Bah, the young ones joining IRC through a web interface. Back in my day, we used telnet, typed the IRC commands by hand and hoped we were quick enough to reply to PING to not get kicked from the server.
Well, not really but I did it occasionally to better understand how the protocol works.
The best chat platform is the one where the people you want to chat with are.
If you don’t have anyone specific you want to talk to and just want to join a community that shares your interests, maybe look into Matrix, which is an open and distributed protocol with many servers.
Well, not necessarily. I’ve had my phone for almost five years now. The battery is at 78% of it’s original capacity and still gets me through the day without problems, even on heavy use. The only times I need to charge during the day is when I’m on a long distance train and listen to podcasts or audio books for hours.
Chances are that something else will fail long before the battery. And even if not, the local phone repair shop offers a battery replacement for about 50€ which is more than reasonable for something that will get me another couple of years.
Then you don’t need to worry. Battery degradation isn’t much of a problem for those.
That’s why modern phone operating systems will charge your battery to 80-90% at the beginning of the night and then charge the last bit just in time to be done when you wake up, based either on when your alarm is set or on past usage statistics.
I’m German. Back in my day, we had 9 years of English classes in school and from what I’ve heard it’s even more now. I was lucky to have a teacher who had spent a couple of years in the UK so he had much less of a German accent than most other teachers at our school and was also able to give us a lot of insight into how people actually speak, compared to the rather formal and stilted examples in our textbooks.
Between social media, movies, shows and a job in software engineering, I would say that on most days I read and listen to more English than German.
Okay, no idea if that was a brainfart or autocorrect but I‘m glad it gave you that opportunity.
If your sword is edgy, you might have used too much starch.
I was a fan of Miranda IM because that’s what I used for everything else (ICQ, MSN, XMPP, AIM, occasionally Skype though that plugin didn’t work that well). If I remember correctly, joining multiple servers was a bit more cumbersome than with other clients but having everything in one application was amazing.