This looks fine.

I have a massive library of various games, and three years in I haven’t really come across any cases where I want to tear my hair out.

If ProtonDB says a game doesn’t work, you’re not gonna tweak your way to having it run. If it says it does, and it didn’t run right away with no problems, you can usually just apply the fixes other users have found, and be off playing your game.

In fact things are often simpler than on windows, because all the fixes have been gathered on protondb. While on windows you have to google-fu your way to finding someone on reddit or the steam forums who has the exact same problem, and also figured out and posted the fix.

Sometimes.

They tend to make sure stuff that gamers care about are up to date and working.

You’ll likely need the newest kernels and software packages if you’re running the latest gen of GPU and/or CPU, to get the most out of them, or even get them to work at all.

My first one to switch did so recently. Gave him an open offer to help get going if he ever got interested, then proceeded to just go about using my linux system for our multiplayer gaming and couch gaming hangouts.

It took a little less than three years from when I first switched for him to follow.

My sister is also on linux, has been since she took my gaming laptop as her own, and she never felt a need to switch it back to windows.

And once again she narrowly dodges having a good time.

Make sure to hit up Noah on pixiv or bluesky if the art appeals to you, and you use those platforms.

I really wish more artists made their way to the fediverse.

Well, I’d start with physical buttons. Forget stuff like face ID. A button that scans your fingerprint is a lot simpler to “get”. Same goes for volume keys.

Automatic screen brightness is pretty good, but if it weren’t a thing, buttons would work there. That’s how laptops do it.

I’d add a feature that makes certain settings reset to “default” after a configurable amount of time (or never). Airplane mode or mute could turn off over night, so grandma can never “disable” her phone and become unreachable, or unable to reach anyone. (Except by turning it off, a concept almost no-one has to be taught)

Give me the ability to disable quick settings in the notifications shade, grandma doesn’t need to toggle nfc, wifi, her data connection, or start screen recording (I literally tried to remove all the quick settings, but there’s a minimum!). Hell, get rid of the notification shade completely and make it a physical button that just opens your messages from whatsapp, sms and email, all in one list.

I don’t think we need to dumb down everything a phone can do. And I think we can assume an elderly person can get help with changing settings or setting it up to begin with. As such, what I wish fir, is for the simple stuff to be even simpler, and for the complicated stuff to be hidden away and essentially have configurable child locks, so they can’t be touched, except by someone who knows what the stuff does.

It should be possibly to put a device in a mode where it is “senile-proof”. But it isn’t. My grandmother can, and has, put her devices in a state where they do not work, simply by turning on airplane mode without realizing. And our current solution is to use Life 360, so we can check that her phone is still “online” and have someone visit her to fix it, if it isn’t.

I’ve done it over phone many times. I have a system.

I have them read whatever is on screen until I figure out what they’re looking at.

Then I use one of my own devices to follow along, so I have an idea of what they’re seeing, so I can give extremely specific instructions.

Sounds ok.

But limiting. My grandma is still able to learn and think.

She currently uses a tablet and a phone. Android, set up by me, and locked down as much as possible.

One home screen, with the apps she wants on one half of the screen, and a widget that shows notifications on the other half. (Limited only to notifications from apps like whatsapp, etc., she doesn’t need see that the phone updated the OS during the night etc.)

This way, all I had to do, was tell her how the home button works, and how the back button works. No explaining quick settings or the notification shade.

From there, she’s slowly learned each app, always safe in knowing she can hit home/back if confused, and take it from the beginning.

The notification widget has been especially good, as it is always there showing her her messages, and she can tap them to go straight to replying.

It’s infuriating to me that all modern devices require extra steps, just to see messages you’ve received. The way a message would be shown on the lock screen and then be “gone” upon unlocking the screen was infinitely confusing to her.

I’ve never lost patience with my grandma like that. She’s old, a sweet person (most of the time) and perfectly intelligent if you let her be.

In fact when guiding her with tech, I hate the way she calls herself stupid and slow when she makes mistakes.

We just don’t make tech for old people the way we should. There are “accessible” phones but the ones I’ve had experience with are atrocious hackjobs with deal-breaking quirks, when the whole point is to be simple.

It’s why I only got into youtube and reddit.

There, in the smaller more niche corners, you can still find genuine interactions. Less and less on reddit, but youtube seems to be going back towards small creators actually being discoverable.

I recently stumbled into a vtuber on youtube with just a couple dozen viewers (1500 subscribers). Clearly doing it for fun, and with a chat slow enough to have a conversation about the game being played, both with her and the other viewers.

Here on the fediverse, it is even smaller and more niche. Sometimes that means there’s no-one around. But when people are around, it’s people who are a lot more invested in conversing. On popular social media, people are there to turn their brains off, not on.

Others already pointed out that all the problems exist here, too. But I believe that the nature of instances and communities, mean that the small corners that only get found by those who are interested, will always exist. No matter how big the fediverse one day gets.

You can use VLC if you get the stream url via a web browser, first. MPV can do the same.

The problem is VLC/MPV don’t have a built-in way to browse and pick what you want to play.

This is gonna catalyze the appearance of so much more fanart.

Completely missed the point. Less “general public” is the entire idea of offroading in remote locations with no cell service or anything else. It takes actual skills to get up there, and the more-skilled people tend to be more respectful of the lands. But I digress.

Exactly.

I’m pointing out that your low volume scenario has literally zero equivalence with high volume transit, and you shouldn’t have brought it up.

Shinobus chompers always demand upvotes.

And headpats.

Egmont Finland published comics were my childhood.

They licensed a lot of Disney, but Niko and Fantasio, Yoko Tsuno, and Asterix invoke such powerful nostalgia in a way that Disney, being so huge and a current part of the cultural zeitgeist, doesn’t.

I really need to look into Asterix again.

There is !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee here on Lemmy, but it’s on .ee so will need to find a new home somewhere.

Ok, cool. But I don’t think your experience would still be very good if you were joined by an additional trainload of people riding 4x4s right alongside you. It’d be time to pave over that canyon so that the people visiting it can park.

And trains aren’t mutually exclusive with cars. I might take the train to visit my parents a few cities over, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t a highway for the moving truck to drive along when I had to get my stuff over to where I live now.

No-one is saying no-one should drive a car. Rather, that the right tool for the right job should be used. In the US, cars are used for a lot more than what they’re best at. That you are using them effectively for personal use, is not a reason to also have them used where they aren’t as effective (in this case in comparison to trains, large volume transit of people who are mainly transporting themselves between hubs of human activity).

In Tokyo, Shinjuku train station routes 3.8 million people to where they are going, EVERY, DAY.

Interstate 5 in the US, the busiest in the country, does a pathetic 0.75 million a day on its busiest strip. And the cost-effectiveness of trains beats out cars waaay before you hit capacity on such a highway.

They don’t.

That’s why Hasbro can’t just make another BG game, Larian isn’t willing.

So now they’re looking to make it anyway. Without Larian, or even the people at Hasbro that Larian worked with.

If ssh isn’t an option, others already mentioned RustDesk.

But I’ve been happy with VNC. (XVNC server, TigerVNC client) Incredibly lightweight, low bandwidth requirement, and I can get it up and running over ssh, so a system never needs to be plugged into anything other than a network cable.

They’ve already expanded it into a non-deck-speciphic thing for the other compatible handhelds.