Marlyn(Moved to glitch.social) @marlyn@witches.town

@aeonofdiscord
very fair

I'd be glad to answer any questions as they come up, at least

@aeonofdiscord
What sorts of explanatory materials are you looking for?

@aeonofdiscord
That should work, yeah
A regulated power supply shouldn't be needed unless you're doing something power-hungry

@codl
🤔 which way do you put the toilet paper on your pizza

@kibi
🤷🏻‍♀️

@aeonofdiscord
If you don't like what either of those sites have to offer projects-wise, perhaps you could consult your local library (if you have one) to see what electronics books they have - ones that focus on audio electronics would have a detectable result with a speaker or audio jack of some sort

I guess one BIG barrier would be the power supply though, I think those have a fairly hefty pricetag unfortunately. Perhaps see if you can get one at a better price on craigslist or similar?

you can build your own but twiddling with mains voltages is scary stuff

@aeonofdiscord
hmm
this might help with the parts bit?
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/16/how-to-where-to-find-parts-for-your-projects/
And if you're struggling to come up with a project idea, you could consult makezine?
https://makezine.com/category/technology/
Or adafruit's "Learn" section?
https://learn.adafruit.com/

@aeonofdiscord @codl
Maybe you could try tinkering with some components and a bread-board, alongside an electronics book with examples, to build a more visual/physical intuition of how things work? or is this suggestion overlooking something important/obvious

@Azure
love too gut public institutions bc some rich asshole decided to empty the coffers into those of their corporate cronies

idk i guess i get kind of defensive when people rail against linux bc the alternatives I know of are OSs that have a history of marked disdain for user privacy and/or agency (windows, OSX), and I don't want everything to collapse into just those two?

But, UX is a vital battle to fight and win if we want to overturn these corporate cultural currents, and if we want to draw users away from those exploitative environments, we need to ensure a certain level of "just works" so that you don't need to be a full-fledged sysadmin to run your own computer

@HihiDanni

7. This would be an instance where chat programs flounder for this purpose - none of the ones I use regularly (Discord, primarily) allow posting large text dumps directly, nor do they serve well for seeking through such data all at once. Services such as imgur, pastebin, and github's "gist" allow getting around some of that. "no url shorteners allowed" sounds like a strange policy, although are they necessary for linking text dumps or images? When does one normally utilize URL shorteners? (my apologies, I am not familiar with the use of those)

@HihiDanni

For some of your grievances, the "ircv3" project is aiming to streamline the UX so it is on par with more modern chat programs --
6. For registration without fiddling with arcane commands and messages
https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/pull/276
8,9. For recalling missed chat history without a bouncer:
https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/batch/chathistory-3.3.html
--
10. Agreed, IRC servers exposing user IPs is trash praxis. I know of some that offer cloaks by default, but I have no idea why that isn't the standard everywhere.
11. This one seems like a culture issue that won't be solved by a different choice of communication platform, unfortunately

@HihiDanni
1. I only used Hexchat as an example, other clients such as quassel, pidgin, and mibbit should also be able to open such links. For example, I think this link should be parsable to such clients? Your web browser should offer a list of IRC clients registered to handle that URI if you click on links in this form (this one is a dummy example and not real, however)
irc://irc.foobarbaz.net/#frotz
5. Browser-embedded clients such as mibbit or kiwi are good fall-backs if the user only has "default" software, or if they have difficulties configuring their client

@jk @HihiDanni
Certain clients such as "hexchat" also allow for native opening and importing of server links, as well - does that function suitably in place of "invite links" services such as discord offer?

@HihiDanni @jk
IRC has suitable web-clients that require no user installation, and can easily be embedded in a website - I'm not sure if that's suitably "user-friendly" enough - at what point does it become comparable to a more "mainstream" communication system such as Discord?

@HihiDanni @jk

Hmm, I wonder how well IRC channels work in such a situation...
I guess those don't allow "persistent" issue tracking, though
Perhaps that, in tandem with github for issue tracking?

@jk
, ah

try cutting the yellow wire

https://witches.town/media/kDMZwRcrmhAAsgqbxI8