Realistically, it doesn't make sense for folks to be using bleeding edge distros like Arch for a server anyway. LTS of Debian or even Ubuntu are definitely the right answer

By Odin's beard!!! That's an absolute LIST of impressive and impactful enhancements!
I feel like I owe you several drinks after reading all of that!

Thank you! Added it 😊 https://beehaw.org/post/524147 I'm still learning Lemmy and wasn't sure how to handle crossposting and I'm sure I linked it wrong 🙃

Thanks a ton for the suggestion!

Thank you! Haha, omg, we went back and forth for a while debating whether or not to share this, pretty sure we know some irl people on Lemmy

I want to like SearX, but I just haven't gotten any great results from it so far, and I'm not really impressed by anything that just spits out Bing results (looking at you DDG).
you.com gives excellent results, but I'm not sure how much I should be trusting them.
Brave search has gotten MUCH better and I use that pretty on the daily now. I keep seeing good things about Kagi from our Lemmy friends here, thinking I should give that a shot

I pretty much spend all of my time on FFXIV, but lately, been going through Last of Us again with my partner on PC

I think that's the cool thing about it though is if we don't like the host of an instance, we move on to a better one. That will especially apply if they implement importing/exporting accounts like you can in Mastodon. Then you're REALLY not locked into any one server. I understand what you're saying, it's no small deal, but we can let them sit in their own echo chamber, and we go where we feel more comfortable.

I didn't wait for the AMA to get hammered

This is phenomenal, thank you for sharing!

I've been running Manjaro for 4 years now, never looked back. I know people have their thoughts on Manjaro, but I haven't had any issues and it comes with some great features out of the box that I'd rather not have to problem solve on another distro. That said, I've been having fun with Endeavor on my extra laptop, it's worked pretty well for me and can see why it has such a thriving community

I still love breaking Oblivion
Spells that nuke entire rooms? Check.
Jumping over city walls? Check.
Wearing armor that makes you permanently invisible and multiplies all damage you do? Check.

Ah, thank you so much! You're totally right, I was just seeing that it said "Local" at the top, but I'm getting posts from remote servers. Thank you so much for calling that out!