Yeah at least you’ll be familiar with the apps, ease the headache switching.

So it’s GUIMP? I thought it was “GNU Image Manipulation Program.”

No I agree the way to fix this in the end is societally, but yeah the way to protect yourself immediately is force, so either become One Punch Man or get strapped.

But as to the other stuff, well maybe you earnestly meant “sorry for your stuff” but it seemed (and often is used by others as in “it’s just stuff” to minimize home invasion victims’ experiences) as if it was sarcastic. If that’s not the case, my apologies. If that is the case you have no clue what this person went through, like for many others it may have been more than just “stuff.”

when I was on the receiving end of a home break in

So you just being pedantic, or what’s good?

Other than that, what exactly is your point? Buy guns?

Well, yes. But also my main point is “you being a callous dickhead with ‘sorry about your stuff’” just makes it clear you’ve got no clue how it feels and probably have only a tangential idea of what “empathy” is at best.

Tbf (and I have no dog in this fight other than:)

Home invasions aren’t just about “stuff.” Even if “they just want your TV bro” it’s about no longer feeling safe and secure in your home where you “should” be able to (those of us home invaded and untrusting know that there’s not really such thing as total safety, just relative safety, but most expect it even if it is naïve innocence.) What’s more sometimes home invaders steal your TV, sometimes they’re Richard Chase, B.T.K, The Nightstalker, some people get murdered or raped or both in their own home by an intruder. And even in cases of alleged gangstalking where someone(s) breaks in and moves shit around or leaves something rather than even taking anything, with the clear message “we can get in here, you’re not safe.” It’s not about the “stuff.”

Idk, maybe until your home gets broken into and your roommate gets pistol whipped and you’re all too poor to go to the hospital so we just superglued his head back together (didn’t work great, actually), you can’t know how it feels and are just stuck in the materialist “stuff” mindset, but yeah it can really mentally fuck people up actually.

(Of course, the police still don’t help with that as they always show up after, guns help.)

https://www.slackradio.org/

Praise “Bob”

IMO the main advantage that Matrix-Element has for normal users is the branding: Element is Element on the web, Android and iOS.

I agree, though Delta Chat has this too, it’s the same on linux/mac/win, android, and iOS. There’s also Arcane Chat for android developed by one of the devs of Delta Chat as sort of a testing ground but that’s like an if you know you know thing, like my mom just thinks we’re all on Delta Chat. One thing is they don’t have a web interface afaik, you need the app.

Simple user+password login to a hosted (non-matrixdotorg) server takes 5-6 pages to click through.

And the recovery passwords and all that just seem to be out of reach for those who just use hunter2 for everything, if the complaints I got are indicative if most people.

I was spammed with racist copypasta on XMPP once too. But being in large Matrix chats guarantees being invited/messaged.

Good news for Delta Chat is they don’t really do groups like that, you can group chat but it’s more for like friends and family than strangers, I see that as a win in this use case, where if we need xmpp/matrix style public groups we can fall back to xmpp. You also have to accept chats before they go through and there is no discoverability so you won’t get random drive bys.

They no longer recommend using a traditional email account, instead recommending chatmail servers like these (there’s more as well, but they have this small list to choose from in the app or you can bring your own). They say if you have to use traditional email use a dedicated account for delta chat, not one that also gets traditional email.

I like how they are trying to address metadata as much as possible, the onboarding is so easy my literal mother can do it, video/audio calling is in beta and works pretty well (some glitches, but it’s in beta), the webXDC stuff is cool but I don’t really use it yet, and I’m sure I’m forgetting something.

Personally I like XMPP over Matrix because

• Matrix clients aren’t great (even element is buggy as piss on my phone and a shitty electron app on linux)
• Matrix is too difficult for “normal” people (I agree they should get good but they don’t and what good is a chat app without recipients).
• Matrix public rooms have a CP problem, and as such I can’t recommend people join it just in case, I don’t need my mom seeing that shit.
• Matrix was started as an Amdocs project before they defunded it and the lead dev went to form The Matrix Foundation. Amdocs is a Mossad affiliated company that infiltrated American telcom companies long ago. Matrix also pisses metadata to any server it federates with, including matrix [.] org, and I have no proof that Mossad is spying on that metadata but I have no trust either, nor proof that they aren’t, so I can’t trust matrix anymore.

Though XMPP also has had it’s own problems for me, so at the moment it’s my fallback and I’m trying out Delta Chat which I have been loving.

Tuta sucks, they deleted an acct of mine for inactivity, then when I went to replace it they flagged the new one for manual review and said “this addr cannot send mail until the review clears, please reach out to our support team using the email we just said can’t send email for some reason.” I went with Disroot.

GrapheneOS is super easy to install, they have a walkthrough on their site.

Tbh even if I could I wouldn’t want to, the terminal is so much better for many things. I advise new users to become comfortable with it at least by following along with a few “linux terminal basics” vids like it’s a class.

Yeh

Hey kids you like plain text files right?

Me, who grew up reading/referencing text files daily on gamefaqs for cheats, secrets/eggs, and walkthroughs when stuck on various games: Yeh.

X was worse for me last time I used it, which was admittedly a while back, but still. They might not be able to read message content but any server that federates with matrix.org leaks a fuck ton of metadata to them and people have been killed for metadata before. If Mossad is monitoring that metadata then that’s enough for me. It’s hard enough, I have people asking me about second passwords and all that. This is the type of people that use one password for everything and it’s hunter2, I love them but they aren’t all America’s Best. Delta Chat is spotty on the video/audio calls, but they’re working on it, and somehow they ring through on my phone where (due to my setting pull notifications polling every 300sec because GrapheneOS) on Element they wouldn’t notify me until too late.

+1 for Delta Chat, I’ve been loving it! Using it through Arcane Chat at the moment.

I’ve recently left Matrix behind for a few reasons.

• Element, the “best client,” is a buggy mess on android and a shitty electron app on PC.
• While I wasn’t using it due to a bug and awaiting an update, I learned that it started as an Amdocs project before being defunded and the lead dev went off to create The Matrix Foundation. Amdocs is a Mossad affiliated company that infiltrated America’s telcom networks long ago. Now, I’m not saying that means Mossad is tracking all the metadata that pours out of Matrix, but like, too close for comfort.
• Also it leaks metadata like a sieve.
• It’s too hard for the normals to use, yes I agree they should just get gud but they won’t, and it was hurting adoption (in my circle). What good is a messaging app without people to message?
• The public rooms’ CP issue makes it hard to convert people too, I had one friend asking what kind of app I made him install and scared he was gonna get arrested for a post someone made in the RaspberryPi room. Not a good look.

It is for these reasons I’ve migrated to Delta Chat (well, Arcane Chat but same same), and with the easy onboarding it has been easier to get normal people on it.

For sure all this, one note, rule 0 is

encounter one at the home of a friend or family member.

If you don’t know what to do (RE: these other four rules and how to operate that specific firearm) or are nervous, don’t goddamn touch it unless you have to. If it’s a safe situation and not something out of the ordinary like kids or burglars are around and the owner is dead, go get the owner of the gun or someone who is experienced enough to handle them safely.

That’s where the first part comes in.

Though he should have said “get at least two guns, you and your wife learn to use it, and carry one even at home for a while just in case.”

Idk I don’t know about & either (I know && but I’m guessing it’s different), but you can ctrl+z it, then use bg to run it in the background, then disown to divorce it from the terminal.

I’ll try firefox & when I get home and see what happens though, I’m assuming that’s what he meant.

Wait do the nuns bugger? Thought that was only the preists.