I’m not sure if you just normally write that way, but your comment sounded very much like a short essay generated by ChatGPT lol. Even had “in conclusion” at the end.

Some people are naturally more formal/exhaustive in their descriptions. Especially a certain class of programmers.

> we will be integrating this into Element so you can have voice and video rooms, and hold group video calls inside the Element app natively over Matrix.

This is super exciting for me because it might mean I can move my friend group away from Discord. Does the Element team have plans to create audio-only rooms where you can see who's in the call without joining (like Discord)? And will we be able to create calls without notifying the entire room like it does currently?

Yup. The whole point of Element Call is to provide native Matrix-based voice/video calling for Discord style usage inside Element. MSC3401 even has support for initiating a call as a voice/video room already :)

Wow, this is really well done. I love how fast it is. Any plans on making an electron desktop app? I would definitely use it.

Heck if it's a general purpose web app - ie not only Chrome, maybe give Tauri[1] a try?

[1]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

Yes, after some more features we gonna make electron app.

As others have said, perhaps Tauri would work better (and save you from neverending complaints from the anti-electron brigade)

Wow that’s pricy. I played 1st section violin through college and only have a $2k one. My friend played first chair 1st violin section through college and had a $4k violin and it sounded amazing. Maybe we got lucky and found a really good instrument shop? Another friend had a cello that costed well over $15k though so there’s that.

The $2k violin is a $3k+ violin in 5 or 10 years, unless you drop it. The computer is generally not (especially if you drop it).

At least you're engaging with the premise. You could also get a $980 with tax M1 MacBook Air. A Dell prebuilt - even the Alienware, which does not have to pay scalper prices and comes with a 3070 - is $2,611. These are all comparable options. In the instrument world, a $6,500 computer is more like a $30,000-150,000 violin and bow. Like the stuff professionals use.

That sounds funny to me, using arch for daily driving and Debian for tinkering xD Not saying you’re wrong, I just found it amusing and slightly ironic.

I get your point:) Many among the users I introduced to Linux are elderly with no or little computer experience, and others just need it for the usual web+office+media applications, so having a very consistent desktop where everything works out of the box as in Manjaro beats the incredible number of packages available on Debian. This is about XFCE of course, which is what I install: close enough to Windows to be useable by all, simple enough not to balk at the first inconsistence, fast enough to run pretty much everywhere. Gnome, Mate and KDE would probably be fantastic on all Distros, but XFCE on Debian defaults to ugly and unnecessary settings (a DM ideal for small screen laptops which defaults to two panels?). I don't have experience with plain Arch, but having read only good things about it will probably try it soon.

Debian has been really good for just about everything since I moved to it many moons ago, and as of today is still my daily driver on all machines, but sometimes requires constant fiddling here and there, and I'm getting old; I stopped recompiling my kernels on PCs over 10 years ago, and a system that works just out of the box is too temping:) Not to criticize Debian, which has been great almost everywhere, but it gave some problems with some niche applications, for example music: a working LinVST installation is not easy to obtain, and it is tightly tied with the running kernel, which if has _rt extensions will help with low latency but sometimes doesn't let one compile with standard Wine libraries, and when one finds a good compromise, bang! VirtualBox stops working because now its kernel module doesn't build anymore. Grrrr!:) So I may take the chance to test some other options, and Arch might be a good candidate.

TS5 is matrix? I’ve been using the TS5 beta client for over a year and I’ve been able to connect to my old TS3 server with no problems, both audio and text. I wasn’t aware there was a new TS5 server either, I thought they were going to keep the current one.

Element clients are very close to finishing their SSO implementations which will help immensely with the on boarding process. Here’s the iOS pull request for example: https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/pull/3890

One thing that would really help is basically making the server installs a few clicks. Granted it has been about 6 months since I tried but I remember the instructions not being great and I know that'd be zero hope for less technical people.

You don't have to host your own server to use it though. It's also not something recommended for an average user.

However, if you want a server, installing it using Synapse's docker image is very easy. You literally have to run two commands.

Swift is not closed source, it’s open source on GitHub. In addition, Swift currently runs on both macOS and Linux. There is a pull request open that introduces Windows support which I believe will be released with the next point version of Swift.

BMI doesn't work for people who workout. But it does work for the average person since the vast majority of people do not work out.