It’s really nice seeing people understanding that reducing the use of a word because of compassion is not a bad thing. Good work on examing your language.
I’d also encourage people to have a look at the words they use to describe erratic or unexplainable things. My partner has mental health issues, and hearing people constantly using “insane” and all of its fellows became really alienating for them. It’s bizarre how quickly you start to find alternative words you forgot existed.
If you tried a bunch of other proton versions, you may need to clear the compatdata dir for the game and then run again with experimental. The directory can get in a weird state with some games if you try to run multiple proton versions - i.e. one applies a fix on startup that breaks it in another version.
My partner has had similar issues - being scared of pasta definitely rings true. When you start to think about it and notice it, the amount of mental energy and emotion people expend worrying about food is pretty awful. The diet industry’s advertising is extraordinarily pervasive too.
I’m glad you feel like you can talk about it here. Online spaces are so often aggressive to the idea that food shouldn’t be constantly top of mind.
You can use any matrix client you want with it. The closed source one is just making bridging more straightward and adding some little quality of life features.
Luckily, the DMA has a heap of requirements around what their messaging interoperability will have do. For one thing, it will enforce the providers to not downgrade any encryption along the way, so FB etc will have to handle messages without them being decrypted first. There are some great videos that the matrix foundation put on their YouTube channel of talks that go over much of this.
Most of that extra stuff is there to handle user contact privacy and security with the bridges, which is fair. I don’t have any interest in self hosting beepers full setup, I want to get the functionality of multiple messaging services in one client - which I have, with my self-hosted matrix instance and the bridges they help develop and maintain.
I wish all of it was open source, but I did feel it necessary to head off comments that imply that the entire thing is closed source. Their implementation around dynamic servers and isolated containers spinning up isn’t really the bit that seems relevant regarding user privacy with regards to data scraping or anything. There are a lot of comments in here implying it’s fully proprietary, but there’s a lot more nuance to it than that, as you point out.
Personally, I think it’d be nice if you could self-host just the bridge instances and connect them with beeper yourself, so that the part that isn’t e2e encrypted is running on software you can validate and hardware you control.
Yeah, I should have clarified that. Hopefully the EU regulation regarding messaging interoperability removes this (currently unavoidable) flaw.
This is using matrix. You can even connect to it from any matrix client.
You can use any matrix client with beeper according to their FAQ. It’s frustrating that they forked element and kept the source code closed, but it is Apache 2.0, so it’s not against the licence terms.
The bridges are all open source, and they use matrix synapse as their server installation - though their client is a closed source fork of element with changes. You can use any matrix client to connect to it, and they say it’s a standard synapse setup.
If privacy is a concern, bringing your own client should remove that concern as the rest is open source. It’s also e2e encrypted, as any matrix server is.
I self host my own matrix homeserver with bridges set up using their code. The only bit of their stack I can’t use is the client. I don’t like that that’s closed source, that’s frustrating.
Edit: while writing this two more people made the same comment. Sorry!
The 13 inch Intel ones aren’t a pre-order - you can just order them.
The AMD 13 inch and the 16 inch laptop are both releasing soon and are on pre-order.