A relative of mine attempted to move from an iphone to an android phone, and generally move to other services on non-apple patforms. Not really self hosted, but I tried to help a bit in that area too, placing them on some of the things I run. The reason was their own, they saw pictures taken by a friend who had a flagship android phone and thought the pictures were amazing in comparison and wanted to try it. They were not even that deeply into the ecosystem, didn't have watches or anything, just the cloud services.

Sadly what happened was that apple makes you feel so cozy and content in their UI design that anything even slightly different is really disruptive. It didn't go well, and the experiment lasted about 6 months and then they were back on an iphone again. I would hear constant complaints and cursing about various UI differences. Touching parts of the screen triggered actions they weren't expecting, and they couldn't manage to learn the new workflows. It was sad to watch, and I hope things go better for you. In my opinion Apple is really good at attracting people and slowly convincing them that they don't have to think for themselves anymore, so then when they try, they no longer feel competent enough to do so.

Thanks for the reply. It really sucks that our options seem to be break discoverability, or get scraped to death...

Anyway please do whatever you think is best, we trust you! I was mostly just curious if this was maybe why. As always thanks for your work maintaining this instance!

Just curious, is this what is preventing our communities from being shown on things like lemmyverse.net?

for example, searching for cybersecurity communities there doesn't show ours, at least for me.

I only play with a few friends on private servers these days, and was never really good enough for online play. But just needed to show my love for Quake 3, and ioquake3 =] . Still an awesome game 27 years later!

There are lots of good resources here https://simracingonlinux.com/

Also the SROL discord (linked from there) is pretty active and helpful.

I have an OpenFFBoard wheel and many many peripherals and all games I've tried apart from those that are actively hostile to linux (EA WRC, iracing) work fine. I don't use sumhub though. From what I understand I guess it does work? https://github.com/srounce/linux-simracing-utils There are also some alternatives but I'm not directly familiar with any of them.

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to clarify that I'm not a Bazzite user, I just use vanilla arch. But I don't really think there are significant differences when it comes to this. Except if you can't install some of these tools, in which case you might choose a non-immutable distro since hardware often requires light customization beyond what Bazzite might package.

I like this trend of trying to actually talk to people about things they are working on instead of making assumptions in a vacuum. We could use a little more of that.

"Despite their end-to-end encryption option, messaging apps ​such as Signal and WhatsApp should not be used as channels for classified, confidential or sensitive information," said ​MIVD director, Vice-Admiral Peter Reesink.

Hmm... quite a bit of issues in this statement. I wonder what they were instructed to use internally instead.

Ah, yeah the Nacon WRC games are weird. I could never get them to work either but just with device detection in general, not only my wheel. Also people tend to say they weren't amazing in terms of FFB feel and gameplay either so I stuck with the more popular titles. You're totally right and I had completely forgotten that those games are just non-functional at the moment.

I don't use lutris for anything, I run umu directly with proton-ge for RBR and a few other non-steam games and it's been great. Upgrades are as easy as just launching explorer in the prefix and double clicking the RSF installer, and since 10-22 I think you don't even need the dll overrides since they are included in recent proton-ge. My opinions of the game and RSF are not as amazing though so I admittedly don't play it much. I used to a lot but found interacting with the community to be pretty taxing at best, and not good as a Linux player. All the wine/proton development work in the world can't improve a community that is borderline hostile towards a subset of players.

JacKeTUs has a fork of proton-ge which helps with device detection stability which is the issue with AMS2. They are working on upstreaming that work I believe, but I'm unsure what the status is. From what I've heard soon devices constantly unbinding in many games will be fixed very soon across the board in wine. Assuming there are no holdups with that work that I'm unaware of. For now I do as you said and rebind my wheel axes every time. It does seem to remember buttons and other controllers though, just not the steering axis.

Yeah, my t300rs worked on linux but that's because there's a kernel module for it. Which it looks like they have expanded since I last took a look, so that's cool. But I ditched it for the DD ffboard a while back.

In terms of rally games not working, which ones are you having trouble with? I play all the big ones that people talk about and haven't had any issues but I don't have a moza wheel so I'm not sure what specific issues those have. Apart from EA WRC which doesn't run anyway (and when it did I never thought it was that great of a game). ACR has input issues on windows too unfortunately.

The SROL discord can be pretty helpful since it was started by a couple of very active developers in that space including the dev responsible for universal-pidff. I think the situation is quite good and always improving, but still depends a little bit on what hardware you have. There are some less popular wheels that are completely unsupported still. It also doesn't help that iracing and EA are actively hostile to the linux community.

https://simracingonlinux.com/

Also https://github.com/JacKeTUs/universal-pidff

I use an OpenFFBoard wheel on Linux. It requires no drivers (works with hid-generic). I've not found a game that runs on Linux that doesn't detect it that didn't also have trouble on windows (looking at you ACR...)

AFAIK pretty much any moza wheel works with universal-pidff and a bunch of others. And oversteer's github has a bunch of other links to drivers that make some other higher-end wheels work pretty well.

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The fork was merged into rofi, See the Announcement at the top of the readme for the fork.