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Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.
No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.
That includes posts generated by LLMs. It doesn’t matter if you “don’t have the time” or “would’ve written the same anyway”, or if “everyone’s doing it geez get with the times”.
For now it’ll also include “AI”-assisted projects that haven't had at least two months of (public, verifiable) dev time behind them.
Help:
Launchers/Game Library Managers:
General:
Discord:
IRC:
Matrix:
Telegram:
Stop using Discord. If you're choosing Discord over a good Matrix client like Sable because of minor frictions, your choosing your own convenience over the lives of other people.
Making the change is isn't some huge lifestyle transition. It's just using a decentralised method to achieve the exact same thing.
I'd rather stick with vesktop thanks
Does PTT work on vesktop? Because I cannot make it work there
No idea, I just don't wanna touch the unmodified version cause it's got so much spyware and unwanted features, which vesktop let's me turn some of those off
Wouldn't want that malware on my machine. So sick of every online community default to the shithole that is Discord.
Wow. Amazing! I use it in a browser when I need it then close the tab when I don't, you know, like a reasonable person? I am not installing more Chromium to not only spy on me but literally also tell everyone what I am doing unless I go out of my way to opt out (the toggle will just turn back on whenever it feels like it).
I bet they did some dumb shit like subscribe every single QWERTY 101 key.
Vesktop
Still a browser. Abaddon is nice but no feature parity (especially compared to browser + equicord, I am using like 1 plugin from there rn).
Wow, I can't wait to never install it
I'd recommend Stoat because they won't rape you for all the personal data they can.
I'd recommend Fluxer over Stoat. Seems to be gaining more users and traction in a fraction of Stoat's time.
App looks very similar too. But friends, other devs and communities aren't using it. Their privacy agreements seems to be much better than Discord, especially because their servers are located in Europe. But one should still understand this is not entirely private either. Note, I am not dunking on this service, just want to remember people to read privacy notices:
We do use certain service providers to process your data on our behalf.
Law & Order: We may disclose your information to third parties only if such disclosure is absolutely necessary to comply with a valid legal process, protect any person from death or serious injury, prevent fraud or abuse, or protect our rights, property, safety and interest.
If you wish to request deletion of any information stored on our servers ... Exceptions apply for the third-party service providers used to process your data as described in the service supplement.
We may also process your personal data to comply with our legal obligations, to protect our legitimate interests or the interests of others.
- https://stoat.chat/legal/privacy
An alternative could also be Matrix, which at least is decentralized: https://matrix.org/
Still please don't use it to host your source code. Or to communicate critical info.
Beat I can do is mod repo. For many mod creators.
God I hate it so much, you can't find shit in these ones...
Discord is rolling out global...
Goddamnit, what bullshit are they doing now?!?!
shortcut support (e.g. Push to Talk) on Wayland for Linux users
Oh... Well we got good news for once
I'm so confused. I am on KDE Wayland and have been using push to talk for like a year now. What even is this?
Can't wait to see how this will result in another massive leak of personal data that they totally don't retain.
