There is also the diy alternative tonuino. I build a box for my kids and it was a lot of work but a lot of fun as well. Most kids hearbooks are on YouTube anyways. You download them, put on the box and design nfc cards or even figurines with nfc stickers to play the content.

I think on Firefox multi account containers add-on + temporary containers add-on should mitigate this sort of tracking.

This could be really useful and looks very promising already. Linux is missing a tool like timelimit.io on android to restrict my kids usage of their desktops. The planned idea to put several programms into one usage category would be essential to make it work.

I’ve ridden bikes like these at a local museum a couple of times. They are great fun to ride! They are a bit tricky to get on an off and they are fixed gear as well. I an not sure they would fair well on a daily commute, but for cruise around the city or a an excursion to the beach with the kids, these bikes would be good fun.

Maybe peertube?

I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32G

Well yunohost seems to support prosody, that should work very well. Snikket is basically just prosody with some extensions preinstalled. If you want an xmpp server on yunohost you could just install prosody or alternatively run snikket in a docker container. Prosody might even be easier to setup if you can install it via the yunohost gui.

I still love getting messages via xmpp from friends and family using my own snikket/ejabberd instances after years of use. Calls as well.

Video conferences via jitsi meet fill my heart with joy since the covid epidemic. These are also xmpp based. It’s just a cool lightweight protocol.

Oh I see, if you need to run stuff that is not working out of the box, like gaming peripherals, an immutable distro probably is not the right choice… That’s good to know, and probably will always be the tradeoff, but you get a distro that is very hard to break on the plus side…

These solutions should work on any distro. Why not on bazzite, it says here it’s based on fedora.

Ask in the simeacing on linux matrix room, the guys are very knowledgeable. It’s linked by some poster below. Devices like handbrakes often don’t get recognised as joysticks, because they don’t have buttons. You have to add a little config file and it will be recognised just fine on linux.

I had that problem with my mx 400 after using it for many years. Found a lifehack on YouTube where you put a piece of cardboard inside the mouse on the switch somewhere if I remember correctly. My daughter still uses that mouse. It’s an easy fix that should work with any mouse basically. I think I fixed that one around ten years ago and it’s still going strong.

Simplewall works great, it’s open source. And yes, there are a couple of million requests made by windows apps alone, which are completely fine to block. Simplewall also blocks windows telemetry. I have to use win11 at work and it’s an absolute ahitstorm of network requests that you don’t get to see when using windows firewall.

Glaswire looks beautiful and functions well, but you will hit the paywall after a couple of weeks (I used this on the around 2010 I think)

…It won"t be turned on by default, yet.

xmpp and syncthing

There is also zlibrary.

Buy something used. My Logitech mono still works after 25 years.

Join this community to get help setting things up on linux:

A place for all the niche of niche gamers to discuss and join other simracers!
Join the Simracing space here https://matrix.to/#/#simracing:matrix.org

You will likely get good infos about good cheap Linux compatible wheels as well.

I just use my toothbrush after cleaning the teeth with the leftover paste still on it. Works well for me and is also said to hinder the spread of viruses in some kind of manner, at least I think I read this on the news some time ago.

I also used the backside of the brush for this but my method seems more effective to me, I would like to see a study about this.

No, push always leaks metadata to Google. Use molly (signal fork on fdroid) and unified push instead.

I’ve seeded on a router from 2013 with 128 mb ram. Transmission client runs on openwrt. It was running all the time as an access point anyways I think using around 4 watts of power. 128 mb of ram was cutting it rather close and I had to add a swap file but the system was running stable. If you have an old router compatible with openwrt and an USB port to add an external hdd you can build yourself a very cheap and power efficient seedbox.I think the xiaomi mir3g has the same chipset at double the ram. Those can be bought for around 15-20 Euros used in my region.

Danke für die Info, klingt vielversprechend mit der GLS.