You might want to try this matrix channel:

https://matrix.to/#/#simracing:matrix.org

It’s a channel for sim racing, but there are pretty knowledgeable people around that can get all sorts of obscure peripherals working on Linux.

True, I don’t pay much attention to the mod log for example, I did not even know it was a thing. I regularly browse my communities and /r/all or whatever the main feet is called. I am here for content that interest me, no matter on what instance it is hosted. I thought that was the whole point of federation.

I honestly don’t know what the big fuss is about. I became member of Lemmy.ml a couple of years ago when it was basically the only existing instance if I remember correctly. I’ve never seen any drama apart from posts like this that claim the admins suck or the users suck. Maybe those claims are even valid, but do they even affect the average user at all? I’ve considered changing instances even, but it seems rather a lot of effort for a lot of hot air to me.

The scraper blocklist on crowdsec requires a paid subscription, though, or did you find another workaround?

If your copy of the game is not store-bought look into lutris to get it to run.

I did exactly that when I switched to Linux a couple of years ago. Took around a week to setup, it runs well enough, but you lose the use of your main gpu under Linux that way. I tried lutris for gaming under linux and quickly realised the games run very well via wine. O in my opinion the qemu windows with gpu passtrough is not really worth the hassle nowadays. All games I tried work just as well via wine/proton.

Imagine if some big influencers like him switched to peertube, that would be quiet a thing indeed.

Thats a problem with silos (where one owner hosts all the servers) in general. You will have to switch the entire ecosystem once the inevitable enshitification sets in. It’s a good idea to switch to something open source and federated (where many different non profit organisations and even self hosting individuals host many different servers). That way you can migrate your history and contacts to another server of necessary but never have to switch the ecosystem again. Think it how email works, it’s the best known federated system. If you don’t like you email provider anymore you can just chose another one and still keep your contacts and messages on a client like Thunderbird forever. Xmpp and matrix are the hottest candidates in my opinion, but you can check the messenger matrix that was linked in a comment above to see what suits you best.

Hier ist für den Anfang schon mal eine Petition auf weact:

https://weact.campact.de/petitions/illegale-zuruckweisungen-beenden-dobrindt-rucktritt-jetzt

I did something very similar via netcup tiny vps, nginx and wireguard. I could post my setup notes tomorrow if someone needs them.

Mit nem Vier-Personen-Hauahalt gehen locker 1-1,5 L Sonnencreme im Jahr drauf.

Bei mir sind es mittlerweile mehrere Dinge, komme mir immer vor wie Loriot in papa ante Portas, wenn ich die Bestellungen aufgebe, aber es ist einfach deutlich günstiger und umweltfreundlicher. Natron als shampooersatz gibts kiloweise bei eBay. Ebenso Magnesia zum klettern. Während corona habe ich 20x1 Liter Desinfektionsmittel bestellt, das gerade abgelaufen war, aber für den Hausgebrauch sicher noch genug Bakterien tötet.

In Australien gabs Sonnencreme im 1L Spender, den fülle ich immer mit kleinen Flaschen vom Discounter nach, totaler quatsch, leider. Aber man bekommt Sonnencreme leider nicht zum nachfüllen, hab nur mal nen Liter für knapp 100 Euro gesehen, was fürn Wahnsinn… In Au was das staatlich subventioniert glaube ich wegen der ganzen Hautkrebs-Erkrankungen, der Liter lag damals unter 10 Dollar…

Your story reminds me of diving a French car for the first time. No knob or lever can be found in the usual spaces and in the end you always end up giving a turn signal when you try to use the windscreen wiper.

I am using the German QWERTZ most of the time and found the layout rather reasonable. I once tried to learn the neo layout which had the most used letters on the middle row, but you really only can use that at home so I stopped after a week or two as it did not really seemed worth the effort.

Hooray for oglaf! I always seem to forget this comic strip exists just to remember about it again every couple of years. So funny and weird and sexy.

You forgot the number one rule about the usenet: you don’t talk about the usenet.

It’s true there are a lot of better alternatives to jami when it comes to privacy/security: Here’s a good comparison table:

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

I saw your conversation on the simracing-channel and there seems to be some progress. I just realized from my notes that my handbrake does not cause any issues under linux even if it looks the same as yours. (They must have implemented the software differently on mine). I had to make some adjustments for the pedals and H-shifter but not the handbrake and just misremembered, sorry. Protopedal is what I used to get around the bug in proton, though. I think proton does not recognize a usb device as controller, if it does not have a certain number of buttons and/or axes.

I am glad to hear you got it to work! I think I took notes on how I got it to work. But I remember having also added a similar rule as you did at some point. I may be able to find my notes tomorrow.

I am pretty sure you need to configure more (fake) buttons for the handbrake, I had the same problem. Otherwise it does not get recognized as a gaming device.

I can look up later how I solved this or you can ask the simracing linux community, which helped me with a couple of similar pronlems before:

A place for all the niche of niche gamers to discuss and join other simracers!
Join the Simracing space here https://matrix.to/#/#simracing:matrix.org

If YOU try to section me Mark you will have crossed a line and I will section you, so help me…