I use Zerotier-One for the vpn part, also real easy to setup as an alternative.

You could use Nano (or Vim) over SSH, or set up a Samba-share from the server and mount it in your local OS somewhere.

An open-world game made by actual satellite mapping in 3D of the entire Globe, so you not only can virtually in-game visit replica’s of friends’ places across the world, but also find your own house in your own city with orientation of the direct surroundings coming naturally to you. Should be decently interactive enough not to just be a gimmick that bores easily, but some GTA-style thing maybe, that allows you to keep yourself busy virtually doing things while either being in a instinctively familiar environment, or to discover new spots and places that will actually be there irl then too, expanding your actual real-life world horizons while gaming. 😅

Been something I wished existed ever since SecondLife started and was explained to kid me… The few times I tried SecondLife however have been nothing but disappointing, cause I obviously already expected a whole lot more from that than was even possible at the time. 😅

Yeah, Occam’s Razor would suggest something like this. Like I said, it just ‘strongly seems like’ sometimes, but I still have just enough grip on reality to realize it’s not. 😅 It does give me a descriptive way of explaining my frustration in it, though. 😅

This might sound a bit shizo, but I assure you in advance: The following is only a funny comparison and I do not actually believe it to be real. I do however sometimes get amazed of the similarities to it though:

Sometimes life feels like everybody tells me how it has worked outside of my current habitual environment ‘fog-of-war’ (like getting taught how marketing and commerce works when you don’t have to deal with money as a kid yet, or knowing how public transport to work and back works on a daily basis as you see people use it while you grow up not having to rely on it for anything yet), until I eventually either inevitably or by choice start taking part in any of those “mundane” things that have always seemed to basically have worked fine for everyone out of my view. When I do, the world around me gets this (I know the official term is different, but I’ve always called it after the Jim Carrey movie:) “Truman-Show-effect”, where it really looks like everybody suddenly has to start actually doing the story they only had on paper up until that moment (with consistency as key) and then end up failing horribly in practice. 😅

When I turned 18 I started driving and since we’ve litterally gone from almost no real control systems to stationary traject-control nightvision camera’s and a cop sighting every 10-20 minutes driving through cities. I got my first real job at 20 and the inflation went into crisis, I eventually at 26 or so started using a train to work (that arrived in the building I worked at), and it started to constantly either be cancelled or waaay delayed and way too often only the random one I was taking even though I had fluid hours and had no real pattern in which one I took daily. Skip to more recent things: 5 years ago, I met my wife-to-be who lives far away from my country and had planned to spend half the years to come there and half the years in my homecountry for work, while getting her everything to legally be able to join me, then covid happened and long-distance flights got disallowed while my job screwed me over and ended up making me spend savings to just survive, leaving me in a (still currently going on) financial distress preventing me to even be able to go to her now. It all seems to fall apart when I actually observe or take part in it. I might need to rename myself to Shrödinger soon if this goes on… 😂

Anyway, sorry for the long digress, just had to get this out there. And once again: I know I am not in a TV-show. I have a very active imagination, but I’m still not crazy (or narcissistic 😅) enough to think that to be even possible… 😬😂

Meanwhile I freeze my PC for 5 minutes cause I tried to move notepad 2cm to the right…

Should have posted that chain-text to my Facebook wall years ago so my profile would be blue and safe…

Please forgive me,… I failed you all… 😭

I acquired one already and I used .re, which is a French registrar available for any EU citizen and currently doesn’t even require verification (though might in the future, but I’m from the EU, so I can do that.) Not going to put the full url out here for display (for security reasons), but I can tell you it ends in …mo.re, which is very obviously part of the name, especially with what’s in front, so I think I got something in between that reaches both worlds: It’s an official country registrar (so won’t easily disappear), I am allowed to use it and it still is one word with the TLD… 🙂

People tend to forget that governments are also just another company where you are its employee. It will make business-deals with other companies for (you guessed it) money…

I did come across this TLD already and at a minimum of $200/year (up to 350) it kinda disqualifies for the financially aware mediocre personal user. 😅

It would have had good options though…

I hadn’t considered the possible future discontinuation of the new commercial TLD’s actually… Thanks for bringing that up… Might influence my ‘taking a .com anyway’-side to take the lead… There’s something about .com’s that will always feel more legit…

lmao, I see your point, but I was there 25 years ago too, and however much I tried to stop it, time just went on progressing getting me to this moment that I want a new one and no time machine yet to go back. 😅 By ‘too late’ I meant ‘after having just bought another now’. 😜

Also, since the Fediverse is starting to boom, domain names for instances did become kind of cool again… 😅

Yeah, this is a downside of federation right now. Too many linking still goes to the target instance instead of loading it in your home instance. I hear Mastodon is fixing this behavior, Lemmy should definitely follow this, imho. (Making hxxps://instance.tld/@\user equal to @user@\instance.tld)

Not a bad idea, I would do this, but the problem is that I want to use it for email and a Synapse Matrix server, which both are rather attached to their domain names. 😅 Changing to a new domain would mean starting over… 🤔

That’ll teach them not gamifying functionalities they want us to use… 😅

Even just an exp/lvl counter for all the others you’ve seen would have worked,… 😅

I did kinda assume you meant Debian’s Sid, tbh. Hadn’t heard of Siduction as a Distro. Siduction being the actual long name of Debian Sid sounded very plausible. 😅

Forgot to mention that, but indeed, Sid works pretty well…

Not a global opinion here as many hardcore linux users will stand by Arch or Mint, but I always have preferred Debian. It’s what Ubuntu is based on, so it uses apt(itude), yet it’s not prebloated Ubuntu and much more true to adaptation and unedited software than Ubuntu has become… But in the end it’s more personal choice and taste, so usually requires a bunch of failed attempts to get one that fits, as every linux can basically do the same things, yet on some or other slightly different way… 😜

Optional is always a good thing. 😅

So it only added a base functionality that others already had at least 4 months late? 😅 They should call it Mastodon Explorer. 😅