Does anyone here use anything other than Discord for chatting? What exactly and how much?

"use" is the key word here, I'm interested in actual usage, not just the names of alternatives that I already know

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cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/casualconversation@piefed.social/p/2355887/i-m-planning-to-make-a-game-to-celebrate-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-voyager-missions-wh

I never finish projects, so I'd like to set a hard deadline, in this case 2027-08-20 (Voyager 2 launch)

I'm thinking that it could be a (local splitscreen? Or maybe like one of those hand-off/relay style story games where you pass the controller when it's your turn) co-op game where one player acts as Voyager 1 and the other as Voyager 2. It has to be a co-op game, we need more of those I think, and I would love to learn how to make one of those. Maybe you could solve puzzles or unlock secrets by working together, I dunno. The story will be a mix of real life events (emergencies / crisises that occurred during the mission, real images and recordings, etc.) and fictional bits too (nothing too outlandish though, probably not aliens I think?)

Both Voyager 1 and 2 explored Jupiter and Saturn, and while 2 went out to Uranus and Neptune, 1 did a flyby of Titan (the largest moon of Saturn). I'd like to include those five as "worlds" that each player has to explore. Voyager 1 has also passed the heliopause, and in a few weeks will have reached one light day from Earth, so I'd like to include that too. Perhaps there could be interesting things that happen as the Voyager probes travel the cosmos?

What are your thoughts? Are there any noteworthy events or challenges that the Voyager missions went through that I should include in the game?

The project is still in very early planning stages, but I think it's a really cool way to celebrate the Voyager missions!

The older the internet gets, the more it's like a city that keeps building on top of its own ruins. What's is your favorite bit of internet archeology if memes are like artifacts and relics?

For example: Jaws crashed the shark population and Sideways changed the popularity of 2 different Wines.

One one hand, if I lose the database or manage to forget that password, I am fucked.
On the other hand, that's also the case with 2FA.

The latter has already happened to me, but I have since switched to different software that lets me properly manage backups rather than doing only cloud bullshit.
Cisco Duo. That piece of shit doesn't even do version control.
I just turned on an old phone, and there goes my backup, overwritten by old data.

Recently I finished my switch from memorized and re-used passwords to KeePassXC and KeePassDX based on recommendation of other Lemmy users, and I like the workflow.

In a similar fashion, I also recently purchased a domain name, and set-up paid e-mail account(s) at Purelymail with that domain.
I use Thunderbird on desktop and phone for now.

It's OK-ish on desktop, but the phone experience is poor.
On desktop, during set-up it requires filling fields such as "Full name" to continue, which can even be deleted later. Thankfully, there is some advanced option to skip guided setup after this.

On a phone, the name field is equally mandatory, only to then be flagged as "Optional" in settings after setup.
It also requires BOTH IMAP and SMTP. Not only that, it verifies that the SMTP server is valid and the user can be authenticated (I didn't try without IMAP).
Trying to load that account via export from desktop shows an "invalid data" error.
Furhtemore, I can't receive e-mail notifications.
I have them enabled, I allowed necessary permissions, there is a permanent notification stating it works, RethinkDNS shows active connection to the IMAP server, when I open the app, the e-mail is immediately there.

Like an italian hoagie but a round bun, pizza cut into squares rather than traditional slice, meatballs in cube form

Fully based this on me accidentally reading an earlier post incorrectly

I have no real interest in anime. As far as I can remember, I've never clicked on any anime related links on Lemmy, but it seems like every other post I see is about anime, a lot of them have to do with someone or something called Moe. I keep blocking them, but more show up. How do I stop it?

(sorry if the post is confusing my english is bad)

well it works like this:

it is a social network (its not really that since it is kinda harder to use) that operates on usb flash drives instead of the internet

it works like this:

there are instances (they are invite only and nobody can see their content unless authorized and they arent public and mostly friend groups like 3 to 7 people)

every member of a instance has their own usb flash drive

and there are Transfer And Upgrade Days:

transfer: is where everyone gives their usb drive to the admin and the drives get merged

upgrade: is where after transfer everyone gets their flash drives from the admin

and it uses standard files in directory structures instead of databases or whatever

but how do i fix those:

how do i not lose drives

how do i not get viruses on my computer

how do i not get burnt out when there are too many video projects to make

(this post does not use any ai of any sort of way)

I love cromite so much but there's some very specific sites that don't work right in cromite like my offsite work login even just to look at my schedule and the bigger thing is login redirects to authorize apps like even fedi stuff like tusky for mastodon or loops. For some reason cromite can't redirect back to the app to finish authorizing even if I allow literally all permissions for the site. My current workaround is to temporarily set chrome as my default browser but then I forget to fix it after and open a site in it and ew. Is there a better workaround I'm missing?

-I'm tired of Zoom's obnoxious yelling about its AI features and general bloatedness.

-I'm trying to reduce how much I use Google/Microsoft stuff, which includes Google Meet and Teams.

-I don't think I've heard about anyone using Skype since approximately 2010, and it's owned by Microsoft now anyway.

-Fuck Meta and all its products.

-I like Facetime the best of everything I've used, but that only works if an Apple user starts the call, and I don't love Apple as a company anymore either.

I'm guessing there are some nice non-bloated apps out there that aren't run by giant tech corporations. So what's your favorite app for video calls?

Just wanted those out there like me to here these words

I love you.

Not necessarily a neuralink specifically, just any genre or type of cybernetic implants, if they were or will become available. I'm super hesitant on anything interfacing with my brain so I'd probably stay organic, except like if I lost my eyesight or hearing.

i dont know what to put in there

Looking for the vibe, minus the mod, the ability for old posts to rise to the front page, and similar content.

I know lemmy world does here old.lemmy.world but it is down right now and has been spotty for a while. This is 100% my preferred way to use lemmy while I am on my desktop.

Any one know if any other instances set up this UI?

https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

Context: I was a Boy Scout for a number of years, making Eagle in 2020 right as COVID was really kicking off.

It was right afterwards, however, that the CSA scandal started popping up everywhere (which thankfully I was never exposed to or involved in during my time), and lately it seems like the organization & movement as a whole has fallen by the sociocultural wayside.

I would say that my time as a Scout did me objective good; I learned a decent amount about first-aid & survival-craft, participated in a number of volunteer & civic projects, and it generally made me a more well-rounded person. However, there’s no denying the impact that something “bigger than the Catholic Church scandal”, as I’ve heard it described, has on an institution such as this.

I’d like to get the community’s opinion, however; were any of you Scouts? How was your experience? What is your opinion of the institution today?

Basically just something people say that indicates a position indirectly, like how seperatists from a given region might always say they're from [region] and not [country] or how trump supporters call AI "SI" now.

I obviously have none, so I'd like to see if I can mooch off of you lol.

Please don't leave any pessimistic top level comments. Or do, I'm not your mom 🤷‍♂️.