I have Starlink gen 2 which only supports WiFi 5. After getting the Ethernet adapter and putting up a WiFi 6 access point almost all of my WiFi problems went away. I dunno if the problems were because of the Starlink implementation, or the older WiFi version, but for me it was a huge difference.

I came back to Gentoo after years of Kubuntu. Once they forced snap down our throats and started pulling other weird crap I knew it was time to make a change. I came back to Gentoo and it’s been pretty great. Still a few things to iron out on my laptop installs, but it’s great for my home server.

I was thinking FireChrome

I’ve been doing Linux server administration for 20 years now. You’ll always have to duckduckgo things. You’ll never keep it all in your head, even just a single server with a handful of services. Docker and containers really isn’t too hard. Just start small and build from there. If you can learn how the chroot command works, you’ve pretty much learned docker. It’s just chroot with more features.

I love cling. It’s super nice when you don’t quite know the syntax for the thing you want to try, but you have a couple good guesses. It’s also great for quickly iterating to figure out how to use libraries that have crappy or no documentation.

Yacy is pretty great.

This is a confirmation bias thing, not a political thing. If you are in charge of a discussion forum you will always push it to support your confirmation bias. This is why the first amendment is so important. If the government is in charge of public discourse, the people in charge (either side) will work extra hard to ensure their opposing ideas are simply dismissed as without merit.

I first saw this joke in this demo: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=56549

Looks good! What zone are you growing in?

Finally getting the strl family functions. It really shouldn’t have taken this long given how many problems are caused by strcat (or even strncat). Now getting people to use them is the next battle.

I would honestly recommend buying an old laptop with a broken screen (or an old netbook or something, make sure it has an Ethernet port), a decent DSL modem, a USB network adapter, and a switch if you need it. Now you’ve got everything you need to make a super capable router. Install a very basic Linux distribution and get NAT setup (it’s like 4 or 5 commands), configure the firewall, and your VPN software of choice. I’ve run a setup like this for years and it’s great, because any time a component is “out-of-date” you just update that component. For example, you need AX WiFi instead of AC, just upgrade the WiFi adapter).

I’ve been working on a similar project since about 2016. My goals were slightly different. I wanted to use C++ and focus on minimalism, but still have solid content and capabilities. I finished a working version that hosts a JSON API of weather data and a web app to manage email aliases for a self-hosted mail server. It’s nothing fancy, but it generally works.

I choo-choo choose you.

I mostly use DuckDuckGo, because it gives a good mix of quality results and a strong privacy commitment. I really like the idea of distributed search and love the idea behind the yacy search engine. http://yacy.net however it doesn’t quite give strong enough results yet for me to use it as a daily driver.

Results are very hit-and-miss, but if you’re into the whole distributed search engine thing you should give Yacy a try. https://yacy.net/ I ran a node for a long time and as long as you keep feeding the index you usually get decent results for the things you search for often.

As a kid of the 90s who grew up playing a wonderful video game of the same name. I fully endorse Lemmings =)

I knew about Lemmy, Mastadon, and PeerTube before this this latest mess with Reddit, but this finally gave me the push to come over as I’m sure it will for many.

Void seems to be surprisingly popular, I haven’t tried it. I’m a Gentoo user, any particular reason to give Void a try?

Playing the originals is a good starting point. You can setup a Sega Genesis emulator to play them, but you can also get them on Google Play store for free (gotta watch ads between levels). However, I wouldn’t give up if those don’t work for you, they can be punishingly difficult and some of the mechanics can be really frustrating. I think the one you might be thinking of on the Dreamcast would be Sonic Adventure (You can actually get a remastered version on Steam for like 10 bucks). Sonic Frontiers also works as a good starting point. You don’t need any background knowledge to play and enjoy it. The characters reference some things from older games, but you’re not really missing out if you don’t get the references.

Looks like it has a lot of the same old Sonic mechanics I found so annoying: not being able to effectively see where you are going and if you get stopped on an incline, it takes you several seconds to get going again. I just finished playing Sonic Frontiers with my kids and we all enjoyed that one, I really hope they put out more following what they did with Frontiers.