The opposite of the OpenAI.

• Feeling clean
• Not being exploited
• Minimalism
• Less power drain
• Less data sent
• Freedom
• Everything works better and faster
• I hate spying because they can
• To be honest also because most people don't care

The only con is convenience.

That got lost in the wild. Also funny that shitier experience is more expensive than seeking for a better one for free. I remember it with Hogwarts Legacy when Denuvo free version got less frame drops and more FPS than Denuvo counterpart.

FOSS-y

• 3D: Blender
• Automation: Python, Ansible and Bash
• Calendar: ProtonCalendar
• Chess: Lichess
• DesktopOS: Pop!_OS
• Drive: ProtonDrive
• eBook: Calibre
• E-Mail: ProtonMail
• FOSS Android Apps Center: Droidify
• Flashcards: Anki
• Git Repos: Codeberg
• IDE: AstroNvim
• Keyboard: Keychron Q1 HE QMK
• Laptop Firmware: Coreboot
• Maps: OpenStreetMap and OrganicMaps
• Messenger: Signal
• Music Player: cmus
• Office: LibreOffice
• Password Manager: Bitwarden
• RaspberryPi: Raspbian
• Raster: GIMP
• Recording: OBS and GPU Screen Recorder
• Shell: Fish
• SmartphoneOS: GrapheneOS
• Terminal: Alacritty
• Torrent: qBittorent
• Tried Game Engines: Bevy and Godot
• Typing Test: Monkeytype and Keybr
• VPN: Mullvad
• Vector: Inkscape
• Video Player: mpv and VLC
• Virtualization: Quickemu
• Weather: OpenMeteo

• Git Repos: GitHub
• Music: Tidal
• My College: Teams and Outlook
• Notes: Obsidian
• Routers: Firmware
• Task Manager: Todoist

I once pirated Cuphead and loved it so much that I felt bad not supporting and buying it. It was only after First Isle.

I don't want to brag but I'm one of these people that have lifetime donation. They do the amazing job.

C++, MacOS and FOSS

What a wild combination.

I think that sums up that they're aiming only for parents with kids that would pay ransom for their products.

Some ideas

• Gimp
• Blender
• Godot
• Tenacity
• Inkscape
• Signal Desktop
• GrapheneOS
• LibreOffice
• KDE
• Codeberg

At least this is the good thing they did following Trump drama.

Rimworld

I think you can be a DRM free copy on their website too. But damn, that game is expensive with all the DLCs.

I recommend also something similar in terms of time: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.razeeman.util.simpletimetracker/

I remember being "sorry" for doing so to Helldivers 2 🤣

Well in Poland we have so many girls named "Julia", so you know...

I hope he didn't use Claude because oh boy it maybe costed more than a real developer.

One of the reasons why the native Linux version is better than Proton.

Asynchronous saving

Many of you might not be aware that Factorio has support for saving your game in the background, without freezing while it does so. This feature is tucked away in the hidden settings and only works on macOS and Linux. This is one great example of taking advantage of a platform's features to benefit the game, which would not be available to us if we simply went through Proton.

Asynchronous saving works by using the fork syscall to essentially duplicate the game. The primary instance - the one you interact with - continues playing, but the newly forked child runs the saving process then exits on completion. I have used it for many years and have never had issues, but the setting remains hidden because there are a few unsolved problems with it and it requires a significant amount of RAM to work.

I would love to promote this feature away from its hidden status in 2.0. If you are playing on Linux or macOS, please enable asynchronous saving (ctrl+alt+click Settings -> "The rest" -> non-blocking-saving) and report any issues you find. I am particularly interested in reproducing a seemingly random freeze that occurs at the end of the process. Thank you in advance!

Maybe just say why it is better:

• No ads / subscriptions
• No tracking
• Free software is really fast
• You can do many projects with Lichess
• Clean non-cluttered UI

So, in summary, it's not hyped up (marketing), clean, no tracking, free chess.com experience.

I don't know what are the advantages' chess.com has over Lichess right now. The chess should be free.

Just 2 things are pushing me away from it

• Toxic community
• C++ (I prefer Rust compositors like Niri)

I will also add other games that I've played and absolutely loved them on Linux

Linux Native games that I've played

• Dead Cells
• Tails of Iron
• Dome Keeper
• Baba is You
• Slay the spire
• dotAGE
• Inscryption
• Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
• Psychonauts
• Just Shapes & Beats
• Bastion
• Tunnet

See my Awesome Android Apps list.