I like this a lot, well said

Often in dystopian books/stories, most of society is just living their average life, unaware of how bad things really are. It’s usually the main character that is different, and begins to realize what’s really happening; they then act as a catalyst to convince people to see what’s going on (but usually only when it gets bad enough). And even then, some people will still choose to be blind. That’s essentially what’s happening in reality now, and why people don’t really care about privacy (along with many other rights that are being eroded)

I had the same way of thinking you do when I switched. I eventually landed on LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) because it just worked. Debian itself was too old to do some gaming stuff I wanted and Arch is too bleeding edge for my taste and amount of free time I have to throw at it.

LMDE gives you the rock solid experience with just enough updates to have an easy time with updates or occasional tinkering

I just started Kigdom Rush: Vengeance, the fourth game in the series. I really enjoyed 1 and 2; 3 was ok, and I’m enjoying 4 so far. I like that you can mix and match towers in this one. So far the sand worm is my favorite tower.

Overall I still like Kingdom Rush Frontiers (second one) the best, as the balancing was really well done and I absolutely loved the pirate/beach part. I also really like the necromancer tower and having an army of skeleton minions

Lowest I can go is 20fps, anything below is too nauseating. I learned to cope because I modded Skyrim to the point of no return, and I could only get max 20fps with a decent rig and a ton of optimising. Hair physics and 4k trees definitely worth it 👍

Ahh yes the inner workings of the RCS protocol

This is interesting to observe. Quite a while ago I caught a lot of hate for discussing CalyxOS, now Graphene is getting flak. Both are great, it’s strange that there’s so much drama over good software, especially considering the lack of alternatives in mobile OSes.

Same thing just happened to me. I dug up my old psp from my childhood and the battery was crazy thick. I’m glad I caight it before it committed a Note 7.

OpenMW has an android port. You still need the original files but it does work if you have a someone capable device

With wine you just need to know what winetricks to use, e.g. like if a game needs dotnet 4.0 or another windows runtime/prerequisite. Winehq has a similar premise with different compatabiltiy ratings and steps others have taken to troubleshoot. You wont get installer scripts but you will get good directions most of the time. Any game rated platinum or gold is a breeze to set up

Bottles works much in the same way, and I always prefered it to Lutris. It’s also pretty easy to use plain old Wine if you’re comfy at all in the terminal. Pair it with winetricks and you can run most games with little hastle

Can confirm, I tried doing exfat for a Steam install on an external drive, and it just didn’t work at all. Ext4 and btrfs both have simlinks (although simlinks in btrfs are kinda weird) and work with Steam and emulation. Ext4 is the tried and true stable filesystem, and btrfs supports more modern features. I’ve always prefered stability to bleeding edge, so I use ext4, but it really is up to personal preference and what you need.

I love doing this in my TRPGs. Nine out of ten times an event was memorable was because of a horrible failure rather than a successful win. My table eats it up. I wish more games did this too

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Same here, been using Xbox series controllers on Linux for about 2 years, no problem. Never bothered to update the firmware.

Same, 80% of my gaming was on older releases. The only game I played released in 2025 was an indie TD game called Dungeon Warfare III, mostly because I played and loved I and II.

For real. The 3rd party purge in 23 is what got me to explore Lemmy, and I’m still here today. Reddit UI is unusable

007 games are great hidden gems. Everyone knows Goldeneye, but Nightfire, Everything or Nothing, and From Russia with Love are all amazing spy shooters. Hopefully this one gets the same magic

I’ve been a Steam only buyer for a long time. There are so many cool features and extra stuff, most games work out of the box, and they’ve been putting in a lot of effort on the linux scene with proton and the deck. But even despite all that, I’m starting to move to GOG. The sad truth is that you don’t own any of your games on Steam. I’ve been having more and more games be removed from my library, and games that either just don’t work or are “updated” into something worse. Not Steam’s fault really, but GOG is much more consumer friendly and I actually get files I can use and keep forever, no required updates or DRM. I really like Steam, and am having a hard time leaving it, but GOG is just the better choice from a long term and consumer ethics perspective.

XMPP/Jabber comes to mind. You can self host or pay for hosting on a service like Snikket. The protocol supports OMEMO encryption and you can use whatever client you want (Cheogram, Dino, Gajim, etc) on any platform like android or linux. Cheogram is even coming out with a web interface for it, and it supports calling and video calling.

Threat model wise, whatever server you pick would have to be targeted directly, and would therefore be immune to sweeping regulation that directly targets big hitters like Signal. And if you pay for servers outside the EU, even more so