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10:49:56
Colleen
<selwyn> any recommendations for clients on windows/linux? i like a graphical client
10:50:03
Colleen
<shinmera> weelichat has a bunch of problems still, as you might have gathered from the discussions here.
10:50:44
Colleen
<shinmera> uuuh, weechat itself is cli-only. it has a bridge with which you can then use a graphical client like glowing bear.
10:58:12
Colleen
<selwyn> plan is to have weechat running on my server and tunnel in with one of the clients
11:00:37
Colleen
<shinmera> or, actually, with the ssh extension enabled you can use the basic powershell, too.
11:08:21
SAL9000
selwyn: I'm running weechat on my NAS in tmux, ssh'ing in from Windows via MSYS2 (aka the "modern" MinGW)
11:09:30
SAL9000
ah. can't see membership from the other side. hopefully I can find some time to hack on weelichat again soon
12:44:17
Colleen
<sellers> i am already connected as 'selwyn' through the irc bridge i didn't want a name clash to mess things up
12:51:40
Colleen
<shinmera> though because IRC is dumb you will not be getting messages on your IRC connection that you wrote from another connection.
13:27:44
Colleen
<shinmera> If only someone had time to fix this client's bugs........................................
13:29:19
Colleen
<selwyn> i have decided that if i manage to leave university before i die, it would be nice to do some coding again
13:45:33
Colleen
<shinmera> ech, this laptop is only three years old but I'm already thinking of replacing it
13:46:45
Colleen
<selwyn> i tore it up last week to get at the hard drive, there are ~30 pages of literature review there that would be useful
13:46:56
Colleen
<shinmera> well, this one ain't broke per se, it just sucks. got weird display scum on one one corner that I can't get rid of and the pen stopped working
13:58:41
SAL9000
re hammer and nail job -- ugh that's why I (so far) have never bought a laptop which I can't non-destructively remove the storage from
13:59:09
SAL9000
gave up on "phone shall have an SD card slot" a while back, though, because apparently I can't have that AND dual-SIM...
13:59:50
Colleen
<shinmera> especially with the fucking shit support requests I constantly get from my parents with chinese phones that just flood some new shit on there every few months
14:02:00
Colleen
<shinmera> I don't wanna spend another 2k to get a new laptop already if it's only gonna last me three years
14:04:50
SAL9000
they're quite shiny and lightweight/compact but no active cooling + no maintainability AT ALL
14:06:11
Colleen
<shinmera> I used to get them through a student discount programme while at ETH where prices were reduced by up to 1k, but I'm no longer eligible.
14:09:39
SAL9000
selwyn: god knows. look into bitlbee and I think there's another similar thing. also maybe matrix has something?
14:10:45
SAL9000
signal/telegram/etc. really treat you as 2nd class citizen if you don't have a smartphone & phone number you're willing to give them
14:13:42
Colleen
<shinmera> for example the organisational group for our trip to poland and GIC next week is on whatsapp
14:14:21
Colleen
<shinmera> it has a chokehold in many countries because they have a deal with providers to cut the fees
14:15:05
Colleen
<shinmera> evene if they didn't nobody wants to use sms because it lacks all the other features people have gotten used to, especially groups
14:15:49
SAL9000
yeah. not sure what I think about gov't mandating connectors like that, but thumbs up for less proprietary shit
14:16:49
SAL9000
I was thinking e.g. whether it'd prevent a new -- possibly, technically superior -- connector from being developed & deployed
14:17:27
SAL9000
also special cases like weather-sealed devices (USB-C can't really be weather-sealed properly) or tiny devices
14:18:28
Colleen
<selwyn> but they just leak each others group chats anyway. and the 256 member limit is really inconvenient for them
14:18:50
Colleen
<selwyn> you are the government you can make your own damn app to snitch on each other with no member limit if you want