I have installed the CEMU Wii U emulator on real Arch and run Wind Waker with it. Maybe look into that if you want the Wii U controls? I haven’t tried it on the Deck, but given it runs on vanilla Arch, it’s theoretically possible :D

All indies all the time. I have been thoroughly sick of “AAA” games (and the industry itself) since the switch to 3D. Spelunky HD / 2, the new TMNT, Streets of Rage 4, Neuro Voider, Stardew Valley, and on and on. Also old console games because it’s always morally okay to emulate games on old consoles. Related, it’s always morally okay to pirate Nintendo’s games.

It’s surreal, isn’t it? I grew up with nethack and angband and moria (also on FreeBSD) and now I play games normal people have heard of!

More Spelunky 2. It is my current roguelike hyperfixation. I never get very far, but that’s not the point.

No stranger than Doom and Animal Crossing.

The thing is that the marketing for it–and everything about everything Kojima does in particular–hails it as the most complex, deep, meaningful game ever. But you’re playing Philip J fucking Fry. Kojima is almost as bad as David Cage and everyone seems to be okay with it.

conduit is a lightweight Matrix homeserver. If you tried running synapse and found it to be an utter mess, conduit is much better!

mpd is a music server daemon with many clients. It scans your music (either stored locally or on a network) and creates a database (either stored locally or accessed from another mpd server on the network).

minidlna is a DLNAReadyMedia server which is a plug and play media server. Many hardware devices (e.g. AVRs) which don’t support anything else do support DLNA, so you can e.g. serve music or video directly to your AVR instead of needing a set top box like an Apple TV or Roku.

If you have a problem with collecting machines like I do, set up DNS with dnsmasq. It’s pretty easy to get started, all you need to do is write your /etc/hosts file (and, likely, disable the DHCP server). Additionally, if you have a problem with collecting machines like I do, invest in some kind of config management so it’s easy to handle all the different things you’re running.

Also, if you want to actually learn, I would strongly recommend against using Docker containers for everything. Besides being stuck with what the developers prefer, all the work of installing things is already done. Build things from source (optional), configure all the pieces yourself, work out all the dependencies and actually learn how things work. That’s the fun, at least in my opinion. That’s why I have yet another SBC with no OS to fiddle with this weekend: I’m looking to migrate from OpenWRT to real Linux so I can do everything myself instead of relying on OpenWRT’s scripts.

Beginning to? No. That happened years ago. It was clear several years ago that they were taking the site in a direction I didn’t like. Around the time that “new” reddit was released along with the official app.

The thing is that askhistorians is, uniquely among subreddits, both staffed by professionals in the field and heavily moderated. It is an investment by credentialed, dedicated professionals, and would not work otherwise. I think something like that would be highly attractive, but I caution anyone against trying to resurrect it without access to those credentialed, dedicated professionals. Otherwise it becomes shittyaskhistorians but unironically; at worst it would be ancient aliens.