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I’d try finding a community to where I’d like to post a given article, and look for its posts in the OG instance as well as in instances I have accounts on for other engines (the 3 major thread-oriented ones I know about are Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed). Other than that, of retarded/delayed results but still something I’d recommend, is to follow people in other instances (Mbin / microblogging / Peertube thing), and interact with everything the user finds so posts can propagate across instances, so at least in future searches, others, or even yourself, may find/refind posts more easily.

The Neo Geo Metal Slug games were extremely fun to play side by side with a friend. Just note Metal Slug 2 has lag problems due to the engine used, but it was later ported to MS3’s engine as Metal Slug X.

Also, most versions of the games on PC come with the ROMs, if you’d rather use your own emulator.

Another set of games we also enjoyed a lot were the River City Girls games. Just had to use health cheats on the SNES game repurposed because it was getting too hard for the time we had. "<.<

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I’m still trying to figure out how all of this fits together.

A suggestion I give, if you feel you hit a roadblock, give it some time to digest the information. Stress/exhaustion can hinder the capacity to absorb all the info.

And from my experience, a lot of Linux’s workings either are related to each other, or at least the knownledge you get from one thing can be applied retroactively. So, from what I went through back when I was new to Linux, doing that, putting a given project aside for some days while sticking to the overall environment, allowed both things, to digest the information and to learn stuff I could then use back in such projects.

Any sources you can remember

Sadly no specific one. I dig a lot and try to sift pieces and bits that are useful.

Though, in retrospect, Stack Exchange’s subforums, which often appear in researches, often also were sources for several of my solutions, even among some of the super old replies.

(Also sorry if I’m not very direct in my answers; am bit of a rambler and I have the habit of constructing essay-like answers, intro/development/conclusion)

Nowadays, I only talk more frequently to a handful of people I found through such niches, but some of those, I’ve been talking for some 10 years now. So I’d say yes, I think so.

You can make a permanent install, yeah. In that previous computer I had, I kept a dual boot with Win10 and Ubuntu for about 2 years, each taking about half the internal HD’s size. And during install of Linux systems (Android x86-based ones included), usually you can install Grub which lets you choose during boot which system to boot, or if you don’t touch anything, to automatically boot a given system (you can configure which is picked automatically within the OS).

Ventoy on USB sticks is good as an installation media, not a boot media, unless you want to use your ISOs as temporary systems due to their respective live boots.

For creating a dual boot, some systems have in-built tools during installation for that, usually named along the lines of “install besides/along another system”, though worth noting you must have unalocated space for that. If you still have Windows on your machine, its partition manager is pretty straight forward for freeing space, in case you don’t want to tinker with GParted for whatever reason.

About special configs, maybe you need to disable secure boot in the BIOS menu to run Ventoy sticks, though I may be getting VMs confused with dual booting, so take with a grain of salt that. And answering also the secure boot question, you enter the BIOS menu usually by turning off the computer, and as you turn it back on, spam F2 until the BIOS screen appears.

About making the switch, alternativeto.net is a great resource, and Wine + VMs can help too, though the dual boot may make those two a bit redundant.

About physical risks to your device, afaik there aren’t any likely to happen. At most you’d need wipe the original memory, but usually installation ISOs have the function for that, including GParted within the liveboot.

Questions I skipped are the ones I don’t know what to answer.

Maybe not an ADHD community, but rather joining communities for niches you like? I have a gut feeling it’s easier to find potential friends if the person narrows down to that.

Another point, if protecting children online is indeed a legitimate argument, and not an scapegoat to make passing the law easier, shouldn’t be the parents to decide what the children see online?

Unsure on the creator side of things, but besides PeerTube, which uses ActivityPub like Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed, looking at Grayjay’s sources list, there are some others, like Rumble, Odysee, BiliBili (Chinese), Nico Nico (Japanese), Dailymotion and Bitchute. Maybe a start to check?

Remember when you could play to customize characters? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

And regarding taking less time to progress, borrowing from South Park’s “freemium” explanation, maybe making the gameplay loop a bit more than just barely fun would avoid the player’s need for the game to hurry up? And if it involves gambling, it’s a whole other can of worms.

Sounds like gaslighting to investors that start hearing about the subject.

Imo, the best one is the one that fits the user’s needs the best. Though it sounds like a non-answer, distros are usually tailored for specific needs, so not necessarily the features or lack thereof from one distro disregard another.