Not sure why all the complexity. I just set my Gmail account to forward to an address on my self-hosted domain, and set it to delete after. Then I can check my “gmail” using standard IMAP on my own server (I also run RainLoop for a webmail interface). Sending mail back through Gmail is more complex, though, since Google put some protections on it to prevent spam. Since I don’t have to send from my Gmail account very often, I just log in to the web interface those rare times I need to do it.
They eat hella fruit off my fruits trees. And when I say eat, I mean take 3 bites and drop it on the ground to grab a new one and take 3 bites.
They waste 50 apricots to eat 3 apricots.
Until I started taking all the ground fruit and boiling it in a pot to make fruit juice for brandy distilling, it was a complete waste. Now it’s still wasteful, because I’d rather eat the fruit, but at least I recover something from it.
With the release of the Dark Souls 2 Lighting Engine mod, I’ve been motivated to pick that game back up again. I played DS2 for the first time about a year ago, got maybe a third through, and then kind of fell off. It’s fun to be back in Drangleic! Last time I was rolling a Paladin-type character with Faith and melee weapons, this time I’m interested in making a huge-sword type build and pivoting to hexes in the later game. The lighting mod also let’s you mod in HDR if your monitor is capable, and boy howdy does it look incredible with the improved lighting and HDR 🤩
Edit: here’s some screenshots i took capturing how bright Majula is, and capturing the added shadows.
I prefer if my instance is federated to everything and I can just block what I don’t care to see. Like lemmygrad seems to be some fascist propaganda and hexbear is the same but for people that are underage so I blocked both. Apparently I was permabanned from both without posting or commenting there so it’s not like I can interact with people there even if I wanted to.
Telegram has all of your chats in readable form on their servers. Any app can connect to it, granted they get a secret token by sending an SMS confirmation code (and optionally a password). Telegram itself has various apps.
When they connect, these apps download your settings, your messages, maybe some contacts, and probably the last few images you’ve sent/received.
You’re not bypassing anything as a third party chat client, you’re using the same information to log in as the official one.
This is how 99% of apps works. Telegram has opted to make the process for connecting open. Other apps try to hide their process, and it can take days to weeks for someone with mild interest to develop an alternative client, though basic send/receive functionality can be built in an hour or so. It’s really the chat app around the protocol that takes a lot of work.
This isn’t always permitted by the terms of service. Discord, for example, tells you they will ban you if you use unofficial apps (they rarely do but it can happen). That’s why every alternative Discord client pretends to be the official one.
Telegram’s openness is one of the reasons I preferred it to WhatsApp, before WhatsApp got itself some basic chat encryption. Telegram never bothered to implement that, so it goes into the “good enough for things I wouldn’t mind leaking too much” pile for me. It’s a real shame, because there are some real fun Telegram bots out there, and being able to automatically send messages through Telegram is a nice touch.
Compare Telegram to websites: web servers host the same type of pages, but any browser on any device can fetch and display those pages, all because the web standard is open. That’s why the web became a success. There were closed-off versions of the web, but they demanded you used their tools and paid for their server software and nobody uses them except for very weird industrial applications.
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