I did exactly that when I switched to Linux a couple of years ago. Took around a week to setup, it runs well enough, but you lose the use of your main gpu under Linux that way. I tried lutris for gaming under linux and quickly realised the games run very well via wine. O in my opinion the qemu windows with gpu passtrough is not really worth the hassle nowadays. All games I tried work just as well via wine/proton.

Imagine if some big influencers like him switched to peertube, that would be quiet a thing indeed.

Thats a problem with silos (where one owner hosts all the servers) in general. You will have to switch the entire ecosystem once the inevitable enshitification sets in. It’s a good idea to switch to something open source and federated (where many different non profit organisations and even self hosting individuals host many different servers). That way you can migrate your history and contacts to another server of necessary but never have to switch the ecosystem again. Think it how email works, it’s the best known federated system. If you don’t like you email provider anymore you can just chose another one and still keep your contacts and messages on a client like Thunderbird forever. Xmpp and matrix are the hottest candidates in my opinion, but you can check the messenger matrix that was linked in a comment above to see what suits you best.

I did something very similar via netcup tiny vps, nginx and wireguard. I could post my setup notes tomorrow if someone needs them.

Your story reminds me of diving a French car for the first time. No knob or lever can be found in the usual spaces and in the end you always end up giving a turn signal when you try to use the windscreen wiper.

I am using the German QWERTZ most of the time and found the layout rather reasonable. I once tried to learn the neo layout which had the most used letters on the middle row, but you really only can use that at home so I stopped after a week or two as it did not really seemed worth the effort.

Hooray for oglaf! I always seem to forget this comic strip exists just to remember about it again every couple of years. So funny and weird and sexy.

You forgot the number one rule about the usenet: you don’t talk about the usenet.

It’s true there are a lot of better alternatives to jami when it comes to privacy/security: Here’s a good comparison table:

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

I saw your conversation on the simracing-channel and there seems to be some progress. I just realized from my notes that my handbrake does not cause any issues under linux even if it looks the same as yours. (They must have implemented the software differently on mine). I had to make some adjustments for the pedals and H-shifter but not the handbrake and just misremembered, sorry. Protopedal is what I used to get around the bug in proton, though. I think proton does not recognize a usb device as controller, if it does not have a certain number of buttons and/or axes.

I am glad to hear you got it to work! I think I took notes on how I got it to work. But I remember having also added a similar rule as you did at some point. I may be able to find my notes tomorrow.

I am pretty sure you need to configure more (fake) buttons for the handbrake, I had the same problem. Otherwise it does not get recognized as a gaming device.

I can look up later how I solved this or you can ask the simracing linux community, which helped me with a couple of similar pronlems before:

A place for all the niche of niche gamers to discuss and join other simracers!
Join the Simracing space here https://matrix.to/#/#simracing:matrix.org

Yeah I remember it was not that easy to set up, but it’s gotten a lot easier recently. I switched from the native to the docker install last year and was surprised to have it all back up and running in an afternoon…

I’ve been using jitsi meet for video calls for years now, that should work just fine.

Mumble has a very small footprint and exceptional voice quality. It’s intended to use while gaming as well.

Blue LEDs are the worst offenders. No need to return it as long as you keep a bit of black tape ready. If you still need it as an indicator, you can use layers of yellowish tape. The one used while painting your walls works great. Masking tape it’s called in English.

Yeah, a sff mini pc draws below 10 W on idle, so the math is about right, even if a gaming PC can also draw as low as 40 Watt on idle if you buy a reasonably powered gpu.

Matrix seems a bit overkill. I think they would be better off with something like gotify.

Take a look at dontkillmyapp.com to see if your phone provider hinders your messages.

There is unified push as Google alternative as well, which works with the schildichat matrix client.

I’ve used jitsi meet (own instance) for this before. OBS might work as well.

Qwertz.

I teu tried neo couple of years ago but did not use it long enough to get proficient.

I would recommend buying used as well. Take a look at senmotic shoes. They are expensive but are also the most durable barefoot shoes I have found.