Everything may end up base 16 anyway due to the digital paradigm pervading nearly every aspect of life.

Xubuntu LTS is very user friendly and will feel familiar to those who have used Windows. The UI is simple yet flexible and having an Ubuntu base with official support and a large community is key to a successful experience.

This appears to require proprietary software to be installed on either or both host and client systems. Also, being a cloud service does not preclude it being proprietary software.

https://github.com/pmiddend/nixos-manager but there has not been much activity this year

Seems a little cringey to have a prominent link to some proprietary software right in the freenode title banner while talking about a commitment to FOSS. This is contradictory at best.

Copyright seems to be the tool that journal corporations are using to shut down free information. Why are scientists not publishing their work with a copyleft license such as Creative Commons Share Alike? Anyone that produces content can use this copyright protected license to ensure the free access to work.

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Share_Alike

https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-science/

Another open access journal:

https://plos.org/

For Dungeon Siege, you could mount the ISO and point a wine drive to that. Cracks helped if you did not want to go through that.

I’ve been using Wine since 2004 when I began to use Linux (Ubuntu Warty). I really wanted to keep playing Dungeon Siege, but support was spotty (some graphic and control glitches). Despite this, I was hopeful that it would be playable and Wine kept me running Linux daily supporting other games like Total Annihilation, Oblivion, Guild Wars and productivity software. Through the early years development seemed slow, but once “Staging” and alternative builds became a thing, those improvement really sped up overall development. Having the project supported by Valve and incorporated into Proton combined with DXVK and other compatibility projects has been a huge boon to development as well. I now mostly use Wine in the form of Proton mainly out of convenience.
I think the most fascinating thing was people using Wine on Windows for running older games.

Creating groups (both public and personal) of communities. I’d like to see how others group communities as well as create categories for myself. These could include groups of communities on other federated servers too.