I leave irssi running in tmux 24/7, post temp file host links to images and videos all the time, and I always read and respond to the backlog when I first get on for the day in the channels I'm active in. You can also use a bot to leave a message for someone if they aren't connected currently (e.g. .tell bob I found that old video you were looking for last night. LINK) . I don't particularly want to voice chat, but I fire up Mumble as needed.
IRC client in screen/tmux is still my gold standard. I like having the same full-fat client on my phone instead of a lesser one. I have scripts and aliases set up in irssi and I can still use those from my phone.
The third space comparison here is surprisingly convincing. I guess you'd also walk in mid convo (or to silence) and have to ask what was going on in a physical meeting spot. I very much like my logs and staying connected (I just run irssi in tmux on a server that's always on anyway) and wouldn't do without them, though.
The main place I see FTP used is on modded video game consoles. 3DS, Switch, PS3, basically all of them get some FTP program early on so you don't need to move a flash drive or SD card back and forth anymore. On PCs and my phone I use sftp or rsync since ssh is pretty much everywhere and becomes very comfortable with a config file with aliases and keys set up.
I am quite used to IRC and would still always start with `/msg nickserv help` to be safe. I think the UX is okay but I wouldn't make the single command claim myself. It's similar to hopping on a unix-like machine in the wild and you don't know if you have GNU/BSD/busybox utils and there are some slight differences, so you either hope it works or check the man page quick.
This gets repeated a lot but there is at least one sort of meta XEP that specifies a common set to support. If you stick to the ~5* or so biggest clients they all support the important stuff.
* Conversations, Gajim, Dino, Kaidan, things on omemo.top with a passing grade.
Things which are still not default working everywhere would be voice/video call, but if you adjust your expectations to "IRC with file uploads, no need for a bouncer, and encryption" then it's fairly universal to support all that.
At least 4 people I know. It's super easy to put up an instance of ergo now. I was using one for LAN communication during internet outages for a while.
I love Mumble and IRC. You could put a gun to my head and I still wouldn't use Discord. When all these proprietary chats are dead and the kids have moved on to something else, Mumble and IRC will still work. They are eternal. Anything proprietary and centralized can't compete with that. IRC outlived AIM and MSN and so on.
I'm the complete opposite of what you said in the second paragraph, I am very comfortable and appreciative of my tailored dotfiles, but I will say I don't stare at my light switch and think about tinkering with it usually. I do have one or two stupidly placed switches, like when the door to one room is closed I can't turn one of the ceiling fan lights on/off without opening the door (because the switch is outside the room), and also I have a bunch of switched outlets (awful to hit by accident if a computer is plugged into one) from boomers with a lamp fetish living here previously, but otherwise I'm happy with my light switches. Also I sit in the dark most of the time so even if I could turn every light in an area on/off at once, I'm not sure I'd do it often.
I went from notes.txt in vim to notes.org in emacs for a while (didn't use much org stuff beyond bullet points), back to vim with the same notes.org file but I basically treat it like notes.txt again. Synced with SyncThing, so I could edit it on my phone but in practice I don't think I ever do.
It is indeed a good time. Latest firmware patched the recent exploit, but most or all boxed PS5s in stores should still be on old enough firmware. This will not be true forever. Beware of used units since they could've been updated already.
>Cringely posted pictures of the boards, the SD cards that would hold the open-source Minecraft server software, and the plastic shells etched by a laser cutter that would serve as the cases.
For others who have played plenty of Minecraft but never heard the term "mineserver" used, sounds like he was trying to rewrite the Minecraft game server software.
Fediverse in general, though the Masto side seems rather fond of censorship themselves. I recommend finding a small Pleroma/Akkoma instance or hosting your own. Also as a tip you can use an instance's search without an account to check if they block posts from certain other instances before you sign up.
All the TUI stuff you can leave running in tmux and then have a consistent workspace remotely accessible from your PC or phone is indeed really nice. IRC, mail, torrents, notetaking, etc.
At least you can still use the chat from an IRC client and view streams in mpv. If they ruin those aspects I'll probably quit going there. I did also stream on there a bit in the past, but didn't get too attached or locked in, so mostly I care about the viewer experience still.
I'd also heard about that rat experiment (probably on HN) and also tried applying it to fighting games since my friend I usually played with seemed to get really mad most of the times we played. I think it worked somewhat, but then I told him what I did and he didn't take it well. I kinda get why he'd be mad about losing, but then he never plays without me, doesn't spend time in training mode, doesn't watch videos on the games, etc. Not sure what he expects then, I don't think he's gonna improve much jumping right into a real match while rusty and possibly not even understanding all the fundamentals. Not sure there's a solution here since you can't really force people to care about or like things. Ideally we'd both keep striving to improve and competing with each other, but instead I hear "I'll never be better than you anyway". I'm not even god-tier at FGs, I'll lose 90% of the time if I do online matchmaking. I'm just good enough to have trouble getting new people to play with me.
The rat strat may be worth revisiting but it's not very fun letting people win, and it feels dishonest and disrespectful as well. The closest thing I've found is to play super defensive. If I try to take as few hits as possible and drag out the battle it still serves as practice, and I kinda let them set the pace.
You might be more into Terraria, Necesse, and Core Keeper. The excessive automation of Factorio as opposed to it being a compliment to a full game always turned me off it. Modded Minecraft with tech mods was fun because it was still Minecraft underneath. I could go explore and mine by hand and then feed my pulverizers ore when I got back to base. Core Keeper strikes a decent balance as well. You can automate some stuff but it's largely unnecessary and IMO not worth the time other than putting drills on the big ore boulders and sending the ore straight to a furnace. I still sort items by hand and then use the quick stack function after a trip, like I would in Terraria.
Reminds me of the modded Minecraft community some years back. They'd say "MAWPC", "might as well play creative" if you were playing with unbalanced mods that made the game too easy.
I agree with your post overall, but it's worth noting that most frontends for fedi are still based on Twitter, Instagram, etc. You get similar dark UX patterns like infinite scrolling in feeds or displaying like counts on posts. It's also hard to not copy these things now because they're so normalized. If you intentionally designed the frontend differently, people may just dismiss it as weird and different.
I've been thinking for years now that most distros could be replaced by a system config for NixOS or Guix System. I wonder if we'll ever see things go in that direction.
RockChip stuff tends to have good support, and in fact I'd trust it more to have good support than Raspberry Pi (Broadcom). When in doubt, check or wait before buying in any case. In many cases support will not meaningfully improve from how it was at release (learned this one the hard way) and most ARM devices are e-waste. Try not to get excited about theoretical hardware specs either, they might as well be fake because of how poorly the majority of ARM stuff actually works. Go for known good software support and then upgrade to new hardware when you find something newer with known good software support a few years later.