Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
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I won't even give hard drives when recycling a computer, I pull and smash myself. Last set of old drives I cut in half with bolt cutters.
That's overkill, a couple of passes with dd and it's irrecoverable.
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That's overkill, a couple of passes with dd and it's irrecoverable.
A couple of passed with dd takes way longer than bolt cutters and it’s much less satisfying
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Anyone remember xFire? It was better 15 years ago than Discord ever was or will be.
...damn I miss that shit. They were litigated out of existence by a frivolous lawsuit from Yahoo. This is why we can't have nice things.
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The thing is do you even need to replace it?
Yes, many of my childhood best friends live a 9 hour flight away.
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Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult
from the official release.
Sounds like creepy spyware
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I'll gladly scan a face. I just happen to look exactly like Gale Dekarios
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doubt it. better off just setting up channels in libera chat on IRC and doin voice via teamspeak/mumble like we used to do it back in the day.
shit, someone needs to bring back ICQ.
IRC protocol is audio capable.
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That's overkill, a couple of passes with dd and it's irrecoverable.
They're 500gb mechanical hard drives with financial data on them. Snip and done. No time wasted, not reusing them.
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A couple of passed with dd takes way longer than bolt cutters and it’s much less satisfying
Yeah lmao. Wipe one drive at a time with a USB connector. No thanks. I don't have bulk drive operation equipment and then it ties up a computer doing the work.
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Sure.
But what are you replacing it with ?
I tried Mumble and Teamspeak in the past and it's pretty far from the same level of comfort.
Don't take that the wrong way though, I'm all for supporting open alternatives, I'm just saying you have to think about the features of the alternatives too.
I just saw something about Stoat.chat which seems like a good open source software for that application but a lot of people will have to bear the cost of self hosting these servers.
I know I will think carefully before slamming the door on discord.
Were you trying Teamspeak 6? The UI is different, but the functionality is on par I believe. Not open source, but at least you can self-host.
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A couple of passed with dd takes way longer than bolt cutters and it’s much less satisfying
I think they meant you could wipe with dd and then they are
recyclablereusable.EDIT: s/recycleable/reusable
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Sure.
But what are you replacing it with ?
I tried Mumble and Teamspeak in the past and it's pretty far from the same level of comfort.
Don't take that the wrong way though, I'm all for supporting open alternatives, I'm just saying you have to think about the features of the alternatives too.
I just saw something about Stoat.chat which seems like a good open source software for that application but a lot of people will have to bear the cost of self hosting these servers.
I know I will think carefully before slamming the door on discord.
Stoat looks promising, open source
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Were you trying Teamspeak 6? The UI is different, but the functionality is on par I believe. Not open source, but at least you can self-host.
No. Recently I played a bit using a friends mumble server. And it's a friend that is already privacy conscious. But these friends are not the norm. They are the exception.
Interesting to see Teamspeak evolved but still you have to pay to host a server so that's a huge difference.
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Yeah lmao. Wipe one drive at a time with a USB connector. No thanks. I don't have bulk drive operation equipment and then it ties up a computer doing the work.
Wait, you don't just hang like 6 of them out of your desktop by their cables and wipe them while you sleep?
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Sure.
But what are you replacing it with ?
I tried Mumble and Teamspeak in the past and it's pretty far from the same level of comfort.
Don't take that the wrong way though, I'm all for supporting open alternatives, I'm just saying you have to think about the features of the alternatives too.
I just saw something about Stoat.chat which seems like a good open source software for that application but a lot of people will have to bear the cost of self hosting these servers.
I know I will think carefully before slamming the door on discord.
I'll swap to a shared calendar and any other voice chat software. Sure I can't post on those but that's why we also have a group chat for the different gaming groups I'm in.
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Anyone remember xFire? It was better 15 years ago than Discord ever was or will be.
...damn I miss that shit. They were litigated out of existence by a frivolous lawsuit from Yahoo. This is why we can't have nice things.
Dude xFire was my jam.
I remember leaving xFire handles in my forum signatures with a random anime picture. Those were the days…
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Wait, you don't just hang like 6 of them out of your desktop by their cables and wipe them while you sleep?
Mine, sure. I replaced 15 desktops that day, no fucking way.
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Stoat looks promising, open source
They won't even send a verification email to my gmail account so I can sign up.
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Hope this will mass exodus into Matrix, like it happened with Twitter / X.
Matrix doesn't have any of the same features discord has for voice and video.
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Well yes, I would say it's very much an integral part of my social life.
I spend a lot of time with my gamer friends and it revolves around our discord servers.
We even have a discord servers dedicated to our role play sessions.
IMHO Discord is a bit more than just a voice chat app. It's also rooms with persistant chats. It's the ability to share media etc.
Also their noise reduction tech is top notch.
I knew when I got in that it would be another "Gmail" for me. It's great but you have to give a bit of your soul to it and I knew it would enshitify eventually.
I see luck with "combos"
XMPP + Mumble is a common one. The room is on XMPP, some users are in a mumble server with info in the topic.
Matrix is buggy and doesn't scale imo, it isn't a sustainable alternative. Stoat looks like a great option and there are lots of open instances.
