Isn’t that exactly what Israel did when they left the Gaza strip in 2005? That’s the thing that lead to Hamas taking over in the first place.

I’ve been using Konsole since switching to Linux with the KDE 4.0 release. Never felt the need to switch.

Only thing I wish it supported is Tmux control mode.

And crosses are just lines meeting at right angles. And purity rings are just small cylinders. We don’t ban any cylinder or lines meeting at right angles. You’re making a sad attempt at a slippery slope argument.

Having written some XMPP code in xmpprs, I can assure you, XMPP is not the best.

With the bridges to other networks, you can pretty much talk to everyone from inside Matrix regardless of what they use.

Then again, the DMA should kick in next year, at that point big players like iMessage, Whatsapp and whoever else counts as big (so probably not Google Chat) will have to allow interoperability between everyone. So they are going to be forced to allow you to somehow massage someone from Whatsapp through Matrix and group chat with people in Instagram and Signal all at once. Matrix has been suggested as the backbone for this interpretability.

You can see evidence for God every time you boil yourself a bowl of spaghetti. He boiled for our sins, repent to the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

R’Amen

Isn’t Matrix the preferred instant messaging protocol for fediverse users?

For the same reason that I don’t use Reddit as a link aggregator.

Sorry, you need hardware.

If you are doing a ton of encoding, you could even get specialized hardware like amd alevo (spelling?) card which enables you to encode even AV1.

That being said, what are you doing that requires you to encode h.265 on ancient hardware?

I watched it when it came out. Approximately 3 hours per year in the cinema, then rewatched the extended edition at home which adds about 30 minutes per movie.

The Lord of the Rings - Extended Edition has a total run time of 11 hours and 22 minutes.