And then you always get that one girl saying: “Yeah whatever let them look at my nudies, I dont’ care”…

Yeah, XMPP is great and all, but the client side is a big old mess, everything is full of friction and missing support for feature xyz. Have you tried using XMPP on iOS?

Sure, but now you show me all the clients that supported OTR back then 😜 - or now, for that matter. Besides, OTR doesn’t work in multi user chats. OMEMO does, and support for it is still not exactly widespread…

How many contacts do you have in Threema though?

You mean text editing after sending? I would definitely not consider that a “basic” feature - we are talking about E2EE here, editing a message that you already encrypted locally and then sent on its way is by no means trivial - especially with the kind of E2EE that we have nowadays.

That was the time when all the apps were standard XMPP. It didn’t have proper encryption back then. WhatsApp is still XMPP nowadays, but excluding federation and non-standard implementation on Meta servers and so on

I would not recommend using music to learn a language, especially if the lyrics don’t stick in yr head easily (which IMO is basically its only advantage). The lyrics normally do not contain everyday vocabulary and/or grammar, it’s just not useful for communication. It is, however, often helpful for forming some sort of “emotional bond” with the target language, increasing motivation to dig deeper into it. It can also give you a better access to its specific, well, musical qualities. But then, just the bare spoken (not sung) sound of it can accomplish that just as well, if you’re willing to listen. Music will not help you get along with everyday tasks, improving communications, talking about yourself and other subjects, participating in discussions etc. Intentfully listening to spoken text/conversations is far more effective for that - even more so if it’s authentic (not scripted, not produced for recordings, read by actors etc)

IMO we all should - pay for Free software. I won’t mind if devs start putting a price tag on their work, and it should be the norm to donate to our most-used FOSS projects. I’m just having problems deciding who to donate to, because if all the stuff we use on Linux day in, day out were for pay, I couldn’t afford it

Is it possible that you maybe live in Germany? I hear it’s chock full of Germans there!

Turns out a Wayland session isn’t working for me in a number of ways (for isntance, the keyboard isn’t even working right). In X11, the only thing that works is two fingers to vertical scroll

Nee, funzt nicht

Which AI tool does that?

Well then this setting contributes nothing to Linux percentage

Okay, but not on Windows though, right?

Yeah, meaning it wouldn’t claim to be a standout like some Linux distro, but Windows

Wireless carrier wants you to get out of bed and scroll at the goddamn kitchen table

How so? Does a non-fingerprinted Firefox always cöaim it’s installed on Linux?

Wow that is a lot of affirming and repeating and adamantly stating yet again its PRO-HUMAN intentions!

It would be fine in a porn comic, but provoke a scandal in a “regular” memes community

As long as the shoes don’t smell…