The real question is, "which one of the gazillion voice chat apps can properly filter audio without a lengthy setup that my mongoloid friends will skip?"
I am the guy moving the group to different apps and platforms, some follow more reluctantly but in the end we stick together. We've jumped from TS2 to Skype, Dolby Axon, Mumble, Hangouts, Discord, Mumble and back to Discord. Now I'm getting a strong whiff of enshittification, and I'm weighing my options. We're about 10-12 but mostly 4 or 5 active at a time.
Jami, Matrix, Jitsi, Rocket and again ol reliable Mumble.. It'd be nice if mumble had screen share and a better automatic audio setup, so far the best quality of vc over any other app/service.
I'll check out Movim I saw named in the comments, any other hidden gem I should try?
This! I'd say that the best we can do is educate. Over the last 20 years people got taught to be lazy and go with the herd. They don't want to change, all their stuff is already "in the cloud" and "I don't have time to go tinker with that nerd stuff, I need something that works".
"Why learn a new messaging app if everyone is using WhatsApp already"
-- some of my friends and acquaintances 2025
Sorry, I jumped ship before that feature was a thing. I think it's exclusive to "pro" win10 but I remember a relative using it. Windows 2 go or something like that was the name.
Anyway, happy new year, and hope you can figure it out!
Create a windows to go install on a USB to NVMe caddy, use something like nano11 and set the BIOS to boot off the NVMe. Whenever the kiddo wants to play fortnite, just plug the device and reboot
This is to avoid windows overwriting your EFI partition and nuking your bootloader at random times, the reason I stopped dual booting after win 8.1
With all those conky widgets I bet I could middle click on that desktop and drag the mouse to flip the desktop cube!
We've spent last few months playing Enshrouded. The dedicated server is a resource hog tho, even on an empty server it'd use a ton of CPU time. Still lots of fun with a few friends exploring and building stuff
Trackmania can be self hosted? I'd love a friends-only score board and custom track rotations
Add Lepton to the list!
Awesome pics, tho you could get 100x views if you put "Arch BTW" on lemmy
True, tho I rather rely on Proton than stuff like the borked BG3 port or the incompatible Total Warhammer port. Until there's enough people already settled in, there's no point in pressuring people to maintain ports for such a moving target. Maybe we'll get stuck like this, but still all the older games that were already released will need to work via compatibility layers anyway
Look up Bazzite DX. Its a developers oriented version. Other than that, distrobox is amazing for creating containers for your projects, allowing you to have a sane and stable dev environment
I was excited to see the UT games on FlatHub, but they require the base installs. Why did they delist all Unreal games everywhere (but GoG)? Why not give them away and just let the players host the servers?
E: Yes, it's an AI made image, if Epic won't put the minimal effort to preserve their games, why should I for a disposable meme?
Has anybody here managed to install Funkwhale using Portainer? I've already tried 3 times, first tried a template, but turns out the AIO container is deprecated, then tried modifying the default docker-compose and env files available on Funkwhale's repo, didn't work (couldn't run the required commands to create a user). Then I spun up a brand new debian 12 LXC container on proxmox, ran their quick install script and failed (something related to snapd, even though it was installed).
Up until now I've been an avid Navidrome user, but since we've been cutting some costs, Spotify had to go. Too late I realised Navidrome has no library separation: Even though you can have multiple users, they all pull from the same library, making it a mess.
I'm just looking for a simple deployment I can use either within my LAN or via TailScale, just for me and a few family members.
I'm looking for a media player/OS for an ARM SBC that can stream from my navidrome (subsonic compatible) music server, and be controlled via either a web GUI or an android app. I'd love to hear what you guys came up with!
Currently really happy with my setup, I'm using Navidrome as my music server, along with Ultrasonic as my phone client.
I've set up a (dumb/analog) speaker system on my workshop, and I'd like to be able to listen to music there, but I don't want to add a whole setup (be it an old laptop, or add kb/mouse, monitor and such) and my phone no loner has a 3.5mm jack.
I have a Raspberry Pi 3, an OrangePi Zero, and an OrangePi PC+. I'd rather use the zero or the PC+ since they're kinda unstable/wonky and I don't trust them anymore for stuff I want to keep running 24/7 (like pihole).
I'm open to testing other music servers (volumio maybe?) on my main homelab if that means having the ability to change the client/sink from the app/gui (something like what Spotify does, where you can pick from any client to stream to other clients/speakers)
How about the "private notes" chat on Signal?