As a note of caution, I used Oracle's free tier to run a personal Matrix server, and it got deleted without any advance warning after a few months. I migrated to another provider and haven't had any issues for 2+ years now.
ambitiousslab
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Along similar lines, I'd say Snikket. I feel XMPP often has quite a bad reputation based on the user experience from 10 years ago, but it's come such a long way and projects like Snikket make it very easy to get started.
I've had good fortune converting some family and friends to use XMPP.
People always mention fragmentation, and while there is some truth to it, it can be massively minimised by choosing blessed clients and servers for them to use.
In my case, I run my own server, and thoroughly test the clients (especially the onboarding flow) that I expect them to use, so that any question they have, I can help them out with quickly. Since we're all on identically configured servers, it minimises one whole class of incompatibilities.
There is still unfortunately a bit of a usability gap compared to Signal - particularly on the iOS clients. But they have come a long way and are consistently improving.
Thank you! This is going to send me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea these phone cooling fans were a thing!
This looks awesome! How would one go about making one of these themselves? Asking for a friend of course :)
My favourites are:
- Endless Sky (2D space sim, singleplayer)
- FlightGear (3D flight sim, singleplayer and multiplayer)
- OpenTTD (transport management game, singleplayer and multiplayer)
- Torcs (racing game, singleplayer)
Each of these are quite polished (especially for open source games!), widely packaged, not too complicated to start playing (except perhaps FlightGear) and have been around for a long time. Endless Sky, FlightGear and OpenTTD have quite active development, while Torcs is much quieter nowadays (although there is an actively developed fork called Speed Dreams which is awesome, just not widely packaged yet).
I've been meaning to try out FreeOrion and Minetest for a while now, looking forward to seeing what else pops up on the thread!
That was fun to watch! I liked how you pretty much recreated the old Mika Häkkinen move on the Kemmel Straight
I am addicted to OpenTTD at the moment! One of those games where I mean to play for 30 minutes, and then look up 5 hours later and realise what I've just done. Thankfully, it's fun enough that I don't even feel guilty about it!
Has anyone here chosen to make a significant / sudden change to their savings rate at some point in their life? If so, what was the story behind it?
Any tips for preparing?
I found getting teammates to sit in the server with me and analyse my driving / give me live feedback was really helpful! We would rotate and give feedback to each other. Often it wasn't just what they were telling me, but the fact I knew someone was watching made me more focused on what to improve.
This is probably too specific to be helpful, but because the VEC had 3 divisions at the time, in the few days before a race the practice server would have 70-80 cars on at peak times, which was absolute chaos. That was pretty useful for practicing traffic, for sure! But any way to practice with real drivers definitely helps.
It’s one of the things I love about ACC with having to deal with rain and so on which can really mix things up
Definitely, I love how dynamic the sims are getting and hopefully this will keep getting better across the sims! It makes it much more interesting when there's a bit of rain in the mix :)
Very nice setup! That's quite a collection of wheels you have - how do you find the build quality compares? Do you have any preferences between them?
Also - how do you find your PC for iRacing? I've heard iRacing is much more optimised than rF2 - I had a similar spec of PC but would still get the occasional stutter sometimes. I'm guessing with those specs in iRacing it would be buttery smooth? :)
Just for reference, here are my favourites on each platform.
Each support modern XMPP extensions, interoperate very nicely with each other, and (at least in my opinion) look good!