People walking slow enough to pass but not letting you.

People walking too slow to stay behind them but too fast to pass in a reasonable amount of time and distance.

I am pretty sure, this one uses real photos to generate a random face on every refresh of the site.

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Organic Maps is FOSS, supports offline navigation, and has an iOS version. It uses OSM maps you can download as needed.

Have you tried what the message tells you?

Mine was an ELSA Erazor III LT (the name somehow stuck). It was an offer that was bundled with horribly bad and clumly mechanical shutter 3D goggles. I remember trying Half Life with it. It was rattling all the time and the 3D effect was mediocre.

“If you enter a room it feels like someone was leaving” - but in an ironic way.

Supports both programming and gaming

Both is super uncritical.

You can install Steam as Flatpak without any real or major issues nowadays and thanks to Proton you can basically play any games except those that use Windows-specific ring 0 spyware as their DRM or anti-cheat mechanism. Pro-Flatpak: You don’t need to deal with 32-bit libs dependency hell.

Same with programing. The relevant compilers are all available for pretty much all common distributions. Same with the common scripting interpreters as well as all common IDEs.

but I’m considering moving it to a VM if the performance impact is manageable

Depending on your VM solution you can usually pass-through CPU and/or GPU and have nearly the same performance as on bare metal.

but am open to exploring new options.

This might be a bold move, but have you considered Arch Linux? You need to do most things by yourself, but the wiki is one of the best and most complete and extensive distribution-specific Linux wikis available. So if you’re willing to read instructions and learn new things, why not give it a try? (Disclosure: Arch is my daily driver since 2008 on desktops, laptops and homeservers).

That’s a lot of text for “we’re not open source, please don’t trust us and please use another system”.

Yeah. While I can dockerize those applications, all I checked out lack modern features and concepts/designs. It all feels heavily outdated technology-wise.

federated blog

I wonder what federated blog (or publishing platform) isn’t stuck in pre-Docker era, though.

You can run those as single-user instances or with approval of users so you can use those instances for your family and/or friends only.

The usual suspects: Mastodon (or mastodon-compatible servers like GoToSocial), PeerTube, Pixelfed, etc.

I am disappointed …

German here.

I am not writing anything in my code in German. All of my code, my variables, my default texts, my comments, my documentation, my UI strings, etc. are always and explicitly in English.

The only German I use, is when I provide translations for UI or documentation.

Of course!

WinAmp hurt itself while slapping

… and use a name where the acronym also is WP.

I’m not going to search further to find the original discussion, but another user in this thread mentions seeing talk of this about a year ago.

There were plenty of those threads and discussions happening during the past few years. This is a constant topic that came up in the forums and sometimes GitHub over and over again.

It initially was that. Also the name wasn’t meant to stick around forever.

But, out of a sudden, between updates, not even the new website URLs ready?

I don’t follow Minetest development that closely anymore, but last time I checked there were no issues or pull requests on their GitHub, nor something official regarding a name change in the forums.

This feels like there are just a bunch of people haphazardly deciding there is a new name now.

It IS a terrible name. But it also is an over one decade old brand.

It will be hard to propagate the new name and have it as recognizable as “Minetest”.