I would recommend trying out Cockpit (Github) and Portainer (Github).
Cockpit gives you a WebUI for Linux and Portainer gives you a WebUI for Docker.
Personally I usually run Debian Stable for servers, but choice of distro matters little if you run stuff as Docker containers.

Depends on what parts of banished caught you. The mod lets you build much more visually pleasing cities by adding lots of different housing styles and so on. It also add many more production chains. Was many years since I played it and I think it was an earlier version of it.

Seems to still be up on the workshop too:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=849019386

Switching to management then, have you played Banished?
Have you played the mod Colonial Charter? Latest version is 1.76 and I found a GDrive download here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/banished/colonial_charter_mod
Mod makers site seems down.

You desperately need to add a Summary and split the text into paragraphs with some Headers
(or if that’s too much work go for a short tl;dr in the bottom or top.)

It only changes it so that you get your +5 choices if you have even one skill up in the category.
Without it the best way to play is to choose your main skills as Minor Skills and skills that are easy to avoid leveling up (and preferably easy to level up when you want to) as Major Skills to always get 3x +5 every level up.
With it you can let your character have major skills that you actively use during gameplay without gimping yourself.

Original is on GOG for 1/10th of the price too, tons of great mods to improve both graphics and gameplay.
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/oblivion/mods?sort=downloads
A must have for me is the All Plus 5 mod so I don’t feel forced to power game my starting skills.

A classic one would be to go for BG1 and BG2
Then either play the enhanced editions with EET or play the originals with Baldur’s Gate Trilogy to allow you to play all three games as a singular campaign (as well as running BG1 in the same engine as BG2 if you go for the originals)

Options if it’s to protect against local disasters such as fire:

1. Having a NAS at a family member / friends house as a backup location for your NAS (over vpn) is an option. Works best if they also need an offsite backup with you being able to spare space for it on your NAS in return.
2. Having at least two usb drives as backup locations for the NAS and rotated as often as you think necessary and having at least one stored offsite at a family member / friends house.
3. Rent a proper 1U rack space in the city data centre and setup your own “cloud”, definitely the most expensive option and total overkill if offsite backup is the only reason.

Personally I would probably go for option two and bring the usb drive with me for a weekly coffee with my parents, they’d enjoy the visit and I enjoy knowing that my backup isn’t in the hands of Amazon. I’d go for option 1 if my internet was better.

Re: Kernel Version. The latest Linux Mint 22.1 still runs Kernel Version 6.8, if you want a newer one than that you must add it yourself without depending on Mints own updates.

Re: PPAs and repositories.
Might be that there is an option through GUI to add the kisak/kisak-mesa and get the latest Mesa drivers, but I’ve not found a single guide that mentions how to do it through GUI.

[SOLVED]Can’t get a singe game to run on Mint or POP
Original Post here:

Hi guys, it’s me again.

My issues is that no windows game on Steam will run. With any launch option or proton version (tried about 10). Most just doesn’t open at all. (Click play, nothing happens)

Solution: Pop!_OS and Linux Mint doesn’t have a kernel new enough to support the Mesa 25 drivers needed for my 9070XT. These commands in the terminal was the fix for this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

https://sopuli.xyz/post/25130506

My point was that if the distro had instead been say Nobara (Fedora-based gaming-focused distro made by GloriousEggroll for ease of use for his dad) then no fix would’ve been needed at all as it already run new enough linux kernel and come prepackaged with all the goodies a gamer need.

Distributions can be hit or miss depending on the user and hw for sure.
Mint 22.1 still runs Kernel 6.8 whoch means you’ll be hitting the terminal to either upgrade to mainline kernel or add extra repositories for the latest drivers if you have f.e. an AMD Radeon 9070.

Agreed, I’d take OpenSUSE over an Ubuntu flavour any day if european is important. Generally I roll Debian servers and a Fedora desktop though.

Thanks for sharing!
Out of curiosity - what kind of glitches?

Seems to exist some other screen sharing alternatives when I search around but I know nothing about them, f.e.
https://github.com/echoshare/echoshare
https://github.com/mira-screen-share

Haven’t tried it myself but there’s Jami
https://jami.net/
https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux
https://docs.jami.net/en_US/

edit: doesn’t seem to have audio sharing when screen sharing
https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/jami-client-qt/-/issues/1675

Jag tar nog hellre smör och ost i frallan och en chokladboll till kaffet istället.

Har man bara rätt kläder och en bra massäck med både kaffe och kaka så är det mysigt att bege sig ut i skogen och plocka blåbär i Augusti och lingon i September. Men inte 12-16 timmar i sträck för skitlön.
Både hallon och jordgubbar finns i sorter som trivs bra i kruka, t.e.x. https://www.blomsterlandet.se/produkter/vaxter/utomhus/barbuskar/hallon/hallon-lucky-berry-74081/
Just hallon är tacksamt att stänga in i en kruka då de är väldigt bra på att rotsprida sig till andra delar av köksträdgården.

Vad jag försöker säga är att det går att vägra bär plockade av slavar genom att nyttja allemansrätten och gå ut och plocka själv.
Det räcker med en balkong för att skaffa sig ett par krukor som ger hallon och jordgubbar till sommarens tårta.

I want my secure comm codebase to be at least source available for verification, preferably open source.

Femtejuli har skrivit om det också, för de som inte hinner läsa igenom allt själva:
https://femtejuli.se/2025/04/04/protecteu-overvakning-datalagring-och-bakdorrar-till-krypterade-meddelanden/

Från förra året har vi denna brasklapp:

En »High-Level Expert Group« har tillsatts. Den bytte snabbt namn till en »High-Level Group«, då expertgrupper har högre krav på på öppenhet och allsidighet. Deltagarlistan har varit hemlig. […]

I ett 42-punktsprogram vill Going Dark-gruppen nu att meddelande-appar skall certifieras av EU. Man vill ha inflytande över branschens produktprotokoll och tekniska arkitektur.
Gruppen vill ha ny datalagring. Den kräver tillgång till begärd data i läsbar (ej krypterad) form. Data om IP-nummer / port skall också lagras. Detta skall även gälla operatörer som är baserade utanför EU.

• https://femtejuli.se/2024/07/04/going-dark-sa-vill-eu-komma-at-dina-meddelanden-och-din-data/

Another app I’ve heard about is https://buyeuropean.io/
They’re running on US tech though.

GOG stands for Good Old Games and preserving those and fixing them to be playable on modern systems is part of their business plan. Install GOG Galaxy and you can install the games with a few clicks, after buying them of course.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/quake_ii_quad_damage
https://www.gog.com/en/game/quake_the_offering