Grangle1

Only gaming I've done lately is beat the Elite 4 and Delta episode of Pokemon Alpha Sapphire. Due to being underemployed and having other recent large expenses it will probably be a while before I pick up a Switch 2 or any other game, for that matter. I only got Pokemon and Kirby from a Christmas gift card. Time to go clear out the backlog.

"Pretty capable" will get you dunked on in the PC gaming world. For what I've seen PC gamers actually recommend I could buy 2-3 modern consoles.

(Finally) finished Fire Emblem Fates Conquest and started my run in Pokemon Alpha Sapphire. Got to the first gym slightly under-leveled, and the Nosepass almost swept me, but in the end I cheesed it by using Destiny Bond with my Ralts. I was hoping it and my Torchic would get some XP from the battle since they're both going to be on my main team, but not losing to the first gym was more important, lol.

If I play anything on Switch it will probably be more Kirby's Return to Dreamland. I'm on the ice world and it looks at first glance like this is a really short game, but I do know the plot twist so maybe there is a bunch more content coming. I'll see.

The console looks like a nice upgrade and I'll get one eventually, but with most games also releasing on Switch 1 at least for a while and not much announces for it that interests me right now, coupled with a personal financial situation that prevents me from comfortably affording a console regardless of its price, I can wait on it for now.

I think the biggest factor in that is getting tutorials and such out there that focus on the basics, written by people who mainly do things on Linux using the basics and GUI tools. So much of the Linux content out there is focused on power users and even the tutorials for new users tend to be written by those power users who may have been tech focused before switching and forget or just don't know how basic they really have to get to not make people feel intimidated. Given the right distro/desktop environment, and there's plenty of good ones to start with, people can use Linux almost just how they use Windows. They just need someone to show them how without pushing them to do everything in the terminal too fast or going immediately to scripting as a solution to problems.

I don't think it will ever happen, but the way PeerTube as a whole would be able to rival YouTube is when looking at all instances as a whole, or a large number of federated instances sharing content. That distributes the content storage and bandwidth to help ease things up and expand the amount of content available/searchable on each instance. Kind of like how lemm.ee was made to help ease the load from other bigger instances of Lemmy such as lemmy.world. The closest a Fediverse platform has gotten to actually posing some real competition to a mainstream platform was Mastodon compared to Twitter/X, but even then it wasn't just one instance but Mastodon as a whole.

That said, doesn't Bluesky run on something like a federated model?

I have this game on PC and just couldn't get into it as much as the first game, but I loved the first game so take that with a big grain of salt. I recommend playing the first game first to get a good feel for the gameplay and characters. People compare these games to Sonic since the series did start as a Sonic fan game and some level design is reminiscent of Sonic, but they really are quite different.