People should seek to change their local laws to prohibit or severely limit this sort of things too, besides seeking alternatives. If only seeking alternatives, the person should soon run out of those too, if not even be considered a criminal for doing so.

Point 1 I’d say is the central point (pun not intended) of all of Reddit’s posts.

Most other points you list, you can find on the fediverse too. But there, if a certain aspect displeases you, you either have to endure it if it involves an aspect you want to interact with, or you potentially need to sever a rather big chunk of their network.

Here, specially if you use hybrid platforms thanks to tags besides communities, you get to lose very little in comparison. At worse, make a secondary community if one’s not around yet, use tags, and/or post to a miscellaneous/random topics community.

Context: this is a community mention. Makes it easier to find the community across instances.

!yotyan@lemmy.world

Directly, not familiar with any (unless you’re willing to mess with SBC Android), but I would try using AntimicroX, a program to remap controller keys as keyboard keys and mouse commands, and then set it to auto-start.

When everything’s data that could be harvested for who knows what nefarious reasons, I’d rather not risk their “can’t read” to be actually “pretend not to be able to”, specially coming from Microsoft.

Good idea. And if @goofsqueak@lemdro.id goes for it and is concerned about the physical drive with Windows potentially tempering with the Linux install or reporting back to MS or whomever else whatever it finds, goofsqueak could unplug the Linux drive before plugging the Windows one, so no physical access to the main system is given to Windows.

And to goofsqueak, any problem with Fortnite on the Switch? I don’t play games as services so I wouldn’t know, and at least from my experience with offline games, if the problem are graphics, Fortnite from the little I know of, I don’t think would lose much in terms of quality.

Afaik Fortnite blocks access to Linux users due to anticheat? Options that come to mind are running on a VM with Windows, playing on consoles, and playing on a burner computer with Windows installed on bare metal.

I don’t know if these numbers can be verified, or if it’s a “trust me bro” situation, but in case Reddit’s numbers are legitimate, its userbase to be still growing but only 1% could be inertia even as acceleration becomes negative. In an analogy, putting a car in reverse while it’s still moving forward can only keep taking it forward so much.

Seems to be rolling in waves, going by other comments.

@enkonju@lemmy.world, I think this is it, the Nitter-like sites you mention?:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md

It was mentioned in another comment here in the replies:
https://piefed.ca/comment/5661844

Iirc there was one already? Since Old Reddit was still working, I never bothered to check, but I remember people mentioning some years back.

Old.reddit.com still seems to be going, at least for a while longer. Same for old.reddit.com’s RSS.

Not yet, at least from my side:

Unfamiliar with the service, but more in line of preservation, I’d check if the achievements can be backed up. If not, all of one’s efforts could go to the bin at any given time.

Done before. Pretty straight forward. Even making a basic Bash or CMD launcher is pretty simple, if you just want an interactive menu for opening games.

Also GOG has emulated games, so the image could be taken more literally too.

Afaik they don’t get in details on the reasons for bans, so while they’re as transparent as swamp water, anything’s on the table.

Iirc, I set it up with this article from Proton: https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-configurations

Also maybe a niche case but since the source of your irritation is connection, I think it’s worth mentioning:

If you use a certain VPN whose widget is for Debian/Ubuntu only in this family of distros coughcoughprotoncoughcough, please take the time to learn how to use the WireGuard integration from the VPN instead. The widget version if installed on Mint is way too prone to breaking, being a matter of when, and not if it will break. And WireGuard instead I have yet to see breaking on its own.

I’d recommend Linux Mint Xfce. It’s the closest to an “it just works” situation while being open to tinker and quick to respond, this last part as the micro delays from Linux Mint Cinammon for most things being what pushed me away from Windows in the first place.

Both Mint versions are made by the same people and found in the same site.