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Ways to stream my games? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A couple I’m aware of are Parsec and Moonlight. Parsec is a bit more polished and user friendly I think, but Moonlight is open source.

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Promotion of other Lemmy instances (beehaw.org)
 

Hi beehaw admins! Thanks for this platform you’ve given us all. I’m wondering what your stance is on promotion of other Lemmy instances here?

In the interest of decentralisation and keeping the community robust, I’m considering standing up my own instance of Lemmy. I’m fortunate enough to have plenty of equipment at my disposal to run it and the know-how to make it resilient and scalable (not quite big social network tier, but I don’t want it to be that anyway).

I just wanted to ask here first before I go shamelessly self-plugging around the place.

Feel free to ask questions if you’re curious or your answer is “it depends”. Thanks!

What OS do you use on your pc and why? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MS have always been a little shitty and I don’t want to sound “high horse”-y since everything is flawed in one way or another, but basically:

  • the creep of advertising into the OS (despite charging for a license for Windows)
  • the substantial telemetry/metric and analytic collection of the user activity
  • the installation of so much unwanted garbage (e.g. candy crush, tik tok, etc)
  • the use of its user base as “beta testers” by pushing half-baked features
  • the removal of features

I understand that they’re running a business and that they can’t support old OS’ forever and can’t appease every user, but the above was more than enough for me to jump ship.

Edit: sorry I realised after replying you meant red hat lol, @[email protected] said exactly what I was referring to. For those looking for an alternative, Rocky OS is the new CentOS and is built by its original creator.

What OS do you use on your pc and why? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

OpenSUSE on Desktop, macOS for laptop. I’ve used macOS on portables for years now but only in the last 3ish months have I gone the linux Desktop.

As to the “why” - macOS because it’s polished, tightly integrated with the hardware, the ecosystem works harmoniously, it’s secure and Unix-based (Darwin is the name of the base OS used for both macOS and iOS).

For Desktop - I used Windows pretty much all my life but it’s gradually turned into a bloated advertising and tracking engine. I’m speaking as a home user and a 10+ year IT professional. Linux has come in leaps and bounds and OpenSUSE is an enterprise-grade OS that also happens to run games and other personal things nicely. If I wasn’t using it I’d probably be using Red Hat but I dumped it largely due to their shitty business practices.