You might want to try this matrix channel:

https://matrix.to/#/#simracing:matrix.org

It’s a channel for sim racing, but there are pretty knowledgeable people around that can get all sorts of obscure peripherals working on Linux.

I did exactly that when I switched to Linux a couple of years ago. Took around a week to setup, it runs well enough, but you lose the use of your main gpu under Linux that way. I tried lutris for gaming under linux and quickly realised the games run very well via wine. O in my opinion the qemu windows with gpu passtrough is not really worth the hassle nowadays. All games I tried work just as well via wine/proton.

Your story reminds me of diving a French car for the first time. No knob or lever can be found in the usual spaces and in the end you always end up giving a turn signal when you try to use the windscreen wiper.

I am using the German QWERTZ most of the time and found the layout rather reasonable. I once tried to learn the neo layout which had the most used letters on the middle row, but you really only can use that at home so I stopped after a week or two as it did not really seemed worth the effort.

I’ve used jitsi meet (own instance) for this before. OBS might work as well.

I would recommend buying used as well. Take a look at senmotic shoes. They are expensive but are also the most durable barefoot shoes I have found.

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I would think it moral to download the discs you own as rips. Get a vpn for a month and download away. This would be a lot less time and electrical energy consuming compared to ripping them yourself. Also somebody else has already dealt with drm bullshit.

Roblox can also be installed via lutris on Linux.

Popos also has specific guides for these common errors:

https://support.system76.com/articles/bootloader

Some cars now even have break lights that shine brighter than the light of a thousand suns. I don’t get it, there ought to be some regulation for this. This is Germany speaking.

There is also an alternate app called paranoids pal on fdroid, that’s new and maintained, it did not work reliable on my phone, maybe it works better for you.

And I’ve used private lock for years and still sometimes lock the phone accidentally, but for me the inconvenience is acceptable because of the security gained.

There is private lock on fdroid, of you shake your phone biometrics get disabled and three phone locks. It’s meant as protection from someone grabbing your phone and running away with it but works fine for other emergencies as well.

There is also an aftermarket solution, if you are not on gos, three name is duress on droid.

If you still want the comfort to open your phone via biometrics plus disable biometrics in emergencies there is private lock (fdroid). It will engage when the phone is shaken, e.g. a thief grabs it from your hand while you are typing, or you shake so nobody can force you to open it by fingerprint. The device will be locked and biometrics disabled until you unlock it again. There is also a recently updated app on fdroid with the same features, but it was not as reliable for me so I went back to using private lock.

100% Opnsense. I used to run pfsense for a couple of years but there project was bought by a for profit. Enshitification ensued. They still released their code as per open source licence, but it was not up to closer inspection as it could no longer be used to built the distro from source. They banned perfectly fine hardware from using pfsense as it could not provide hardware acceleration for open-vpn (Aes-ni). The fork opnsense is to be preferred.

If you are looking for a future proof, snooping free and secure solution for home routers, there is most likely no way around installing open source firmware like openwrt. I would just pick a device with good openwrt support, some ubiquity models have that, if I remember correctly. But there are many alternatives by different manufacturers. I would just chose one with good hardware specs in your price range, install openwrt and call it a day.

You can compare pros and cons of both messengers here: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

Post quantum encryption will probably be an issue in a couple of years and I think there will be solutions then in many messengers.

I am not sure what you mean by persistent user ids. How much would it matter if you run your own server line I so with xmpp?

I am all for using the true and tested xmpp protocol.

I personally think blood omen was a way better game then all those 3d sequels. I would welcome a game in that style, kinda cool story and lots of secrets to be found.

If you don’t like flatpak there is also firejail which you can run to isolate browsers or many other programmes.

There is also a programme to run your browser from ram and commit changes to disk when it closes, which I’ve used for a year or so and can recommend. I have to look up the name later at home, if you are interested.

Browsers write to disk every couple odd seconds per default settings (I think up to 20gb a day), which eats away on an ssds life cycle. in Firefox this can be changed, but the in ram option makes it smappier as well as a benefit.

For me, it’s probably Richard Burns Rallye. Some times just everything seems to fall into place as you flow through a stage and the weight of the car transfers just right from one corner to the next. Also the boss fights especially in the souls series…