“Hmm yeah cool trustworthy story bro but how about you get some excommunication” - The pope 5s after hearing this

“Hey Alexa please lower the volume of this file because I’m too retarded to use the basic functions of this app”

Whats next? AI integration into MS paint because people are too stupid to draw a rectangle?

1. make it impossible to replace board components or solder new RAM
2. increase prices
3. profit to boost your 2025 $21 Mio net income even higher

I don’t compare a hot-dog to a pile of dog poo and say “it’s good food”.

Then what is your definition of lightweight? A command line chat app?

slow to load up

literally loads within 3s

long sync times

maybe if you didn’t open it for a year yes, otherwise it’s in the sub-second area

high battery drain for mobile users

Mine is <1% for the last day. If you don’t setup proper push messaging which then requires the app to constantly wake up - yeah than it might be a problem.

room concept, as opposed to contact chats

How exactly is this a problem?

electron app sucks

Teams is also using Electron Microslop Edition

options way too hard to find at times (like how to add existing rooms to a space)

Just go into the settings and you will find 99%

Moving a room to a space has nothing to do with options and is a very uncommon task.

no online/offline status of contacts

ok guess you last used Element 5+ years ago?

• https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3026
• https://spec.matrix.org/v1.3/client-server-api/#presence
• https://patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/12/15/matrix-presence/

trust model with device verification is unintuitive for non-techie users

Yeah e.g. Whatsapp and Signal have the exact same problems expect when you keep some (sometimes not encrypted) backup somewhere.

Sorting is not ordering. What your are talking about is ordering. I agree that Element currently has no ordering and that is kind of a bummer, however when you use a messanger like apporach it’s fine because no one orders or sorts their WhatsApp/Signal/whatever conversations by name.

Ah classic Riot games, investing all the money in anti-cheat while their launcher lacks basic functions like “download throttling”.

No idea how Steam keeps winning…

Which psychopath sorts channel/contacts?

Yeah Java is also slow because back in 1999…

Try Element X please

I assume we talk about the desktop client here.

lightweight

my brother in Christ, Discord and Teams both need like 2x the RAM so don’t talk to me about that.

user-friendly

Idk left side has contacts and groups, right side chat. What exactly is not user-friendly there?

Because a few hundred people have to do it and not just one person once.

Well apparently people can always link the bluesky post or shitty ad infested news websites but never the original article/source. Which usually takes an additional 10s to find.

That’s why I call them incompetent.

How about https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1 ???

Of course OP is too incompetent to post the link to the source, so here we go again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

Just license everything under CC BY NC SA

This allows for

• the original author getting attribution
• derviate works requiring a similar license
• no commerical use

So the music industry doesn’t want you to download private copies of songs (which btw is perfectly legal) but has zero problem with charging for e.g. “Happy birthday” - 118 years after it’s creation, whilst the orginal author distributed it freely and didn’t ever get a single penny.

How do we fix this problem? It’s simple: We kill copyright (or shorten it to a few years) so that these parasitic freeloaders lose their base of support.

I think HN is one of the most rigged websites I encountered.

Some posts there look clearly botted regarding the score.

Not a single soul can tell me that it’s normal that the 345th “new AI model”-post get’s 1k upvotes within like 3 hours while articles like “I can steal Mastercard transactions” barely have 800 after an entire day.

Desoldering RAM off a production PCB is something no hobbyist is going to bother with

Ever heard of “repair” when no original spare parts are available?