https://snikket.org/ is the easy to configure XMPP server, but it still needs SSL certificates. But that’s fairly easy to do with Snikket AFAIK.

Or you could simply ask the Snikket developers to host a server for you for a small fee. If you are US or Canada based https://jmp.chat/ is also a great service, and it includes a free Snikket server as an add-on.

I ended up with a second hand APC 1500. Contrary to some other models you can just monitor it with a standard USB cable, just the power cables with these inverted plugs are a bit hard to get these days.

Cheaped out on UPS, now I have three basic small ones I have no use for (they work except the battery isn’t good anymore). Would have been better spend a bit more right from the start.

This is kinda the same idea but made for what you originally asked for: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

There is https://hypersomnia.xyz/ but it is 2D top down. Pretty tactical though.

This is only the theory. In the end there is still a chip doing the routing that has a total throuput it is capable of regardless of the direction.

The routing equipment at the distribution boxes is likely a limit. Both in regards to power consumption and heat production, plus especially with older equipment the total throughput it is capable of.

If you have a 10GBaseT connection, only using 5Gb in one direction doesn’t give you 15Gb in the other. It’s still 10Gb either way.

That’s just a question of adhering to standards. The chip that does the routing internally has a total throughput and that is obviously both directions combined.

A factor I noticed here with my fiber ISP that hasn’t been mentioned: total bandwidth of the router that comes with the contract.

While this is finally changing now, the cheap SoCs that where used for building these mass produced routers topped out at about 1.5gbit total throughput.

So to avoid people complaining about false advertisement and still sell ”1gbit" fiber, the maximum they are offering is a 1000/400 Mbit connection.

Last time I used eBay it was also country specific.

And for that usecase a specialised marketplace for retro-gaming that you can actually browse would be much better as well.

I think there was a Nextcloud plugin that allowed doing that. If you run that anyways, worth a try.

The goal is to promote a local market. Not much point to have a marketplace with used items from the other side of the world.

Although manual curation of the connected instances would also work for a specialist marketplace where you can only find specific types of items.

I think both use-cases make more sense than general marketplace with mostly irrelevant entries.

It’s their community blog. This specific person has been writing there about Linux gaming for a long time now.

Hostile not quite, as it was a group of core developers. But still a shitty move, especially how it was done in secrecy and disregarding other devs and the larger community.

Try launching KDE in X11 instead of Wayland.

Nvidia is known to have all sorts of graphical issues on Wayland in all but the most recent versions of KDE which likely isn’t available in your distro yet.

Edit: ah, not Nvidia? You can still try on X11, as some programs also have issues with xwayland.

After ignoring it because Epic sucks, I recently realised that https://heroicgameslauncher.com/ is a really nice GOG client as well.

I wondered about this before but apparently the Telegram client is terrible spaghetti code under the hood, making these kind of ideas not feasible.

You might like Monocles Chat though, which is an Android XMPP client with a somewhat nicer looking interface.

There is also the work in progress Moxxy client, which is a from ground up new XMPP client written in Flutter. It seems to take some interface inspiration from Telegram, but to be honest, it isn’t anywhere near to be fully usable and development has been slow in recent months.

In terms of raw CPU power, you will rarely have issues with anything newer than 10 years old. But some built in video conversion hardware can differ significantly and power consumption is usually also lower for newer CPUs.

You must have an odd selection of games. For me, 90% of the time I just click play on Steam and it works.

I mean… everyone is free to spend their money on what they want pretty much, but the marginal benefit of these 500k on the Harris campaign is very low, while the same money would go a long way supporting Fediverse development and maintenance.