I don’t understand this take, I have two matrix accounts in different servers and have played with a handful of clients, and the only issues I’ve run into have been either of my own making or due to impatience.

Delta Chat looks fascinating, it’s literally email-based with some extra bits and bobs to make it behave like chat software.

Matrix’s UX has a bit of friction, but that’s the cost of an open, federated, encrypted platform where you own your own encryption keys. Every closed-source, centralized alternative is very much a “trust me bro” situation when it comes to message encryption and backdoors.

Element sucks as a client, I always recommend FluffyChat or SchildiChat to first-timers. On desktop/web, Cinny and Commet are fantastic options for people who want a Discord-like UI.

realistically, they’re mostly going to grumble about ID verification but ultimately stay on Discord, for the same reasons people are still using the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

I will say, every encryption issue I’ve encountered has been fixable either by giving it a moment to think or by restarting my chat client, which isn’t too different from when Discord has periodic blips.

Matrix already exists, so… why?

Eh, Valve and Steam are practically synonyms, I do the same thing all the time and only correct myself half the time.

I only mentioned the ARM thing because I am super stoked at what a Bazzite/Cachy/etc. equivalent fork of SteamOS ARM could do for the Chinese import handheld scene.

Did you mean Steam is going in on ARM? The Steam Deck is already x86…

I just set up an abandonware PC copy of Blur with amax-emu earlier this month, it was shockingly straightforward to get online play back and is a rare game that honestly looks as good as I remember.

And this was on a steam deck, I imagine it’d be even easier on a normal PC.

I’m bread

oh, yeah, I personally don’t vibe with the “nachos” category (which was added later), and think it’s just a weird way to describe a salad which includes starch.

but also, if you want to include the apocryphal cube food types, I think that would make the open-face potato sandwich more of a cake, or nachos upon a toast.

I don’t think that counts, they’re more of an ingredient than a structural starch in this case

that’s not part of the cube rule of food’s definition of toast, oddly enough.

yep! this is one of the many reasons why soft tacos are superior.

that's a toast!

depends how you eat it! per the cube rule, pizza is a toast if unfolded, a taco if folded, and a sandwich if two unconnected slices are slapped together face-to-face.

the insane clown party?

Nintendo’s legal department being used for the societal good one (1) time sounds about right

if you actually care about opsec, you can just say Kroger instead (Smith’s is one of many grocery chains that Kroger bought out).

wasn’t expecting a struggle sessions about what constitutes an indie dev studio today, hexbear is such a hilarious combination of extremely serious and deeply unserious.

I don’t really have anything to add other than, yes, SuperGiant is an indie development company, and the fact they’ve taken (some of) their extra money from the massive commercial success that was Hades and used it to pay contractors is actually really fucking cool and admirable.