Sure. But just think how much more resources you could reclaim by simply not having it at all.
This was my solution as soon as they floated the ID thing. Said bye to my groups and uninstalled without a single look back.
Am I missing something here?
Wasn’t that the original purpose of Discord?
Like, for gamers by gamers?
Everyone loses the fucking plot so fast these days.
This is actually what pisses me off with modern tech, we have soo much computing power that we have forgotten to properly optimize.
What used to be a software problem, writing code efficiently has turned into a hardware problem, with only one solution:
Throw more computing power at it.
Just buy more RAM, bro!
RAM prices skyrocket 1000%
Just sell your house to buy more RAM, bro!
Developers slowly realizing that RAM and CPU cycles aren’t forever getting cheaper.
Why not just reduce resources all the time? Why does it need to be a bloated mess only when I’m not gaming if they can just turn a switch on to make it less bloated?
Resource management comes in many different flavors. Most computers allow you to use every resource it has at its disposal to accomplish a task (rendering graphics, processing workloads, gaming, etc), and that would really suck to have your system just decide it should nuke that process. It doesn’t really know what you prioritize, so Instead it runs and compromises the best it can until the dam breaks. But gaming is a little less of a gray area, its nearly always the main focus of the user, so its easy to draw a line there.
There are systems that are far more opinionated about resource usage that will reign in processes. Like iOS is a good example (The divide is usually desktop and mobile OSs). It prioritizes UI, battery life, and animation fluidity over any process and will kill anything that threatens it.
There are applications out there you can use to limit resource usage per app, so you can limit the resources of bloated browser engines that masquerade as native apps.
Mumble is much better for gaming. It’s lightweight and doesn’t use the GPU at all. Since it’s self hosted, there is no ID verification.
Mumble is also ONLY voice chat. The problem is that Discord is so many useful things at the same time - text chat, voice chat, video chat, and game streaming, all integrated together seamlessly - that it’s hard to move off of when you need a whole suite of applications to replace it.
This is not true. Mumble does text chat as well. Please don’t spread misinformation.
I’m not sure you could say that Mumble does text chat. What it has barely qualifies as text chat at all, much less fully-featured text chat. It exists as much to communicate system messages as anything else.
It’s no where near as well integrated though is it? Unless they have completely revamped the client.
I’m not sure what you mean by a text chat functionality being more or less integrated? Integrated with what? OP stated that Mumble exclusively does voice chat, which is simply wrong. You can send text messages to users and channels.
I assume they want a fully rich text channel: Markdown, embedded images/audio, reactions, code blocks, URL previews, etc.
They won’t be happy returning to a text channel which is just text.
Sure, that doesn’t mean that Mumble doesn’t have text chat though, does it?
It does mean that.
This is how the Fluxer switch begins
I have still no idea why people say “go fluxer”. This still has no federation, so appart from a few tricks, it’s no better than any preexistent solution. A lot of promises published at the right time earlier this year. But everyone can do that at the ai age…
