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Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Going for a walk always cheers your spirits!

Great album! One of my most cherished CDs in my collection.

You’re wrong. Have my upvote.

The issue with cars is people abusing them instead of relying on public transport, where it would be cheaper and more convenient, but some people pay more for the extra comfort, which is seen as wasteful.

This snowballs into urban planning centered on cars, which creates a pretty bad incentives loop.

On the other hand, planes are a necessity for some business travel, and a nice way of visiting the world once per year. Yes, some people abuse flight, but it’s a non issue overall.

Excellent alt text, thanks for taking the time to explain the joke for people who may need it!

I genuinely thought it was an unpopular opinion. I keep reading a lot of Matrix apologists on the selfhosted/tech communities, but it seems that they may be a minority overall!

I actually do agree with you quite a lot. XMPP has two important issues: everything is an extension, including encryption (n 1998 we were still using telnet...) and relying heavily on XML, which was a good idea en 1998 but now we have better formats.

Thanks for the fair arguments. It may seem I'm defending XMPP, actually, I'm not... I ran a server and it was not great. I was trying to compare an --as you say-- 27-year-old protocol with a modern one, and Matrix doesn't seem to be significantly better. It's a shame, because I'd love to use it, but it just does not work well.

XMPP is a protocol too, can run on a Pentium-II (I hosted a server with 100s of users on a P2) and it doesn't suffer from federation issues or message loss.

When there is not good client or server available, maybe it's because the protocol was poorly designed.

Yep. Nothing felt worse than spending 20€ in a CD and realizing that, apart from the hit single, the rest of it was pretty bad.

I know, right? PBF comics are usually very depressing, but I found this one totally wholesome!

Nice angle. I also like the version “you have a better life than a medieval king”

I feel you. Hope that this meme at least lifted your spirits for one of these few moments. Thanks for spending it with us.