Always confuses me how the one outlier thing always catches flack for not being PERFECT, like fuck, do you want DRM-free games or nah? What other legal sources are there???

I switched to grapheneOS. Fuck Google.

will likely switch to a proper linux phone, when they get to a point of being actually useable

I’m more and more leaning to this solution. I only have a 8GB phone data plan, and refuse to waste any of it on my recreational music listening, nor will I ever see the need for paying for more mobile data.

My next phone needs a microsd slot, I miss them so much!

went on sale on steam when I bought it for $5, played the whole thing with my daughter. Amazing game!

Right but this is about 1 dev using claude for lutris because he’s apparently going through a rough time in his life right now.

This one guy isnt to blame for the problems with the AI industry

So, it’s no longer being hidden, what’s the problem now? I just opened lutris, I don’t notice any crazy change. And the developer said this, “It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn’t able to do last year because of health issues / depression.”, so I don’t see some huge issue here.

AI is going to be everywhere, whether we like it or not. There are millions of active daily users on all various LLM platforms, are open source projects supposed to be immune from this? Of course not!

AI is already very limited to it’s context window, and tokens, so it’s not some magic pill that will make all your code perfect. I understand the AI backlash but people need to chill, it’s not some magic genie that will transform anything you throw at it, it’s still pretty limited.

lol, is P2P not good enough?

Indie games go brrrrrrr

I’m not surprised by that at all. I used to use it, but found it strange how closed-source it felt, and how it’s almost a carbon copy of microslop office, in it’s interface, the latter being the main reason I started using it.

ditto, switched from keepassxc to vault/bitwarden. Couldn’t be happier. I have it accessible via cloudflare tunnels, so I always can sync so long as I have internet.

Once I set up S3 cloud storage, I’ll have offsite backups as well.

seems cool, as I certainly seen this rivalry between complexity and simplicity. I don’t really need E2EE for a simple private communication server, but it is nice to have. I mean, We use it when relying on 3rd party services, because we don’t want them spying on our communications, but when it’s a private server hosted locally/in the cloud, the only unwanted eyes are hackers, who I don’t think care that much about private servers with small numbers of users.

glance averages around 20MB of RAM per day on my home server. Others have mentioned syncthing, which is also very light on resources, and super useful.

don’t have an old pc lying around? I literally built my first server while I was jobless, (I did purchase HDDs when I was employed, though). That same server has a cpu, mobo, ram and case that are well over 15 years old now, only the PSU and storage are new.

I’m hosting a discord alternative called sharkord. Initially I just hosted it on my home server, but I couldn’t open ports for voice chat so I did move to a VPS with akami (linode). At most it’s costing me $5 CAD a month.

It’s wayyy lighter to run compared to lemmy, because servers aren’t federated. I know, different application, but just wanted to provide a point of reference.

oh yeah, and I don’t know, but I only run linux, and almost never shutdown my main PC anyways, only reboot for updates or shutdown for maintenance. I could 100% just host things on my main PC, but it’s only connected to the internet via wi-fi, which is why I went the separate pc route. If you need parts, see what people are willing to give away.

I use dockwatch, but not for automatic updates. I just update after reviewing the changelog and user reports.

It’s already been said: FOSS projects can be abandoned, but resurrected via forks and re-writes, whereas proprietary apps are simply dead with no recourse unless the original dev/team releases the source code.

That being said, I am not a developer, so when a project dies, I am at the behest of other devs to revive the project. I do find that projects that many people value, like all the recent discord alternatives or health/money management apps, tend to survive longer because they provide value to a wide range of people. Things like wikis or new protocols are far more niche, so I am not surprised that they might not outlive projects like sharkord or rackula.

Good on him for this. I started self-hosting a couple years back, so my “tech fence” is already fairly complete, with a few glaring omissions, still a WIP.

I do wish he got someone to provide links to guides or wiki pages, but I understand that making people go out and search for things is also important, even if it’s a simple task to search on google/github for open source projects.

rip bozo

It objectively better than window 11, so I’m not at all surprised people don’t want to switch. That, or they locked themselves down with some odd dependency.

Inspiring tale, glad you found something you both enjoy and learn from! I think that’s a great use of time, to problem solve and develop tools that benefit you day-to-day.

I’ve had some family that have experienced strokes, ranging from a slight scare to full on life-changing. You’re certainly doing well if you’re writing your own apps, I can barely script BASH.

Roblox could avoid so much shit if they just REMOVED THE DAMN CHAT FUNCTION!!!

Never in my childhood did I need to chat with strangers in a game. Sure, you could chat on runescape, or any decent mmorpg at the time, but the chat was moderated, and key point, they weren’t hotbeds for child predators