If your goal is to play “Robin Morningwood Adventure - A Gay RPG” from the comfort of your closet without your aunt getting a notification, then you want to mark the game private.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1150-C06F-4D62-4966
Obviously, this is insufficient if you don’t want the watchful eye of Valve themselves to be upon your gaming session.
I have a similar use case, what do you recommend on the pi for a TV OS?
Not free, but I’ve found great value with purelymail.com. Cost is $10/year or there’s a calculator for advanced pricing (basically AWS costs forwarded).
If you provide your own domain, you can have unlimited email addresses. If you use a provided domain, there’s no predefined limit, but abuse will be stressed by the developer.
If you lose the master account’s password the admin cannot reset it for you, which indicates a strong commitment to privacy.
Because it’s paid, no activity requirements, phone number requirements, or invitations.
It has one of the best terms of service pages I’ve ever read.
Hallelujah
No argument from me. I’m probably insane. But I’m not under oath, or doing a job, or undertaking a responsibility; I’m just me, talking to strangers in a public chat room. Why should I limit myself to the practical? Is there a rule against expressing dreams in this room?
And I agree, even if I convinced everyone overnight, and we had the willpower to do it, I’m still proposing infrastructure changes that I may not see finished in my life, but building for the next generation is still noble to me, in my insanity.
It’ll never happen if we all agree it’ll never happen. I like taking about them, as it’s my way of making it more likely to happen
I respect boxcars, but does the world need more trolls and troll accessories?
Could public transit be considered to reduce the need for everyone to drive?
Reliable public transport with a robust interstate passenger railway system coupled with a well designed intracity bus system, along with well maintained biking paths everywhere else would go a long way to getting bad drivers off the road.
We can’t get bad drivers off the road when basic everyday living requires driving. There are cost effective alternatives in use across the world. America just has to learn to accept good ideas that others have pioneered.
https://alternativeto.net/feature/create-multiboot-usb/ Maybe this will help?
Disclaimer: I don’t use Fedora, but have friends who do. So I tried to include sources, below. 😅
How would I install NVIDIA drivers?
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
_Does Wayland work with NVIDIA?*
(I don’t know)
A lot of distros are moving to Wayland. How would I ensure I stay on an Xorg session?
GNOME now defaults to Wayland. Instructions to use xOrg instead: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-default-gnome-session/
I expect other desktop environments will similarly have mechanisms switch, at least during a transition period.
I enjoy modding Bethesda games. Does Mod Organizer work fully on Linux?
Your mileage may vary, but it looks likely: https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer
I’ve had difficulties running my steam games through proton on my laptop. Does proton work with Fedora?
I suspect it will. Steam has been pouring money into making it’s catalog Linux ready, https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/
With said difficulties with proton, would installing Steam as a flatpak work or will it cause issues?
In principle it ought to, but there appears to be an issue with it currently. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/
Can you really not play any games with anti-cheat?
Anti cheat software generally works by looking for irregularities that detect if there’s any program besides Windows that’s intercepting system calls. It is unfortunately by exactly this mechanism that allows Proton to work (as Windows isn’t present).
Let’s start simple: You should consider hoping from Linux Mint to LMDE if you haven’t already.
As a user, you have no obligation to participate in the politics between the Ubuntu and the Mint Development team, but if you’ve followed the controversy and agree that Ubuntu is being a bully, this would be a small yet material way to show support.
what am I missing?
Every Linux distribution has a purpose - a reason its author thought it was worth the effort of creating it. Some are grand, others are silly, etc. When you explore distros, you’re telling the community which ideas resonate with you. Popular ideas will replicate, unpopular ideas will be abandoned.
Also, switching distributions makes it harder for business to ‘capture’ the Linux demographic. The mere act of switching occasionally means that tools to import/export/manage your data stay relevant. This literally fights enshitification.
Finally, and this is a matter of personal taste, but I like trying different versions of Linux for the same reason I try different flavors of ice cream: It’s fun; and even if now and then I get a bad flavor, I feel enriched by the experience.
(Edit: it’s to its)
Yes, at the beginning of the pandemic it was discovered that Plex Inc had been tracking, reporting home, and selling user watching habits to advertisers. Basically the exact thing many Plex users were trying to get away from.
This inspired many developers (who were otherwise stuck at home due to said pandemic) to fork Emby and thus Jellyfin was born.
Anyone here experiment with Funkwhale? Wondering if it’s a practical choice to make a personal library available in a personal cloud.
Yes. Absolutely 100%. Canonical has a pretty solid track record of acting like a corporation.
Can’t speak for @StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml, but I was happy with Ubuntu when they first started - they took the best of open-source, put it in a nice package and then put money into improving it. It’s just over the years they’ve drifted away from that and slowly have been replacing stuff with their own in-house stuff. At this point, they’re sorta Microsoft light. Maybe harmless today, but only because they want to look better than the competition.
If that alone weren’t sufficient reason to be skeptically pessimistic, enshitification is trending, all corporations seem to feel that now is the time to turn the screws. Can’t blame a guy for expecting bad news generally in this environment.
Many phone/cell providers provide a method to send voicemails to a third party, if you setup call forwarding (busy or unanswered, don’t set unconditional) for reference, this page covers how to do that for T-Mobile
https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/self-service-short-codes
The new voicemail provider may allow you to save messages better, or might offer transcoding themselves.
https://freeappsforme.com/free-voicemail-apps/
(I would have included this all earlier, if I thought of it earlier 😅)
Ahh, so this isn’t a processing issue it’s a data access issue.
Frankly, if you can’t access the raw data of your voicemail inbox, probably no third party developer can too. This means that the only way to implement such a tool would to be to work with the voicemail provider. If they’re a for-profit company, they probably have no incentive to make the data available unless there’s a big moneybag involved somewhere in the exchange. That’s probably why no such tool exists.
There isn’t a turnkey solution I know of, but if you can have a tool save voicemails into a folder, you could probably have a script generate text files based on a Speech To Text (STT) solution:
I recommend using Transwiz to zip up your user profile, you can move the .trans.zip file to a neutral location (external drive, network storage, etc). Of course if you have valuable information stored outside the C:\Users folder, back it up as well. Now you should have a system you can safely mangle, destroy and rebuild without worrying about user data. Once you’ve built your new setup, extract the zip folder into /home/[your_name] or ~ and you’re all set.
https://newrepublic.com/series/49/microsoft-three-mile-island-ai-nuclear
Nope. Very real.