I‘ve had this issue on several distros and multiple friends have the same issue. Video hardware acceleration in a browser is a mess. This is definitely not only affecting me as there is a significant amount of complaints on forums and reddit.

And there is no way that the average computer user will use arch. And as long as you gotta fiddle around with your system to get even the most basic shit running smoothly like watching a high resolution youtube video and moving around windows on your other screen at the same time linux will stay irrelevant as a desktop os. It‘s still a system for nerds and I kinda feel like that this is okay.

Your first point is web browsing. Even that doesn‘t work properly on a linux desktop lol. Browser performance is abysmal because the browsers lack out of the box support for hardware acceleration. Even if you get it to work it might not work reliably and an update might break it again.

Try using a discord call and open a youtube video in 4k at the same time on a a freshly installed linux desktop. The audio will be choppy and the video will drop frames like crazy. Just moving around windows on your desktop is not nearly as smooth as it is on windows.

Would highly suggest you to stay away from Matrix and Element for now when it comes to using it with non techies. It‘s simply not there yet. It‘s slow, tedious to use, buggy and the ux is just bad. It‘s also not necessarily more private than the popular choices if used improperly which is imo very likely it you have your aunt use it lol.

Is there any feature of element that you need or why did you pick it? You could ideally just use Signal for group chat and group (video-) calls. Or even whatsapp.

I‘m not really a loner but I‘m also not willing to do much to be included socially if it requires me to do things that I don‘t believe in.

If your fancy night club requires me to be dressed in a certain way i have no interest of getting in. If your barbecue invitation requires me to install an app that I don‘t feel comfortable with I‘m eating potato salad at home.

No. It‘s the opposite of a new world order.

It‘s the old order doing everything to preserve its power.

High quality plastic bodies are so good. Hard to break and easy to repair. I hate glass bodies.

What do you mean by built in?

Built in to the protocol? Built in to the application?

There is a couple of XMPP clients that implement omemo and/or otr encryption.

Matrix supports encryption on a protocol level. But it‘s relatively flawed.

No brave users don‘t care. Brave proved how untrustworthy they are and in any case their business model is unethical yet they still have a cult like following plus a group of crypto bros that are obsessed with getting digital pennies.

Turmoil:

It’s a 2d game where you drill for oil, then have some light logistics management to do to load it in to barrels on horse waggons and then sell it. It’s a lot of fun.

It obviously only bothers me for single player games. Sometimes my internet is down when I wanna play. There is no good reason for why I have to be online to play a single player game. Sometimes my internet is fine but the game servers are down. Or overloaded. Or the publisher just took them down permanently or whatever.

I tried playing the beta for diablo 4 and the game had network lag. I know diablo 4 is technically a multiplayer game. But I always played diablo alone and I’m not interested in the multiplayer aspect. Sometimes I would get kicked from the server for whatever reason. That sucked. made me not buy the game.

This is the changelog:

Show Extras button added to Twitch Options

Lowered Action stage unlocked for the following twitch commands
    #spoil unlock from 30 to 15. 
    #shuffle_boxes unlock from 50 to 15.
    #empty_boxes unlock from 50 to 20. 
    #drop_held unlock from 12 to 5. 
    #mind_wipe unlock from 60 to 40. 
    #destroy_base unlock from 50 to 30. 
    #fill_base unlock from 50 to 30. 

Adjusted the infestation game stage mod and bonus values to be a bit more challenging based on feedback and code review
Updated pricing for turret ammo to prevent exploits
Player crafted doors, hatches, shutters, garage doors, and cellar doors are no longer sellable to the trader
Daring Adventurer 3 and 4 are now unlocked at INT 7 and 10
Adjusted trader stage templates for T2 and T3 tools and weapons
Adjusted quality ranges of tools and weapons in trader inventories for more variety
Prison_01 steel railings in guard towers replaced with corrugated

Ability to copy / paste lights within the prefab editor and retain their light properties
Putting a charged stun baton into vehicle storage causes a crash to desktop
Updating player backpack Nav icons could hide previous icons that may now be in use elsewhere 
Drone throws NRE when trying to heal the player

Why preorder a product that has unlimeted supply?

Ion Fury:

It doesn‘t try to emmulate the look and feel of those build engine games like shadow warrior or duke nukem 3d… because it is one of them.

It is legitimately running on a modernized source port of the build engine. It has fantastic level design. It somehow feels modern and old at the same time. If you grew up playing games from that era this one is a must play imo

Are you trolling?

I mean I guess Lemmy is deeply rooted in the open source community so I believe that people here tend to have more interest in the steam deck because it’s an open system running on linux so there is a huge overlap in the communities.

Also why do you believe that reddit is anti nintendo? The nintendo switch sub alone has almost 5 Millions subscribers and is in the top100 sub reddits.

I really don’t want to discourage you from trying it out.

But if you are really just getting into it you should maybe try something a little bit less messy. Lemmy is a young project gaining a lot of traction and it’s easy to get caught in the crossfire lol.

Maybe you wanna try something a little bit more stable and predictable first and then work your way up. you know…hosting a game server or a teamspeak for your friends. Maybe get into docker and deploy something with that first. Get familiar with port forwarding and firewall rules. Especially getting to know the docker network stuff. That took me some time lol. Maybe a personal nextcloud before you go and host a (semi-) publoc social media instance. people might get angry if you screw up.

But 100% get into self hosting shit. It’s a lot of fun and there is A LOT to learn.

I wouldn’t recommend hosting it from your home network. Even if you are only having a couple of buddies on there it could easily be ddosd by a post going viral or something. Also you would permanently leak your personal IP adress to the outside world. There are ways to protect yourself against that but it’s probably not worth the effort. You are better off just renting a cheap vps for your 50 person instance. You can rent those for like 5usd a month. Share that money with a handful of friends. Everyone puts 10 bucks in and you can pay upfront for multiple years.

I’m not a web developer. I’m sort of a sysadmin so i have some experiences maintaining machines for web apps for other people. And you are right…text will not create massive amounts of data. But a lot of tiny transactions can bring down machines surprisingly fast even if the total amount of data is relatively small.

I guess we are here to experience it first hand. I don’t think anybody…not even the developers have a clear idea of how well this will scale. There is only one way to find out lol

maybe I phrased that poorly and you didn’t understand what I was trying to say. The size of the bigger instance shouldn’t matter at all because only data from communities is pulled, that a member of the smaller instance is subscribed to. So if the bigger instance has 1000 members or 2 million members wouldn’t make a difference. The only thing relevant should be how active the communities are that members are subscribed to.

I don’t think this is an issue tbh.

The full name of a community includes the instance is running on. For this community here the instance is asklemmy@lemmy.ml . If you are referring to community you should include the instance to avoid confusion.

To the issue of duplicate communities: That issue existed on reddit too. Communities with slight variations in the name always existed. Sometimes the owners of some variation of the community just decided to forward their users to a “main community”. Sometimes multiple communities coexist. I believe that in most cases a certain “main community” will establish itself as the one that the majority just accepts as the “real deal” because it has the most activity and the best moderation policies.

Okay…i have no clue how much an employee in america would cost. My comment was more an immediate shocked reaction of disbelief than actually stating that you were wrong lol