Age of empires 2. Still works.

Yep had to do a lot of work getting it to a good place.

Thanks totally agree. And appreciate the comment.

I feel like this is still a community and less people trying to influence. Or less so at least.

Lol slapfight.

I kinda like the fediverse as is. We keep slowly growing our services. We don’t need to be social media.

We can be social sure but without the need to be ever growing. I would rather us concentrate on the people and giving us power rather than huge orgs that are going to do huge org things.

I hacked my CPAP. I removed the cancer causing material and did work getting the software in a better state. Also removed the mobile chip that communicates with the original company. Fun times.

I think its important to figure out what you mean by AI?

Im thinking a majority of people here are talking about LLMs BUT there are other AIs that have been quietly worked on that are finally making huge strides.

AI that can produce songs (suno) and replicate voices. AI that can reproduce a face from one picture (theres a couple of github repos out there). When it comes to the above we are dealing with copyright infringement AI, specifically designed and trained on other peoples work. If we really do have laws coming into place that will deregulate AI, then I say we go all in. Open source everything (or as much as possible) and make it so its trained on all company specific info. And let anyone run it. I have a feeling we cant put he genie back in the bottle.

If we have pie in the sky solutions, I would like a new iteration of the web. One that specially makes it difficult or outright impossible to pull into AI. Something like onion where it only accepts real nodes/people in ingesting the data.

It’s a pretty fun game. Wish there were more levels.

I did Linux testing of games and for the platform. This was before valve did a lot in the Linux space. You know the game dust force? One of the reasons it works for Debian is because of something I reported. It’s a bunch of very small contributions over a 4 year period. Humble bundle even had their own internal issue tracker. It was technically my first fortay into QA and Linux dev work. Linux native games are awesome.

Nowadays we have proton/wine/etc… (and that’s awesome) but Linux native apps have many advantages over an emulated layer. Power savings and CPU cycles just a couple. I’m glad we have so many options for games. Gog or otherwise.

I used to volunteer for humble bundle back in the day. It was a lot of work but very rewarding. Getting a job with gog could be fun. Hope they get the people they need! I’ve always been impressed by what they are able to accomplish!

A repurposed old PC with something like yunohost, generic Debian, or some lightweight Linux will probably get you what you need.

It heavily depends on what programs you want to run.

This is great 👍👍👍

Creaper world. I like putting it on random and listening to audiobooks. It’s great for destress.

I wish yacy was better. Federated/self hosted search should be awesome.

Got it! https://piefed.social/u/[email protected]/feed Thats awesome.

Ohhh so just the posts?

Yeah I would also like an RSS :) that would be awesome.

Im having a real hard time wrapping my head around bondfire. It would be nice to have a standard library for activityhub in python (or other languages).

The government has been secretly tracking everyone’s farts since 1998. The next one you release will trigger your official ranking on the Global Flatulence Leaderboard. visible to everyone.

Lol that’s what I get for no coffee today. I’ll keep it up for a laugh.

Yeah gotta love that report that takes an exorbitant amount of time to make…which is no longer used/only used for a tiny bit each year.