• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Oh my god. Push to talk.

    :o

    Holy fuck.

    Linux didn’t have the most basic voice chat function up to now??? :O

    They STILL don’t???

    What the actual

    Checks original release date for ventrilo

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      It was an issue with Wayland. Before that we had X11, where global shortcuts wasn’t an issue.

            • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              2 hours ago

              We didn’t lost shortcuts to everything. It’s only about global shortcuts, all other still work. And given the Wayland global shortcuts are now functional and officially supported, its not the same situation anymore. The difference to iPhones is, that you cannot do anything about it on iPhone. On Wayland however desktops environments such as KDE, GNOME and Hyperland could implement a custom variant (or the draft version of the portal) and have it functional; it was just not a standard.

              So no, the situation is not entirely comparable. We are not at mercy by one single company.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          You know that the Wayland portal for global shortcuts took 10 years discussions before they finally settled in, right? Off course it is to blame the Wayland devs (those responsible for this portal), not Discord.

  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Meh, I already have a global mute shortcut. I have a keyboard shortcut for this script I found somewhere that toggles mic audio capture in ALSA.

    #!/bin/bash

    mic_on=$(amixer get Capture | grep '\[on\]')

    if [ "$mic_on" = "" ] ; then

    amixer set Capture toggle && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-added.oga

    else

    amixer set Capture toggle && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-removed.oga

    fi

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      This will mute all applications. While a workaround for your setup, on other use cases it wouldn’t work if the user wants to mute a specific application only.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      To be fair, it wasn’t the fault of Discord this time. The Wayland developers took their time, because they couldn’t agree (until now).

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    When I need to check something on Discord I do it with a browser anyway, I tried installing it on linux but every time I would run it I would get a demand to manually install a new binary because there was an update, and I don’t want it having that level of access to my computer anyway.

    • otter@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      It does for my setup. I’m on a not too crazy install of Arch with KDE for my DE and I have discord installed with flatpak. It’s been at least 3 months with no issues for me.

      • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        I feel like it’s been working for almost 2 years at this point for me. The only issue I have is it shares all audio instead of just the application I’m sharing.

  • drolex@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Wow and to think I could have gone without knowing that and that it would have had absolutely no impact on my life whatsoever. Crazy. Makes you think. About burritos or something. Certainly not about Discord on Linux though.

    • dragon-donkey3374@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      Sometimes there isn’t a choice because others you’re in contact with prefer discord.

      Not sure how you weren’t able to think this for yourself?

      • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        If you don’t support their choice to use discord, perhaps they will leave discord and go to something better. The same applies to twitter, instagram, facebook etc

        “Not sure how you weren’t able to think this for yourself?”

        Be the change

    • JoshCodes@programming.devEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      I found out the other week that its the only social media I have left. Except LinkedIn but in this economy…?

      Anyway, its my most reliable way to talk to all of my friends and half my family, and I hate it. But hey, at least its not Facebook.

      I run fedora for my main pc, cachyos on my laptop and ubuntu server for the home server PC - for the Linux street cred.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          7 hours ago

          I just reorganized some bookmarks and thought about how can I unite Lemmy and Imgur in one group; Social. I have no idea how this could be categorized other than being social media. Any ideas welcome.

  • determinist@kbin.earth
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    14 hours ago

    I haven’t used discord for a couple of years. got an email yesterday informing me that unless I log in soon, my account will be deleted.

    …oh no

    I’m going to let them delete it, saves me having to

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      What has this anything to do with leaking personal data? This is about the global shortcuts, that can be used while your operating system focus is on another application. This is a long standing issue on Wayland and just recently got solved I think. And Discord being one of the first to make use of this new Wayland “feature” is absurd (in a good way). So I don’t understand where you coming from with this statement.

          • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
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            6 hours ago

            “What exactly do you want tell me with that? I should” click on those links?

            I’m guessing their point was to do with the 1st word in the title of the thread.

            • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              6 hours ago

              But your link does not address my issue, you are talking about data leaks. But the global shortcuts on Wayland has nothing to do with Discord dataleaks that happened in the past. You are conflicting two different topics here. Click the link I provided (its not a search link, its an actual result) and read through to understand what global shortcuts are.

                • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  6 hours ago

                  This has nothing to do with data leaks. Global shortcuts just mean that if you focus on a different application, then you can still control the application in background with shortcuts like Ctrl+1. That’s all. This changes nothing about data collection or data leaking.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      App looks very similar too. But friends, other devs and communities aren’t using it. Their privacy agreements seems to be much better than Discord, especially because their servers are located in Europe. But one should still understand this is not entirely private either. Note, I am not dunking on this service, just want to remember people to read privacy notices:

      We do use certain service providers to process your data on our behalf.

      Law & Order: We may disclose your information to third parties only if such disclosure is absolutely necessary to comply with a valid legal process, protect any person from death or serious injury, prevent fraud or abuse, or protect our rights, property, safety and interest.

      If you wish to request deletion of any information stored on our servers … Exceptions apply for the third-party service providers used to process your data as described in the service supplement.

      We may also process your personal data to comply with our legal obligations, to protect our legitimate interests or the interests of others.

      - https://stoat.chat/legal/privacy

      An alternative could also be Matrix, which at least is decentralized: https://matrix.org/

      • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        I recommend Haven if your focus (!) is self hosting. Just a single container.

        Chatto is also quite interesting (especially architecturally), but I dislike event sourcing without ability to technically prune old stuff. Also it’s closer to Slack than Discord.