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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume what you said was simply confusing, but not wrong.

So just to be clear if your raid array fails, and you're using software raid, you can plug all of the disks into a new machine and use it there. But you can't just take a single disk out of a raid 5 array, for example, and plug it in and use it as a normal USB hard drive that just had some of the files on it, or something. Even if you built the array using soft-raid.

I don't want to sound like I'm just correcting you for the sake of it, but it's actually important. Mastodon is the most popular right now, but Mastodon actually wasn't around at the beginning! Before that was StatusNet, and before that was identi.ca and laconi.ca

So those services already existed, they were the ones built for federation, and so Mastodon was started as another compatible implementation of an existing network protocol. All of that is to say that Mastodon didn't need to make the right choices at the beginning, and they have already benefitted from this kind of network dynamic! The system has already worked once!

I'm not disagreeing with you, but am genuinely curious how "fairness" was counted. I feel we have a thing right now where one side will present a well reasoned, data driven, argument. And the other side will hastily throw together something based on vibes that mostly doesn't address the issue at all. But out of a sense of fairness our current media feels like it has to present both as though they're two equally effective tradeoffs when actually one is empty noise.

So I'd be very curious if this system has a way of preserving true fairness without devolving into false equality in some way. Obviously nothing is perfect, but I'm curious.

Factorio in particular actually ships a native Linux version. Someone at Wube actually tries it AFAICT. So that should be something you could try day one, probably. Besides some weird situation, I'd expect every other game to be harder to run than Factorio.

It's also worth mentioning that localsend has specific Linux support, so the app should run fine. I use it on my Linux laptop all the time!

I think it's great! If we're Mr and Mrs MyLastName we know they know me and assumed she was the same. If it's Mr and Mrs HerLastName it means they know us through her, and assumed she must have gotten the name from me! It's like putting the name of the company in the email you're giving the email to, it tracks the source. At least that's the game we play, because it mostly doesn't matter to us.

On most modern distros (like Mint) you can do basically as much with Linux GUIs as you can do in Windows or Mac. So normal users don't need the terminal. But if you want to do more, if you want the secret sauce, the terminal is there for you.

But fear not! Basically all of us have some level of autism or ADHD, and the best of us tend to be the most extreme. If anything the terminal was written by autistic nerds for themselves! If you'll be okay being a bit of a n00b for a bit, I think you'll find there's a lot of depth here to obsess over / hyper fixate / hyper focus on.

There's a reason people have been "fighting" for, like, 40 years over which terminal text editor is the superior one... The flames of war can run pretty deep, and there's a lot of opinions.

I think the reason people are jumping to BDSM community terms is because BDSM people fucking love terms. They've got taxonomy for days, and they live to whip it out, so to speak.

Agreed!

I have never played a game with random strangers ever. But! My brother and sister both live hours away from me (and each other), and we keep in touch by playing online co-op games every week.

I have a group of friends that I have mostly kept in touch with by playing online games too.

So I agree with what I think you meant, but I'm very glad online multiplayer exists in some form.

Along with the others I'd also mention Outer Wilds and Viewfinder