Jolteon

Maybe the budget was planned out before RAM prices spiked. 128 gigs of used server RAM was not that expensive before that happened.

Name a single Discord replacement that has anywhere close to the coverage of end-to-end encryption that Matrix does. Unless you’re willing to sacrifice literally every other feature except text chat, I don’t think there is one.

They’re still far more encrypted than literally every other alternative.

Hasn’t Apple been soldering everything to the motherboard for ages now?

Unfortunately, I’m not surprised in the least.

During his first term, he wasn’t nearly as unhinged as he was during this term, because he was still building his cult, which he continued doing after he lost the 2020 election. With the 2024 election, virtually everything lined up in his favor. The Democratic candidate was somebody who had not even been in the primaries, the size of his cult was at an all-time high, and the political division was even further increased from 2016. Even with all that in his favor, he still didn’t show his most unhinged ideas until after the election.

Anybody with a reasonable amount of intelligence would obviously have voted against him, but forward thinking doesn’t seem to be a common trait these days.

What would the legality be of listening to people’s phone calls if they are connecting to your personal home network without your permission to make them?

You never know. The car wash may be out of order and you might need to wash your car by hand.

It’d be interesting to see the cost efficiency of that versus traditional wind turbines over the expected lifespan of both.