there was no easy way to do it on a reasonably sized machine.

Why? What is the issue?

+1. Made the switch when mullvad lost port forwarding. Works quite well with Gluetun

That was indeed the case. I suppose the comment didn’t contribute much.

Just tired of seeing perfectly solid comments being downvoted with no reason provided 🤷

Downvote without explanation. Nice!

This has absolutely never been my experience. Many people actually say Wine is a better choice for running legacy windows games and applications.

I dislike Windows as much as the next guy, and recognize this is just a rant. However:

1. Might be more HP’s fault than Windows
2. Might be mire Zoom’s fault than Windows (though Windows audio is a gongshow)
3. Just use OpenSSH from Command Prompt or Powershell. It should be preinstalled I think but if not can be installed through Programs and Features) in Windows 10 and above.

Linux news

Installing is just following directions. It’s maintaining it after you Frankenstein the hell out of it that most new users struggle with

You might want to look at just how fast RAM is

…What are you talking about?

Ah yeah, fair enough.

@piotrkulpinski@lemmy.world you might want to look into disabling error reporting in production 👍

There’s a submission link on the top of the page

Search seems broken. The following gives me a “Something went wrong” page

https://openalternative.co/?q=firebase

While I don’t disagree with your sentiment, it seems like this list is just “self hosted open source alternatives”. Even if there are better options, Gitea still falls under that definition, no?

I disagree with this as a default, but think it might be a good idea as something users could toggle.

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People in this thread have very interesting ideas of what “shit hardware” is

Tim Corey on YouTube has excellent beginner C# material. I would start there.

I feel like that can’t be true, but I have nothing to disprove it

Better?

Are you sure they aren’t overused? 😉