I believe Matrix has this in beta, sometimes referred to as MatrixRTC or Element Call.

Edit: Recent status update here:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/#3-native-matrix-group-voip-video-matrixrtc

I feel like matrix is a better alternative, but yeah it’s not ready yet since it lacks the call features discord has.

I haven’t used Discord in years. What call features are you referring to?

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!iphone@lemmy.world

I believe it will, yes.

I won’t attempt a (unsupported) downgrade :- ).

If you mean changing the apt config from trixie back to stable, that will be perfectly safe to do when trixie becomes the new stable. At that point, they will both be the same distro. The advantage of doing this is that you will automatically get the next stable release that eventually replaces trixie.

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The article says this is a native Linux version, and a comment there says that it won’t have Denuvo. That seems like good news, since I don’t buy Denuvo games.

I wonder, though: Are they merely waiting for Denuvo to support Linux, so they can add it after the game is released? (Does anyone here remember the Redshell fiasco with Civ V?)

If he likes solitaire-like number games, maybe 2048?

Game and game-related packages in the Debian Testing repositories:

https://packages.debian.org/testing/games/

If you install flatpak, you might also want to browse here:

https://flathub.org/apps/category/Game/

He observed me updating Debian to testing (i will pin it when the next name is published)

Pin what? The work-in-progress that is currently Debian Testing already has a code name: Trixie. Do you mean you’ll switch his apt config from Testing back to Stable once Trixie is released as the new Stable?

If you love roguelike games, I suggest playing a great one that was directly inspired by the original: Nethack.

If you want fancier graphics, Shattered Pixel dungeon.

See also: The constant push by governments to take away our right to private (encrypted) communications.

Yes. I loved the tension-filled atmosphere as a backdrop for not knowing what threat was going to get me, and the subtlety of the puzzle was brilliant.

Such a beautiful game.

One of my favorite parts was my first visit to the Lost Woods, and the experience of finding my way through. A darkened room and surround sound made it all the better.

IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.

Instead, it’s overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.

I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.

Some of us do, but that doesn’t remove the unending flood of business news and corporate drama that we don’t want in our feeds, so it doesn’t solve the problem.

I think it has to be focused on software or hardware as a rule.

I don’t. Those fields are but small slivers in the realm of technology, and they’re not even particularly novel any more. A community dedicated to one or both of them might make sense, but there’s no reason to let them dominate the technology community.

News about stocks, CEOs, rebranding etc should not be allowed.

I agree with you there.

Seems ironic for a project focused on access and preservation to adopt a closed messaging platform like Discord, that can and does lock people out on a whim.

I guess it might be a concession to reach as many gamers as possible. It’s an unfortunate situation, though. Maybe when we’ve stopped the killing of games, we can turn our attention to freeing ourselves from Discord.

SimpleX has some interesting ideas, but also some shortcomings for people who want a practical messaging service. For example:

• It is funded by venture capital, which calls into question its longevity, and if it does manage to stick around, suggests that it will be leveraged to exploit people once the user base is large enough.
• Its queue servers delete messages if they are not delivered within a certain time frame (21 days by default). Good luck if you take a vacation off-grid for a few weeks.
• No multi-device support. (This means a single account accessed concurrently from multiple independent devices.) The closest it comes is locally tethering a mobile device to a computer.
• Establishing new contacts requires sharing a large link or QR code, which is not always convenient.
• No support for group calls.

I look forward to seeing how its design decisions develop in the coming years, but outside of a few niche use cases, it is not a suitable replacement for Matrix or Signal.

Kind of like -ly and -hub in domain names, or -kit in software libraries? :)

We tried that approach with leaded gasoline and paint, asbestos building materials, cigarettes, and a variety of other things over the past several generations. They didn’t kill the entire world population, but things didn’t turn out so well for the people who waited for definitive studies. Good luck with your gamble.

Suggestion: Try running a web UI/dashboard/front-end for managing docker containers on your NUC. That way, you wouldn’t need a desktop through ssh.

Encouragement: Glad you’re having fun and finding success!

Harassment: Linux wasn’t awful 10 years ago; it just seemed that way because it’s different from what you already know, and turning to random advice/tutorials the web is often a mistake because many of the people who write those things don’t know it super well themselves. You’ll get better results if you accept that it’s a large field of knowledge, and invest the time to learn each component properly instead of cookbooking everything. (It’s not all bad advice out there, though. For example, the Arch wiki is generally a good information source, even if you’re not running Arch.)