We also are running our own videochat servers with galène (for ttrpgs), but those don’t have a persistent text chat

Eh, everything that tries to “improve” on IRC makes everything more complicated. I have a thelounge installation running that’s connected to our small IRC network. When I want people to chat I drop them a link to it (maybe with a room name) and it drops them right in. thelounge has some improvements to stock IRC (pictures, videos, and links visible in chat), but some of the more advanced functions still demand an account (e.g. there is an inbuilt persistent buffer, but that one is only visible to accounts). I have it running under thelounge.wilderland.ovh and it will drop by default into the #welcome channel.

This author was sooo close to get it

Now Playing: Highway to Hell by AC/DC

Galéne, but it’s really only for video/voice chat. But that it does great, low resource use, and you can even have multiple media streams from the same machine without issue.

Yeah, but people seem to forget it all the time when it comes to music. I just can’t stand the constant whine of “Oh music used to be so much better back then” no it fucking wasn’t.

(I also despise the whole thing about cartoons: look at how good the cartoons we had back then and how bad the cartoons now are. And then they turn out to be talking about old Looney Tunes or Disney cartoons that were done for cinemas, often with an actual budget, and which just got repackaged for TV later)

This comes back to the problem with old music: music didn’t get worse, you just remember the good or memorable songs. At any point since the Billboard charts have been created 70% of them is dross, 20% is mediocre, maybe 10% is good. Everybody remembers the good songs that survive because they are good, and some of the mediocre songs people relate to. Everybody forgets the dross.
But back then, that was what you listened to as well.

(Check out, e.g. the Billboard hot 100 for 1968 (or even just Hot 20): it had Hey Jude at position 1, Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay on 3, and Mrs Robinson on 9, but it also had, let’s see… 18 was Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela (which is good but it’s a trumpet instrumental), 2 was Love is Blue by Paul Mauriat (a schmaltzy melody, but it’s the second hottest song if 1968), and 7 is This Guy’s in Love with you by Herb Alpert)
(And you can do that with basically every year. I graduated in 2004, so what do we have there? Usher’s Yeah on 1 (I remember that), Usher’s Burn on 2 (no clue), Maroon 5 on 4 (this is one of those bands everybody seems to have struck out of their memory), Hey Ya by Outcast on 8, but their The Way you Move on 5 (definitely not a mainstay I would say), Nickelback is 17 (another band everybody pretends never to have listened to), but Twista’s Slow Jamz is 16 (who?) )

Is it actually Foss? I assumed it was, but recently I was checking and couldn’t find anything about licenses and stuff on the webpage.

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I mean. I think I’ve seen that joke in something from the 60s, so at least the classics are being kept alive?

Maybe you would have a better point if the Luddites hadn’t been right.

Because you won’t have time to drink that coffee if you put this code into production

Convos and the lounge do at least pictures, not sure about files right now

Irc with convos or the lounge as a web interface.

And yes, that’s what I am running.

Well we still chiseled our chat messages into stone and sent them by pigeon. We usyally got pinged out before we even finished the first letter.

Don’t quote AI

yes, the whole Master System name was because it was supposed to be the “Master” System, and you could add peripherals to it. The Japanese Mark III was the Master System

They got rid of the card slot, the device was smaller, and it had an inbuilt game (Alex the Kidd in Miracle World in my case, although it seems some had Sonic instead)

There even was am even smaller version called the Master System III which I think only was released in Brazil.

The original Mark III was what would be the Master System in the west. The Mark 1 in this case was the Sega SG-1000 which had a very limited release outside of Japan (and came out the same day as the Famicom, so always had an uphill battle). The mark 2 was an iteration om that. As was the Mark 3 and the later Mega Drive actually.

Sonic 1 or 2 were fantastic and completely different from their Mega Drive/Genesis counterparts

I still go back to California Games every once in a while.

I loved Asterix, but I dont think I could stand going through that nowadays.

Golden Axe was cut down compared to the MD or the Arcade version, but still impressive for the MSII I had.

You could put a whole mp3 on it

I want my wife to be able to use it without having to install anything