Debian is pretty good at ensuring security fixes are applied to their software. Even if the specific version of a program (or the kernel) is old they make sure to include security fixes of newer versions.
So like the other comment said just upgrading like normal should be enough.
Technically not free. Just abandoned. You can get them from http://nolfrevival.tk/.
Damn, your definition of old-school is very different from mine.
My go-to free old-school shooter is Freedoom. Completely free assets for the open source Doom engine form a completely free and open source game. They are currently working on giving Quake the same treatment.
Slightly newer are the Unreal games which can be downloaded for free from https://oldunreal.com/ with the blessings of Epic. I think technically you would also be allowed to get UT3 but nobody wants that.
You can force steam to start in big picture mode with the -gamepadui argument. And you can always switch between desktop and big picture mode, at least when you have a normal window manager running.
Booting into big picture mode would entail launching gamescope and launching Steam inside that.
As a workaround, if you have a Steam Controller pressing the Steam button should bring up Steam and pressing it again should switch to Big Picture Mode. That’s at least how it works on my Steam Deck in desktop mode.
If you have an Xbox or PlayStation controller you could try if their corresponding buttons work the same.
In KDE it’s just a simple configuration in the power section of the settings. No idea what the general Linux way would be.
Funnily enough it’s often used in the pirate scene to distribute games. But only as archives.
Maybe mention the domain and IP in question so that we can help better. Your end goal is to have them publicly accessible anyways.
Thank you, the part about the database is important.
Of course that depends on the apps in question and if you are even able to install additional apps in a managed environment.
But not all apps are so limited. The cookbook app for instance saves all recipes as markdown files you can easily share with others, download or backup.
Managed Nextcloud is definitely easier than hosting it your own. I bet they also have the hardware to guarantee good performance. With any luck Hetzner also offers AI features like face recognition and automated tagging.
But don’t go in there expecting a fully fledged Google Photos alternative. Even when Memories is much better than Nextcloud’s own Photos, it lacks many essential features like easy filtering of your collection. You basically have to sort your photos yourself.
Unless Hetzner offer something on top of Nextcloud file sync is done via Webdav, not sftp or rsync. But basically every OS has Webdav clients.
Calendar and Contacts are also synced via DAV. CalDAV and CardDAV. Works well for me on Android with DAVx⁵.
I just googled something. Don’t remember what I ended up on. Probably some blog post combined with rspamd’s website. It depends on your mailserver anyways.
rspamd is used nowadays. Add sieve filtering to automatically move mails with a 7.0 or higher to a spam-folder. Manually move mails there that haven’t been detected and move mails out of the spam folder that have been falsely detected (personally don’t have any false positives with rspamd).
Then set up bayes learning with rspamd, either when mails are moved between folders or every few hours.
The classic Lucas Arts adventures. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Grim Fandango.
I’ve been gaming since C64 days. We had the problem of too many games already back then. Hundreds of pirated games on disks and most of them weren’t even good.
The other day I felt the urge to play a new game from the “dead” point & click adventure genre. Filtered my Steam games and even found a relatively recent one with full Steam Deck support that was given away for free.
And I think I can do that with basically any genre.
Great indy titles get released all the time. Emulation gives me the ability to play almost everything from the entire history of gaming. Or just play one of my favourites. I just have to reach out and play. 2023 was an amazing year for gaming. 2025 wasn’t bad either.
Sure, bad games get made as well. But when I feel down I can just stop playing those and play Diarrhea 4 instead.
I use Nextcloud. Of course that only makes sense when you use the other Nextcloud stuff as well.
Switch and Click had a video about that recently: https://youtu.be/M9qJI2u_be0
I was and still am on HDD. The CPU was upgraded as well. I migrated to a new server.
The main culprit was the database. As far as I’m aware Lemmy is missing some indexes and due to the ORM they used didn’t always have optimised queries. Now with 64 GB RAM the whole database (almost 30 GB) fits in there fixing most of those issues.
The real fix will probably come with Lemmy 1.0. They radically changed the database layout and queries.
Image proxying wasn’t bad for performance. Just storage space. It was growing really really fast. Now that only I am using it to host the pictures I uploaded it is still much too large (24 GB). But its directory structure is so convoluted that I can’t really debug it. My stuff really shouldn’t be taking up more than a few hundred MBs.
I am the only one using this instance. I am subscribed to a hundred communities or so. I am always pretty up to date with my Lemmy versions.
RAM. Maybe 32 would have been enough but 64 cost as much as 32 so that decision was easy.
Same stuff you do on any other instance. Looking at stuff, upvoting, downvoting, posting and commenting.
To mitigate the risks you could put the local server into its own network where it cannot reach anything else in your home.