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.

Dunno over on Reddit - wasn’t all too interested in open source when I used it. But people here seem overall friendly towards open source. So if I might suggest, also since Reddit doesn’t explain what the violation was so presumption of innocence for you kicks in, maybe remake the subreddit as a community here? Also decentralized governance should help mitigate powertripping management as Reddit is showing in recent years. At worst, you’d have to make the community again on another instance, but I haven’t seen the lemmy.world administration pick a bone with communities in the years I have been around, so should be safe, me thinks.

Maybe through the fediverse with @birb@rss-parrot.net? It’d be a plain RSS reader but publishing what it finds as posts.

Not ideal if the intention is to keep using the Reddit app, but if the platform you use has an app and supports the bot’s posts (since they’re microblogs), maybe it could be an alternative?

Doesn’t seem to happen going by the graphs included, but one thing I look in benchmarks is not how fast or not a program was, but how frequent spikes and hiccups in speed are. Having played games at 11 FPS but that were consistent at that and seemingly weren’t lagging (variable max fps?), big numbers don’t tell much imo.

Also, statistically, one single benchmark, and from an unamed game at that, doesn’t tell much either. If I might suggest, maybe do like the microblogging folks and start a responses/quoting thread of more tests?

In lack of context, I’ll guess: if you are logged off when you try to do it, browse old.reddit.com instead, as that one allows browsing whatever accoutless.

Also, unsure what Reddit allows or doesn’t when logged in, butif you are, try to disable any NSFW filters or keyword filters your account may have.

Also pushing for DRM-free contents, and understanding the only plan being destruction only benefits those who discreetly hoard power.

And tangential, but money is trivial when one has power. Plus, these companies seem to just joard control, while answering to centralizing countries. So I would wonder if truly the intent is “capitalism”, with whatever negative adjectives are added to further distort the combined notion of free market, minimalist state and meritocracy.