For me, the benefit of discord is not the text chat but the voice aspect. With push to talk/voice activated transmission and low latency for gaming.

The voice features of matrix are more of a conference call thing.

Until this gets implemented in matrix (not sure if ever) I’ll continue hosting mumble (or TeamSpeak)

You can do a disk benchmark on the server to be sure

Make sure the device you pick up has low latency. Not sure if you can find specs like that in the spec sheets. For watching video, latency is not an issue, but when gaming, you want as little time as possible to go by between you pressing a button and the thing showing up on the screen.

Because it’s one thing to cruise along with a ship and just unspool some cable into the water but a whole other thing to dig hundreds of miles of trenches deep under water.

Man, can’t wait to never see these fixes on my 4 year old phone…

Also look at the memory of you haven’t already - run memtest

IV

Runs great on my old-ish Galaxy S10 !

have you tried the builtin “winget” as alternative to chocolatey?

thank you! more up-to-date packages sound good to me, will have to check out mint, then.

how would you compare Mint to MX Linux? Whats the biggest difference in your opinion?

When selecting a distro to mess around with, i just checked distrowatch to find the most popular distro and chose that (MX). My reasoning was that the resources like wiki/tutorials/forum posts would be most easily available with a more “popular” distro.

You dont need to disable secure boot, you just need to enroll the ventoy keys: https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_secure.html

Sponsor Block (+ the already existing uBlock origin) for an ad-free YouTube.

Currently using the fennec build Firefox with those add-ons and have since ditched the YouTube app. Works great so far as an ad-free/native alternative to apps like revanced or newpipe

reviewmeta tries to do this with Amazon reviews

Switching power supplies (“bricks”) are generally more efficient than linear power supplies because they lose less energy as heat. that’s were the difference comes from. (Of course they have drawbacks as well, like increased noise)

Narcos I think

Thanks ray and hschen for the explanation, makes sense!

Does anybody know, why the f-droid releases are delayed so much? Still on .35 here. Even play store seems to have .37

SimpleX seems cool, never heard of it before (they have bad SEO, I think the name doesn’t help)

Only thing that keeps me from using it right now is the missing multi device support. But apparently, that is something the devs want to implement sometime.

Have to keep an eye on it, thanks!

This is the way to go. No DB in the cloud, only on your own/trusted devices.

Been using that setup for many years now.

Of course, syncthing is useful for other things too, I sync my notes between devices, for example (note taking app is Joplin)