Poster is saying his dad installed the mod, not that he made it

God fucking dammit

Are you saying that’s happened? Or that you expect it will?

It serves the key purpose of Mumble, in that it provides a reliable way to get in a voice chat with people. The other features (text chat, video calls, screen sharing, “servers” that let people aggregate for a dedicated purpose/community) come together to make a legitimately good product that’s hard to replace.

With little to no attachment to one’s personal life, unless I’m mistaken.

Is there a peer to peer equivalent to Discord? That feels like it would be the best option, since it wouldn’t rely on a centralized company that could enshittify the product.

It is a bit baffling. I think it’s more ethical than the alternative though: pay gating useful functionality. Offering paid pallete swaps doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, someone who would never pay for that, but it does at least mean I can just ignore it. If they were to, say, restrict voice calls to a paid subscription, suddenly I’m in a position where either I’m paying for the service or ditching it entirely.

In the long term, yes. Ideally your birth rate matches your death rate so you have stability in supporting the citizenry. But when your system expects the birth rate to exceed the death rate, even changing to equilibrium can be catastrophic.

I got a message from my boss today asking me to come into the office (I’m nominally fully remote). It’s probably fine, but…

I doubt the deposits were for the full cost, right?

A friend of mine is a streamer. On his discord, the topic of the Switch 2 came up, and one of his fans stated their desire for it to support 3D TV. Rather than saying my gut reaction – “are you crazy?” – I simply asked why. I consider it a great moment of personal self control.

Glad I could help!

It’s a reference to a Tumblr meme, “spiders georg”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg?wprov=sfla1

“several X users claim”, they say for sources. Christ Almighty.

Not sure I want to tell all my friends to get simplex with me.

Thanks for the information – good to know. I assume that like American law, he couldn’t be punished for something that wasn’t illegal when he did it?

Regarding the Uyghur comment the other guy made, definitely a bit tasteless but I don’t think it’s that ignorant given the genocide China perpetrated against them.

I guess the primary difference is between legally free speech versus socially free speech. The argument being that the government shouldn’t stop you from slinging slurs, while you have absolutely no right to not be ostracized/shunned/shamed by your fellow man.

I think that’s the joke, Clyde!

Interestingly, the quote notes that using homeless as an adjective is fine, while using it as a noun is not. I did not know that!

The actor?!