This could be really useful and looks very promising already. Linux is missing a tool like timelimit.io on android to restrict my kids usage of their desktops. The planned idea to put several programms into one usage category would be essential to make it work.

Yeah, xmpp is a great protocol, but everyone needs to be in the vicinity of the server. A mesh network (p2p) where every client also relays messages for other clients is better suited for this usecase. I think meshtastic is an open standard for this. Briar is a valid alternative that works with phones, which most people already own. Not the greatest idea to bring those to protests, though because of network surveillance attacks by police forces. A meshtastic device would solve this problem.

I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32G

Well yunohost seems to support prosody, that should work very well. Snikket is basically just prosody with some extensions preinstalled. If you want an xmpp server on yunohost you could just install prosody or alternatively run snikket in a docker container. Prosody might even be easier to setup if you can install it via the yunohost gui.

I still love getting messages via xmpp from friends and family using my own snikket/ejabberd instances after years of use. Calls as well.

Video conferences via jitsi meet fill my heart with joy since the covid epidemic. These are also xmpp based. It’s just a cool lightweight protocol.

Oh I see, if you need to run stuff that is not working out of the box, like gaming peripherals, an immutable distro probably is not the right choice… That’s good to know, and probably will always be the tradeoff, but you get a distro that is very hard to break on the plus side…

These solutions should work on any distro. Why not on bazzite, it says here it’s based on fedora.

Ask in the simeacing on linux matrix room, the guys are very knowledgeable. It’s linked by some poster below. Devices like handbrakes often don’t get recognised as joysticks, because they don’t have buttons. You have to add a little config file and it will be recognised just fine on linux.

I had that problem with my mx 400 after using it for many years. Found a lifehack on YouTube where you put a piece of cardboard inside the mouse on the switch somewhere if I remember correctly. My daughter still uses that mouse. It’s an easy fix that should work with any mouse basically. I think I fixed that one around ten years ago and it’s still going strong.