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    I don’t understand this “Installing stuff on Linux is complicated :(” meme when the user-friendly distros have “app stores” and the terminal commands for app management are simpler than 80’s text adventure inputs. (Apt / zypper / yum / whatever + search, then install and “Y”. You can even install multiple packages by spaces! Doesn’t require an MIT degree here…)

    And the sheer convenience of one single update process to update all your software on your machine at once! This is literally what mindless-consumption devices like smartphones do, and people seem to like it.

    Windows fans need Chocolatey to “mimic a fraction of our power!!”(Lol j/k. meme.) And while it’s cool, I found it more complicated command-wise. (There’s also GUI front ends I think to be fair but I digress.)

    On Windows if your app doesn’t auto-update, you’ve gotta download a new .exe, or .msi or .zip (“so many formats! Not simple! :(” heh) for EVERY update.

    And lastly, when something goes wrong:

    Personal experience here but I’m glad I can run any app in Linux with a terminal window and see some computer-speak as to what went wrong. Even if I don’t understand it, somebody will!

    Windows often just tells me “No.” and the only option is: “OK”. Or blue screen errors are purposely obfuscated, and worst case advice is “Hi my name is Josh D. A Microsoft support volunteer. Have you run Windows Update? Updated drivers? Reinstall the whole OS to be sure, I guess.”

    I’m sincerely not trying to be smug here. The aversion to the terminal is like 99% psychological. People ideally read manuals to figure out how to use their new air fryer, so I don’t think it’s too outlandish to say “Hey learn a couple simple phrases to install and update your system.”

    And that’s even if you need the terminal at all.

    So many people are so happy to help if Linux is new and different to you, but I’m so done with people mocking it as “not ready” and “unusable by the average person” because somebody tried installing an .exe in Ubuntu or loading up Gentoo once without reading anything, and ran screaming back to Windows.

    Human brains are incredible things. I think we’ve just been stuck in some weird culture that makes learning scary and intimidating because it’s easier to sell us push-button-o-matics (with trackers and ads of course!) that way.

    P.S: My entire games library, even my discs Windows won’t even bother with, run beautifully, on Nvidia, and I do plenty of art and Adobe can go screw itself. :p




  • But it was kinda cool to be able to SSH from Thailand back home to Sweden and browse my NAS, it was super slow, but damn cool…

    That feels like sorcery, doesn’t it? You can still do this WAY safer by using Wireguard or something a little easier like Tailscale. I use Tailscale myself to VPN to my NAS.

    I get a kick out of showing people my NextCloud Memories albums or Jellyfin videos from my phone and saying “This is talking to the box in my house right now! Isn’t that cool!?” Hahaha.

    I’m almost glad I had to go that route. Most of our ISPs here in the U.S will block outgoing ports by default, so they can keep the network safe sell you a home business plan lol.


  • Yeah I’m honest with myself that I’m a security newb and don’t know how to even know what I’m vulnerable to yet. So I didn’t bother opening anything at all on my router. That sounded way too scary.

    Tailscale really is magic. I just use Cloudflare to forward a domain I own, and I can get to my services, my NextCloud, everything, from anywhere, and I’m reasonably confident I’m not exposing any doors to the innumerable botnet swarms.

    It might be a tiny bit inconvenient if I wanted to serve anything to anyone not in my Tailnet or already on my home LAN (like sending al someone a link to a NextCloud folder for instance.), but at this point, that’s quite the edge case.

    I learned to set up NGINX proxy manager for a reverse proxy though, and that’s pretty great! I still harden stuff where I can as I learn, even though I’m confident nobody’s even seeing it.




  • Funny you mention Corsair specifically. Also one of my preferred rainbow-brite accessory vendors! Lol

    For keyboards there’s the incredible https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next

    My mouse is a Logitech G502 Spectrum so https://github.com/libratbag/piper works a treat for sensitivity modes, and the light.

    And man, https://openrgb.org/ works for almost EVERYTHING. All my little embedded motherboard lights, the G-skill RGB RAM I just splurged on, my Antec RGB fans, and even my Nvidia GPU. Lots of fun effects, too.

    It seems the plugins for some effects, and binding light changes to CPU temp and stuff, seem to be most friendly for users of Debian-derived distros. (.deb format)

    But on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, RGB definitely isn’t a sticking point for me anymore. :)

    Seriously though, clear some partition space (or just pop in a separate boot drive) and try dual booting. I started by doing all my productive/creative stuff in Linux and Windows 10 only for gaming. Then Windows was screwing THAT up, and I discovered Linux can run my whole library and then some, oftentimes BETTER.

    Steam is the obvious part, but Heroic Launcher for GoG/EA/Epic, and Bottles is great for running really old stuff like stuff I’ve still got on discs that Windows doesn’t even acknowledge anymore. (Something about dropping support for the Starforce copy protection on most discs of that time.)

    Your productivity stuff just might work in Bottles/ Wine or something, but if not? Have a little Windows 10 virtual machine just for that! As long as you don’t need to pass through a graphics card to a VM, they’re fantastic.

    The only main reason I’m keeping my dusty Win10 partition is VR, which Microsoft just killed support for my WMR headset so screw them, but on the Linux side the “Monado” project is making strides!

    It’ll be weird at first but give it a good try! I’d suggest something that uses KDE because it’s a very Windows-esque user experience. (But like, back when it felt like your computer …)









  • Sorry I didn’t mean to cause any offense but maybe I can clarify too. The people I’m referring to are what’s referred to often as “terminally online.” They could be doing anything with themselves and their lives, but instead they’re choosing to deep-dive on anonymous message board posters they disagree with, so they can tear them apart or call them out for some post made years ago, or an assumed affiliation or belief, that kind of thing.

    It’s a choice to be vindictive and petty to people.

    Like, yeah you’re right, sometimes looking at post histories and such can be helpful to unmask a bot net or a troll riling up a community, but I’m referring to people doing it just to be obsessively petty and vindictive to strangers.

    But okay, in good faith I’ll add “decide they have nothing better to do” to emphasize one’s free will, because the joke is that anybody could be doing better than trying to dig up personal beef on each other over message boards when nothing is at stake lol.



  • I dunno, I kinda like this idea that the players will be so responsible and active over their own entertainment that they’ll pick something to actively do to make something happen!

    I’m still new to GMing, and one thing I encounter a lot is my local family/friends as players can be very passive in the "we gather to be entertained (everyone looks at GM like “now what?”) " kinda way.

    And I’m always freaking out because I can’t offer some incredible satisfying plot like they’d get watching TV shows or whatever. I’m afraid of everything being not good enough lol. My previous coping mechanism was sticking closely to the book…which in this case was 50 Fathoms, a seafaring sandbox fantasy setting.

    …I had to “make things happen to them” , but was REALLY afraid of somehow breaking the world (Morrowind-style lol) if I threw something too “Act 2” at them too fast.

    And their captain seemed content just rolling random encounters while trading goods between ports. LOL

    I think I really need to trust serendipity and stop planning so much. One of my best games was introducing my wife and her brother to Savage Worlds by just walking them into a bar and being goofy.

    They made their characters after League of Legends characters. The bartender was a monkey. They caused some kind of trouble and the monkey threw a flaming ha-pooo-ken at them…oh no, the dice kept exploding! Roll for wound location…“unmentionables.” Oof. They were laughing so hard.



  • This. One thing I couldn’t stand about Reddit was seeing people who could be doing anything else with their lives, but decided it worthwhile to “background check” other posters.

    This was a big thing with Twitter too. “Oh, they follow such-and-such in their list of 10,000 follows, who turned out to be bad in recent news, so this person’s views are worthless and they must also be bad!”

    Like, being able to have a quick glance and be like “Ah this is clearly a bot / hate-troll / what-haves”, can be handy for some sense of accountability, but purity-testing and association-mobs are the stuff of cautionary science fiction, and should be avoided.