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by aaravchen 8mo ago
For Matrix clients I'm given to understand the issue is the lack of XEP equivalents. Either your server(s) and clients are all on the latest available version or you're SOL. This makes third party clients effectively impossible
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
I don't disagree, but whether you're even aware of the XEPs and how it's presented to the user, is a critical factor in viewing it as "confusing". Gaim for example only even tells you about XEPs if you dig into th
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
SimpleX is another option. These don't have discoverability for lay people users just joining though, which is actually a huge network effect positive for Signal in the family and friends use cases. However it avoids the issues with
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
I, and all of my contacts, have the default setting for this which makes me discoverable on Signal by phone number look up, but I have phone number sharing disabled. That's the default settings. I've had no issues at all with di
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
Signal has had the ability to share a username instead of phone number for a while. You definitely want to pair that with not sharing your phone number with Signal contacts (the related option released at the same time).
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
Someone mentioned (I believe?) after talking to Element/Matrix at FOSSDEM this year that the organization has been struggling a lot to get this going. Apparently issues with thier project organization forking and funding the last few y
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
This has been brought up on HN before, and people smarter than me identified that this view is about 10 years out of date. Yes it's a bunch of XEPs, but there are standardized "sets" apparently that include all of the thing
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
Ironically, Signal actually ranks a -1 for privacy in this use. Presumably you're already using Signal and getting mainstream contacts to start using it too. You probably have a basic profile that at least includes your real name, and
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
Him, I hadn't tried running it myself, but I couldn't find any indication if anyone using it for Plex (or equivalent). I only saw people going thru complicated schemes to Terry and setup network shared drives, or directly attachin
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
That's the kicker I'm pointing out. It's a very limited number of people that agree. If you're satisfied with the equivalent of 6-12 DVDs worth of content, or are only pulling the latest of a handful of shows and deletin
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
How's your surround sound? tvOS 26 decided at the last minute not to support audio pass thru, which means only the pretty basic audio codecs that the AppleTV itself can decode are supported. That's an extremely limited number, an
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
When I tried that before, the Infuse UI was unusably show for me, likely due to the library size, streaming from my server hung for a long time, it had to transcode most of the time because so few codecs were supported and it only supporte
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
And apparently requires explicit WhatsApp user opt-in to be available. Meta is of course going to maliciously comply as best they can, so they've made sure interoperability is off by default and requires a specific opt in.
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
This is exactly the issue. Even if you ignore the privacy concerns, the reason ClawdBot/Moltbot/OpenClaude got so popular is that everything was actually run locally. The early adopters where people on locked down corporate networ
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
Much better alternative, and I'm glad it works for the author's use cases. The developer use cases that rocketed ClawdBot/Moltbot/OpenClaude is the lack of integration necessary to use it though. In most developer early
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
Also the current hardware has lots of overheating problems that hugely affect performance (you have to re-paste the heat sink to the CPU after only 2 years), and thier Bluetooth antenna is so awful it makes Bluetooth controllers for gaming
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
It does seem sketchy, but you can kind of guess what it's cleaning based on the name in the uninstall command. I just skim down to the section that says it's for removing the launcher and reqd those, then run only a few. The ups
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
Actually you can double tap the home button on your remote to see all apps currently running, and can then click the close button on any one of them. Google TV apps leak memory like a sieve, so it's pretty common to need to manually cl
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
Search a bit and you'll find how to install Projectivity/Projectivy Launcher that's way way better. For bonus points and a lot snapper functionality you can go the extra mile and use adb to remove the old Google Launcher and
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
I've looked at this a few times, and AppleTV actually has pretty poor support unless you're only using a select few streaming services and not streaming any of your own content. Shield performs exponentially better in every way
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
The unfortunate part is that CoreELEC only works when you get all your content from a locally attached disk. You can't even really stream it from your beefy NAS/server, and you definitely can't use any streaming services. I&#
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by aaravchen 8mo ago
You unfortunately lose Widevine support when you do this though (either switching to LineageOS or a mini-PC). That means you can't stream any of the mainstream services in anything like a half-decent quality. It's very unfortunate
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
Is that actually how corporations work in the EU? Only having experience in the US, I can tell you conclusively that if the company states it's job is to make and promote poison for untrained people to spray everywhere, let's call
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
I guess if you were relying on the meshtastic network as a backbone network replacement, which I'm not sure much of anyone is even currently setup for and I've heard isnt really feasible with the naive meshtastic toy implementatio
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
Why would they bother? Super low bandwidth unencrypted communication they can triangulate if they really need to sounds like a perfect thing to let keep running and just monitor. Then you can triangulate just the "seditious" peopl
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
The government isn't going to hand to do that, that's already what Google's planning to do anyway. They'd just have to tell Google to take down certain apps so they're no longer on the Google "approved" li
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
It seems very unlikely the US would take the approach of shutting down the internet to prevent communication. All the internet infrastructure is hardwired for US surveillance data collection, so it's already a perfect honeypot. Why shu
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
I suspect use cases are more likely community organizing and info sharing. It supports forums and private groups that are E2EE, and "blog" posts that can include RSS reblogging. The forums and private groups do bidirectional sync
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
Briar mentions "mailboxes", where you can stick up collectors wherever you want. It's not as nice as repeaters that would build a multihop mesh network for you, but one advantage of not doing multihop is that you get at least
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
It's a manual for setup (in Farsi, you can click to other languages) that needs to be as accessible as possible to the least technology a literate people in the world as well as the ultra techy. Often people that have extremely limited

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