Wouldn’t surprise me.

Maybe. Looking like the best option right now.

Oh no, not another Lemony Snikket rabbit hole.

Yeah, I know. I wanted to pack as much info into the title as I can, and it turned out like technobabble. ^^;

I have considered looking into renting a VPS, but considering my friends group does A LOT of voice calling and streaming over Discord I dint think super lightweight is an option. Even so, not having to pay for a server is always better than having to pay any amount for one.

I’ll take a look at ejabberd. Didn’t know there were specific preferences for clients.

It’s a bit of both:

My friends need a drop-in replacement for Discord (or as close as possible), sooner rather than later. My idea for self hosting is to defeat the need of someone hosting a 24/7 server; if we all host our own accounts on our own computers we’d essentially have a peer-to-peer Discord-like group.

The other reason is indeed to learn, because every centralised service has the same problem; it’s not a question if a service will turn bad, but when. It’s an inevitability, and it’s happening faster and more frequently. The only out-way I see is if me and at least some of my friends learn to self-host.

Yeah, the reason why it makes princes miserable is because they feel entitled to wealth, power, and ruling over people.

Things you cannot get as a frog.

You have ads?

Or, you could put the resources that went into this thing that’ll eventually become a forgotten novelty (e-waste), and develope a Linux smartphone that is fully open source.

I don’t see the point of this.

A smartphone is literally a handheld computer with more capability than this. Save for game controls, there is very little that a touchscreen doesn’t completely replace with full flexibility (besides, unless it’s the size of a Gameboy, the vertical controller layout sucks).

This isn’t a new concept either, as I’m pretty sure I’ve seen two phones and one whole laptop using this exact drop-in modularity gimmick. They all failed.

Interesting. I’ve never experienced this. Back when Wayland wasn’t even considered as a main display server yet there were problems with resolution scaling and desktop sizes, but… Straight up not working?

Hmm… But what do you mean with it doesn’t work? How doesn’t/didn’t it work? What prevented you from, say, opening Krita and just dragging the window to the monitor you want?

Well, I use an XP Pen display tablet, so effectively a second monitor. I’ve used both Krita on Ubuntu using X11 (in 2024 and before) and since the start of 2025 been using Bazzite which uses Wayland.

Can’t say I’ve run into any display specific issues. Pen tracking gave me some trouble, but it was some setting in KDE and Open Tablet Driver I had to play with to fix that.

I like the UI of Krita. Gimp is… Uh… Gimp. But Krita is certainly a modern drawing program.

Krita is aimed at Clip Studio Paint. It’s not great for quickly editing something.

Switched to Linux around the time Windows 11 was first announced to be a mandatory update, and all the bullshit about security.

I started out with Ubuntu, now I’ve been using Bazzite for over a year.

The programs I use, Gimp, Krita, Blender3D, Audacity, OBS, all have Linux native versions, and are generally part of the FOSS community anyway. Well, except for Audacity right now…

So my artistic work hasn’t been hindered in the least.

Games are a slightly different story. I switched from an nVidia GTX 1060 6GB to an Intel Arc A770. Overall a significant upgrade, but there are issues. Some I had with Blender3D not recognising the card (something that was largely solved by switching distro). Other problems still persist, specifically with Intel Arc, Linux, and UE5.

UE5 is an absolute hateable bitch and some combination of Linux and Intel Arc provides no end of trouble. I still can’t get certain games to run (i.e. Oblivion Remastered).

Intel Arc card. Though, to be fair, it’s only in a small few cases.

Haven’t seen that happen yet.

They tend to pool in a certain subset of lemmy instances, and some of the main instances have defederated them, because at one point it got pretty bad.

He said, unironically, on Lemmy.

A tankie is a kind of person who likes Imperialism and expansionism so long as it comes from something related to, as the other user said, Marxist-Leninism.

The origin of Marxist-Leninism is Russia, so they support Russia invading things, and committing warcrimes, and make all sorts of excuses for such acts.

Today they’re primarily in support of the Russian side in the Russo-Ukranian war, do not consider it an invasion of a sovereign nation, and consider it fully justified as an act to oppose “NATO expansion”.

Essentially, to a tankie, nothing “goes too far” if they can somehow connect it to a Marxist-Leninist agenda, and behave the same way about Putin as a right-wing American behaves about Trump.

Nearly forgot; the name “tankie” comes from how Russia overwhelmingly uses tanks to invade territories.