And there’s heroic, but both aren’t the same thing as native platform support. Steam has game listings for games that are made for Linux and Mac. You install the official steam client and click “play”. No other platform has that.
There are more or less convenient ways to run the games from gog, epic, Amazon, … on Linux. But none of them have official support or even carry any native games at all.
I’ve stopped caring about physical sports and their broadcast literal decades ago. I only occasionally watch relatively niche sports during the Olympics (climbing for example), but that’s it.
What I do watch is eSports. More exciting than watching a bunch of people run over a field repeatedly, trying to get a ball into a things or whatever.
I assume you mean unsolicited phone calls with this? I haven’t gotten any of those in about a decade, if not more. And those were isolated cases as well. We have laws against that sort of thing. It’s not been a problem for a very very long time (early 2000s or so).
If I’m hosting Stirling myself, I don’t mind it being sent to the server obviously. Being fully open source of course is a big plus.
It’s only light if you configure it to be. It can be as heavy or as light as you want it to be, but it’s a good place to learn and experiment, as it’s comparatively trivial to switch stuff around. Arch wiki is probably the best Linux resource out there.
Finally decided enough was enough and got a new laptop. Picked a Slimbook creative, Manjaro edition, but will put CachyOS on it soon. It’s just such a nice machine compared to my old one. And comparatively competitive price, but “splurged” clearly still applies.
Near at I can tell, this is a pre-configured solution that tries to combine the existing open source solutions into a single “thing”. It’s basically configured for you, and you have to pay more to get full access to the configuration last I checked. It’s the “don’t worry about it” packaging for existing foss solutions, essentially according having to configure, maintain and administer it.
All major Linux distributions are roughly equally trivial to install these days. Mint is actually harder due to the relatively old kernel at least having more potential for lacking hardware support causing issues. The actual process is get similar for most of them.
Frankly the installation isn’t what is likely to cause issues for most people. But something breaking down the line, or wanting a new something (at adding app/functionality/running Windows program/…). How hard/easy it is for them to figure out how to fix that.
I’d suggest looking into TeamSpeak, like others have mentioned. Trivial to self host, too.
Edit: to be clear, this would cover the voice call aspect of discord, not the chat channels and other community tools. While it’s can do text chat, it’s more of a side feature rather than core. I didn’t think it does images or video, but it’s been a hot minute.
Please stop recommending mint. These days now modern alternatives are just better, especially when they might want to game even just a bit. But it’s not just shut taking, mint is kind of stuck in the past for a lot of things.
I was actively avoiding EA for make years before this. Let’s just say this didn’t help. Imma grab some popcorn though.
See my reply in this thread to artyom, I assume that’s what you’re looking for?
but you can do everything without it.
yes but why would you? There’s a reason we use GUIs, especially when new to a field (like virtualization).
I know it has been mentioned in passing a few times but I would highly recommend CachyOS. Just to emphasize how good that is.
Avoid Mint.
The 3$ isn’t a component price but also retail already.
Those hardware generators you mentioned have been around for at least 30 years. A TOTP app is just software that does the same thing as those hardware generators.
I’m aware, but you’re not getting the secret token that you’d need to put into your TOTP app. At least not that I know of. I also haven’t checked in a very long time if there are open source reimplementations of the photoTAN apps. They all got their own flavors, but it’s also just a slight variation on a theme (initialize app with qr-like secret, then scan a similar code as a challenge/response using that secret to generate token). Probably should check that at some point.
The actual hardware cost of these devices is actually minimal. Basically any wifi capable microcontroller, a camera and depending on implementation some storage (or a micro sd-card holder). So that price is only cheap in comparison to existing products.
For reference, said microcontroller with basic camera can be had for like 3$ or something.
They aren’t forced to lock them down, or prescribe any app store afaik. That’s the banks that do. Some lock it down, some not at all. But you’ll need some form of 2 factor “photoTAN” app. Unfortunately, common 2fa codes aren’t used (or allowed), I think this legislation is actually older than them becoming common.
And that’s quite all, they also offer hardware token generators. Not sure if they are required to, but i think so. You do have to pay for them once (20 or 30 bucks maybe?). In reality, this is somewhat impractical for a variety of reasons…
That’s impossible in the EU, they all do by law.
They can literally setup an instance themselves. By the time it is identified as such, the damage is basically done. Just make a new one. Or use one of the many instances not requiring approval. Or fill out the form with ai. They don’t actually need an insane number of accounts for their subterfuge. Having just “some” and keeping them tied to conversational themes/topics seems sufficient?