Like Yosemite Sam.

Those are some pretty old soldiers in the picture.

I’m only partly kidding. I do play from time to time, but not as much as I thought I would, hence the “regret”. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.

Retro handhelds.

Dance Dance Revolution.

(Do you feel old now?)

You can’t “flood the channels”, not if there’s someone who controls what you can say and hear. That’s the whole point of the dictatorship analogy.

Will stock up for next time. Thanks for the idea!

That’s an idea. Next time…

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For several years I was using TTRSS, but this year I moved to a Miniflux instance that I host at home. I couple it with an instance of Wallabag for saving articles for later reading. I like the experience of the Miniflux PWA app better than TTRSS.

Speaking from experience from the last five years, it’s been pretty good for me.

Nextcloud has chat capabilities. Perhaps it might be overkill for chat alone but presumably you also want some collaboration with documents.

Minecraft has been suggested here but there’s also Minete St, free/open source version. The experience isn’t exactly the same but the basics are there. Works with PC and Android. You can also run one of the computers as a host and you can do multiplayer. Absolutely no microtransactions.

Anecdotally, I am writing this comment from a 7-year-old Chromebook. Owing to software updates, it’s not as snappy as it used to be (therein lies the irony), but it’s still usable up to its Linux container. The battery is dead but I don’t want to get rid of it because the screen is still nice and bright and the hardware build is otherwise fine.

I just wish, though, I could boot proper Linux off of it and I could upgrade memory and storage.

Budibase.

Time heals all wounds. Make sure you don’t keep reopening them.

I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.

In this day and age they would be TikTok stars.

Just wanted to say thank you for setting up and running these services. The Internet is exciting again. More power to you and the team!

Start using it more frequently and favor it over GUI apps. For instance, use cd and ls over the file manager. Launch applications I using the command line. Figure out ways to do in the CLI what you used to do using GUI. Over time you should get more comfortable with the environment.