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[–] hdsrob@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (18 children)

As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak .. back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).

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[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (13 children)

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.

In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.

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[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago*

Squatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they're more than a century apart (1878).

Also: rude!

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 point 9 months ago

That's amazing. I'm gonna tell my mom that, she'll love it.

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah back on the days of analogue telephone lines every phone number ultimately required 2 copper wires going all the way from the nearest local exchange to the telephone handset in the home or business, so many smaller towns and rural areas got party lines as a way to save on copper and switching costs. Instead of a dedicated pair of copper wires to every house with a phone, all of the houses on a given block were on one line (all on one electrical circuit), so you'd pick up the phone and be able to talk to (or listen to) your other neighbors without dialing.

Edit to add: in some rural areas they'd even use the barbed wire fences already at farms as a wire for delivering telephone service instead of running new phone lines, sometimes even using Single Wire Earth Return to further reduce copper requirements

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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 point 9 months ago

The Kinks even wrote a song about it

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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

mIRC

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[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

My server wouldn't let you on with mIRC unless you were at least cool enough to disguise it/use a bouncer. Kept the M$ riffraff out ;)

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[–] hdsrob@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I'm that old too!

But that's way before I started real online gaming, where Vent was during the peak of my online gaming days.

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Uh oh!

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[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

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[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Still remember my number lol

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

back in my day Ventrilo

Ahh "Vent." My biggest memory there is people trolling with the sign-on TTS.

"My ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI...."

Anybody remember the brief flash in the pan that was "X-fire"? Haha

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[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

Back in the day my college had very strict filtering on the WiFi. I learned how to use SSH tunneling through PuTTY to bypass the firewall to connect to X-Fire. I was so 1337.

I can still hear the ripping jeans sound effect

Obligatory Moonbase Alpha TTS

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago

YES!!

When I stall and forget what the heck I was saying, thanks to this video I'll sometimes just go "...uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...AEIOU..."

Probably about how I'd react to having to fix a component on a moon base too. XD

"Snake? SNAKE? Saaaaaaake 🍶...."

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[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Team speak is voice mainly, but yea.

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[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

The thing is that Discord is sort of like three or four things all in one and it's really difficult to find a good replacement that does them all while still having a nice userbase.

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[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Me and my friends use it to stream our gameplay or watch movies and stuff together. Nothing else I've seen really allows you to do that easily.

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 point 9 months ago

Something about it isn't as super-convenient like Discord but, Signal desktop has a pretty good screen presentation mode that works pretty well. I dunno how bad the latency is or anything though.

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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wow this felt oddly personal.

Have you never wanted to view your friends face?

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago

Some people must have friends who have faces for radio. Lol

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[–] cato@lemmy.duckpond.social 1 point 9 months ago

could be about the missing chat features.

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[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 point 8 months ago

TS6 supposedly has screenshare. Big drawback from my view right now is no mobile client 😕 still, probly gonna be switching any day now, at least for gaming sessions!

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (18 children)

Just use a picture of your dead grandpa, I'm sure he won't mind..

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[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 39 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

I tried to do that, but some guy ran up to me and shouted something about "desecrating" and graves"

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Just tell the dude you're refilling the grave, as you toss the bones back in...

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

People really need to learn how to mind their own fucking business. Sheesh.

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[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I figure ai probably knows what ai is looking for, so I'm just going to generate a fake selfie if I need to.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is it even looking for black and white / greyscale photos?

What if I give it a B&W of my own face? 🤔

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[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I assume they fixed it, but I heard a few months ago gmod models were working.

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[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 7 points 9 months ago

I am Heavy Weapons Guy, and this is my ID Verification.

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[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

Discord will be using video verification

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Should I dump the ashes out or leave them in the urn?

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (5 children)

My dad wanted us to roll his ashes into a joint and smoke him.

We respected his wishes to be cremated, but I'm sorry daddy, I don't think anyone's gonna be smoking your ashes..

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[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

Coward. I'll blaze your dad, hmu if he starts haunting you over this

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

Umm, okay. I still have ashes available, you gotta roll it and smoke it yourself though..

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[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

Haha I was just kidding, he probably was too. Genuinely down but it seems logistically tricky, if there's a haunting that needs addressed we can talk about flying me in then ;)

Have you seen "How High"?

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

I was just joking too, but dad seriously said that, almost every time we had friends over and a doobie going around..

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[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

He sounds like a cool guy. The bit's at least as old as cheech and chong, and the core premise of "How High" is gaining the knowledge of the dead by smoking their remains to pass college entrance exams. I used to tell the kids they should scrape my lungs for resin, here's Willie Nelson to elaborate the concept :)

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[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They need a phoyo AND valid ID like drivers license

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[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I thought the articles were just listing both as options

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago

i can find norman reedus's drivers id with enough digging

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 62 points 9 months ago (5 children)

If you use Discord as a forum for your project/game/whatever, this is the perfect time to stop doing that. Seriously.

Just install Discourse, or a commercial product such as XenForo (they have a pay-once self-hosted option), or even phpBB.

We need project forums to be discoverable, easy to access, not tied to a commercial platform.

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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Discord is shit as a forum anyway - it's a chat room.

It was a lot easier to find answers or reply to questions on phpbb forums.

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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 18 points 9 months ago

Not an unpopular opinion, I know, but I will die on the hill of Discord being the worst possible service for anyone who thinks they want to offer support for their software.

It's so comically bad for what SO MANY people use it, and is genuinely a point at which I'll just abandon the software and look for something that has an actual support forum.

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Yeah I genuinely can't stand the layout of some of the support sections in discord.

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[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I never understood the appeal of Discord or chat in general. Going all the way back to ICQ, I found it distracting. I'm guessing most people using it multitask, but I don't so I always just sat there staring at the program waiting for a reply.

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[–] UnfinishedProjects@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

I literally just did this. Except I'm not trying to drop any money into it at the moment, so I did a free hosting option (flarum).

I'm also going to hijack this comment to shamelessly plug my new forum, in the hopes someone might be willing to come join (https://unfinishedprojects.flarum.cloud/).

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes! I'm joining "the young people"!

What do we do nowadays? Are we still tubular?

I think it'll be neato.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 15 points 9 months ago

Such a hip cat, daddio.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Hell yeah, dawg, that shit’s hella tight, fo rizzle.

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I hope irc comes back.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

irc never left, we just stopped using it

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[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Matrix + Element.

It’s open source, decentralized (federated), supports voice/video, roles, persistent rooms, and you can self-host if you want full control. It’s basically the only thing that feels like a real discord replacement without being locked into one company’s servers.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I installed this yesterday and couldn’t find one room related to video games that had any chat messages in the past few years. I put a message in anyway, but not optimistic.

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[–] iridebikes@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

We have to invade and propogate!

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[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

be the change you wish to see in the world.

now is the perfect time to assist in this developing landscape and make into something we can actually call our own.

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

You can't order or group chats on Matrix.

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[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

Depends on the client. Nheko can group for example.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

You mean to say XMPP (eg.: Snikket + Conversations), right?

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[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

i like how light it is, but its just not sufficient for a 5 person DnD/gaming group like mine.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

Not sufficient as in not sufficiently light? IRC (eg.: ngircd) is even lighter!

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[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

no no, i mean not sufficient in the way that cant handle voice and video calls with a stable connection between multiple people.

we wanted a discord alternative that allowed us most or all of the features of discord for our DnD campaigns and streaming to one another. it just wasnt stable for more than two or three people. let alone five lol.

not dissing it though, light tools always have their place. its just difficult enough trying to explain to a passive group of 30+ year olds that discord is the devil and we need to own the means of communication without offering a smooth(ish) transition process with similar quality and features.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 8 months ago

Oooh!

If it wasn't closed-source I'd actually recommend Teamspeak for that use case. Elsewise, of the ones I've known personally the stablest would be Mumble, but the problem is the clients.

It's also important to recall that if we want to look for alternatives we have to be very willing to look for stuff that's not Discord 1:1 because otherwise what would be the point. Plus, it's unfair of us to ask full equivalence from hobbyist developers to match what a corporation that is selling our data to ensure cash flow can do.

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[–] baropithecus@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Arent all of us 56 years old this year?

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

I turned indeed 56 on Jan 1

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[–] ToaLanjiao@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

What a coincidence! Me too!

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[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

April 20th here

keep up, we turned 57 this year dude

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

they do facial scanning and then put you in groups based on their assessment.

That's....SO creepy.

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[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you 9/11

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[–] hdsrob@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Granted he does have a full beard and has a ridiculously deep voice

Reminds me of my high school buddy that had a beard / deep voice, and looked just like his older brother. He would use his brother's old drivers license to buy beer and smokes for us.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

I fucking love Music/Band, those guys fuckin’ rip.

[–] SquirrelGirlLover@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago

just use the broccoli from veggietales worked for me

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 7 points 9 months ago

Wouldn't mind being a teenager again. Ok, maybe not these days, but in general.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 6 points 9 months ago

Oh I thought we were taking discord out back…

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 points 9 months ago

I backed up local copies of a couple of chats with some stuff I actually care about, using Tyrrrz DiscordChatExporter 2.43

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

You can already pretend to be a kid in a room with other kids on discord! There's a HUGE CSAM problem on it.

[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I stood my ground on not using this useless software for like 10 years. If there was no in-game chat or voice I just didn't, but almost all games where that is necessary have it.

How validated I feel as it crumples.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

i made an acct last week because my lesbian game night group decided to start a ToR clan. none of us are going to age verify, so i guess we're going to get a new app. if i can convince them.

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[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are you a bad enough lesbian to set up matrix?

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

This is amazing. Especially out of context.

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

What's that? Is it like IRC with a GUI? /s

[–] craigers@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm checking out fluxer but it's getting hug of death right now. Root also looks promising but they are closed source and VC backed which gives me pause.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

closed source and VC backed

Basically a non-starter at this point.

Maybe used to be these startups would compete for user affections by being more benevolent.

But nowadays the bare basics of even being competitive in the business is having a plan for gaining critial mass and then rapidly enshittifying for revenue before selling your ~~product~~ users to some new private equity overlords.

Open source used to be more of just a preference, or a virtue. Now it's basically the only way to not guarantee your exploitation.

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[–] craigers@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

100% agree. Just wish this was common understanding amongst the masses. But here I am on lemmy and not reddit, where most folks are aligned on FOSS or death.