To be fair, there are a lot of inane articles saying this exact same thing about javascript. If its true, its ancient history, and I’m tired of it. I learned javascript when it was a babe, and watched many other platforms fall by the wayside. I’m not defending anything about it, but javascript works. Still.

Look, if you are into it, play My House.
If you dont have days to spend, well I follwed a walkthrough. I’d have never figured any of that shit out.
Fantastic mod.

Much appreciated.

Its my experience. Why do you discount it? Edit … no, wait. I recognize cult behaviour. Don’t explain.

Cool!

Right. I’m just being cranky because it irritated me. Steam is an outstanding tool. When I had my issues, the linux version was probably less developed.

No. The slider did not turn off. I hacked the metadata to turn it off. That didn’t work either. Annoying as hell.

It was bugged. Did not work as you say. Its been at least a year. Pissed me right the fuk off tho. I’m done w/steam on linux for now.

Its probly still buggy as fuk. I gave up on it.

I struggled with Steam on Linux to undo enabling Proton on a Linux-native game. I wiped a machine to go back to just the native setting. Still didn’t work. Tried hacking the metadata in Steam. Didn’t work. Could not disable Proton.
I get it that everyone is thrilled about this. I’m not.

I was in a phase. A stay home and drink and play video games till I pass out phase. Plus, I like breaking stuff. That motivates me.

Oh yeah. That was grinding for the sake of grinding. No point, other than bending the game. Its not like the extra levels helped all that much. But I was king of the newbs.

That was a pre-steam purchase. One of the few old games I no longer have. I could see playing it again.
I kept one chacter in the intro area and leveled him way beyond normal by letting the monsters kill me, which I guess leveled them up, so I could get poinst from killing them again. Dood was like level 17 in the intro map.

Wasn’t that all online? How is that still going? Ya, I spent a lot of time in guild wars back in the day. Running people to the next stop.

DOOM.
The old game got way better when they open sourced it and Quake 3d code was backported to make zDOOM. Its one of the largest modding communities that has ever existed. If you want to see what it can do, try Brutal Doom. That same engine is behind a new release called Selaco.

Serious Sam.
The first one. The demo is fine. Start off with a pistol. Its pretty easy to die at first, even if you know the game. I think that’s why I keep opening it, I know it really well, and it still catches me.

I guess I find this interesting because of Vampire Survivors. I will probably never play one of these games.

Ok. Yes, my use case is a private document and media store. I’m ungoogling.
VPN seems like a good place to start. But I’d like a simple answer, and I expect there are none to be had. As you’ve illustrated here, I’ll find a reason to punch holes in the firewall. And then I’m going to need to secure a web server. Life happens. I’ll keep it simple for now while I sort things. Thanks for your perspective.

Ya. I understand VPN. I do enterprise IT stuff. The things I build assume a secure environment. VPN is step one.
Nailing down a web server on the internet tho … there’s so many ways to attack. There’s so many things to secure. And its a bit complex to manage all that.
The nextcloud site covers hardening the server, but doesn’t even mention vpn.
I’ve been watching threads like this. I’m pretty convinced vpn is the answer.

Well, I might as well put a dog in the fight. I’m considering my final, actually secure deployment of nextcloud.

This discussion has convinced me that a vpn is the only answer.
And almost everyone says wireguard.

K. Thats what I will build.

And this is the start of the longest crypto nerd fight I’ve seen on Lemmy. Well done, people!