You probably already know that its federated, so first step would be picking a server. I would pick one that is on your continent from this list. https://servers.joinmatrix.org/

I would not recommend using the matrix.org server but im too lazy right now to explain why. (basically the same as the arguments against pushing users to lemmy.world)

I would also not use a web based client long term. In the next step you will need to for registration, which is kind of stupid, but you can just log out of the web client after the registration is done.

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Im just gonna randomly pick the server https://gemeinsam.jetzt/ (Austria) from the earlier list. From the list it links you to https://element.gemeinsam.jetzt/ for registration. If you click on “Create Account” it will give you this prompt:

After you fill everything out (+ email confirmation) you will be logged in. Now you have an account that you can use to log into a proper client with an address that look like this @username:gemeinsam.jetzt

You can now log out of the web client as you dont need it anymore. (It might warn you that you are logging out of your last device/session but thats ok).

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Now you can pick a client (there are many but these are the most up to date ones).

For desktop use: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element/

For mobile use the newer: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element-x/

So now you have an account on a server of your choosing and a client which means you just give the client your full address like @username:gemeinsam.jetzt to log in and the client will automatically figure out what server your account is on. Put in your password and you are logged in.

Every time you log into a new client, it creates a new session/device that will have its own independent set of message encryption keys unless verified by another existing device/session. That means to keep your keys synchronized (and messages readable) the client will always request you to verify new devices (other than the first one) upon login.

As you logged out of the only remaining session/device earlier, this newly created one should again be the first and only one of the account. You can verify this in the client settings by looking at the “Sessions” section.

Thats basically it for the initial setup. See following section for why you should have either multiple devices/sessions or set up a recovery key.

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Your messages are stored in your account data on your server, but they are encrypted, so if you lose access to all your devices, then all those messages are gone. To prevent that you can create a “recovery key” which is just a long password that is used to encrypt your encryption keys so they too can be stored safely on your server. This allows you to restore your messages even if all devices are lost by entering the recovery key after logging in from a new device.

If you want to use multiple devices just log in on that device and follow the prompt to “verify this session from another device”. (works by QR code or comparing some emojis) By verifying a session, you synchronize all your message encryption keys to that device/session. The easiest way to verify new devices is like this, by using an existing device.

Let me know if you get stuck anywhere and i will try to help you out :)

information available to few is still more than information available to none

If discord didnt exist, that information would just be elsewhere like proper forums, it doesnt disappear magically.

Matrix is getting better constantly tho. I havent had any issues introducing non techie people to it.

And it is slowly happening :)

The worse discord becomes, the easier it will be to convince people to switch to matrix :)

Inb4 they create some proprietary garbage standard that only them will have access to, leaving small vendors to die.

Discord blocks all attempts at crawling their “public” servers

Information that cant be indexed by a search engine is completely worthless to anyone looking for answers. It might aswell not be there.

Dude i am so glad. Discord was always a cancer, i hope this will spell the beginning of the end of discord. Its the number one biggest offender in terms of limiting access to information on the internet right now. It needs to die.

Always disconnect any IoT devices you buy from the internet. Anything from cameras to switches to TVs to washing machines can and will be downgraded or killed at some point if you allow vendors to push updates without your consent.

One of them is a lot higher up in the panel, so its to be expected either way.

Lmao the cut off twitch chat message

She cut on my med till i care

Exactly. If AI were to scale like the people at OpenAI hoped, they would be celebrating like crazy because their scaling goal was literally infinity. Like seriously the plan that openai had a year ago was to scale their AI compute to be the biggest energy consumer in the world with many dedicated nuclear power plants just for their data centers. That means if they dont grab onto any and every opportunity for more energy, they have lost faith in their original plan.

Nice interpretation :)

I had to look up what those animals are, because i thought maybe their name is just the same as some other fediverse project. I looked for something like “two nosed white horned hooved mammal” and i did find it lol

It probably is in mints repositories but you will figure it out… But yeah that card shouldnt have any issues to stay cool in idle without much fan spin. Its normal for the fans to spin up pretty hard when gaming but if its during idle too then thats odd. You should add GPU usage to your psensor chart and add a screenshot of that.

Have you tried using LACT? https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT

I have been annoyed for years but this is what saved my sanity when it comes to configuring GPUs on linux.

Also what specific model of card made by which company are you using? Fan curve config is something handled by each third party company differently.

Is there any meaning behind those Saiga Antelopes?

And removing all sorts of other annoying components that nobody wants or needs.

Yes, they are corrupt, absolutely no way to deny this without lying. Example: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-johansson-vainly-tries-to-dismiss-lobbying-network-in-libe-committee/

There is no way to argue against encryption without ignoring the catastrophic consequences it would bring to ban encryption. I think its fair to call it stupid if people do so anyways. Banning encryption is like nuking your own country, if you dont understand that then there is no value in talking to you.

Yeah i know, they are simply corrupt and serve the interest of tech companies looking to capitalize from those decisions. But that only makes sense on a surface level, because if we actually broke encryption like this, they themselves would be heavily negatively impacted by it. Nobody wins when all communication is backdoored. Ofcourse they would say “ah but we the important people wont have the backdoored version” but realistically that wont work.