Haven't seen anyone mention https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ yet. It's a Linux shell game where you need to solve problems using shell commands that only requires an ssh client on your machine: you ssh into the first server, solve a problem, and the solution points you to the next server. It starts easy (e.g. read out this file using cat) but gets hard quickly. But you can always look up solutions when you're stuck. It gives a good idea what certain commands are used for and how they can be combined in powerful ways.

My understanding was that clang isn't deterministic by default but can be made deterministic with flags. I checked and this is still true but not for the reasons I thought. I assumed this was due to the way LLVM iterates over functions and basic blocks in a non-deterministic order (because of the way they are laid out in memory) and because some optimisations use heuristics. But it appears LLVM tries to make all optimisation passes deterministic. The remaining non-determinism comes from file paths and timestamps which can be worked around with the correct flags and some extra work to create reproducible builds.

Ross (Accursed Farms) did a really good review/analysis of the game: https://youtu.be/rxOKEsBx4NU?si=a7UHgYa-TqCfnqvB

I can recommend this too. I got the WiFi version. Integrates beautifully with home assistant including motion/person detection.

I finished this not long ago on my steam deck. The story was engaging but the gameplay was a bit of a slog. Had to push myself to finish it but was probably worth it in the end.

I'm using Infomaniak Mail and am fairly happy so far. They are based in Switzerland and I get custom domain + 5 user accounts for 1.50 EUR/month. I've tried other providers but coming from Gmail I like that their webmail displays email conversation like Google does whereas most other providers just run rainloop or roundcube where threading support isn't quite the same.

Their android app is open source too and can be installed from fdroid. It can be a bit sluggish sometimes though, but K9mail/Thunderbird works fine too.

I do something similar using restic to encrypt, deduplicate, and backup my photos to backblaze every now and then. Out of curiosity, any particular reason you choose zip over something like restic?

If you need something on the go I quite enjoy whoBIRD (available from F-Droid). Wonder if these use the same model.

Can confirm that Outer Wilds and Return of the Obra Dinn are amazing games unlike anything I've had played before. Though both needed some time before it clicked for me. Subnautica, Celeste, Hollow Knight, and Hades are solid games too.

I'd also like to mention Soma (a horror game I still often think about) and the two Ori games (metroidvanias with incredible soundtracks).

Oh thanks for the heads up. First time I hear about NVIDIA dropping Linux support for older cards. I would have liked to say that they lost me as a customer for this, but it doesn't look like NVIDIA cares about selling to consumers these days anyway (also due to the lack of an open source driver I had already made up my mind not to get another NVIDIA card long before this).

Guess it's gonna be an AMD or Intel card next time. Any recommendations for a card that fits into a small ITX build?

Ah, got you!

• AntennaPod: Podcast app
• CoMaps: OpenStreetMap client
• StreetComplete: Fun and easy way to contribute to OpenStreetMap
• Immich: Google Photos replacement
• Infomaniak Mail: Mail client for Infomaniak
• Jellyfin: Official Jellyfin client
• Kvaesitso: Android launcher
• MuPDFmini: Pdf viewer
• ntfy: Self-hosted notification service
• Paperless Mobile: Paperless client
• whoBIRD: Recognise birds by their sounds

I've been with Infomaniak for some time now and quite happy. Their 1.50 EUR for 5 mailboxes is hard to beat. I mainly chose them as they offer a decent android app , which is also open source and on f-droid. They are also as far as I know the only provider, apart from fastmail, that offer proper email threads/discussions, i.e. where your responses are shown alongside the received emails within the same thread. I haven't tried out all providers though so I'd be interested to hear if there are others with this feature. Unfortunately the app can be a bit sluggish at times but it's mostly serviceable.

Happy to see the free storage feature. It was one of the features from Google Photos that I missed. Even happier to see that it's now better than Google photos where it always was an all or nothing deal. Being able to keep more recent photos on the device when freeing up storage is a great option.

The fragrance of dark coffee from Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (especially the insaneintherain cover: https://youtu.be/UBy5qquWcEg ).

I've enjoyed playing Mineclonia on Luanti with my kid. I don't know how it compares to real Minecraft but it's been perfectly serviceable for our needs. It even has an Android client.

There's a good hbomberguy video that agrees with you.

I also liked Dark Souls 2 but sadly never finished it as I lost my save because it didn't support Steam Cloud and I didn't have the energy to start over.

That's what I do. The beauty of wireguard is that it won't respond at all if you don't send the right key. So from the outside it will appear as if none of your ports are open.

It's quite far down my list but will pick it up someday and probably play it via moonlight then if it's too much for the deck.

Thomas was alone OST is superb.