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• Harmony is a fork, the original project is Spacebar (originally called Fosscord). It seems that the Fermi client dev was causing drama with the Spacebar devs, they banned him, and he went off and forked the project. Spacebar then forked Fermi in return. I thought that Spacebar might be a good refuge from Discord due to how closely it mirrors Discord’s feature set, but this internet drama split in the already tiny community isn’t helping either of their causes.

  on what is Fermi/Harmony Chat ? in c/foss@beehaw.org · 23h ago

• This seems to be a fork created after some internet drama a few months back. Spacebar (formerly Fosscord) is the original project to develop a Discord API-compatible replacement, both server and frontend. Fermi was one of the frontends developed for it and eventually became used as the official Spacebar client. I had set up some servers on it earlier this year when Discord’s first round of age verification enshittification began, but didn’t have much uptake on people migrating from Discord so I stopped following it. When I looked back more recently it seems there was some drama and a falling out between the Spacebar backend devs and the Fermi frontend dev and they’ve both forked each others’ projects and are now trying to go their own ways. Not sure that can feasibly work but ok. I had high hopes for Spacebar in that it aimed to be fully API compatible, but seeing the already small community fracturing is not a good look for either side of the project.

  on what is Fermi/Harmony Chat ? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 1d ago

• Translation layers and emulators are two very different things though, emulators take foreign machine code and interpret it on/recompile it for the native architecture while translation layers replicate OS and driver layer functionality on a foreign OS/driver environment. Proton is a translation layer, not an emulator. The PS5 can literally run Linix and Steam, it’s essentially stock PC hardware, so the environment that needs to be replicated is the PS5 system software, not the hardware layer.

  on KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing in c/games@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• If it’s used for something that benefits society sure, but AI slop farms don’t do that. Also, if it’s reasonable sized and not determined to buy up way more resources than needed to destroy the consumer electronics economy.

  on Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Sodium batteries have considerably less energy density than lithium, at least at the moment. They’re best for stationary use such as solar and grid backup, not for portable devices. Not really even a good fit for EVs yet.

  on Repairing the Steam Deck LCD Gets Much More Expensive as Official Battery Reaches $180 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• The myriad of reasonably priced unofficial batteries on eBay and AliExpress.

  on Repairing the Steam Deck LCD Gets Much More Expensive as Official Battery Reaches $180 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• Yeah, this feels like extreme price gouging. I generally like what iFixit does, their toolkits are great and I’ve bought Steam Deck parts in the past (a replacement fan when mine got noisy). However, if they’re going to participate in price gouging I’m done with them. There’s no reason a Steam Deck sized battery should ever be even close to $180, and given how numerous third party options are, there’s zero reason to pay that price for an “official” one. It’s a battery, it’s as generic of a component as it gets. Sure, it has a charge controller, but so do the third party ones. It’s a custom shape, but that’s probably just two standard sized cells taped together. If the shape were a real problem the third party ones wouldn’t be any cheaper.

  on Repairing the Steam Deck LCD Gets Much More Expensive as Official Battery Reaches $180 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• You can run postmarketOS on Fairphone 5 and 6 AFAIK.

  on Fairphone 6+ is now official and coming to the US in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• IE was the first unusable browser

  on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026