For those interested in bookwyrm, the main instance is really slow. The second biggest English instance is invite only, and I’ve been waiting a week and the owner still hasn’t responded.

The rambling readers instance seems to be three way to go.

Hey pizza hut, what do you want on your tombstone?

The unbackable Switch 2!

detatch from the titty

Can eden play air riders?!?!?

This is SO GOOD

The user base of pixel phones that have graphene on them.

Ha! I’m not sick, I already graduated, and I know everything! Checkmate!

I used to use https://talky.io/ before discord.

…ita

Chromecast

I second this. I use GNOME with extensions instead of KDE, but that’s just personal preference.

I used Pop_OS! for about a year before moving to Fedora. I got a new AMD video card and needed the latest kernel drivers. Fedora has the rolling release model that got me what I needed, and since it’s one of the “big 3” upstream distros, I know it’s reliable.

All true, one small caveat. If GoG went down, you would still have all your games as long as you downloaded the installer.

But then again, you could just copy the installed files around. That works for most games. So it’s close to the same.

Run the jewels, fast!

Vesktop is great. It even has plugins for youtube adblock and dearrow. For privacy peeps you can also enable the SilentTyping to hide when you are typing and ReplaceGoogleSearch if you want to use a different search engine.

Not like that.

…or MY AXE!!

Counter Strike Source and other old school LAN games.

Then invite friends over and pass the drive around so they can all install games and you can have a LAN party.

I don’t understand this.

If I put on something with video I want to absorb it. There’s more video content in existence than I could ever watch, I always want to watch something worth watching. If it’s something I’ve seen before them I’m rewatching because it was entertaining enough that I want to watch it again. Even if I try to ignore it, it’s good enough that it’ll rope me in.

Put something on and not watch it? Is it boring enough that it’s not pulling you in? It’s just background noise? Then why isn’t it a podcast or something?

If you’re ignoring it then why turn it on? Do you turn on lights in rooms you’re not in? It feels… like something just above brainrot. Like it’s not rotting you, but either it’s not engaging or it’s just background noise (with an unused visual component)

When replacing big services you’re not going to find a single solution. You will probably find several smaller solutions that all specialize in one or two things.