If your goal is to play “Robin Morningwood Adventure - A Gay RPG” from the comfort of your closet without your aunt getting a notification, then you want to mark the game private.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1150-C06F-4D62-4966

Obviously, this is insufficient if you don’t want the watchful eye of Valve themselves to be upon your gaming session.

I have a similar use case, what do you recommend on the pi for a TV OS?

Not free, but I’ve found great value with purelymail.com. Cost is $10/year or there’s a calculator for advanced pricing (basically AWS costs forwarded).

If you provide your own domain, you can have unlimited email addresses. If you use a provided domain, there’s no predefined limit, but abuse will be stressed by the developer.

If you lose the master account’s password the admin cannot reset it for you, which indicates a strong commitment to privacy.

Because it’s paid, no activity requirements, phone number requirements, or invitations.

It has one of the best terms of service pages I’ve ever read.

This one features the number 19.

Lastest.

No argument from me. I’m probably insane. But I’m not under oath, or doing a job, or undertaking a responsibility; I’m just me, talking to strangers in a public chat room. Why should I limit myself to the practical? Is there a rule against expressing dreams in this room?

And I agree, even if I convinced everyone overnight, and we had the willpower to do it, I’m still proposing infrastructure changes that I may not see finished in my life, but building for the next generation is still noble to me, in my insanity.

It’ll never happen if we all agree it’ll never happen. I like taking about them, as it’s my way of making it more likely to happen

I respect boxcars, but does the world need more trolls and troll accessories?

Could public transit be considered to reduce the need for everyone to drive?

Reliable public transport with a robust interstate passenger railway system coupled with a well designed intracity bus system, along with well maintained biking paths everywhere else would go a long way to getting bad drivers off the road.

We can’t get bad drivers off the road when basic everyday living requires driving. There are cost effective alternatives in use across the world. America just has to learn to accept good ideas that others have pioneered.

This would be ten times better if the blurred pics were for kinky pup play… just saying.

Honestly, I don’t think this is a new phenomenon per sé. Politicians being quick to take full credit for good news isn’t groundbreaking (and the masses quick to blame politics for what may be beyond anyone’s control is an interesting parallel)

What’s changed is how brazen, barren, and hollow Trump and MAGA have exposed the GOP to be. Under his guidance they’ve collectively had the finesse of a third grader and this radically exposed how little they’re contributing in terms of policy.

As an example, look at Affordable Care Act. Trump claims to replace it with something better, but after years they’ve produced almost nothing to point to as a substitute, and it’s glaringly obvious to anyone slightly interested.

By contrast, if you roll back to the debates on gay marriage, Republicans threw a ‘separate but equal’ token civil union around, which had enough meat on the bone to fuel a discussion.

Disclaimer: I don’t use Fedora, but have friends who do. So I tried to include sources, below. 😅

How would I install NVIDIA drivers?

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

_Does Wayland work with NVIDIA?*

(I don’t know)

A lot of distros are moving to Wayland. How would I ensure I stay on an Xorg session?

GNOME now defaults to Wayland. Instructions to use xOrg instead: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-default-gnome-session/

I expect other desktop environments will similarly have mechanisms switch, at least during a transition period.

I enjoy modding Bethesda games. Does Mod Organizer work fully on Linux?

Your mileage may vary, but it looks likely: https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer

I’ve had difficulties running my steam games through proton on my laptop. Does proton work with Fedora?

I suspect it will. Steam has been pouring money into making it’s catalog Linux ready, https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/

With said difficulties with proton, would installing Steam as a flatpak work or will it cause issues?

In principle it ought to, but there appears to be an issue with it currently. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/

Can you really not play any games with anti-cheat?

Anti cheat software generally works by looking for irregularities that detect if there’s any program besides Windows that’s intercepting system calls. It is unfortunately by exactly this mechanism that allows Proton to work (as Windows isn’t present).

As a rule of thumb, I expect that Asus as a business only cares about adbock from two angles:

1. A feature to slap on the box for advertising.
2. A B2B feature for helping business management make workers more productive.

To the first, there’s little incentive to ever update the lists after you’ve bought the device, so it’s quickly outdated. To the second, it’s like to be far more optimized for Amazon or Newegg, then for Reddit. Between the two, I don’t generally expect them to hold a candle to pi-hole and similar software.

Let’s start simple: You should consider hoping from Linux Mint to LMDE if you haven’t already.

As a user, you have no obligation to participate in the politics between the Ubuntu and the Mint Development team, but if you’ve followed the controversy and agree that Ubuntu is being a bully, this would be a small yet material way to show support.

what am I missing?

Every Linux distribution has a purpose - a reason its author thought it was worth the effort of creating it. Some are grand, others are silly, etc. When you explore distros, you’re telling the community which ideas resonate with you. Popular ideas will replicate, unpopular ideas will be abandoned.

Also, switching distributions makes it harder for business to ‘capture’ the Linux demographic. The mere act of switching occasionally means that tools to import/export/manage your data stay relevant. This literally fights enshitification.

Finally, and this is a matter of personal taste, but I like trying different versions of Linux for the same reason I try different flavors of ice cream: It’s fun; and even if now and then I get a bad flavor, I feel enriched by the experience.

(Edit: it’s to its)

Yes, at the beginning of the pandemic it was discovered that Plex Inc had been tracking, reporting home, and selling user watching habits to advertisers. Basically the exact thing many Plex users were trying to get away from.

This inspired many developers (who were otherwise stuck at home due to said pandemic) to fork Emby and thus Jellyfin was born.

Would you prefer new terminology? Like platform-neutral UI? The way I see it there’s CLI, GUI, and WebUI. When discussing platforms for the first two, were discussing the OS, but for the last the platform is the browser.

I honestly don’t care what the user interface is as long it’s efficient at getting done what I need it to do.

For a fraction of a second, my poor heart skipped a beat, hoping Pushing Daisies had some new news. 😅

Knoppix, my old friend

I hope this pays off your student loans.