The real question is, “which one of the gazillion voice chat apps can properly filter audio without a lengthy setup that my mongoloid friends will skip?”

I am the guy moving the group to different apps and platforms, some follow more reluctantly but in the end we stick together. We’ve jumped from TS2 to Skype, Dolby Axon, Mumble, Hangouts, Discord, Mumble and back to Discord. Now I’m getting a strong whiff of enshittification, and I’m weighing my options. We’re about 10-12 but mostly 4 or 5 active at a time.

Jami, Matrix, Jitsi, Rocket and again ol reliable Mumble… It’d be nice if mumble had screen share and a better automatic audio setup, so far the best quality of vc over any other app/service.

I’ll check out Movim I saw named in the comments, any other hidden gem I should try?

This! I’d say that the best we can do is educate. Over the last 20 years people got taught to be lazy and go with the herd. They don’t want to change, all their stuff is already “in the cloud” and “I don’t have time to go tinker with that nerd stuff, I need something that works”.

“Why learn a new messaging app if everyone is using WhatsApp already”

– some of my friends and acquaintances 2025

Sorry, I jumped ship before that feature was a thing. I think it’s exclusive to “pro” win10 but I remember a relative using it. Windows 2 go or something like that was the name.

Anyway, happy new year, and hope you can figure it out!

Create a windows to go install on a USB to NVMe caddy, use something like nano11 and set the BIOS to boot off the NVMe. Whenever the kiddo wants to play fortnite, just plug the device and reboot

This is to avoid windows overwriting your EFI partition and nuking your bootloader at random times, the reason I stopped dual booting after win 8.1

With all those conky widgets I bet I could middle click on that desktop and drag the mouse to flip the desktop cube!

We’ve spent last few months playing Enshrouded. The dedicated server is a resource hog tho, even on an empty server it’d use a ton of CPU time. Still lots of fun with a few friends exploring and building stuff

Trackmania can be self hosted? I’d love a friends-only score board and custom track rotations

Add Lepton to the list!

Awesome pics, tho you could get 100x views if you put “Arch BTW” on lemmy

True, tho I rather rely on Proton than stuff like the borked BG3 port or the incompatible Total Warhammer port. Until there’s enough people already settled in, there’s no point in pressuring people to maintain ports for such a moving target. Maybe we’ll get stuck like this, but still all the older games that were already released will need to work via compatibility layers anyway

Look up Bazzite DX. Its a developers oriented version. Other than that, distrobox is amazing for creating containers for your projects, allowing you to have a sane and stable dev environment

Remember that at the end of the day Proton is just a stopgap measure (and future compatibility for legacy titles) up until Linux gathers enough critical mass for engines, studios and publishers to start targeting linux

I’d rather have studios continually testing against proton over releasing a decent port that gets abandoned, foregoing all the improvements. I went full Linux back in the previous “steam for Linux” push. A few studios released competent ports for what we had back then. As an example: Metro games were OK ports but now they look and work far worse than just switching to the windows version on Proton.

And other devs made poor ports, got a ton of flak from the very vocal userbase and said “never again” (CDPR with witcher 2)

I have an old i5 Mac mini (2011 I think) as a backup for infrastructure stuff (proxy, home assistant, pihole). If something goes terribly wrong I can just plug it in and start it. All the LXCs are copies of my main proxmox rig, albeit a bit outdated (BC I don’t leave it plugged in). I know I could do better with proxmox’s HA but seems like another thing I’d be on the hook to keep maintaining.

The normal account (dafault) is the only monetized option, giving 100mb of free space.

I did a quick check on the self hosted option in the beginning and same, seemed too convoluted and decided to stick with the local method, since I tested it (turning phone WiFi off) and it was still syncing (via tailscale)

On the upside, I tested the import/export features and seemed rather solid, so you can always create a new local account (save the seed phrase!) And bring your stuff back into it.

I have nginx set up for limited stuff, most of my selfhosted services I kept behind tailscale.

The only big con I found against it, it’s hard to switch between the self-hosted and “normal” vaults. I should test if I can have another copy (eg appimage) with separate settings for that.

I am heavily using the local-only mode but I’ve also recommended it to some normie friends, so sharing vaults in different modes becomes a hassle

Edit: tldr, I’m using the “local only” mode but since I have tailscale, everywhere is LAN ;)

Pick any distro you like, where the touchscreen already works, install flatpak and butler

I know this is a rather necro-y post, but I’m surprised nobody mentioned anytype. I’ve been using it for the last 2 months and I’m slowly moving my notes off obsidian, as well as my journal off logseq/nextcloud.

I went in a bit weary, the webpage looks like the typical startup project ready to pull the rug off your feet at any point, but there’s a self-hosted option and even a local-only mode that syncs devices across your LAN.

Terminal is nice for a lot of repetitive tasks that would be a chore via GUI.

Even though I’ve been a Linux user for almost 20 years >!(fuck I feel old)!<, I mostly use GUI stuff. Terminal is super neat for doing batch stuff, I’ve even learned how to do some stuff for windows for whenever I inevitably get a call from family to fix their shit. I was pleasantly surprised with winget and I keep a .txt file to batch install common general use apps for them, same as I keep some dotfiles for getting my preferences over on a new PC or install.

Verifying game files usually re-runs the first install script for the game, reinstalling EAC among other things.

Not EAC specifically, but back when it launched, Helldivers2 had some issues with its anticheat, running verify fixed it