is IRC still a thing? was huge 20 years ago, what happened to it
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It’s still around, just in a much smaller capacity. IRC clients are still being actively developed today too.
Twitch chat uses IRC weirdly enough.
Probably more popular than ever technically.
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Finally someone who doesn't call me either a corporate simp or paranoid
with how contentious Red Hat and Canonical decisions have been lately, the mid panel should have Arch and Debian replacing Ubuntu and Fedora.
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There's should be a Matrix app in the middle or at the right.
Middle is Matrix and ActivityPub, right is Session, SimpleX, and Nostr
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Somehow I fall within all these categories
Tech conservative. What does it mean if I use librewolf?
I use Edge, my favourite (or more accurately, most comfortable) OS is probably Ubuntu, and I self host a bunch of stuff.
The hell does that make me?
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Between normie and conservative, I'm waiting for SteamOS to become publicly available to even attempt switching to Linux.
I'm curious: what feature(s) of SteamOS are keeping you from trying/switching to Linux?
If it's Proton, you get that for free with any Steam install on Linux. I've been using it for the last couple years. (And it's awesome)
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Guess I'm between normie and conservative since I use Windows and Firefox.
Somewhere between Normie and Tech conservative?
Real bummer that Signal decided to shit the bed.
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Weird to put the Self Hosted podcast on the FOSS-only Gentoo user seeing that Jupiter Broadcasting has been on the contrarian "Red Hat is actually good" train.