Noob question: How would I go about vetting the links/downloads?
Also, how do I safely download from these sites? Iāve been using a VPN (mullvad) for a couple years now, but is that enough?
Iām pretty tech savvy but I have never needed to download, but I just donāt want to install origin, Uplay, EA, or any other launcher to play a single player game and tbh I donāt want to support those companies at all
Thereās controversy over whether VPN + TOR is a good combo. Some say itās an added layer of anonymity, others say it could be decreasing anonymity because your VPN could be logging your traffic. Some also say the two donāt mesh well. But honestly the juries out so everyone should probably come to their own conclusion
Iāve just always been of the mindset that pirating is so low on the feds radar that even if a VPN is tracking or even if theyāre a honeypot itās not like the government agencies are going to expose that by coming after some low level pirate. That said Iām not super active anymore and I always look for VPNās who at least claim to not track.
PS5 mainly. I do have a gaming pc but at the moment Iām just casual gaming on the sofa when I have time. I love the PS5, I think itās the best Sony console since the PS2.
Oh wow thatās a bold statement. Personally i think the PS3 is better than the PS2 though. The move to online and HD graphics (for the average consumer) was huge. I know it had been a thing for a while, but thatās when it became mainstream
How come youāre such a big fan of the PS5? Is the game selection as good as the PS2?
Thought that would be a controversial opinion lol.
So purely from a console perspective, taking pc out of the equation completely. The PS3 game selection was severely lacking. It was a good console and the graphical jump was awesome, but the number of games I actually had was hardly any.
PS4 was fantastic in most ways, but a lot of the games I found really pushed the hardware which resulted in the console sounding like it was going to take off, becoming overheated etc.
The pros of the PS5 for me include the SSD, which makes such a huge difference to the speed of the console. Things like switching games is a breeze. The adaptive triggers are really good when implemented into games. The graphics are fantastic. I know many people donāt see a difference, but with a 4K tv games like the newest Ratchett and Clank look phenomenal. So much more can be done with physics and effects that the game actually blew me away with what it pulled off.
People say there arenāt many games but Iāve played and loved so many PS5 games including the two Spiderman games, Demons souls remake, Ratchett and Clank, FF7 remake, Hogwarts, and quite a few more.
The console is fast, simple to use, the games Iāve played have looked gorgeous in every way, and Iām seriously excited to see what else gets released now that companies are stopping PS4 and 5 versions and just purely developing for current gen.
Game Boy tetris has always been my favorite version. Check out the Rosy Retrospection romhack for the GB game with some nice quality-of-life improvements.
There would be a few levels of complexity to it. But if youāre hosting a lemmy instance already, it shouldnāt be any trouble for you ā¦ basically make yourself the only account but allow people to federate with your instance. Add your own modified front end too if you like (as lemmy has separate backend and front end software stacks AFAIU). Interestingly, I think it would be a cool project for people to work on ā¦ a front end suitable for hosting a single (or even multi) user blog on the fediverse.
An additional option would be microblog: docs.microblog.pub. Itās a single-user fediverse platform written in python and relying on sqlite (which sounds to me like a nice sweet spot for single-user instances).
Ahh, I didnāt get that far in the docs, but seeing as there are no (that I can tell) post limits, running a blog on Lemmy would work pretty well with a bit of a UI change.
Yep, totally, thereās search, sorting, comments etc, all in one backend.
A neat blog-focused front-end would actually be super awesome IMO. Many want to be on the fediverse but interact just through blogs. A sort of blogo-verse (not sphere). Lemmy might be the best foundation to make that happen.
A neat blog-focused front-end would actually be super awesome IMO.
I so agree. Did you find any ?
At first I considered using the official Lemmy UI with custom CSS & JS injected, but versioning is still zero-based (0.y.z), which means breaking changes can happen at any time, and that can cause huge issues with customization.
Now Iām considering alternative clients, like Alexandrite, but itās unsupported despite being maintained.
Many want to be on the fediverse but interact just through blogs. A sort of blogo-verse (not sphere).
Did anyone achieve this yet, whether using Lemmy or something else ?
Well there are blogging platforms for the fediverse (ie they federate) I forget their names but in it sure WriteFreely is one.
Beyond that, Wordpress has integrations now with the fediverse which federate as user accounts. It seems to work ok, in that Iāve seen blogs appear in mastodon. But one point of friction I think is how comments are federated. Maybe it works fine but Iām key sure theyāve made a choice to not federate comments from Wordpress to mastodon so thereās context collapse.
Otherwise, the idea Iām thinking of hasnāt been realised yet AFAICT. TBF, it would probably require more than a front end for lemmy, I suspect some backend features would be required too. Nothing too big Iād think. But alas no. Still think itās be cool!
That being said, itās not too hard to run a blog out of lemmy. Just start dedicated communities with moderator posting only and youāre good. Front end might be lacking in someway but that alone goes pretty far.
Yeah I already studied all federated blogging options, unfortunately none actually federate like true Fediverse apps.
I suspect some backend features would be required too
Hmm, there sure could be useful additions but I donāt think itās missing anything required though, on the back-end.
The front-end, however, is far from being usable for a blog.
Front end might be lacking in someway but that alone goes pretty far.
Well, a Lemmy front-end, whether official or third-party, for a blog, makes sense for an existing Lemmy user, but for sure doesnāt for anyone not knowing what Lemmy is, thatās why customization is required on this part.
Well, a Lemmy front-end, whether official or third-party, for a blog, makes sense for an existing Lemmy user, but for sure doesnāt for anyone not knowing what Lemmy is, thatās why customization is required on this part.
Hmmm, at the risk of being annoying, Iām wondering what youāre thinking of exactly. Iām guessing something thatās streamlined in a few ways, like without upvoting etc. and related sorting options? Probably a bit of a facelift too and some elements that make it clear what community/blog youāre looking at?
As Iām writing this Iām thinking that it would probably make sense to have a built in web view specifically for outsiders to see a community as a blog.
Iām wondering what youāre thinking of exactly.
Removing Communuties, Create post, Create community from menu ;
Adding local communities directly to the menu, used as categories ;
Adding posts from a āpages communityā directly to the menu, e.g. About me ;
Removing Trending communities and Trending/Local/All filters from the homepage ;
Removing Blocks, Languages, Show NSFW content, Blur NSFW content, Bot Account, Show Bot Accounts, Show Read Posts, Import/Export Settings from settings ;
without upvoting etc. and related sorting options?
No, these are useful.
Probably a bit of a facelift too and some elements that make it clear what community/blog youāre looking at?
Yes.
As Iām writing this Iām thinking that it would probably make sense to have a built in web view specifically for outsiders to see a community as a blog.
A blog-focused front-end, as you said. Either that, or customization of the official front-end (but not while unstable).
Just finished Zelda ToTK, probably going to start up The Minish Cup which is supposed to be goodā¦ Picking a fav is hard though. I have most nostalgia for Gameboy and PS1 games
I run everything on a lean Ubuntu server install. My Ansible playbooks then take over and set up ZFS and docker. All of my hosted services are in docker, and their data and configs are contained, regularly snapshotted, and backed up in ZFS.
I run basically all of the Arr stack, Plex (more friendly to my less tech savvy family then my preferred solution Jellyfin), HAss, Frigate NVR, Obsidian LiveSync, a few Minecraft worlds, Docspell, Tandoor recipes, gitea, Nextcloud, FoundryVTT, an internet radio station, syncthing, Wireguard, ntfy, calibre, Wallabag, Navidrome, and a few pet projects.
I also store or backup all of the important family documents and photos, though I haven't implemented Immich just yet, waiting for a few features and a little more development maturity.
Certainly. Mostly it started as a way to keep tax documents and receipts safe and easily findable.
It's grown into a "huh, maybe this letter from <bank, school, insurance, charity, etc> is important, but it clutters the house less when ones and zeros", so we scan it in.
Then when we need info, we can just search for the name of the sender, the date, account numbers, literally anything remotely legible in the document and get lightning fast results.
I donāt recall how bad it was when they cut mobile, but I wonder if in hindsight it would have made sense to just keep going as it was clearly the next platform war and surely MS were always going to have a potential foothold through desktop integration
If i remember, what killed windows phone was the lack of 3rd party apps which is especially ironic since they now own the entire developer experience. They have vscode, github, azure, they could have made windows mobile a compile target and get more apps if they played the long game.
Apple is dipping their toes into XR, I wonder if microsoft will follow them later for another chance of the mobile market
@darkkite@maegul From the outside, it also seems like there was some corporate politics involved.
Apple was making its comeback thanks to Mac OSX, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad.
Samsung was toying with its own OS (Tizen), apps, and online services (Bixby).
Google responded by toying with hardware itself, including Glass, Nest, and at one point even buying Motorola.
So it looked like all the big tech companies were going to try to copy Apple by trying to own the full tech stack.
The then-CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, responded by trying to reposition his firm as a "devices and services" company. So he ended up with the XBox, Zune, Kinect, Kin, and Surface.
Then he went all-in with a takeover of Nokia.
Soon afterwards, Ballmer stood aside, and Satya Nadella took over.
Satya wanted to reposition Microsoft as a cloud-first company, competing against Google and AWS rather than Apple.
He kept the XBox and Surface, let the rest bleed money for a couple of quarters, wrote off their value as a loss, and then killed it off.
I go back and forth between Jerboa and PWA (from Chromium). I find both missing features I really like, but that just might be from the features to which I got accustomed from Slide and Infinity and not features that are must-haves. On Jerboa, the most annoying thing to me is during commenting, where the cursor jumps to somewhere else in the paragraph and deletes a word. Itās very annoying. I thought it was my keyboard, so I switched, but nope. Maybe an incompatibility with autocorrect features. Whatever. Lemmy is still growing up, while Reddit is 18.
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