Sure can

I haven’t followed the development communication much, but yes, screen sharing works now. It wasn’t working on wayland like 8mo ago, but I tried again a month ago and it’s now working.

I haven’t tried mumble yet.

You pay for the hosting resources yes, but you can host it anywhere. I’ve been playing around with it using a docker instance in my homelab.

Were you trying Teamspeak 6? The UI is different, but the functionality is on par I believe. Not open source, but at least you can self-host.

The issue is that full screen games wouldn’t hold onto the mouse? Are these games running through proton (windows games being launched through steam)? If so, I know there’s an option in protontricks to tweak this behavior per game. “Automatically capture the mouse in full screen windows” in winecfg.

Alternatively, you can try tweaking your steam launch params to use gamescope. Ex.

gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -r 60 -- %command%

Where the params denote the resolution and refresh rate of the window. You may need to install gamescope from your package manager.

I have an edge router and switch, and two unifi APs. All accounts running locally. Works fine for my uses, though I think if I had it to do over again I’d investigate pfsense or opnsense. Not sure about hardware tho.

since it uses ZFS I don’t know it would be good for home use

TrueNAS is all I’ve used for my home for the better part of a decade. It’s been fine, what is your concern?

Because HBO has a good track record for fantasy shows?

Yeah, I am interested in understanding your world view, and am trying to ask direct questions about it so I can understand it better (such as how you arrived at your definition of escapism), but if that’s not something that interests you, and you’d rather stoop to ad hominem jabs (like telling me I’m drunk, or to touch grass/look at trees), then we can call it here. Your call.

Escapism: Using any method to interpret reality instead of directly facing said reality.

Interesting. I’ve never heard anyone attempt to define escapism like that. Where are you getting this definition?

Or from the other side, what word would you use to mean,

habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine

Hopefully you agree that “purely imaginative…escape from reality” is distinct from “any method to interpret reality”.

If you’re looking at a picture of a tree and using your imagination to marry it to the real thing, that is escapism.

What if I told you that looking at a real tree is an act of using your imagination to marry it to reality? Consider that humans looked at the moon and stars every day for centuries before we understood what they were in reality. Some people still do to this today.

Regardless of whether you’re considering something in front of you or a concept in abstract, if you’re attempting to grapple with the nature of reality, you are most certainly not engaging in escapism.

Yes, almost certainly. A gaming device is a gaming device, what matters is how many users you have.

If we’re concerned about distinguishing between platform, then steam is statistically insignificant on the vast majority of platforms people game on.

This feels like you’re doing the “qualityslop” troll lol.

I think you could make art that is escapist in theme, but by definition escapism is any effort you make to “escape” your reality, or the reality of the human condition. In contrast, the value of art is that it gives us a way to communicate about our reality and/or the human condition using a language that lives past literal interpretation.

Art doesn’t help us to escape our reality, it specifically embraces it and helps us understand and communicate about it. Art is the opposite of escapism.

What if I told you that the MAU count for Fortnite alone is more than half of the total MAU count for all of steam?

Even if the only game on epic was Fortnite, that doesn’t qualify as “statistically insignificant” no matter how you look at it.

Due to its nature, I’m not going to be able to explain art to you. Cheers.

escapism requirent that is so essential to enjoying a video game.

Again, this is simply not true. It may be true for you, but does not universally apply to the entire art form.

First off, not all video games are escapism, just like not all film is camp. The genre of science fiction is only as good as the philosophical thought problems and potential ethical dilemmas it poses.

Once you get past thinking of Christianity as a uniquely negative force in society, and instead see it as another fiction on the pile of stories humans have invented, it’s intellectually interesting to think about the political and psychological impact that all our various religions have had on the trajectory of our species, and could have as our technology advances.

Fantasy often depicts Inquisitors brutally persecuting sorcerers, which is historically accurate for Christianity 300-700 years ago. Why shouldn’t SciFi attempt to explore the evil we see in Christianity today, but set in the distant future?

I just use gimp, but for the record, someone recently got modern Photoshop working in wine

I feel like if that’s something you’re doing, you’re using containers wrong. At least docker ones. I expect a container to have no state from run to run except what is written to mounted volumes. I should always be able to blow away my containers and images, and rebuild them from scratch. Afaik docker compose always implicitly runs with --rm for this reason.

Just answering the question you asked.

So they could view their cameras while they’re away?

Step 1 is to do everything inside your network with data you don’t care about. Get comfortable starting services, visiting them locally, and playing around with them. See what you like and don’t like. Feel free to completely nuke everything and start from scratch a few times. (Containers like Docker make this super easy).

Step 2 is to start relying on it for things inside your network. Have a NAS, maybe home assistant, or some other services like Immich or Navidrome. Figure out how to give services access to your data without relying on them to not harm it (use read only mounts, permissions, snapshots, etc.)

Step 3 is to figure out how to make services more accessible away from home. Whether that is via a VPN, or something like tailscale, or just carefully opening specific ports to specific secure and up-to-date services. This is the part you’re feeling anxious about, and I think you’ll feel less anxious if you do steps 1 and 2 first and not even think about 3 yet. Consider it its own challenge, and just do one challenge at a time.