Heroic has a log tab in the settings iirc. Also this same log is generated when running from the terminal. You can launch them from Wine or forks, or through steam steam://launch/appid_goes_here/Dialog

Also, if you’d be interested and/or you have games outside of Steam, Heroic Launcher has a compatibility layer manager that lets you install and swap around different versions (and forks) of Wine. Only installs to Heroic though, not system-wide or directly to Steam (though you can add external games to Heroic).

Not all too knowledgeable about Wine myself, but I’d imagine that like Windows, Wine must have its elements so tied together that updating something could potentially break something else. So on a hypothetical example, if you update how Wine interprets Vulkan API calls, you could end up breaking how it interpret Direct3D calls, as, to my knowledge, both do more or less the same thing, except Direct3D is much older.

RSS’s a big for me and had been considering originally using Mastodon + RSS Parrot. But though I don’t like the UI of Friendica, its native tracker bot function sounds rather interesting. 👀

Thinking here, the site engine I’d pick for daily use would probably be Mbin. But as I hear it is a bit of a processing hog, running it and a Friendica instance on the same device would maybe be too much for the device, so maybe I should buy another Raspberry Pi or some other SBC for it.

Tangencial comment, but as I’d presume your instance is running on a Linux server (usually sites are), maybe check with ncdu (if available) which folders are the biggest?

Also on the images issue pointed by another user, maybe also see if Lemmy now has a solution for it, or if any of the alternatives do.

Maybe there’s a way to import contents through federation? Just, if both run on the same hardware when doing it (possibly the new instance on a subdomain), both would run way slower.

Directly compatible with Lemmy, there’s Friendica (Facebook-like; also compatible with Twitter-like posts e.g. from Mastodon), Mbin (simplified/cleaner UI; also hybrid like Friendica), and PieFed (apparently more Reddit-like than Lemmy from what I read, in a technical sense).

Dunno which are better/worse to run, but I remember seeing hardware requirements on the docs of each of them.

Also it’s not uncommon to see single user instances from my experience. But if you feel it’s a waste of domain/resources, you could also create some dedicated community or something to give further use for it.

I remember coming across a tool for Linux which works somewhat similar, Iirc called AutoKey (I remember the name confusing both me and Google, so that’s probably it). However, AutoHotKey uses its own language and as is more popular, it has more materials available, while AutoKey uses Python but last I checked, it was hard finding anything, so raw Python knowledge may be needed.

I reinstall mine around 2 times a year, partly habit, partly some time I accidentally fuck up. Not counting the time to download the installation media, and though I become faster at setting things as I like each time, best I do is still some 2 hours. For someone not used to the environment or even just starting, I’d easily expect it to be much longer.

KOReader (ebook reader)

Though clearly not designed for small screens, since I have a somewhat long read queue and it can sort by read progress, it helps a bunch.

This appears to be the whole article:

Checked the user’s account. In lack of more info, it looks suspicious, as it only has a handful of posts, all article links, and no comments to show it’s an actual human. Perhaps it is a bot grinding trust more slowly, to not be burned too quickly. Or maybe it’s just an user that seldom logs in here.

And borrowing this comment to opinate on the article itself, it still sounds relevant as the technologies the article’s OP proposes only got more powerful. Bet now we can even use LLMs to do that, no coding or research needed on the attacker’s side.

From Linux, mind sharing the full command log, or at least the full libicu67 line? Sounds like missing dependencies (similar to missing DLLs on Windows), but want to be sure.

If you must get something from Steam, I’d get something with great time by price ratio, like Terraria, Starbound and Stardew Valley. Or also JRPGs like Final Fantasy XII.

But from your picks, Elden Ring is the one I’d go for, mostly because it’s the one that picks my attention the most.

Otherwise, maybe you’d want to follow giveaway communities and alert profiles, e.g. here on the fediverse?

Also for installation, it’s pretty much the same, you plug the boot device, enter BIOS, select it to load first, exit and follow the instruction on the screen.

Hardware seems powerful enough that Ubuntu will run fine.

On software side, if you must use a Windows program, Wine usually solves it. If it doesn’t, Virtualbox does. If it doesn’t, some times you can find per-case solutions. If you can’t, we’d be working with extremely edge cases that maybe you could solve by swapping the SSD for one with Windows installed or getting a cheap second hand computer just for that.

Surprised it took so long.

Windows was becoming increasingly bad for people that use mainly keyboards, and my laptop’s HDD nearly dying and me having to use a Linux distro to recover files I couldn’t lose gave me an window and interest to try out a distro closer in UX as Android, thus I found Ubuntu almost 5 years ago.

As others have said, Linux Mint would be a good starting point. For UI and UX, it’s pretty unaggressive, specially for those coming from Windows, but it still doesn’t hide the technical part of the system.

Also its installation is pretty simple and without tricks. And if your boyfriend doesn’t care about removing the previous system, you don’t even need to tinker with partitions and the sort.