Lmao then they bitch and moan when people abroad start cutting back on us-based tech and enforcing open standards

Check the global total deployments, US is not the only place in the world with smartphones.

Never had graphene, but been using Lineage since it was called CyanogenMod on my Galaxy Nexus

Thats the trick, when a company supports romming, you can extend the support for however long you want!

Just a PSA. For voip to work you’ll need something like Coturn (TURN signaling server) which needs a gaping hole in your firewall. We ended up using mumble for ingame voice and jitsi meet if we need the other stuff (screen share, videos, whiteboard, etc)

The cat version of this

Fair enough. I was hosting it for years on a borked ideapad with like a 4th gen i3 along some other stuff

Read through the whole thing, you “lose access” to your stuff but it never mentions them deleting the content. Seems like the same shitty move Reddit did a while ago, “your” content in there is now theirs. Deleting your account just makes u unable to use/modify it.

Murmur (mumble server) is so light it can run on a smart toaster.

Same here, got locked out of my main gmail/google account and there was no real person to help me recover 10+ years of my stuff. Never again.

I remember back in the day getting my mind blown by the BB demo on a live Linux CD (Knoppix?)

I only know the library for doing this stuff is libcaca just because it’s libpoop in spanish

There are cracked wings with patches that will let you take flight!

Is there a demo? How does it run? Needs a server or can be run from an android device?

The cumulative hours we’ve lost screwing around with the manual placement spacial audio on Axon… When it went tits up we switched to Mumble tho

Mine does this too! He’d bring the toy right to my feet the first few times, then it’ll drop it increasingly further away from me

Here’s the obligatory upvote for referencing http.cat

Never got my Bose QC35 ii to work properly, seems like a limitation of Bluetooth. Ended up buying a yeti snowball and its far better than any headset mic I’ve ever used.

How about the “private notes” chat on Signal?

The real question is, “which one of the gazillion voice chat apps can properly filter audio without a lengthy setup that my mongoloid friends will skip?”

I am the guy moving the group to different apps and platforms, some follow more reluctantly but in the end we stick together. We’ve jumped from TS2 to Skype, Dolby Axon, Mumble, Hangouts, Discord, Mumble and back to Discord. Now I’m getting a strong whiff of enshittification, and I’m weighing my options. We’re about 10-12 but mostly 4 or 5 active at a time.

Jami, Matrix, Jitsi, Rocket and again ol reliable Mumble… It’d be nice if mumble had screen share and a better automatic audio setup, so far the best quality of vc over any other app/service.

I’ll check out Movim I saw named in the comments, any other hidden gem I should try?

This! I’d say that the best we can do is educate. Over the last 20 years people got taught to be lazy and go with the herd. They don’t want to change, all their stuff is already “in the cloud” and “I don’t have time to go tinker with that nerd stuff, I need something that works”.

“Why learn a new messaging app if everyone is using WhatsApp already”

– some of my friends and acquaintances 2025