Discord is an evolutionary culdesac if we’re talking about its role as a forum killer. It’s terrible for long term information storage and retrieval compared to the more permanent, and search engine indexed, forums it replaced. It’s a never ending waterfall of chat messages that’s hard to search, so the same questions keep coming up again and again.

I tried asking a question on Blender Guru’s discord about his doughnut tutorial, on the channel specifically meant for questions about the doughnut tutorial, and it flew off the top of the screen like a barrel going over Niagara Falls, never to be seen again.

Even if the age verification wasn’t a thing, I think the enshittification would set in eventually. So it’s not going anywhere for now, but I’m pretty sure the investors will want their money back sooner or later.

Mumble isn’t requiring you to submit your ID.

I second this. My gaming group probably won’t leave discord for the foreseeable future but Mumble is probably where we’d go if we did. IMO all these Discord alternatives are trying to do everything Discord does, when even Discord can’t pull it off sustainably at their scale.

I don’t want federation. I don’t want it to scale to infinite concurrent users. What I want is something simple I can plonk on a crusty old laptop running Proxmox or a Raspberry pi for a few friends.

I can think of many people I wish didn’t have the power and influence they do, but I don’t wish death on anyone. Quoth Gandalf:

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

The most expensive thing I bought on ADHD-fueled impulse was a $2500 portable radio transceiver. I should probably sell the thing but eh.

Funny thing is it normally comes as a kit you have to assemble, and I paid extra to have it assembled. And it feels like a hand-assembled product, that is, not at all something you could toss around. But it’s supposed to be something you stick in a backpack and hike up a mountain with. I got a battery module for it, but you have to remove some screws and crack that chassis open like a clam every time you want to do anything with the batteries.

I also bought the iambic paddle (the thing sticking out the bottom).

It’s got the ergonomics of a scientific calculator from the 80s.

I love worldbuilding and lore, even for franchises I’m not otherwise invested in. In 2018 I devoured every wiki article and YT video I could on 40K. I thought the AdMech was a really cool faction (still do, actually ⚙️💀) and looked into the models. Nope. I’m not paying that much for a sprew full of plastic that I’ll inevitably mess up.

Safes aren’t just for theft prevention. Indeed the small ones probably don’t do anything in that regard ,but many are fireproof as well, so you can keep documents safe if your house burns down.

I’ve made way too many impulse purchases but off the top of my head I can’t think of one that’s “funny”.

I wrote a post a while ago comparing various wiki and wiki-adjacent offerings. I’ve settled on DokuWiki as it’s easy to host. The UI is dated (though I don’t think it’s outright ugly). The vanilla experience is a bit bare-bones but there’s a built-in GUI for searching and installing plugins. The only pain point I can foresee is upgrading and long-term management thanks to juggling so many plugins. If the newest version of the base software doesn’t play nice with a particular plugin, or if a plugin stops being developed, etc.

And this is exactly what I want, something easy to deploy and host for a small group of friends. It doesn’t need to scale infinitely or federate.

Yes. Was just thinking about this earlier. I don’t like AI, and clearly most people on here don’t either, but I’m worried I’m in an echo chamber.

The amount of tankies is also bothersome. You can be against capitalism without being a communist, and I don’t really see anyone like that here.

Probably aren’t any actual studies, but the fediverse still apes mainstream social media so it likely has the same problems.

Ask a human.

“What’s the scientific term for when a word is on the tip of your tongue?”

“It’s literally just TOT (tip of the tongue)”

I initially thought your question would be about translating technical terms between languages. If it’s an extremely technical term that’s unlikely to be in a dictionary I look up the Wikipedia article in English and then see if there’s a corresponding article in the target language (usually Spanish in my case). The above phenomenon is PDL (punto de la lengua) in Spanish.

Do you have any tabular data editors to recommend?

Constructed languages, ham radio, homelabbing though that’s more my job now.

I love how you answered this with a regular expression.

If a hare ever got the chance he’d eat you and everyone you care about.

Also there’s that parasite that makes them look like they have horns. I think this inspired both the miraj and the jackalope

I like foxes, too. Red fox fathers help take care of their pups. Foxes also make all sorts of weird very un-doglike noises.

I want to pet a fox, especially with its winter coat. Probably not own one though. Speaking of things I want to touch but cant, I wanna pinch a male orangutan’s big flabby cheek pads.