Oh, I found Graphene excellent! It’s just the notifications are pretty essential and I cannot get them working outside of one app. That’s the only reason I criticized it.

Are the Jolla and the FLX1 harder to swap OSes on if needed, like you said? I’ll consider the Fairphone as I know it’s the most popular option, but I’ve also heard criticisms of parts not being available or software support being dropped. Few and far between but considering how much good press it’s gotten, I’d appreciate your take on that. That said I’m sure they wouldn’t mind using an app emulator as long as it’s functional. I’ve helped them get Windows games running through Wine on Mint and also got them the BizHawk emulator for old games and stuff, so they’re no strangers! haha

But hey, thanks so much for this, it’s really helpful.

Tried that too. Its not federated and generally just didn’t like me lol

Sorry, I don’t knowingly support crypto bros or war profiteers if I can help it. Plus if in looking for an alternative to a bad service, I’m not gonna give cadence to the platform already doing shitty stuff, just for it all to crash again once that one gains traction.

I’ve heard Matrix was involved in some crypto bullshit and military operations of some sort. I want an alternative but Matrix is just shady enough all around for me to stay the hell away.

Hey, vegan here! Idk, I guess I do? I eat a lot of tofu which is soy, so if you count that then YEAH. But tofu is so easy to make into what you want it to be that it rarely feels like the same thing, you know? I eat a lot MORE beans then before, but I never stopped to think about it…

The only way I’d be able to tell is if someone watched my diet and went “eating enough beans, my guy?” Lol

Plus with entertainment stuff they’re usually finished once released (or at least they SHOULD be cough cough game industry). It would be better if every game was open source, especially since there are tons of old games that could do with revamps but are too niche to invest in. If we had the source though, die hard fans would be all over that shit and wouldn’t have to spend years decompiling and romhacking! But that said, creative tools need to he constantly updated and should be open source always in case something goes bad. My ROM of Spyro for the PS1 isn’t changing anytime soon, so while it would be better for the source to be out there, I’m not worried about it suddenly becoming unusable.

Then ball-ify the mixture and shoot it directly into your opponents’ mouths. Might break a few teeth but they’ll taste alright going down!

I love how this goes along with another reply saying vegans are too weak to play. Shit, man, I’d like to try paintball but if I’m forced to use marbles then yeah I guess I am too weak lmao

I second this, I wanna know

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Damn that’s… Really sad lol

This Movim thing is giving me really good vibes! No AI in sight, nor crypto shit. Thanks so much for the suggestion! Why don’t I hear anyone talking about it? If you have any other smaller open source projects to suggest, please let me know lol

Please link this command line tool, I neeeeed it lol

Thank you for the info. I looked at people discussing Matrix for ages here and nobody brought this up? What the hell?

Do any of these options offer screen sharing with audio? That’s literally the only thing I care about in terms of one on one chats that only Discord can do.

Hey I know this is an old comment but could you elaborate on this? I’m trying to choose between Matrix and Stoat and no matter which is better, Matrix is out of the question if it’s into crypto bullshit.

Okay, thank you for the explanations and reassurance! I can tell you what I have rn is a Dell XPS 15 if I have the number right. I use it for gaming (mostly retro but plenty newER games as well) and most importantly audio recording and production. It’s pretty good with that stuff, running three monitors including it’s built in one, a giant audio interface as well as a handful of SSDs. It all works with few issues, but God does it feel like I’m stretching this poor laptop thin!

I should have mentioned what I actually use my computer for in the post, but I didn’t expect advice like this, only places to buy old parts, so thank you for your help! Would you be able to place the XPS 15 somewhere in the timeline of these generations of hardware? It was released around 2018 but laptops are always behind, so I’m not sure what era of computer it realistically IS, if that makes any sense. I know for a fact it could perform much better then it does, but the cramped nature of it’s design kneecaps it hard. I have it elevated for better airflow and I may need to clean the fans out, since it has been a while.

EDIT: I’m mostly into platformers and the like, so running new games would be great, but I hardly play any hyper-realistic games. To use two Fallout games as examples: I’ve run New Vegas smoothly for hours and hours, but 4 hardly works at all. Not that I have much interest in the latter so I only ran it for a few minutes, but even those few minutes proved it was far too slow to play at all. I fully believe this is due to the horrible cooling system and not the CPU itself being that bad.

I’ll have a look into this, thank you!

It’s simply that I’ve never taken one apart or put one together before. I’ve heard the stories of people frying things, fucking up the CPU while trying to install it, and just general small mistakes leading to big costs. It all makes me feel I need to do a test run before tackling whatever my final rig ends up being. I need it to last a long time, so that means it’ll be costly, and I don’t think top-tier parts are fit for my untrained hands lol

Read this as Wine 1.0 at first lol

It’s an Ultimate 2C wired. It’s like they aren’t properly implemented wtf?