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For a long time I've been using Windows only on my private computer even though I might've wanted to use Windows.

One big part of that is that I have it set up next to my work computer when I'm working from home so I can do private stuff on it while working. Talking to people on Signal, Matrix, browsing Beehaw and so on. My work computer is pretty locked down and snooped on. I'm allowed do to stuff like that on it but it feels iffy.

Until recently I've used Mouse Without Worders to share the same mouse and keyboard between the two and it's worked like a charm.

I just never got around to checking for a solution that would work cross OS until today.

I've tried Logitech's solution once but couldn't get it to work due to firewalls and other stuff going on on my work computer but.. Barrier!

That just worked! I set up my private computer as the server and my work computer as the client and now I'm switching betwern the two machines without a glitch! :)

It did complain a bout a missing SSL cert at first but this solved that issue:

Copy the path to SSL directory which you can find in your error. "ERROR: ssl certificate doesn't exist: /home/rsvay/snap/barrier-kvm/2/.local/share/barrier/SSL/Barrier.pem " In this case : "/home/rsvay/snap/barrier-kvm/2/.local/share/barrier/SSL/" Then run the following commands:

cd  "path to your SSL"
mkdir -p Fingerprints
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -subj /CN=barrier -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout Barrier.pem -out Barrier.pem
openssl x509 -fingerprint -sha256 -noout -in Barrier.pem > Fingerprints/Local.txt
sed -e "s/.*=/v2:sha256:/" -i Fingerprints/Local.txt

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67343804/error-ssl-certificate-doesnt-exist-home-rsvay-snap-barrier-kvm-2-local-shar

I'm currently on Win11 but I'm getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it's so big and well supported by most things.

I've run Arch in the past but I've gotten too old and lazy for that if I'd be completely honest. I have played with manjaro and endeavour though.. and opensuse tumbleweed, rolling is kind of nice.

Not sure what I'd try out first this time so I figured I'd get some inspiration from you guys!

I'm a huge fan of Peter F. Hamilton myself (original username NorthernLightMountain after all) and figured there ought to be more of us around here!

My absolute favorite world of his is the commonwealth universe and really want him to get back to something on that scale again.

I've read both the Salvation and Arkship trilogies after that and even though they're both good I want brick sized epic space opera again!

Might just have to go back an revisit his books again.

I did see that he co-authored a book semi recently that managed to fly under my radar; Light Chaser (written with Gareth L. Powell).

Has anyone read it? No spoilers please :)

Now that we're no longer linked to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works we can't subscribe to their communities any more.

How affected were your subscriptions? How many of your subs stopped working?

My subs were mostly beehaw and lemmy.world so I'm looking for new stuff. :)

Do you have some tips for interesteing communities on other instances?

I mostly bounce between local and subscribed myself with a dash of all now and then to see if there's anything new and interesting out there. Need to fill up my dub list a bit after all!

Something just struck me today when scrolling Lemmy, something that sticks out thanks to the federated aspects.

I've subscribed to a bunch of communities that looked interesting, both here on Beehaw and on other instances. They're mostly (but not only) tech and gaming related since I'm a big geek after all.

I tend to have ny fees listing my subscribed communities but since Beehaw's whole setup resonates with me I tend to switch over to all local communities as well to see what's going on. Here's the near part, I get to keep up to date with communities I normally might not follow. Take LGBTQ+ for instance. Can't say I'm particularly well versed as to what goes on in you guys' lives. Not from any negative feelings mind you, it just doesn't usually end up in my subscription lists. It's kind of neat, especially with the friendly good natured spirit around here it's nice to dip your toes in new areas you know?

It was an unexpected upside of it all for me and makes ones chosen Lemmy instance feel more like home.

It's like, my own corner (subbed) in my home (instance) in the bigger city (all).

Here's to keeping this place nice and cozy! We might not be as big as reddit and we might never be but I'm not sure that's really needed either as long as we're enough people to have an active and friendly area going.

Cheers guys! 🍻

I tried signing up as NorthernLightMountain but couldn't since there seems to be a limit on user name length at 20 characters. (There's a bug for that btw, you won't get an error message if the user name is too long, it just won't submit the form and stalls)

Display names seems to share that limit. Wouldn't mind seeing it raised a bit if possible?

No biggie if not, just hoping I could look like I had imagined :)