SparroHawc

but it won’t have the messageeeesssss :<

I have been informed that Matrix actually serves pretty much all these needs now. I’m going to have to give it a try in the near future.

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.

At this point, a lot of entities don’t need AD because their entire workflow runs in a web browser, and practically any SSO provider will work.

That said, accessing actual computer resources can be managed with groups and ACLs. Perhaps not as elegantly or as well-integrated as AD is, but that’s the price you pay.

What does it take to get voice/video chat working on Matrix? I see Element has their own server stack, but I can’t tell how open it is, and that’s kinda the big thing that’s keeping me away from trying to go harder on Matrix.

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.

Heck, I bought Horizon: Zero Dawn for PS4, and then bought it again on Steam where I actually beat it. They got more money out of me because they released it for PC.

Of course, then I skipped the console release of Forbidden West and just bought it on Steam when it showed up a year later…

(Bloodborne PC port when)

That said, I’m probably not buying a PS5, even if Astro Bot does look ridiculously fun. I’m also side-eyeing the Switch 2, although Metroid: Ravenous might get me.