Google Talk and Facebook Messenger both used to be XMPP, and I used Pidgin for both, wonderful times...

I used to use iChat AV, which was amazing (I still miss it).

Facebook had an XMPP compatible bridge for a subset of their chat functions for awhile, but never "was XMPP".

WhatsApp OTOH still is a fork of XMPP.

A lot of Shelly devices use ESP chips: https://www.shelly.com/ - And they are hackable!

Lack of self irony... I was also looking for this :)

Having just re watched the show, it is remarkable how little changed for the better...

Fairphone os _is_ android...

Yes, you're correct. With Fairphone 6 and eOS they completely degoogled, tho - at least that's the claim.

I did something similar with pulseaudio about 15 years ago, had an old thinkpad running Debian, and then multicast activated on my source. Worked surprisingly well!

fbpurity.com works quite well for me on desktop, on m.facebook.com, it does not.

It also makes it painfully clear how little user interaction there is publicly on the site...

My brain swapped the second zero to a two... But I did think the 1990 reference a little odd..

I use the 2S and the 3 over Bluetooth (Windows 10 and Linux (Pipewire/pulseaudio)) and they generally work well. But on Linux I sometimes get lagging sound on my bt headphones, when I use the mouse heavily, and on Windows I get a rubber band effect on the mouse when I use a headset for calls, but not music. ymmv

Why not Matrix?

Spent some time reading through matrix specification; my opinion is that it's overkill in some ways and under-delivers in some parts of its specs for my usecase, enough to justify writing a whole new protocol from scratch

With that being said, we're working on implementing a matrix compatibility layer!

SteamOS literally has a desktop mode, standard KDE, and you can install any applications that are in Arch repos or served as flatpaks.