Hey, question; are mesh nodes a thing in Europe?

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.

Gee, if only we could’ve seen this coming.

America has no concept of “radical left”. I can suggest something mild and end up being called a communist.

Self-serving, and ultimately self-destructive.

What will happen is that Americans will completely ignore this until a president of the opposite party gets elected and is left trying to fix this crap. Then suddenly it’s like “look how incompetent this party is! We’re so in debt right now!”.

Would that include code and assets generated for AAA games?

*Temu versions of our food.

Just like their knock-off version of rugby.

Compared to Europe they’re right-off-center.

In other words, America has no left. Only right and extreme right.

Ah yes. The Roman Empire from 2004.

Huh, I’m surprised to see Spain being so green. Wouldn’t have thought it possible years ago when I lived there.

Nice to see Denmark is basically 100%.

Sad to see Eastern Europe being so red and orange. I got some gay friends there. Was hoping it’d get safer for them as time went on…

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.

My dad goes to visit Iran (a significant portion of my family is there).

Immediately revolts start.

All communication lost (still haven’t heard from him).

America is deciding to attack Iran again.

His plan was to take a two month vacation with his siblings, but at this point I’m starting to wonder if he’ll even return.

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.

That’s… Certainly a strange and oddly specific thought…

Debt is not a real resource, it’s a complete fabrication, and all the richest people have a value that doesn’t exist in real world resources, rather a perceived agreed upon value of what their assets might cost, based on the vague idea that it will appreciate in value in the future, and the debt cycle that may continue printing money for banks.

So most money isn’t based on anything. And the value of currency these days is entirely fiat.