The biggest thing I fought with since getting started has been audio. First figuring out how to make an Elgato device cooperate (not exactly the most linux-friendly company to say the least), then setting up virtual sinks and routing everything appropriately, and finally getting my mic to not sound like actual garbage.

Frustrating as hell and a very long process to get all of that working out, but definitely learned a lot from it.

I’ve been looking at IVPN as well. Nym seems interesting but seems very new and idk if they offer Wireguard configuration files (I don’t think they’re even WG-based? I could be wrong)

I’m sitting on Mullvad for a week to do research into alternatives. Apparently their support team is handing out full refunds far outside their typical policy because of this shitshow, no questions asked. IVPN so far is looking promising, but I don’t know a damn thing about the company and people behind it.

It’s basically a read-only frontend, mostly meant to enable browsing the site but blocking out all of their tracking etc. You won’t be able to comment or vote or anything, but you can browse and subscribe to subs as “normal” (though it’s cookie-based, so if you clear your browser out you’d need to rebuild it up, unless you’re hosting your own instance in which case you can set your own defaults).

Deleted my account months ago and spun up my own redlib instance behind a VPN container. Definitely one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long time.

I did make a new account since but it’s literally just for trying to trade items in a game, I explicitly don’t use it to browse or comment on any thread but my own.

Since we still need to use the official clients with Vaultwarden, I’d say time is running short, even if these changes don’t directly affect it yet. Definitely need some FOSS alternative clients for it.

Honestly. I swear this is like the 5th one I’ve seen in three months

It’s good to avoid in general for sure, but having a frontend available is pretty useful for viewing links and such or a small handful of accounts still in that cesspool.

Oh interesting. I’ve been doing this with a dummy HDMI plug for ages, and sure don’t fix what isn’t broken, but it’d be nice to set it up entirely virtually.

Yeah at this point I don’t even consider them an option. They’ve been shit for ages.

ErsatzTV is great for this, but it just entered maintenance mode and I don’t think any forks are currently continuing the work. Still, it’ll probably continue to work without issues for a long time.

My PS5 is just a Warframe box for the living room when I don’t feel like using my Deck, and I plan to essentially replace it with a Steam Machine down the road (sure I could just set up my own linux box there but the form factor is a huge motivator).

I think I use the thing for other games like once every few years. Death Stranding 2 is the only one I bought that comes to mind, Yotei was a gift. This isn’t going to encourage me to buy more of their games because this console is going in the closet soon enough.

I mean, I use it myself but I also get why it’s not really mentioned here, being partially closed-source as well and subscription-based on top of that.

OP’s post is hilarious because .ml, grad, and hexbear are like the only reasons to use lemmy lmao. .world has always been the worst and a second reddit exodus would do it in.

Yep exactly. There’s no backbone to these. It’s a weekend parade then back to brunch.

Am effective protest needs to be disruptive. What essentially amounts to a big weekend block party really doesn’t accomplish anything. Some of these events today had speakers thanking cops or platforming Zionists, like what are we even doing here

The only ones out there today really doing things that matter were the real leftists in the crowds trying to educate folks and trying to make them realize that no part of this administration is an anomaly to the imperialist state, they’re just louder about their fascism.

At the very, very least these events could take place in the middle of the week without prior approval from local police or w/e. Disruption is what makes a protest even the slightest bit effective, and a weekend parade doesn’t do that.

Middle of a weekend in approved areas. That accomplishes so much. Big “vote out the fascists” vibes.

Never. Let shit hit the fan if it has to. Fight back instead of swallowing the whole boot.

Legitimately the way various porn sites addressed similar laws is the way to go. Verification required in this state? “Well we’re no longer serving this state’s traffic at all, and conveniently here’s the contact info of the government officials to blame, enjoy!”

I can think of a lot.

Imagine seeing a bullshit fascist vaguely-worded and practically unenforceable law in a single state that doesn’t go into affect for another year and immediately rolling over and swallowing the boot.

Same dude also vehemently defends Google’s anti-sideloading bullshit, no surprise there.

Fuck this fascist.

You would think FOSS overall would be inherently leftist but apparently not lmfao