I know when I first installed openSUSE, there were a few things I needed to specifically install to get it gaming ready. There might be a missing requirement that allows you to start it. May try “Linux Mint how to run GODOT games/standalone games?” in a search engine? Best of luck!

I’m sorry to hear that! I’m running it on openSUSE Tumbleweed right now. Is there a permissions toggle somewhere in the Properties menu you might be able to tick?

Thank you so much. Your knowledge is valuable to someone like me, at least!

I would assume the only thing I have exposed is Plex, since that’s the only thing I access outside of my home. I got the backups down pat now (through learning the hard way, unfortunately…). I use MFA for everything that offers it. I never use the same password for anything.

Seems like my trepidation for online stuff has helped me some in this case. I will definitely be checking out the w3schools, so thank you so much for providing that link!

All in all, your words have helped me today at the least, so I very much appreciate you taking your time to respond and help educate me. It means more than you will probably ever know. I don’t have tech people in my life, and have never had that. I’m the only one in any group I interact with that has any slight interest in technology. I learn best when it is under someone who knows what they are talking about or at the very least can provide ways to explain things.

Anyway, again, sincerely, thank you!

I’ll be honest, even this is all new to me. I’ve had troubles wrapping my head around certs and ports, so I’ve always just never even tried anything that would make a port available (as far as I am aware…) so your points have at least reached an audience who appreciates the examples you’ve provided.

Feel free to ignore if you don’t have the mental energy or will to, but where could I find a good source for learning this type of stuff without finding out the hard way like some of those poor people on Shodan? You’ve awakened a fear I didn’t even know I had. lol

If I were you, I wouldn’t even let the others flabbergast you!

Thank you so much for providing so much detail in your comments. I have actually learned a thing or two about Jellyfin. I, like you, am wanting to get off Plex ASAP, but haven’t had the time to sit down and go through with it just yet. Thanks to you, I see those Shodan examples you provided, and the fact that their freaking LOGIN shows up is beyond scary to me.

I appreciate what you have shared. Thank you!

It truly was a great time when the scene was really bumping. Maybe one day we’ll pendulum swing back to something along that peak jailbreak scene.

Maybe…

No, you’re absolutely right.

I am more angry at the system than at the hobbyists. I apologize for coming off like that.

Cydia is practically dead, replaced by Sileo or Zebra, and most tweaks are paid now.

I miss when people did stuff for a hobby or for fun. Literally everything wants your money these days it seems.

It’s called not having anything else to add to a conversation that is going nowhere. It’s not that deep.

Good lord. This is exactly the type of shit I’m making a point about….

Me bringing up a VALID view point of a woman who is in the process of transitioning to a man, is centering a man’s voice…?

That is certainly a take….

See, I feel like everyone isn’t actually paying attention to what I am saying.

What I am saying is that these types of communities, where only one group can participate in actual conversation, IS an echo chamber.

It’s like if there was a misogynistic community, where only the most vile of men would want to be, where they only hear bad things about women and say bad things about women.

I’m almost certain that that would be frowned upon by normal men/women/people.

Andrew Tate is a very well known douchebag who literally operates in and on an echo chamber…

Really, it’s just not a good look and that’s all I really have to say. Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way (not just you, in general) but I will stand by what I said and this: echo chambers, where only one group can initiate and interact, are kind of ruining the whole reason a lot of us left Reddit.

And you aren’t addressing anything I’ve said either, so I think we’ve come to a stalemate.

Have a good rest of your day!

Well, no. I think you’re just not listening to what I’m saying, and I don’t really have a better way to get it across to you right now.

Have a good rest of your day!

I understand the challenges of that, and the challenges of having a safe space for women (hopefully of all spectrums…), but the way they handle it now is just bad and shouldn’t be encouraged.

If I was a woman transitioning into a man, would I still be welcome? I have the experiences that some women have had, but since I am becoming a man, then does that mean I can only comment in other communities now?

It’s just not a good way to handle things, I’m sorry.

Let’s take your example a little bit further than some plants.

I see a community that only allows asians or white people to comment, and actively deletes any comments with any name that even semi looks like a “black username” or a “latino username”.

Would you not call that out as being, well, an echo chamber?

“sorry, pyre, your comment was deleted as this is a whites only community. :)”

It’s just not a good look, or something I want to see here on an open source platform. :/

Not at all. People’s opinions don’t mean much anyway, hell not even my own!

If you want a safe space on a public forum, then I highly recommend just making it private.

I have literally seen them delete someone’s comment because they ASSUMED the commenter was a man, when they were in the process of transitioning to a women. This led to the person being very confused, and probably feeling like the community wasn’t welcoming to trans people. Being so heavy handed with the way they mod their safe space has probably alienated more people than they welcomed.

I just think it’s a crappy way to handle things, whether it be men or women. If I ever stumble into a mens only community that is as bad as WomensStuff, I will be sure to say the same thing.

Have a good rest of your day!

I just think of Dull Mens Club and how they allow anyone to post there.

The problem with WomensStuff is how heavy handed they are with not allowing anyone who isn’t specific enough to post and comment there. Posting, I totally understand. Removing comments the way they do just rubs me so wrong. It’s just not a good look.

Yayyy, echo chambers! :)

EDIT: I don’t recommend using the flatpak version of Steam, because it gets buried in folders that aren’t human-readable. I installed the openSUSE version, and chose a sane folder name like how it is on windows where all my games are stored.

Yes! I had a 2080ti that I replaced with a 5080 two months ago.

I had no issues whatsoever when I first installed openSUSE, because the graphics card was probably old enough to be supported fully by the time I made my way into this OS.

When I upgraded from the 2080ti to the 5080… I did not have a good time for a few days as I had to learn (the hard way) that nvidia switched from whatever drivers I was using to some “open-driver” that they are going with moving forward (I think, don’t quote me).

I messed up plenty of times trying to get this new graphics card working, but let me tell you, thanks to snapper and BTRFS, I felt confident that no matter how many things I tried, I would always have a snapshot to return everything back to “before swapping cards” is what I named the snapshot through YaST System Snapshots.

After I found the correct terminal commands to install the new open-drivers on the openSUSE website, I was good to go again!

Since then, I’ve played and beaten DOOM: The Dark Ages (came with my card, had to sign into Windows and use a fucking chromium browser for whatever god awful reason…), System Shock Remake, and just a few days ago, Prey (2017).

When playing games through Proton (or even on windows!), I highly recommend going to pcgamingwiki.com, finding your game you want to play, and reading some of the great tips they have on there (ini config, for example on System Shock, because enemies were appearing way way to close to me instead of being able to see them from a distance) and the most important bit to me since I like to edit my saves or back them up to my own server, is the location of your save file in proton compatibility prefix. So, on KDE, I can copy whatever prefix number (System Shock being 482400) and copy that number, open up KDE Runner (windows key+spacebar for me) paste the number in, and go into the compatdata folder.

Needless to say, I’m almost positive that your nvidia graphics cards will be supported in some way, but you just may need to study up a bit before you have it working. Once it is working though, it is working great! :)

Got you, fam!