How to begin? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirbornePixels · 2020-12-30 01:26 tl;dr: Running Windows, looking to start using IRC. I've begun to dislike the direction in which Discord in heading and I want to transfer to a more reliable, and less for-profit company. I discovered IRC around when covid began, I didn't want to transfer, nor did I have any reason to do so, so it was more of a curiosity at the time. I'm now looking on how to get into IRC but am completely stumped. For a bit of background, I'm a complete fool to this, I've dabbled in tech before but not to the extend 'required' to use IRC (as far as I know). I'm running windows ten on a new HP pavillon laptop, I have considered switching operating systems to a linux based system but never had the guts to. With that out of the way I'm open to suggestions, and looking forward to hearing any. Edit: Thank you everyone! I have succesfully learned to manage and get into IRC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- coldf2 · 2020-12-30 01:43 What are you trying to accomplish? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Morphie-peer · 2020-12-30 02:09 Same, what are you trying to do.. I just use mIRC ([www.mirc.com](https://www.mirc.com)) on my laptop unless I'm playing retro games I will login to the web based chat rooms ([www.morphie.co](https://www.morphie.co)) or if I'm using my phone I'll use the Morphie - Chat Rooms app or irccloud. You could use [irccloud.com](https://irccloud.com) also. Anywho, depends on what you are trying to do.. Maybe just chat? If you have a website and want a chat room on there let me know too! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LameBMX · 2020-12-30 03:15 My personal fave is quassel. Its a two part setup. There is a core that connects to the irc network and channels. There is a client that connects to the core and shows the channels/networks you are connected to. Dont know if the core is available on more than *nix and windows, but there are clients for pretty much every device (ios. Android, windows, and *nix). Set the core up on something you never shutdown (can probably use a raspberry pi to reduce power consumption) and then a client on any other device and you are set. There are also ways to connect client to core from away from home. Since the core is always connected, when you connect, all you gotta do is scroll up for missed convo. https://bugs.quassel-irc.org/projects/quassel-irc/wiki/QuasselWiki ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LameBMX · 2020-12-30 03:17 Oh, and go download a knoppix live Linux distribution. Setup on USB stick and enjoy messing with Linux without the fuss of an install. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ruralgaming · 2020-12-30 06:53 God I feel old now. I've been using IRC since the late 90s There are lots of servers a available that are generally centered around certain things. Then within those servers there are more specific channels that you can get into and chat with people. What would you like to do? Be warned though! It's not the most active place. Lots of people just go in there to idle the entire time. One of my biggest pet peeves is having 200 people in a channel and nobody ever saying anything lol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirbornePixels · 2020-12-30 14:16 Thanks! I'll try this out and come back to you if I have any questions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirbornePixels · 2020-12-30 14:21 Im generally just looking for a community to talk with, I have many a hobby but some of my largest include: Retro games (e.g: early 1980-2000), Watches (there components, development, ect), and Economics, I have others these are just the main ones which I can think of off the top of my head. Im not sure if that helps, but those tend to be my intrests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirbornePixels · 2020-12-30 14:22 Just trying to begin to transition away from discord, and find a practical way to communicate with others. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- coldf2 · 2020-12-30 14:28 Mirc.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirbornePixels · 2020-12-30 14:35 This seems to be the largest question I get, albeit important. As I've stated in the other comments I'm really just looking to leave discord and find a half decent way to talk with my online friends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirbornePixels · 2020-12-30 14:36 Sure, what should I do after that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LameBMX · 2020-12-30 19:04 Put in in a computer and boot off the USB drive. Will boot to a knoppix (there are plenty of others out there too these days) GNU Linux computer, probably even make it up to a desktop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aaronky · 2020-12-30 19:06 [Adiirc](https://www.adiirc.com/) for Windows is free and highly configurable. Check it out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LameBMX · 2020-12-30 19:19 Become a master at SSH. It will make all further things easier if something screws up. After mucking around with knoppix, there are a lot of distros out there meant to be run off media. Like pentoo for wireless signal analysis. If you Google something computer related you like to do + Linux you will probably find a distro tailored to that. Longer term, probably good to research where those branched from. Ie pentoo is based off gentoo Linux. Gentoo also has a live distro, and is a distro meant for install (its pretty much possible to install any live media distro but better to wait until after a straight forward instruction book install). The easiest install I had was Ubuntu, but that was back around 2004. I just reinstalled gentoo on my desktop (original install date was around 2006) and it was as complex, granular, tedious and ultimately rewarding when complete as the first install. There is also arch Linux, Slackware, Redhat keeps a freebie under a different name. Lots of pros and cons to them all. Most distros use some sort of package management program. These will automatically sort dependencies of what you want to install. Probably the most important part of the distro. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- uhp787 · 2020-12-30 20:34 some great demoscene chans on efnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- uhp787 · 2020-12-30 20:36 agree. mirc is tried and treu and great for beginners too. i use it nearly 20 years now :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirbornePixels · 2020-12-30 22:39 I'll check it out now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirbornePixels · 2020-12-30 22:44 I constantly hear SSH thrown around in tech/IRC based forums and have no clue whatsoever what it means, I've googled it but it makes no sense to me; could you explain it to me in laymans terms? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AirbornePixels · 2020-12-30 22:45 I've browsed through the mIRC help forums and joined a server, but then registration popped up. I'm looking for something free, and would prefer not pirate the mirc developers out of their hard time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LameBMX · 2020-12-30 23:37 Its the main text based remote terminal connection to a *nix based machine. Literally stands for Secure SHell, so the data is encrypted. Shell is like windows cmd prompt. So ssh is like opening a command window on computer A that actually exists and performs commands on computer B. Windows equivalent would be remote desktop. Since its *nix and been around for a long time, many things have figured out ways to use it. Since it uses security, lots of other programs defaults to use it to talk between machines over the internet. I stressed learning it, because if you screw something up, its often the last stand to fix the computer without having to boot to another OS to fix it. You can often get in via ssh even when nothing will display on the screen. With my gentoo install I just did, I used my dual monitor work pc and instead of using the actual screen and computer gentoo was being installed on. So I could have instructions open on one screen and 2-3 ssh shells open to do the install. So I was on the gentoo pc to boot off usb drive. Then work pc for all steps until desktop manager was installed (last install step basically). Shut down. Boot up at the wheel of the gentoo computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- stonedparadox · 2020-12-31 01:30 What direction is discord heading? Iv only really started using it in the last 6 months ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MaximumBus · 2020-12-31 04:41 Perhaps reading the sidebar would help you ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -rkta- · 2021-01-02 19:23 Honest question: What part of the side bar? I don't see any FAQs or similar, only mods, ads and general reddit stuff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MaximumBus · 2021-01-03 01:13 Just the section that says: "To connect, either:" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -rkta- · 2021-01-03 13:55 I only can see this section using the old reddit, with the new interface this whole part is missing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MaximumBus · 2021-01-03 13:57 Oh damn, I never realized that as I abhor new reddit. You should message the mods about that.