Older games are usually easier to run on newer versions of linux than windows, in my anecdotal experience. Not sure about cracked AAA titles, I guess that's a bigger part of the "illegal" stuff.
Yeah, that's true. The other week I tried to get Svea Rike II (1998) to run on my desktop. Tried everything with Windows 11 since I thought it would be easier but nope, nothing worked, couldn't even get past the installation. Switching to trying it on Arch with Wine and boom, five minutes later I was up and running.
Does anyone know if titles like FIFA/FC25 work seamlessly on linux devices with proton / whatever the best gaming software is? I remember Wine having a lot of trouble with past FIFA titles.
FIFA22 works well for some values of well: when the EA launcher is not acting up, which happens often, you might still need to set some flags in the config file, which sometimes get reverted.
It is true that if you manage to start it at all, it works completely fine.
I use Gadgetbridge[1] exactly for this reason. It's a FOSS app (on f-droid as well) that tricks wearables into thinking that your phone is actually communicating legitimately with the server.
Garmin support[2] is not really good. Some commenters here mentioned that Garmin watches can work without servers, maybe that's why.
It's not local-first by definition, because you still need a phone with an app, but it's the best I got for now (apart from finally assembling my PineTime watch).
I don't want to make you use it more, but I found a thing that actually works for me, to restore some of the previous feed behavior. I saved a bookmark that directly goes to the "Friends" feed. It seems to have surprisingly few (I think zero or one) ads and recommended things this way. The funny thing is that the "You read all the posts" thing still appears if used in this way, telling you to go outside.
I do the same for instagram [2], and there was also a post of setting "Google web" as the default search engine, showing you actual web results, not stuff recommended by Google.
Thanks! The "friends" filter with facebook does not really work from me (I have unfollowed all my fb friends and follow only pages/groups mostly for events and such) but realised that replacing "friends" with "following" in the url actually provides a feed with anything I am following, so really thanks!
I used to use the FBP extension but it still takes so long to load and filter out stuff that facebook floods my feed, so this is much better.
Interestingly for me on iOS, that instagram link just takes me to the main feed in the app. For anyone else getting this, you have to tap the instagram logo on the top left, then select “following” from there.
Custom made, it is called YOShInOn. I will be blogging about it soon.
It's very solid for a demo, it's not inconceivable that it could be open sourced but it has some social media posting features that might be a little dangerous (e.g. it could really spam Hacker News, in fact the autoposter really pissed off somebody on the night shift when it was not coupled to YOShInOn and what it was posting wasn't so good)
It's also conceivable that it gets firmed up into a product for people who do "search" for a living such as salespeople, recruiters, patent search professionals, etc.
The user guide has a short section on writing custom rules [1], and the API reference also covers the attributes of a LintRule [2]. I plan to document this in more detail at some point in the future.
I have the same feeling. I recently started contributing more, even after such articles were already present, and I have to say it's a fun experience and I feel like I learn a lot, despite the occasional hang-ups I mentioned in a sibling comment to parent.
Especially nice to be able to link my own answer to things.
There is also a bizzare thing that I noticed only when I enabled RSS for some of the tags I wanted to watch. My RSS reader routinely had questions that were nowhere to be found on the site, even though they did not seem to be offtopic or have some other kind of structural problem.
Of course the users themselves could have deleted the questions, but regardless, I did not expect to see that.
It could be a nice experiment to enable RSS for some niche topics and checking automatically after a number of days to see which are gone.
