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https://www.beyondallreason.info/ Cool game.

Most kids today don’t know how to use a computer, but old farts like me use yt-dlp.

Nothing fancy, I just run this docker image which allows streaming to via OBS, and we can watch the streams with VLC. I’m sure there are better ways to do it but that works well enough for us. Do note that a few seconds of latency is to be expected with RTMP.

My guess is that it would be difficult to find a piece of software that does all the stuff discord does. But I also think it’s a non-issue. You could split these needs onto multiple solutions. My group uses mumble for gaming voicechat, Signal for group conversations, and a simple rtmp server for streaming. We don’t need nor use discord and never did.

I like the idea of a single piece of software that does one job well instead of a giant powerhouse that does everything.

No that’s the point. If you import the CA certificate on your browser, any website that uses a cert that was signed by that CA will be trusted and accessible without warning.

Using the deck to just play steam games is pretty straightforward. Sure you can do a bunch of advanced stuff with the deck, but you don’t have to.

I self host and use mumble daily with my friends. I absolutely love it. One small tip I can share is to enable RNNoise noise cancelling on the client, because it is very effective.

You’re overthinking. Just host it on any server with a domain name and use let’s encrypt certs if you want to access it from anywhere. TLS offers good encryption, I don’t get how you need a VPN on top of that.

For local access only, I’d just host it on a machine over the lan, self-signed certs for TLS, hell I would even settle with http in this case. As for your VPN app preventing you to access a local resource on your lan, if true, you should get rid of that nonsense.

My friends and I use syncplay + mpv for this. It works well, and even though it’s designed around local file playback, you can add https URLs to the playlist. So this with nginx serving the files has been a great solution.

You can even play YouTube videos by adding yt-dlp to mpv, but that doesn’t reliably work right now as far as I can tell.

Mumble is so underrated. It does one job and but does it very well.

Putting everything on discord makes information unsearchable via search engines, which is objectivily not great. This recent habit is contributing to killing the web.

On a more subjective note, I just don’t like it. On the top of my head : Confusing interface, wont’ shut up about nitro, requires a phone number.