drislands

joined 2 years ago
[–] drislands@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It serves the key purpose of Mumble, in that it provides a reliable way to get in a voice chat with people. The other features (text chat, video calls, screen sharing, "servers" that let people aggregate for a dedicated purpose/community) come together to make a legitimately good product that's hard to replace.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (21 children)

Is there a peer to peer equivalent to Discord? That feels like it would be the best option, since it wouldn't rely on a centralized company that could enshittify the product.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It is a bit baffling. I think it's more ethical than the alternative though: pay gating useful functionality. Offering paid pallete swaps doesn't make a lot of sense to me, someone who would never pay for that, but it does at least mean I can just ignore it. If they were to, say, restrict voice calls to a paid subscription, suddenly I'm in a position where either I'm paying for the service or ditching it entirely.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I got a message from my boss today asking me to come into the office (I'm nominally fully remote). It's probably fine, but...

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

I don't rightly expect whether I watch propaganda to change the opinions of those that believe it. Just because "they" won't consume content I know to be good, that means I should consume content I know to be bad to balance it out?

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I doubt the deposits were for the full cost, right?

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

"several X users claim", they say for sources. Christ Almighty.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Officials said he refused to step off the vessel and threatened to kill himself. He also claimed that he had a bomb on board, according to court papers.

Oh so he's not a cool weirdo, he's a terrible weirdo. Damn.