There’s a massive cultural thing in the US about the iPhone being the preferred phone and if you don’t have one it must be because you’re too poor to afford one. Obviously this is a result of marketing and isn’t universal but it is a surprisingly widely held view.

Given that, showing up in a group chat as a lone blue bubble marks you out as the inferior group member (in some people’s eyes). It doesn’t matter so much 1:1 but if there are 10 people the odd one out stands out.

You can update your version of Fedora through the updater software as well but it’s a very clear separate process that is initiated manually.

Distro version updates bring major updates to key packages - the one you’d notice most would be to Gnome, the desktop environment. There will be other things too that get only bugfix and security updates during the life of that version, and then after a while that version will lose support and you won’t get any updates at all (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/).

Updating is very safe and reliable. I’ve had my Fedora install at work for 3 years, updating periodically and it’s working extremely well.

From that quote I took “that salmon is ok, but this dish that it’s in is overall good”.

What do you mean by Phase 2?

There’s some stuff about the roadmap for most of this year: https://blog.beeper.com/p/state-of-the-app-spring-2023

See the other message I have written - you should always recommend search. The URL only works if someone has already searched for that community. If you’re on a big instance, that’s almost always true, but on a smaller instance it often isn’t.

The above advice isn’t perfect - in general, use Search first.

Until the first person searches for a community on your instance, your instance doesn’t know about it and the URL won’t work. Searching (usually using the [email protected] form) should always work.

Equally, your instance doesn’t start pulling data on a community (messages etc.) until someone subscribes to it, and then when subscribed it will sometimes take a a few hours to get it all (it should immediately start getting new posts and comments).

Everything else in my life is USB-C now - my laptop, my Steam Deck, my ear buds etc. My wife and I are both Android so we only have to have one charging cable anywhere in the house or our bags.

I agree, but this provides a path towards that. It is Matrix underneath so if we get a proportion of people using Beeper they it becomes easy to transition to using Matrix to talk to those people.

I think they mostly died when GChat turned off XMPP support and became a walled garden.

If Beeper does become a successful business though, there’ll be a full time development team “playing catch-up” with money behind them. It’s interesting if you read this that they’re rolling out features ahead of the message providers in some cases!

They’re also leveraging some existing infrastructure. Beeper is built on Matrix which does a lot of the heavy lifting for them.

It’s great for a server system but I find it less great for a desktop environment. Hardware support take longer to get to the kernel, UI improvements take longer to get to the desktop etc.

You’re going to hear a lot of recommendations, but I strongly suggest going with Fedora for your first distro. It’s the least pain to get up and running with a modern, performant, up to date distro.

Ubuntu these days is its own little corner of design choices, Arch is designed to need configuration, Debian is a (purposefully) a bit slow to keep up. A lot of people say good things about Linux Mint, haven’t used it myself but have used Fedora for years (including at work) and it’s rock solid without much faffing.

Proton is a fork of Wine. It was created by Valve and they have done amazing work getting it to support basically everything. It’s made the steam deck and amazing machine.

Do you have a citation for this? It conflicts with what I know about GDPR.

Mostly GDPR encourages companies to delete personal data they were holding once they no longer have a legitimate use for it. There is a rule where you can demand your data be frozen if so that misuse cam be investigated and in that case you’d be right. But in general companies can and should delete personal data.

It’s more limited because it’s just WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram but Element One does the same thing (and no waitlist): https://element.io/element-one

I use it and it’s great - it’s “just” a paid service that runs on a Matrix server with the relevant bridges running. This is actually the same technology underneath that Beeper is built on (Beeper uses all the matrix bridges to do its work).

Beehaw has defederated from a couple of the biggest instances, so you’re going to see some mismatching stuff. See here: https://beehaw.org/post/615042

Implementing E2E isn’t just about the encryption though, it’s also about the key exchange/distribution/generation approach.

If you look at what Matrix does, so much of the complexity comes from how they authenticate all the different clients to manage E2E in a distributed way. For proper E2E you’ve got more than 2 ends (multiple clients) so you need to manage it for all.

It’s a feature a lot of people want and if you give it a few months it’ll probably appear. At the moment though the Devs are rushed off their feet making sure Lemmy works well at the scale it’s suddenly got to.

There’s an absolutely practical reason for doing it that’s consistent with everything they’ve done so far - they want to control how we get to and see Reddit. So that they can advertise in the feed etc.

RSS means you can skip the normal feed (where they would advertise) and go straight to the post.

It’s not a good idea - they seem to have forgotten that user hostile decisions reduce the number of users - but it does make sense in their twisted world. I’m amazed they still work.

Joker.com are an awesome registrar that I’ve used for years.

GDPR covers “Personally Identifying Information”. If you sign up with an annoymous username I wonder if GDPR even applies.