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  • It’s gonna be different case by case, but my best guess would be it starts as wanting to please the community, then realising Linux users get weird errors they never hear about from Windows users and then deciding that all 5 Linux users are not worth it if the issue doesn’t concern majority (Windows) users.

    As for missing features, usually it happens because they use some Windows-native feature (like direct DirectX calls) which saves them implementing workarounds for their engine. And porting to some Linux api is delayed indefinitely for the same reasons as bug fixes: not large enough user base.


    Linux gamers often say stuff like “it’s literally one toggle in [insert game engine here]” but that’s never the case. Doesn’t mean new devs don’t fall for it.

    IMO we should fuck native Linux builds - game engines are complex and messy beasts, building on one platform and testing on Proton is the best for everyone, IMO.






  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhat's gluetun?
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    9 days ago

    What’s gluetun? Seems like it’s a VPN client? What’s special about it?

    Gluetun can connect to multitude of VPNs, but most importantly it can be used to force other containers to use only the gluetun network, meaning if you disconnect from VPN for whatever reason, the other containers don’t suddenly send data over non-VPN network.

    So if you’re torrenting and use gluetun to provide internet to the qBittorrent container, you won’t accidentally reveal your real IP if your provider’s server goes down for a few seconds.

    How do you use it in your setup?

    Configure it to connect to my VPN, create a file with the public port it uses, configure qBittorrent to only use gluetun for network and some script which reads the file with public port and changes it in qBittorrent.

    Do I need to know about this if I use Tailscale on the host for connecting to my VPN?

    Depends. I like having everything container related in the containers. Sometimes I need to do something without VPN, this would limit me. Also, if you don’t configure disconnect on VPN connection loss in a different way (interface binding), you risk revealing your IP.

    Would gluetun allow me to use an additional VPN provider for certain apps without messing with the host Tailscale?

    Yes. Though you would be double VPNed: App -> gluetun -> host VPN -> target server. That would probably add some latency.





  • You know that usually nothing really gets deleted in any production system, right? Everything’s just given a “deleted” flag, usually because accidentally deleting something is way too permanent. But in Reddit’s case also because they want your data.

    So unless you’re asking for a GDPR delete every day, you’re doing the worst possible thing: feeding Reddit your data while deleting it from the users, meaning no one but Reddit benefits from your content.









  • If you’re on your home WiFi, try the private IP, it will most likely start with 192.168, though it’s possible it will start with 10 or 172.

    If you’re accessing it over an external IP, you need to forward ports to the host that runs Immich. Note that not all ISPs support it, you might be out of luck.

    But accessing it on the same network (like the same WiFi) should always be possible, you just need to know the correct IP address.



  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldtoLinux@lemmy.worldWhat do you hate about linux?
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    3 months ago

    Because it’s a shitty protocol equally as bad as X, except in different. So we replaced horse shit with dog shit and some people insist on calling it progress.

    While the rest of us is pissed that an actually good protocol won’t happen for a long while because no one’s gonna put the work in since everyone recently had to do work to support Wayland.