to handle transferring keys across your devices, every time you login on a new one.

Also, searching would probably not work, at least as well as it does right now, since all messages are indexed on the discord side, which they wouldn’t be able to do without seeing them. Everything would have to happen on device, meaning the devide would have to store all messages.

They are exchanged between the two devices.

Have you tried using Signal on desktop? It doesn’t offer history syncing. Cross device for whatsapp for example is also a terrible experience. Unusable for something like Discord.

For a seamless experience Discord would probably have to store the keys themselves, defeating the whole point.

You’re actually joking with the “inviter providing the decryption keys to the invitee” part right?

The whole point why people use discord is that it’s simple, this is a feature that’d only annoy the average person, and every single extra step is a disaster for user retention (look at any eshop study).

Stuff like this is completely irelevant to discord, the tiny subset of people who actually care will and should use Matrix / other solutions, because that’s the people they were made for.

Do you want to explain how to do it better?

That’s how joining a server and being able to see history works

Yeah, but people don’t like change, and I’d expect low level engineers to like it even less.

And looking at Linux, that shit still supports ancient hardware, being able to actually get rid of old code (that now has to be maintained alongside the new code) is gonna be a PITA.

I’m just guessing, but what about backwards compatibility? Or cross-system compatibility?

For example, something like a syscall that’s existed for 20 years. Changing it would break old apps.

Of course you could just keep the now “old” syscall and add new methods that replicate it’s behavior, but haven’t you then introduced bloat? More ways to do the same thing, meaning (eventually) more bugs, more fragmentation, memory usage, etc.

I had no idea, thanks for the info

That’s on the tv manufacturers though, it’s their choice.

Oh I know, but I do think anti-trust would require an erection of some sort of barrier. Say, if HDMI required that if HDMI is present, displayport cannot be.

Right now, tv makers are complete free to choose.

Doesn’t mean displayport can’t be used there.

If the tv maker wanted to not pay licensing fees, they could put a displayport on the thing. But they don’t. Their call.

That’s not the point of my comment, the point is that whatever hdmi is, it’s got very healthy competition, so there’s no real reason for anti-trust stuff

But displayport exists, is widely used and is free?

I’m pretty sure that’s kinda exactly what happened though, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just that no one thought to add a logo because engineers don’t care about shit like that (at least a lot of them don’t)