Delivery boy in the year 3000.

I have one sibling and as far as she’s concerned the world owes her. “Owes her what?” You may ask? Everything. I’m not looking forward to the inheritance dispute that’s inevitable when my parents pass.

It must be someone who doesn’t understand the situation. Surely not Nintendo. My parasocial relationship with that company tells me they’re swell!

Evil Doctors Never Knock, Hence Screaming?

That might actually get me to tune into the Olympics…

SST was great DAMN SHAME THEY NEVER MADE ANY SEQUELS. NOT A SINGLE ONE! No one can convince me otherwise!

Anyway, hopefully The Helldivers movie holds a candle to SST and doesn’t screw the pooch like Starship Troopers 2-A̴̰͉͙̐̈́͜Ḫ̵̢͖̪̹̀H̷̡̓̎̈́͠H̶̬͚̉̽͂̈̚ ̶̡̭̦͉̉M̵͕̤͐̚̕Y̵̹̮̲̗̽ ̷͔̔͂͆̑̾̓H̴̝͕̓E̴̛̖͎͒͛͐̑Ä̷̡̪͎́͊̄D̴̫̖̍̿̆͜! THERE ARE NO TERRIBLE STARSHIP TROOPERS SEQUELS!

That’s great to hear and pretty cool that it can be done as P2P. I’ll definitely give it a go now!

Beautiful lady gives me a big smile and a kind hello and my first thoughts are: “Don’t get your hopes up, mate. No way she’s single and if she is then no way she’s into someone like you. Be kind, but keep those expectations in check.”

Hasn’t failed me so far.

They have been making advances in their UI design but now it feels like a ‘modern’ late 200’s UI. Would be nice if the UX was properly developed to modern standards so that neurotypical non-techie people could use it.

Is screen sharing available for self hosting? Last I checked (6 months ago) the TS server version wasn’t publicly available yet.

If it is I’ll give it another go!

Spacebar sounded really promising when I checked them out years ago.

The big Discord.com features currently left unimplemented or with partial implementations are: Voice/Video support (WebRTC protocol support implemented, but lacking UDP protocol implementation)

Unfortunately, seems like it’s still not at a point where it could cover basic Discord functionality.

Edit: I should be clear, I’m not trying to discourage it. I really hope it succeeds to the goal of parity with Discord! Love to hear from someone who has used it a bit.

I looked into Stoat around the time of their name change announcement.

On the one hand it looks good and is definitely the closest Discord clone at the moment. I was disappointed about a couple of things though:

• They have a self hosted server option but it doesn’t have the full feature suite and seems like they’ve decided that it won’t in the foreseeable future.

• They’re aware of federation and have no plans to head down that path for the software.

Bit of a shame because if I could self host the full software that’d be pretty damn good as a replacement for all of my friends. If it could be federated in a way where servers could work in tandem that’d be a great distributed alternative to Discord for the entire community! I understand why they’re not pursuing those avenues but it’s still a shame.

“The way I see AI, this is the biggest single biggest gold rush in human history. It’s going to generate so much wealth for everyone,” AirTrunk’s founder Robin Khuda told Forbes last year.

Oh, cool! Sounds like a great idea th-

But major AI companies are losing billions of dollars each year and there are already examples of newly-built, mega data centres sitting idle because of energy supply constraints.

Well, at least it will only effect people with monetary investment in-

It’s also not clear how domestic power bills will be affected, though some data centres in the US have pushed prices 267% higher for local residents.

gadget that lasts a few years before you have to toss them and replace them.

On one hand; yes they are disposable tech. On the other hand I have 2 sets of AirPods that are about 6 years old that I still use regularly.

I bought a brand new set and it’s amazing how much better the new ones are but I still use one set of my old ones at work and another set at home when I don’t want to risk the new ones. I can’t justify throwing out the old sets when they still work well.

I can’t remember who said it, because ABC radio had a bit of a revolving door of right-wing/Jewish representatives on this morning. When asked about police brutality against protesters the response was along the lines of “police took action against violent protestors” (and I’m super paraphrasing here because I can’t remember the wording) “and calling for the death of all Jews”.

I’m sure not everyone was peaceful but the 2 videos I’ve seen so far were essentially people protesting by just standing around and then having the shit kicked out of them by police. Hell of a stretch to reach the previous statement with the same person blanketing all injured protesters as “radicals” and “violent left” etc.

Feels like more and more of the narrative twisting that has become an ever increasing problem worldwide these days.

“Not my fascist, my fascist is going to help the working class people!” - Idiots, circa 2026

Got any evidence of that? /s

That… would actually make a lot of sense.

Finally, a message I can get behind! Do I get my lobotomy now or after orientation?

Not an insult but one of my favourites is when it’s raining; “wet enough to bog a duck.” Don’t know if it’s Aussie exclusive but always gets a chuckle out of me.