Nia

Nia, 10 months ago

Yep, both Adguard and Mullvad offer free adblocking dns servers to everyone, would recommend the Mullvad one for anyone looking.

They’re a bit limited compared to extensions (doesn’t block all ads, leaves a blank space or an error in their place sometimes too), but if you use them on mobile they also have the effect of blocking ads that are built into apps

Nia, 10 months ago

Same here, I love what Lutris has done and it’s made a ton of games way easier to run on Linux, but Heroic has given me that “download and click play” feel that I missed from Windows. It abstracts away a lot of the process but still leaves ways to configure it heavily for those who need.

Am a fan of the simple by default, powerful when needed approach.

Nia, 10 months ago

Ouch, thought that if you used the extension with a self-hosted local server that it was fully open source. Looks like I’ll be uninstalling then.

I’m okay with some proprietary extensions and stuff, but when it comes to the stuff that I type, I’d rather be able to know exactly what it’s doing with it.

Nia, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’ll try to be unbiased during this, but I am biased against Manjaro personally.

I think as a distro they have good defaults for someone who wants to just dive in and start using it, I like that they have a ton of editions where you can pretty much just start off with whatever one you like.

However, they have had quite a few issues, some innocent mistakes, some larger, but these have had some bad effects that have caused many to lose their trust for it in terms of stability and security, including me. Whether that causes you to trust or not trust them though is a different story. Some of these issues are listed here.

In terms of user friendliness, they make a lot of things very easy, especially graphics card driver and choosing kernel versions via some nice GUI tools they use, and there is a decently large community to find support and ask questions on, but best to make sure you’re asking specifically for Manjaro, as it is far enough away from Arch that some solutions or fixes won’t work and vice versa.

They also have a consistent visual design/color theme, some like it, some hate it, but it’s pretty consistent for those who it matters to.

I would consider using them again personally, but I am on a different distro I’m happy with currently, and will keep an eye on them to see how they improve over the years. I think some of their methods are flawed, but they are passionate about what they do.

I can’t really recommend for or against using it directly, but I hope this info helps you make a decision for it.

Nia, 10 months ago

I prefer Infinity the most, but while I’m waiting for it to get more daily-use ready (I mean, it basically is for regular use, but am at least waiting for beta release), I’m using Liftoff and have been very happy with it.

Nia, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Planning on playing through Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 for the first time this week. Know almost nothing about the game, nothing about DnD rulesets, just diving directly in because a partner very highly recommended them.

Edit: Ended up buying Baldur’s Gate 3 and getting into it instead, looks like I’m gonna be playing it in 3 > 1 > 2 order. As a side note, performance was way better on Vulkan than Directx11 for me, despite common advice being to use Directx11 on Linux for the game.

Nia, 10 months ago

Thanks!

Nia, 10 months ago

Discord for me, very difficult to get friends to use foss alternatives because, while I don’t like Discord, it just has a pretty good UI/UX (aside from some annoyances) that alternatives haven’t really matched yet imo. Doesn’t make them bad, but I can fully understand why friends would not want to switch to something like Matrix.

Nia, 10 months ago

I’ve had a little bit of luck with Revolt.chat and getting friends to try it, but it still has its own issues. It looks promising though

Nia, 10 months ago

I’ve been looking around and sadly haven’t found any solutions for it myself, although in case you didn’t know you can actually self-host LanguageTool and keep everything on your own hardware, it even simplifies the process to connect to it if it’s self-hosted on the same device it’s used on. Seems like an okay-ish solution that I’ve been using for now, though it still locks you to only their free features, but it does work without internet access. Hopefully someone can come by with more alternatives to it as well.

Edit: Also LanguageTool is actually open source itself if you’re mainly worried about the source code thing.

Nia, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’m sorry, but this really comes off as blaming the users and accusing them of virtue signalling for expecting the moderators to be held to the standards they set. If this instance’s admins do not uphold their own rules to themselves and then when users are trying to have a productive conversation about it, blames them, then this does not seem like a healthy instance to stay on.

Nia, 10 months ago

Going okay overall, recommended a partner something to use for file syncing, and it ended up wiping their entire music folder accidentally, so I feel bad about that, but other than that has been okay. Got some new games, work is… work lol, same as usual

Nia, 10 months ago

Ouch. I’m probably a bit excessive with my backups because I don’t want something like that to ever happen. Have everything backed up to an external hard drive weekly automatically, and my most important files backed up saved to my phone and across multiple different cloud storage providers

Nia, 10 months ago

Have you been liking Diablo IV a good bit? I played 3 on console years ago with a friend but never solo. Do you think it’d be worth getting to play solo?

Nia, 10 months ago

Just realized there was one of these. Hi, I’m Nia! I’m a trans girl, and I’ve been around on Fedi for a few years now with multiple accounts, came back to Lemmy with the initial Reddit migration when they first announced the app thing. Tried Lemmy years ago, but it didn’t stick back then. I’m into Linux (Debian 12, Plasma DE) and open source stuff, gaming and a few other things, but that’s the main stuff.

Enjoying my time on here and looking forwards to meeting more people. I have a few accounts on Lemmy instances right now, but I like Beehaw the most so far.

Nia, 10 months ago

I’m scrolling through old posts and figured I’d give an answer to this in case someone else comes across it and is wondering. Regardless of if the instance is a third party instance that’s federated with two instances that are defederated (ex: beehaw and lemmy.world), neither can see the other user’s posts or comments regardless of where they are.

I was scrolling through !opensource earlier and there is a popular post that I can see from another account, but I can not see it on my beehaw account, because the poster is a lemmy.world user.