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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • Hey, points for Lutris! Thanks for sharing!

    I’ve had issues in the past installing stuff with Lutris, although for advanced scenarios like using community engines and stuff, that’s really cool. I definitely have both installed on my machine for different reasons. Lutris handles EA / Origin stuff pretty well. (Titanfall 2 and Sims 2 Ultimate (not the Steam one) run beautifully on Linux, truly glorious!)

    Electron annoys me as well, but I will say that I appreciate how Heroic hooks into GoG APIs. It handles auto-updates, cloud saving, play time logging, that kinda stuff that made Galaxy decent and had a degree of convenience-parity with Steam.

    (Maybe Lutris does this too now?)

    For a complete newbie , I’d say Heroic has a bit of a smoother and expected ramp to just “Download game and run.” But if you want more control, Lutris definitely has more options!

    I also can’t recommend Bottles enough for other games that aren’t from distribution platforms. Shockingly simple.










  • Maybe for the Discord use-case of joining mass-community servers it simply doesn’t have the network-effect yet. I haven’t used it much myself sadly! But I imagine a lot of users had the same idea you did: “Let’s make a server! Aw nobody’s here.”

    But I think adoption would grow if we started using it for what a LOT of people use Discord for currently: The micro-server for get-togethers of smaller social circles.

    • Voice chat for videogames
    • Small digital meet-ups, like artists, churches, clubs, etc.
    • Distance-playing tabletop RPGs.
    • College study groups.

    That’s where adoption starts and snowballs. Unfortunately, I believe the VC-funded data-mining corpo-apps will always have the advantage in scooping up the “I want to join a crowded mass community room” users.

    But that’s okay for a start.

    The way I see it, we need to be most concerned with keeping our security and privacy amongst our closest associates, and occasionally we’ll need to venture out into the “commercial-net” with our hoodies up and sunglasses on to interact with the crowd, fully aware there’s surveillance everywhere.






  • Hey friend, I really appreciate it. :)

    That sincerity and love can change the world, and you’re all the more courageous for it. Even if things suck, I’m glad we’re not alone and there’s people like you here by our side, figuratively or otherwise. :)

    I always come back to a few sources of timeless wisdom in the face of all this nonsense. A lot of it found in the Bible, which I know won’t get great reactions thanks to current events.

    As a Christian anarchist, I’m also trying to do what I can to combat against the most evil cult of greed, hate, bloodshed, and misery that has become the American state-sponsored religion. It’s a lot of grief and pain to watch the Gospel of selfless love be trampled and peddled by fascists, and the reactionary hatred of it from the oppressed in turn, who’ve only ever known its perversion against themselves.

    But I digress. Here’s a some wisdom I keep returning to, etched in my soul. Perhaps it will empower you as well. :)

    I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

    For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

    -Ephesians 6:12

    “Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

    -Bruce Lee

    And lastly , I’ve posted it many times before but damnit if this doesn’t remind us why we’re still here in the face of all this madness:

    FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.

    SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

    FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?

    SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

    –Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film version)


  • Oh my gosh, former Oklahomie for a while here! Can. Confirm.

    I once lived in the Northeast by Tahlequah, and the options were dial-up, satellite (with that awful data cap and terrible pings), or a couple guys running an ISP that involved pointing a receiver at a radio tower but download speeds were restricted to like 40kbps.

    For games I already had, SOME multiplayer was possible, and web browsing was mostly fine.

    Example of DL speeds though: Metro 2033 said it would take like 3 or 4 solid days so my long distance GF (now wife!) literally just sent game files to me on a USB drive through the mail. LOL

    Sadly they closed up shop, though.

    But somehow, when I lived with my grandma who lived in a place called “Hennepin”, they got blessed with DSL. Made zero sense but I didn’t complain! Even though I had to put a second router in bridge/repeater mode so it’d reach me at the trailer I lived in like 20 yards away from the house! (Trailer didn’t even have plumbing. Winter was “fun.” LOL)

    Absolutely wild how cut-off a lot of the country is.

    The big stinky desert city I’m in now has its problems, and Cox charges out the nose, but at least we get unlimited fiber out of it.

    Starlink might have been great for those folks if it wasn’t headed by such stupid evil…


  • All honesty, I tend to be optimistic to a fault and try really hard to be cheerful.

    Everything starts to crack once socioeconomics comes up. The news lately is all about how everything is about to get worse. “This is collapsing, that’s more expensive, getting a slice of diminishing wages is going to be even harder now! They’re cracking down here and forcing ads there.” Etc etc.

    When I’m knee-deep in fixing up my servers or making art or being with my people, everything is just peachy!

    But yeah, “How next money tho?” Usually starts the mental downward spiral.

    I love living, can do a ton of things, love learning, but I don’t get along with churning out a repetitive task for increasingly worthless currency.

    The world outside of what I’m choosing to do feels entirely impossibly out of our control. So I try to balance being informed with staying sane.

    Like damn I don’t need much, can’t folk just be left alone? Lol

    Wonder if a lot of people feel like I do?