I’m a little confused why you view this as an issue because in the alternative, manually installing certificates instead of using Let’s Encrypt’s tool, you still wouldn’t own the root certificate.

froh42 has the standard left ball. Once we get an accurate measurement we’ll be able to compare other balls to it and go from there.

You don’t own the root certificate even when you aren’t using Let’s Encrypt, unless you self sign or want to become a certificate authority. Am I missing something? Is there some controversy about Let’s Encrypt I’m unaware of?

They aren’t. I’m sure if it went to court that lawyers would find a way to convince a jury otherwise, but we all know that’s bullshit. Booster packs are gambling.

Why expose yourself to legal risk by torrenting media (which involves uploading which is distributing) when you can find sites that stream it for you? Just go to Yandex and look up “blah stream” and you’ll find tons of sites streaming whatever you want.

I do this because I’ve tried to watch movies with online friends but every major streaming service I tried won’t let me share my screen and stream. They all break somehow. I’m not sure if it’s intentional or what, but it doesn’t matter.

I know multiple people into kinks/fetish/BDSM who are asexual. Not all pleasure from these things are sexual for everyone.

Ohh I see, I’ll edit

Sure, but the user knowing how to fix something or not wasn’t the problem or related to anything you said. It’s that you said they seem pointless to you and went on to describe their exact point of existence.

To be very clear, I’m not trying to make an argument for or against Arch derivatives, I just thought it was funny that you said they’re pointless because you can customize them when people use them specifically because they don’t want to bother with doing those customizations themselves.

I would consider using Endeavor OS because I just want something that can do basic work once it’s installed (I use CachyOS which is also an Arch derivative, but it modifies core packages which is different from what you’re talking about). Manjaro has separate criticisms, I’m not saying it’s “good.” I’m just saying it shouldn’t be surprising that someone wants to use Arch and wants customization on a bleeding edge, rolling release, but wants a system that isn’t quite so minimal once they’re done installing.

(I should try to install Arch to a VM or something and use this archinstall script. Because if it works as well as everyone says then my opinion might be different.)

I may not have been clear, I just meant that “Discord servers” are not “servers” in the way the word is actually used (meaning a computer) and that Matrix instances actually are real “servers”. But yeah, spaces are like Discord servers.

But my vertical tabs!

Yeah, a joke, if you look up you’ll see it.

Let’s Encrypt’s free and automatic certificate management has been around since November 16th, 2015, by the way.

“Why do people buy a car if they can make one themselves” type of argument. I’m a little shocked someone can walk so close to the point and not get it. It’s practically stabbing them in their face.

Just to add to the 2010s bit, I tried Arch in like… 2015 I think it would’ve been. I followed the wiki to the letter. It was not my first Linux install, I’d been experimenting with a lot of distros for five years by then. I could not get it to work. To be fair, I still haven’t tried Arch in 2026, I use CachyOS, but I think back then Manjaro was really the only thing providing that type of experience. Everyone holds the Arch wiki on a pedestal because it’s so useful, but the install guide and state of Arch back in 2015 simply wasn’t what it is today. I haven’t ever used Manjaro so I can’t really speak for it, but that’s just sort of my guess as someone who had difficulty with Arch from that era. Luckily we have CachyOS, EndeavorOS, and, presumably, a better install process on vanilla Arch now.

This is bullshit. I’m sorry. I’ve tried signing up on like three servers with Element Classic and Element X and all of them fail. Maybe I’ve just gotten incredibly unlucky with the instances I’ve picked, but it’s been a much tougher time than joining Lemmy was.

I have an old matrix.org account I can use, but it’s asking me to get something from a currently logged in session, which I don’t have any. I saved all the files and phrases it asked me to when I joined originally, but it isn’t enough. There’s a possibility I missed one, but the fact that I do have a file and phrase saved in my password manager is evidence I was saving what it asked me to.

If worst comes to worst I can just use matrix.org, but I know that Matrix’s “federated but de facto centralized” problem is much worse than Lemmy’s (lemmy.world is big but not a majority, but I think a majority of people use matrix.org) and I’m trying to help fix that.

It’s just frustrating. I want Matrix to be the Discord replacement but it’s a pain in the ass currently. And Discord is so many things to do many people. It’s voice for some, streaming for some, and for a lot it’s the fact that it’s DMs, rooms, servers, voice, and streaming all in one and with a very large user base. Matrix, to my knowledge, is only rooms, servers (or more properly spaces in Matrix, since they have real servers), and DMs. Back when I used it more frequently it wasn’t super active. Especially for really niche activities. And don’t even get me started on the state of NSFW matrix, I went down that rabbit hole and one of the top results was MAP stuff (pedophiles). There’s also just a huge amount of furry stuff, which isn’t inherently a problem, but when it seems like there’s dozens of NSFW furry rooms and a top result on search is talking about which servers and rooms are sympathetic to pedophiles and the folks most likely to be leaving Discord are the ones who were doing NSFW things because that’s what’s actually age restricted I can’t really evangelize Matrix as a good replacement.

This sort of turned into more of a rant than I intended. It’s just frustrating.

(Edit: Also, to be clear, I’m not saying it’s Matrix’s fault pedophile apologists use it or that it’s a top result, I’m just expressing frustration with the situation.)

Imagine being born as a marsupial. Couldn’t be me. I’m a mammal. I am definitely not a Virgina Opossum.

It’s a reference to a comic where Goofy murdered children lol, but yeah, Pink Guy may have said it too.

It makes more sense if you think of semicolons like other programming languages like Java and C use it.

foo();
bar();

But those languages allow foo(); bar(); as well. Then && works like a normal short circuited expression (with side effects).

Does that expand properly? My gut feeling is that the !! expands right away, not when you run srsly but when you define it.

I’ll fuckin’ do it again, ayuck!