Yeah, you should.

It’s an Electron app. Know how many Electron apps don’t run like a thousand Pajeets shat down its street? One – Visual Studio Code. And even it’s getting worse lately.

A lot of games can play pretty decently under Wine these days, especially with Steam’s Proton support. Many non-UWP Windows apps not made by Microsoft also work well using Wine.

They bought GitHub, can’t really claim that as them doing good.

I’ll concur on .NET though.

With regard to alts, I think there would (and should!) be room for them where a user desires. There’s a lot of things I’m interested in and am open about with my online persona, but wouldn’t want associated with my work persona. Likewise, I know there are many people out there where keeping a separation between different personas isn’t just a matter of preference, but potentially one of life and death.

As I see it, I’d like to be able to host my own “identity server”, let’s say, which I’d use to identify myself as my public persona to the services I use as that persona, and which would tie all of those services together for me at the identity level. Meanwhile, for things I want to keep separate, I can host additional “identity servers” for other personas, or just create accounts on the different services where I don’t want to have any particular identity tied back to me. I believe that some of the so-called “Web3” stuff has a connection to this, where content is signed and so can all be connected/verified as coming from the same persona, but I never really looked into it as Web3 just feels like a huge (bad) marketing joke to me.

lol an audiobook version would probably last a month per book. They are thick even with small print.

spez is looking for his second payday.

You should read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, as the idea of employee-owned businesses where you have to invest in order to work there is a thing that exists in the third book (and foreshadowed by the coops in the second).

I’m totally for a mix of smolweb and distributed services for the future. Being able to throw up my own stuff in a lightweight way, and be “mobile” in the sense I can take my data from place to place instead of it being stuck on Big Tech services is the best for keeping my own sovereignty online, and it’s far closer to the original philosophical ideals of the public internet. I just wish it was easier to maintain a single unique identity that could be shared everywhere, instead of siloed (e.g. different accounts on different fedi instances).

I know that some VN engines are open source and probably work fine on Linux. For VNs using those engines, I wonder how many of them would work as expected if you simply replace the Windows binaries with Linux ones. Of course, those with custom or closed-source engines that don’t have a F/OSS counterpart would still require Wine to run. :/