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  • Correcting some misconceptions…

    Element for Android doesn’t support searching in encrypted channels

    That’s true of regular Element for Android, but it’s being replaced with Element X (which is built with Rust). I would expect search to be added there if it isn’t already.

    and I think you can’t use E2EE in the browser at all(?)

    I have done it in Firefox, so that’s false. Perhaps you had trouble with a specific browser?

    plus basically every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.

    Nheko handles E2EE just fine, so that would seem to be false as well.

    Since you’re looking for recommendations, it would help if you said which clients you tried and what problems you had with them.

    In case you haven’t seen it, you can set a Features: E2EE filter on this list:
    https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/












  • ono@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.worldNew Sidebar Rule:
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    if this community has any hope of being anywhere near as comprehensive in coverage as the News Subreddits

    I left Reddit on purpose.

    I would rather have quality than volume.

    I would rather my news feed be diverse than dominated by one or two self-appointed influencers of discourse. (Even if they have good intentions.)

    I approve of this rule. Ten articles per person each day is more than enough at this stage, and the threshold for “too much” can always be adjusted as the community grows.








  • This is not about FOSS. (As you could have deduced from my mention of Foundry.)

    It’s about services like Discord collecting and owning our words, our voices, our stories, our communities.

    It’s also about us retaining access to those things, and having agency over our personal information. Discord has been known to lock people out of their accounts if they don’t hand over their phone numbers or photo IDs, for example.

    There are perfectly good tools available that serve their users, rather than exploiting us for the benefit of corporations, and I choose to use them.

    (It’s also nice that Mumble has superior voice quality, which I find helpful to role playing, although that’s not its main advantage IMHO.)





  • I would expect any random headset to plug into the headset and microphone ports and Just Work, and ditto for USB

    For the most part these days, they do. But OP asked about wireless.

    or Bluetooth headsets that report themselves as the appropriate device class.

    The problem with Bluetooth is not the operating system or drivers, but Bluetooth itself. The spec famously lacks provisions for good quality stereo output with good quality input at the same time. This is why many wireless headsets use a (non-Bluetooth) dongle.