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.

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.

I switched to Mint for my new PC a few months ago. There are a handful of games that don’t work on it, but they’re few and far between.

I’m in the same boat. There are a lot of parts of the Internet that should be free, but YouTube is not one of them. Video hosting is one of the most resource intensive services around, and if we as consumers aren’t paying for it they’ll find a worse way to fund it.

A hit-piece commissioned by the Joker to distract you from his upcoming bank heist!!!

What’s trust cafe?

I can’t find it now, but my company attempted to get that from Slack and IIRC it was an option but more expensive than they were willing to pay.

The girl in the passenger seat clearly has a look of “we knew this was going to happen”, too.

No worries, I may have just been unclear considering multiple people appear to have downvoted my comment.

That’s what I’m saying. It has anticheat, and it runs on Linux without issue.

I wouldn’t say “any” major games. Helldivers 2 is a notable exception.

Rocko?!

…what? How is that related at all?

Honest question: how many email-havers do you think know what GPG is?

My partner suggested “Tesla Tittyflips” as a modern replacement to “punch buggy”. That’s been a fun game on long drives.

That’s fair. I’ll admit I’ve not done it myself, I’ve only seen folks talking about it – and of the people I personally know that have done it, the activity has been described as clicking regenerate until you like the results.

Agreed. Consider this absolutely batshit take from the reddit post linked in the article.

Your art looks pretty good, so most people wouldn’t be able to tell it’s AI unless you told them it’s AI.

Generally it’s always best to just lie and tell everyone you made it yourself, just to avoid all the toxic people that hate AI, because not having to read hateful comments from people like that is reason enough to lie. Don’t need to provide any evidence or go into details, just tell everyone you made it yourself and ignore anyone that question it.

“Your art”. I’m sure clicking the “regenerate” button on mid journey for 5 hours took lots of work. It’s hard not to feel real hate for these people.

No worries mate. I appreciate the correction regardless.

Y’know what, that’s a fair point. Though I’m not the original commenter from the top, heh.