self-hosting matrix is possible, and after I got it set up, it works fine. That said, push notifications were acting up a lot at first (might have been fixed by an update since that hasn’t been an issue in a while), and it is rather annoying to get your desktop and mobile clients set up to not be annoying about not being verified (iOS apps seem more fiddly with verifying than Android apps in my experience)

Despite my annoyances at first, the Element client really is the best and most mature one out there, and I do recommend it. Don’t bother with any of the other ones; despite what the fluffychat settings want you to think, Element is the only client that can do any kind of audio/video calling, and most of the other clients only have web apps, so there’s no hope for getting push notifications on mobile.

Ultimately it has worked for me, but my demands are three humans in a voice call once a week, no screenshare (use Parsec for that), and occasional text messages.

Spacebar looks great, and is exactly what I want, but it doesn’t look close to production ready yet

Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows, so we put Windows in your Windows so you can use Windows while you use Windows

Syncthing; it’s a modern miracle

I had a red Veloster I called Swordfish And my friends called my blue Civic “Bad Wolf”

After 10 years of iOS, I made the switch to Graphene last month, and I’m loving it. Android Auto was functional for me, but none of the music apps were nice to use, so I’ve left my old iPhone in airplane mode in the car to keep playing my downloaded music.

I’ve not tried any other options since GrapheneOS is the only degoogled option I’m comfortable with

If you’re okay with earbuds, Pine64’s PineBuds purportedly have ANC

GrapheneOS is the only reason I’m willing to come within 30 miles of using Android

This is literally the setup for the show Leverage

Quick search turned this up, but I’m on mobile, so not in a great place to dig into how viable it is. A Reddit post indicated it’s in some sort of alpha/beta stage, but I think it is something you can use today

Edit: Forgot the link like a fool https://positive-intentions.com/

On the contrary, I have had multiple conversations with Android users trying to convince me that iOS is bad/Android is better with nearly religious fervor.

Element is okay, but I really wish Matrix had better clients on iOS. If Cinny put out an iOS app or got the web app working better on mobile, I’d be way more willing to start using Matrix more.

Indeed! I left the Reddit comment and thought, “wait Lemmy is where it’s at, I need to comment there.” And so I did

Man those custom channel pages were so fun

Wow, I guess I am old, I remember when this is what YouTube used to look like.

Weird nostalgia trip; I definitely don’t think it’s better, but if I can scroll through comments and watch the video at the same time, I won’t complain.

In the interest of de-centralization and sharing the load, I’m running Invidious here:

ourtube.roguewave.observer

Nah, my memory’s not that good

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined