Not really, since Briar has a very specific usecase and doesn’t have cross platform support

Ah I see, that’s a long dreamed feature of mine. To be honest, I haven’t seen that feature work reliably in apps that do have it (eg otterrss)

Why do you feel uncomfortable with NNW?

Cory Doctorow regularly writes in his own blog, without any cookie banners: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/

I think the time loop aspect can be forgiven, it’s explained in the first 10 mins

Outer Wilds

I’ve considered this but only 1 Ethernet port requires a switch, so I’m not really sure

Can you elaborate on why?

I’m also postponing upgrading my rpi4 os to 64bit one, although it’d unblock a lot of my small projects since many docker containers don’t support the 32bit os anymore. I’m just very lazy.

What “childlike view”? Do you remember which jobs were considered “essential” during COVID-19 or were you too young?

Looks like old school counter strike 1.5!

This looks intriguing! How does it compare to Minecraft?

Can you put a tl;dw here? Are they scams?

Society wouldn’t collapse because those people would be imprisoned.

Society would collapse because it’d become apparent, without a doubt, that those in power cannot be imprisoned.

AppRaven is quite nice

I haven’t seen the 1987 version or read the novel, but agreed on all points.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

It’s a long article but absolutely worth it. I don’t want to put an tl;dr here because every word there is worth reading.

I haven’t used them but umbrel looks promising: https://umbrel.com/

I’m using a synology and as others have said, it’s pretty friendly to non-techies, with lots of point and click configurations

Oh my god, I didn’t know how complex Dwarf Fortress is (I’ve played rimworld so I’m familiar)

I saw it due to the IGN article and thinking of getting one for a 5yo. I wouldn’t think about it for someone above 8 though, if they can hold a controller there are very high quality games.