I love Street Complete! It gets me out of the house and walking, and it’s fun to do it when traveling, especially when there is a bunch of missing data you can fill in.

Favorite heavyweight Type 1 hypervisor: XCP-ng. It’s open source, runs on a ton of enterprise and consumer-grade hardware, has always been rock stable for me, even when forgetting to update it for like 6 months, still ran everything like a champ.

I need to try ProxMox, has some cool features. XCP-ng is pretty intuitive though, UI makes sense and is cleaner than Proxmox. The integration in Proxmox with the Incus project is pretty cool though, especially being able to run VMs and containers and manage them together. I’ve been thinking of trying that and seeing how it goes.

For containers, I just install Debian and run Docker on there. Stable, simple, nothing fancy. If I need something more up to date, I typically use Ubuntu Server.

I’ve messed with Porteus before, it’s still janky, and locked down, not fully open source. Better than nothing, but still not as easy as Windows.

No easy/simple kiosk mode. One of the very few things Windows does well, you can turn any computer into a kiosk in less than 5 minutes.

With Linux, you have to jank a bunch of stuff together and it’s a huge pain.

Phew! I was worried it might have been an innocent victim.

Godot all the way. Roblox is not the future, and it’s owned and controlled entirely by a corporation. Your creations are owned by the corporation, and will be used to make them money, don’t be a sucker and build their next hot mini-game.

Godot is fully Open Source and community controlled. It is a real proper game engine with some really powerful features. It is harder to get started using, but there are hundreds of great tutorials for complete beginners that you can follow, and tens of thousands of community assets to get you started quickly.

The community is very welcoming and friendly to newbies, and Godot is taken more and more seriously as a real game engine, especially by indie devs and studios.

Steam Deck easily. Everything you said you’re worried about Valve possibly doing in the future goes double for Microsoft.

Steam Deck is a great platform for playing any games on, pirated included. I have my whole GBA ROM collection on my Deck and play them through RetroArch, works perfectly.

Shoulda gone easy on the roids, brotherrrr!

I only mentioned it because it’s what I’ve been using for a while and it’s been a good experience so far. Cheap, runs well on Linux, and is one of the few that still allows you to port forward.

There are several good ones to pick from, defs would stay away from Nord because of their advertising practices, but Mullvad is solid. I think they removed port forwarding though.

Don’t subject your family to nasty letters in their mail from your ISP. You won’t go to jail, but you might risk your internet service getting canceled, which won’t be a fun conversation with your parents.

If you’re 18 and healthy, go donate plasma at a local clinic. In the USA depending on where you are, you can make $40-$80 per week, sometimes even more if they have a big shortage. Takes about 90 minutes a session, and you just chill with a needle in your arm and browse on your phone, super easy.

Proton VPN’s most expensive plan is $108 for 2 years, you can afford that. Go to your friends or neighbors and offer to do some yard work for cash. Mow their lawn, shovel bark, dig up dead shrubs, whatever. That’s the main way I made money when I was in my teens. People will pay 20-30 bucks an hour in most places for that kind of work, so a few hours of that in a week or two and you’ve got your $108 for Proton VPN, or whatever other VPN you want to use.

Sell some crap on eBay, FB marketplace, Craig’s List, etc. Old clothes, computer parts, consoles, weights, people will buy anything. You’d be surprised how fast I’ve gotten rid of junk buy posting it online for 10 bucks.

Did you mean to say, preposition instead of proposition?

The only reason that’s true in the US at least, is because our long distance public transport infrastructure is horrific. Trains here are slow, dirty, expensive, and limited in their routes.

If we had a dense network of cross-country high speed trains, cars would be far less necessary. It’s a vicious cycle. More cars requires more car-centric infrastructure, which creates incentive to continue using cars, which feeds the need for expanding the car-infra, etc.

For a large scale, permanent anarchist society to form, (like hundreds of thousands to millions of people), a seismic shift in mentality must happen. On the scale of people moving from monarchism to democracy, and feudalism to capitalism.

For most of human history, slavery was considered a foundational aspect of society, people couldn’t even imagine society without it. An average ancient person would have thought you were absolutely crazy to suggest that a large scale civilization could work well and be prosperous without slavery. Same with a monarch, same with changing a feudalistic system to a market-based capitalistic system.

My dream is that one day, people will look back at current the era of statism in the same way that we look back at the days of slavery or absolute monarchism. That one day people would be shocked that the average person believed statism was the only way to organize a society.

The best we can hope for right now is to keep educating people, and work to act out anarchism in our daily lives with others. Participate in mutual aid networks. If nothing like that exists in your area, find a few like-minded folks and form one. Support open source, decentralized software and forms of media. Oppose hierarchical systems around you, subvert capitalistic markets and companies, protest and fight alongside fellow leftists and try to sway them to our side.

We will likely never enjoy the shade of the tree we are planting, but if it grows and blossoms one day into a great canopy, our efforts will have been forever worth it. And if not, then at least we can say we lived our lives true and free, fighting for the way things ought to be.

I’ve got plenty of human touch, I’m touching myself right now!

I use Nobara with KDE for my gaming computer, Mint with Cinnamon for pretty much everything else.

Mint is the closest to a “Just Works” experience for me. Cinnamon is rock stable, especially on Mint Debian Edition. I don’t remember the last time Cinnamon crashed or had any major bugs for me.

I use Debian for most of my servers, stable and simple. Arch on a junker Thinkpad to test and mess around with new programs and window managers.

~50x

My policy is double my download, minimum. But I almost always hit much higher than that, my average is probably between 5-10x

All my torrents are public sites, and I only torrent pretty common stuff, so I don’t feel too bad about killing a torrent after a week or two. I figure 5-10x average on easy-to-find, mid quality media is plenty in the karmic sense lol.

As far as I am concerned, always give better than you get, even if that’s 1.01 but try to aim higher.

Of course, if you’re seeding a rare or otherwise hard to find piece of media, then you should keep it alive for longer. I am in the process of upgrading my torrent machine, and once that happens, I will be able to hold far more active torrents, and my average ratios will be significantly improved.

Happy sailing!

Flatpaks are pretty great for getting the latest software without having to have a cutting edge rolling release distro or installing special repos and making sure stuff doesn’t break down the line.

I use Flatpaks for my software that I need the latest and greatest version of, and my distros native package for CLI apps and older software that I don’t care about being super up to date.

My updater script handles all of it in one action anyways, so no biggie on that either.

Flatpaks are the best all-in-one solution when compared to Appimages or Snaps imo.

Remember, it’s all or something, not all or nothing.

For me, I look at each major category of things in my life a few times a year and ask myself how I can improve the ethics of my participation.

So for food, I have been vegetarian for years now, which is good, but lately I have been trying to cut out most processed foods. I also have started shopping more and more local, getting as much of my food as I can from local co-ops, individual sellers, and small local grocery chains.

For software, I’m FOSS everything as much as I can be. 100% Linux on my computers and servers, and I have replaced almost all my programs with FOSS alternatives. Even my phone doesn’t run stock Android.

For work, try to find places to work that roughly align with good principles. For instance, try to get a job at a credit union vs a traditional bank, or try to find an employee-owned establishment vs a traditional top-down corporation.

If you have to work for a corpo, try to pick one that has a good reputation with unions and workers, like Costco, vs Starbucks or Walmart.

Capitalism is a machine that grinds us all down, so don’t feel guilty about not being perfect. But do the best you can to reject it, little steps at a time. Always be improving, bit by bit.

RustDesk, it’s by far the best remote desktop software I’ve used on any platform.

Tons of great features, open source, self-hostable, easy to install and configure, works on all major platforms including mobile. Cross platform works like a charm.

Looks pretty clean as is, I would need to see without picsto fully know, but looks good as is imo.