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The main thing I would point to is that Matrix itself only does text; the Element client uses Jitsi to add in audio/video calls and screensharing [...]

Matrix VoIP is a thing, and it's usable for audio & video on many clients, element and fluffychat come to mind, but probably more.

element call is also coming into element (and possibly other clients) for video calls and screensharing

My other gripes are just with the user interface, [...] it really doesn’t look like Discord

why does that matter?

why not matrix?

No way, really who could've guessed? I'm shocked, I'm telling you shocked...

oh wait, I'm not

way too specific... is this the plot to a book? if so what's it called?

Those tests are worth more than four years of college?

Yes a test to figure out if you can perform your job is significantly more valuable than a collage degree, this doesn't mean that college has no value, mind you, it just means that knowing how to do the job and knowing that you fit in with the company culture is vastly more important.

Go get a bunch of I.T. certifications. Get your CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+ Get a Microsoft MCP or MCSA

Those certifications are useless, they look good on your resume because managers love showcasing their staff's "certifications", as many companies that don't understand IT put value on the certifications more than anything else, but they don't actually provide you any value in of themselves. Sure it might be interesting how many network switches you can daisy chain according to the standards, but it has no real value most of the time, if that's information you need in your job it's something you can just look up, HOWEVER, asking you random questions that pertain to the job during the interview IS a good way to understand if you're a good candidate, and, often, the actual response doesn't matter as much as your reasoning for getting to that response.

When an interviewer at google asks you how many pennys it would take to make a structure as tall as the empire state building, it doesn't matter what the answer is, truly, even if you got the exact number of pennys, just saying the number would mean you don't pass the interview, your answer would be worth less than an answer that gets it wrong by 75% but is well reasoned, what they care about is how you come up to the conclusion that you come up with, the solution is useless.

how would you know

wouldn't it have been easier to just read the source code? (not that GNU's code is easy to read, but still)

this is definitely satire, otherwise it would take longer than the age of the universe to finish coding it lol

~~It is~~

EDIT: I'm wrong, I don't know what I was thinking, I misremembered hearing something apparently. Thank you for the corrections

Seconded, and added Haier to my mental list of companies to never buy from.

Regarding boost, yep my bad! I did not know that when I asked that question.

As for grayjay, it's source available, that's fine to me, there is a difference naturally and it's worth discussing, but I'd rather live in a world where every piece of software is source available and we discuss the merits of source availability vs pure FOSS, than in a world where understanding our software requires days or months of work looking at asm and poking it with a stick

there is nothing wrong to make money from their hard work

I assume you didn't read my parent comment or perhaps you extrapolated on my beliefs without asking. I even proposed a direct way to ask users to pay.

you cannot and should not force developers to work for free if they don’t want to.

My word, of course not! Where did you get the impression that I want that from? I would NEVER propose something like that, as it stands against everything I believe in; in fact if you read through my history on lemmy I am certain that you're gonna find plenty of proof of that.

I stand by the original meaning of the word when I say FOSS. It does NOT mean gratis; the misuse of the term FOSS as gratis is my biggest pet peeve. I don't care how much you charge for your software, if I like the software I will pay for it, exactly how much you're asking, without a problem.

The F in FOSS stands for Freedom, not price. I have paid for most FOSS software I use on a regular basis and I'm a HUGE proponent of paid FOSS and I have, multiple times, asked FOSS developers that release gratis software to PLEASE open up donations; I do this constantly and I think I may even have done it here on lemmy once or twice.

If you want free software then there are FOSS options out there and nobody forces you to use Boost.

Indeed. My preferred client at the moment is the web ui on desktop and jerboa on mobile. Those are FOSS and developed by the developers of lemmy themselves (to whom I HAVE donated to). But I was thinking about switching client, which is why I asked for the code for Boost to see if it's software I would be willing to run on my device (and pay for!).

In fact I will even go as far as to say that it is your RESPONSIBILITY as a user of FOSS applications to donate if you can.

To me if software is not FOSS it signals one thing: they are doing something they don't want me to know about, sometimes this is acceptable (tho never preferred), but that's the exception, not the rule.

Being able to decide what software runs on your machine should never be a point of contention. Non FOSS software is always a trade off, and for most things (including lemmy clients), it's not one I'm willing to make, nor should you!