Thanks for explaining. But unless I’m missing something, Conduit doesn’t seem to be quite dead just yet. I got upgrade notifications throughout 2025, the latest two being in December; one for v0.10.10 and the other for v0.10.11.

Wait a sec, I run Conduit on my test machine and seems fine so far. What drama did I miss?

Why not Synapse?

It’s not just you, I agree. People should switch to Linux because they like it, not because they were told Microsoft sucks.

Maybe. I’m leaning more towards the typical “letting developer toxicity run rampant” situation:

https://xcancel.com/SapphoSys/status/1999133657760673942

Yeah, the whole situation with OGC and Bazzite is rather messy. From my understanding, you have conflicting accounts from two parties: one is from Bazzite and OGC, i.e. Kyle Gospodnetich and the other from Antheas Kapenekakis, the developer of the Handheld Daemon, a tool for configuring handheld devices that Bazzite uses (for now). Antheas’ account can be read here.

From what I understand, there was an internal conflict between Antheas and another Bazzite developer (not Kyle), which caused a rift in the team. At the time Antheas was the one in talks with GPD to port HHD to one of their devices. The team was not aware of this and during this time, Antheas was removed from the team. Then, not being aware of the situation at Bazzite, GDP announced the collab and the Bazzite team, was of course unaware of the talks between Antheas and GDP, which is why they denied the whole thing.

Personally, I’m going to stop updating Bazzite for a while and see how this shakes out, because if Antheas’ account is to be believed, the other Bazzite developer mentioned above, Derek J. Clark, is ripping stuff out of Bazzite, including HHD in favor of his own implementation Inputplumber, which is allegedly already causing weird stuff to happen like wifi no longer working on some devices.

On the other hand, I’m hesitant to believe everything Antheas said in his blog, because I simply don’t know the guy and also, there’s also some sketchy stuff in there like mentioning Derek’s Inputplumber implementation being “fundamentally flawed” and not even attempting to explain why. If you’re going to label someone’s work as such, then I feel at least a cursory explanation why is in order. The other is “apologising on behalf of Kyle” and apologising in someone else’s name never sat well with me.

Allow me to ease your pain, friend.

Ah, yes. The Nolnah’s Razor.

On Linux, I really like Dino, because it’s one of the few clients that played nice with OMEMO. I use XMPP on my PC and on my phone and that seemed to trip some clients up.

I also liked Gajim on Windows for much the same reasons, but this was years ago, I imagine it’s pretty good now, too.

I see. Thanks for elaborating.

That’s not ideal. I hope they implemented images in the protocol itself, because having just text is kinda bland.

Clients display text, like an eBook, or images / media.

Is this new? Last I checked on Gemini, it could only to text, unless you count ASCII art as images.

Thanks for this, I was completely lost.

Fair enough. I can see how weeks worth of savings going up in smoke would greatly upset a child.

I mean, it was a very fancy looking error message. Who was terrified by this?

Whose housing, exactly?

My bad, I wasn’t clear enough. I actually meant Proton Bridge has no mobile version, meaning you can only use the official app you mentioned, but not any third party apps like K-9 Mail/Thunderbird or FairEmail.

I’ve been on Posteo for years now, they’ve been rock solid. As for Tuta.io, the issue specifically is no IMAP support, which is what third party email clients need to function.

I thought I’d also mention Protonmail, which might look good, but is in a similar boat. They technically do provide IMAP support, but not in a way that matters. If you wanted to connect Protonmail to Thunderbird or, if you’re an insane person, Microsoft Outlook, you’d need another app running on your PC along with your email app called Proton Bridge, which just sounds like a hassle. No mobile version either.

I’d say stick with Posteo. Alternatively, if you want to use your own domain name, I’ve heard good things about mailbox.org.

I would love to have an analogue of Cecil Harvey IRL. Unfortunately, I see no indication of rebellion from any of Trump’s lackeys.

I did not know that. It’s not that I don’t appreciate his enthusiasm, but articles like this do more harm than whatever good he thinks he’s doing.