I know you dissed cloud gaming, but Xbox cloud gaming has actually worked fairly well for me personally on my steam deck, and for the most part (after some config), runs nearly as good as inhome streaming, which 99% of the time I can't even tell isn't running on device. I've also messed with Nvidia gforcenow and Amazon luma and those could fill a pretty big Linux compatibility gap if I solely gamed on Linux (probably using a controller or steam deck due to xcloud gaming not supporting mouse or keyboard input yet but it's progress). I even figured some interesting things you can do with steam regarding that, in addition to Microsoft's instructions on adding xcloud gaming to steam deck, like setting up different launch options to handle different users under different Microsoft accounts, directly linking a game (having a non steam game called Fortnite with a custom icon that launches xcloud gaming 's url for that game and boots right into it) and some others to make it more enjoyable but just like everything on Linux you gotta tinker with it. The "no native gamepass" is a big deal to me lately, it's actually a pretty nice service and I remember seeing posts a few years ago talking about windows store format version of proton which would allow gamepass to run natively on Linux but I think we're still awhile form that happening.
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A big one for me and the main reason I haven't started using Linux full time, and I'm sure it's in your points but not called out directly but anti cheat support is terrible on Linux. I own a steam deck and I used to play Fortnite with my wife and her brothers and it can technically run it (it worked on windows and install), and even if you use proton to run the windows version, I've heard their anticheat can straight up ban you because "Linux isn't a supported os at this time". It's not that their anticheat doesn't work on Linux or is missing a proton extension, but solely epic doesn't want to so they aren't supporting it. This is fairly common with big multiplayer games, like Fortnite, halo, call of duty, battlefield, and alot of others. It's a pain since proton is built as a "use at your own risk, may not work 100% but it works atleast" and some companies actively refuse to allow that. The only way I've been able to play any of those games is by either cloud gaming or in home streaming which isn't available sometimes. So until Linux doesn't have that limitation in gaming, where alot of major triple A titles actively refuse to work solely cause it's Linux, I can't switch my personal PC to Linux as I already got my steam deck for Linux gaming, and my windows desktop as a backup.
You have to remember that until recently, there was sub 100 daily users, this wasn't a big platform, and it wasn't just lemmy.ml, but a bunch of <10 user instances.
It wasn't worth paying for a small side project until it wasn't and at that point it was too late, plus who would have predicted that the gov of Mali would forcefully take back all of their domains?
No in some cases, they pay you to use power in an attempt to keep the frequency stable. it takes time to ramp up or down power generation so the time where there's almost too much power, the rate goes negative to attempt to level it out
It's mainly happening during mid day where people aren't home and using power and when solar is at its peak
Oh shit, these aren't real pictures? That's crazy, I remember like a year ago where human faces looked all messed up... I can't even notice any parts that look incorrect anymore
Good points, I'll mainly respond to your last line. Isn't that the whole point of the fediverse? Does it make sense for platforms to keep to themselves instead? Mastodon only to mastodon, Lemmy to Lemmy, kbin to kbin? You could probably make exceptions for some platforms since kbin has parts of mastodon and Lemmy in it, so maybe it can talk to both, but I mean that would solve a lot of these questions, only allow federation to similar software. I feel like it defeats the point of the fediverse and would hurt other things like pixelfeed or peertube as I only really see those posts on my mastodon feed, but to be fair, it is pretty confusing trying to figure out what posts from what platforms will show, like when I see a peertube post on mastodon, I assume it's like a tweet linking to the video, not the ACTUAL video.
I think the cat is out of the bag already with doing it that way, with the fediverse existing as different open source apps commonly used together but separately rather than an interconnected mess of posts we're kinda working our way towards. But it would be an interesting and, dare I say, almost better way to handle this, as thread is its own type of server, if it was made Public, it WOULDN'T be Mastodon, so why would anyone assume thread posts should show up together.
Basically I agree with your last line, that leaving them seperate may be better, even if it's alittle counter to what the fediverse is
You know, that's actually a good point. Alot of others are solely saying "well it's meta, so no!" But that argument makes a lot of sense, especially with the beehaw comparison, I was annoyed with that because while I understood parts of their argument, doing moves like that just feels like people trying to gatekeep the fediverse, but it would have been much easier if it started disconnected. For that reason alone, I'd be ok with starting defederated and possibly reconnecting later, but that way the band-aid never needs to get ripped off when it turns out thread will be worse than people like me hope.
Tbh though, I know people are flipping out here demanding it be defederated today, but the moment the federated posts start to flood in (I mean thread is huge in comparison to the fediverse), it's going to get turned off probably right away until things can adjust and they figure out a plan. I'm not 100% sure how federation works on the server side, but I remember kbin not being able to federate due to intense server load, I wouldn't be surprised if lemmy.world struggles HARD the first few days after all of the thread posts start flooding in, if they even come to Lemmy (rather than just Mastodon like they talked about)
I mean... Its kinda the law, like if it was encrypted and they helped, that's different, but the law told them to give them what they need, they did, and that's what happened.
Really in that case, you should be mad at the government, not meta for listening to basically a warrent, EVERY platform does that, hell I'm pretty sure Lemmy is the same way as of right now, the messages aren't encrypted, and recently a host of a instance got raided and the police had access to all the data. This isn't a meta specific problem
I've been ok with staying federated SOLEY due to the user base and content, I'd love to have way more content on the fediverse and have more big names on the platform, and federation will allow that.
Plus thread isn't going to federate with Lemmy, it's mainly Mastodon and platforms like that. It has really nothing to do with Lemmy yet
Then what good will defederating do if they'll just do whatever they want anyways, like if defederating is the best solution, because otherwise they're too powerful, why can't we just defederate at a later date? We can disconnect at any time going forward.
Jesus, anyone who disagrees with me doesn't care about Lemmy? I mean 1. The admin who posted this is literally the owner/hoster of the instance, who's doing this because he wants to support the platform. He spends his personal time and effort to make lemmy.world a thing and just because he isn't planning on doing what you want until he has more info, he should be removed?
Plus since when is one instance all of Lemmy? People can go elsewhere and leave lemmy.world to die if it's really that controversial of an opinion, but this has nothing necessary to do with the platform itself, any other instance can do what they want, and thread has nothing to do with the activityPub standard yet so beyond seeing their post, it can't effect it anymore
I'm surprised I haven't heard more of this (makes me think its impossible), but I feel like the ideal world is buying big tech's hardware and overriding its firmware/software to talk to home assistance locally. I saw a post recently about someone making an google nest speaker work with home assistance and they really just made their own speaker and shoved it in a nest mini body. I like the hardware I have, I just wish I had more control over it, and sadly I don't know nearly enough to mess with firmware myself.