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Yes it is. Though after using arch for a few years, I miss the abundance of packages.

If a package wasn't in the official arch repos, it was probably in the AUR. If you use arch, you don't need other package managers like homebrew on linux.

The first one I saw was Debian 3.1 (Sarge). I was in school and our objective this time was installing debian + getting a working Xorg session. Never heard of Linux before, didn't get a working Xorg session, but wow man, there's something other than Windows and MacOS. I couldn't have imagined.

The first one I actually used on a desktop (laptop for school, in that case) was Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake).

I've tried oh so many different linux distributions over the years, I probably forgot most of them. Maybe some don't even exist anymore. My goal was always Arch Linux, having seen it on a schoolmates laptop. I really fell for the "here's a pretty minimum base, do whatever" thing.

In the end, I exclusively used Arch from 2020 until this year. Actually using Arch and reading the ArchWiki were probably what taught me most of what I know about linux in general and how things work.

I've been searching for a less DIY-solution which is still up-to-date (especially with kernels and mesa) and I landed on Fedora Workstation, which is what I'm currently using on my work latpop and desktop at home. I do miss some things from Arch, but Fedora has been pretty good to me and I, for the meantime, intend to stay here.

Yeah, I do daily VM-backups which include all of the data on syncthing. No matter what you have, you always gotta have a good backup-strategy.

I use syncthing for some of my "can-never-lose-these" files. syncthing synchronizes files between different devices. This is not an online-file-hosting thing like Google Drive or OneDrive. These files are physically present on all synchronized devices.

My server is the "main" (you can make everyone equal) syncthing every other syncthing connects to. With an established connection, files will be synchronized on participating devices. AFAIK, syncthing is compatible with Windows, Android and Linux.

This way, my important files are on my server, my smartphone, my PC and my laptop and every single one of these devices must simultaniously explode for me to lose my data. Also, it's on docker hub

pi-hole is another great one. Local adblocker for the whole network, just set it as your DNS server or let the DHCP server propagate this DNS server to your clients. This too is on docker hub

Oh, well. I'll see how it is when we'll play barony. It's not like this game is the only choice, so we can always switch.

Thanks for the heads-up!

I don't plan on playing any of these games over any kind of network anyway. I'm all for couch coop / pvp, it just hits differently :)

Good to know, thank you!

We always play on someones TV anyway. These are typically 46" ore bigger and have at least FullHD resolution. Would this be manageable?

You're welcome, I'm glad to spread the old-school pre-internet local couch coop fun :)

My personal favourites are

MageQuit

This is the most addicting of all the played games. I bought this with a "fun little magic-based pvp-only game for now and then" mindest. I thought "super smash brothers but magic". I started playing it with my friend on his TV "just for an hour" and suddenly, it was dark outside and time to go home.

The next meeting we planned on playing MageQuit for a round or two and then move on to one of the other, yet unplayed, games. The moving on part never happened, MageQuit was just too much fun.

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

This is the game for the whole family. You (up to 4 players) are in a spaceship. The spaceship has different buttons and levers in different places to control different things like acceleration, changing direction, aiming / firing weapon, directing partial shield or countermeasure etc. and you need to rescue your bunny-friends.

They are scattered around the levels, sometimes hidden, sometimes locked up, sometimes guarded etc and you need to work together with your teammates to direct the spaceship. You get quite a few different weapons and shields / countermeasures, which can also be combined, you upgrades for the ship, can buy different ships etc.

It looks and sounds adorable, but if you don't work together, it's way harder then it looks. This is a game with a campaign and story.

Regular Human Basketball

Think basketball, but stupid and fun. The regular humans are actually motionless robots which need to be moved by using switches and levers inside it, which is what your job is. You even have a jet-boost at some parts of your regular-human body. We laughed our asses off.

It is similar to Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in the sense that, you need to work together to control a bigger machine. This is just a pvp only game, no story or campaign.

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Race each other to the finish of an obstacle course. After each round, everyone picks a new obstacle to place and expands the course. Seldomly have I ever seen such bullshittery as my friends and me created in this game and then had to go through.

I always search steam sales for local multiplayer games. I have not tested all of these yet, so I'm going to categorize them here.

Games I already played with someone (e.g. "tested")

• Boomerang Fu
• Brawlhalla
• Castle Crashers
• Gang Beasts
• Guacamelee - Super Turbo Championship Edition
• Helldivers
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• Regular Human Basketball
• Just Shapes and Beats
• Lethal League Blaze
• MageQuit
• Magicka / Magicka 2
• Make Way
• Overcooked
• Road Redemption
• Speedrunners
• Towerfall Ascension
• Tricky Towers
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• Wobbly Life

Games for future play sessions (not yet tested)

• Barony
• Beat Me
• Chained Together
• Fling to the finish
• Geometry Wars 3
• Goat Simulator
• Party Club
• Pummel Party
• Screencheat
• Sonic Segal All Stars Racing
• Stick Fight the Game
• Treadnauts
• Unrailed

Have fun :)

I don't know what stingray is, but if it needs a connection to somewhere and the protocol to connect verifies os-trusted certificates, it should be safe.

Set OPNSense default policy

As far as I remember, OPNSense has a default policy rule of "deny all incoming, allow all outgoing". If not, this should be one of the first steps to take.

Get your own VPN

If you can, you could use your own VPN service. I run a VPS for 6 € / month. If you can get your hands on something like this and install an openvpn server, you could always use that VPN for every connection.

So even if an attacker highjacks your connection somehow, he would only be able to see encrypted content and all content will be encrypted by a server you own and can verify / trust. You could also integrate this VPN into your OPNSense, so you'll be connected as soon as OPNSense starts up and has internet.

Regarding MITM attacks

Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but MITM attacks should generally be impossible when connecting to SSL backed connections, right?

These certificates (or rather the certificate authority the HTTPS certificates have been issued by) are generally trusted by your own operating system. Therefore, if someone wanted to highjack your connection without you getting some kind of certificate error, he would have needed to get his hands on a certificate issued by a worldwide trusted certificate authority and the address name matching the certificate.

Ha, that would've helped me a few times. Good to know!

Still, I wouldn't switch vim for nano ever again. nano is a good and easy start, but I think if you do more than just basic editing of a few files every now and then, learning vim is the way to go.

vim is pretty customizable, widespread and it has been around for quite some time after all. If you think you need it, somebody most likely already made it as a vim-plugin :)