IIRC the web app had some intrusive ads(hard to remove and taking a bug chunk of screen space), is the offline version any better?

It is, I’m just saying that even games that worked fine on steam deck had issues on my nvidia laptop so I doubt its the game’s fault.

Well, valheim now works straight out of the box on Pop_OS so that’s an improvement! Haven’t downloaded other games so not sure about that just yet though, still setting up my usual programs now.

On the other hand I kinda hate its GUI, I installed that gnome extension to make the toolbars customizeable and now it just crashes every once in a while, for example just few minutes ago alt-tab stopped working and everything minimalized and became unresponsive so I had to force shut it off. An hour ago I closed the laptop lid and when I reopened it later, the OS woke up to the login screen but everything was frozen and I couldn’t do anything. It’s a bit of a cursed OS, you can’t even click the folder path to copy the path, I miss mint lol.

I used thunderbird as a mail client for a while but eventually just gave up and switched to the web UIs, it was simpler and good enough. I didn’t know the calendar was that good, I should give it a try, thanks. Are there any specific features or use cases that make it stand above other (mail) calendars?

Nextcloud seems like maybe too much for what I need and kinda loses its point if it’s just local for one user, no? I tried to install it at one point locally with docker to try it out and honestly, seeing all the required configuration or a simple local setup asking me to understand and use reverse proxies and stuff like that put me off the whole idea. Maybe some people enjoy that process but it is way over-engineered for me.

I use Fluent Reader but I have to admit it’s a bit janky in terms of UX. It also doesn’t have built in feed discovery like inoreader but at least its (ad)free. It does its job well enough.

I’ve initially followed hashtags and then my feed was filled with absolute crap since everyone tags even irrelevant things all the time, not to mention posts in other languages (but not marked as such so they don’t get filtered). Like following gaming, steam, linux is just asking for trouble, but even if you follow something smaller you don’t get stuff about the game - you get stuff about people that like that game. Following steamdeck just filled my feed with people complaining about it or saying how its collecting dust for them.

Then I started following people instead and as few hashtags as possible. Now my feed is 40% them talking about their pets, kids, tech stacks or daily representation issues or anxiety, 30% is rants about social networks and fediverse, 20% actual tech news and 10% is sometimes actual interesting new content or pictures.

Maybe its a learning curve, maybe I just have different expectations since whenever I bring it up people just respond “it is its own thing, not twitter”. It’s not bad, but it’s not really what I want either.

It’s hard to say since there are major security issues with that. I think it’d be better if we weren’t anonymous but we’re not really ‘there’ yet mentally and culturally and it’d be used for nefarious purposes.

I do often wish I knew who I was talking to for real because I’d have vastly different behavior if I’m talking to a 15 year old kid, a 30 year old redneck or a 50 year old doctor for example.

It is twitter:fediverse edition, but without the algorithm showing you content you’re interested in so you just get random thoughts from unknown people. Some people prefer it that way, I personally struggle finding useful or interesting things in my feed.

I recommend checking this article out https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

@ericflo@lemmy.ml as well

Revolt seems to be to Discord what Lemmy/Kbin are to reddit, but I dont see most people bothering with it unless discord makes some reeaaallly huge mistakes to piss the community off.