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  • Telegram is great and all, but what about IRC?

pfr reason for avoiding IRC was moderation and spam control.. it's easy and feature full to admin both matrix and Telegram 🙂

“Only the paranoid survive.”

― Harold Finch
NetBSD VPS , NetBSD , OS108

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      Jay there's a #UnitedBSD on Freenode IRC but not many users there

      I could have sworn I went to #UnitedBSD on freenode and It was empty.. which I suppose, as you say, could have just been the case..

      Jay reason for avoiding IRC was moderation and spam control.. it's easy and feature full to admin both matrix and Telegram. I wonder if Bitlbee works with Telegram? I've used it for FB messenger in the past.

      That makes sense.

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          pfr On my OpenBSD box I usually use scripts for WhatsApp, Discord, Skype and Telegram that launch chrome in app mode. I launch them with dmenu.

          Since their clients are Electron apps, they are going to use Chrome anyway, so there is no limitation when you're using them via "web ui".

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            pfr Join #UnitedBSD on Freenode to enjoy chatting with Telegram and matrix members thanks kfvahedi@ for bridging Telegram and IRC 🙂

            “Only the paranoid survive.”

            ― Harold Finch
            NetBSD VPS , NetBSD , OS108

              IRC rules the universe. If the universe can't get its $#!t together, that's not my problem. 🙂

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                pfr Yeah.. I'm that 1 guy.

                ... nah ... the conclusion is: We are at least two!
                ... aaaaand counting!

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                    yeti I'm sure I can be forgiven for thinking that *BSD users may also be terminal IRC users too?

                    I get it though, IRC is ancient and positively redundant by today's standards and we should all use telegram/discord/matrix/*messenger etc. But by that logic we probably shouldn't be using BSD as a desktop OS. We'd be better served using Ubuntu or ChromeOS for that matter. The whole allure (for me) of BSD on old hardware is nostalgia, and that includes doing things the old way.

                    I Understand that's not everyone's preference, but that's why I'm here. For a hefty dose of nostalgia and to learn how to do things by hand.

                    I use ircIIover weechat/irssibecause well, its the original ... Yes its annoying as hell but I don't rely on it for anything.
                    I've got my limits though, I tried using viexclusively for text editing but I eventually caved in and installed vim

                    I'm certainly not one of those angry militant nostalgic *nix users who think that everyone should do things the hard way but I just assumed I was among others who like "pushing shit uphill" just as much as I do 🤣

                    pfr@sdf.org | https://social.sdf.org/@pfr | https://matrix.to/#/@pfr:bsd.cafe

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                        pfr I don't think IRC is about nostalgia and the BSDs aren't either.
                        It's more like using the least complex tool that fits the job!

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                            yeti I don't think IRC is about nostalgia and the BSDs aren't either.

                            For me it is, though. I have no modern day computing needs that require me to run BSD. I run it because it reminds me of a time where computing happened primarily in the command line, and I'm fond of those memories.

                            yeti It's more like using the least complex tool that fits the job!

                            That all depends on your experience/knowledge. It also depends on what you consider to be complex. For me getting my NetBSD system up and running and configured the way I like is has been immensely complex. That's because I had/have no idea what I'm doing and I am learning every step of the way (with the much appreciated help from all the wonderful UnitedBSD community members) Shout out to @pin! 😄

                            For example, on my other laptop I run Pop!_OS, a very user friendly and new to linux OS that my wife (or anyone) can use without any trouble. I would consider this to be the least complex of the two purely based on my own personal user experience. That's not to say I enjoy using it any more or any less.

                            pfr@sdf.org | https://social.sdf.org/@pfr | https://matrix.to/#/@pfr:bsd.cafe

                                4 months later

                                IRC’s are too simple to me, but instead, Quaternion and Element (Matrix) are interesting too
                                I just now need to join our room too😄

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                                hd_scania Add the following to your .xinitrc to avoid the Qt warnings you are seeing,

                                mkdir /tmp/${USER}-runtime && chmod -R 0700 /tmp/${USER}-runtime

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/${USER}-runtime

                                😉

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                                  4 months later

                                  #unitedbsd@freenode is de facto dead now.
                                  Let's drop it?

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                                    Bridging was the reason that chat died.
                                    The matrixers were an ugly croud. The telegramers behaved better.

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