Yes, it is worth getting into video games. Mental quickness, friends, and less Alzheimers are some benefits.

People in this post are making excellent recommendations for quality commercial games.

I can recommend starting out in videogames, by getting into Free Software (Libre) games.

Libre Games cost nothing, have no spyware, and usually have positive, helpful, DIY focused communities.

Here is a post I made that lists a few of my favourite free games on desktop and mobile.

https://lemmy.world/post/20786563

If any on this list are too difficult or hard to set up, just skip.

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Historical note

The Fool’s Errand game, from 1987, sold very well with women gamers. Over 50% IIRC.

It is a tricky puzzle game with Tarot Card theming and an excellent sense of humour.

Fool’s Errand is not Free Software though, and way out of print. It could probably be emulated on a device that you have, PC or phone.

Game detail at Wikipedia

Play original Mac version online

PC version online

Consider donating to an archive.org mirroring effort in a seperate jurisdiction/country.

Is this happening?

Trisquel is a fully ‘Free as in freedom’ distro.

Zero telemetry now or in the future.

Ubuntu based, so large FLOSS package repository.

Mate UI, simple user friendly layout.

* You will need hardware that works with fully free hardware drivers (for printer, WiFi, GPU etc). Drivers with binary-blobs are not included, due to potential security risks or spyware.

Test your hardware with a bootable USB.

Weaveworld was huge when it came out. Great and Secret Show is good too.

For a quality horror experience, read the short story Dread, from The Books of Blood II collection.

No spoilers, read it cold.

you can put down buildings while on pause.

Now this! is a pro-tip. Thanks!

Netbook - EeePC et al

WAP ( Wireless Application Protocol ) - Internet on mobile phones, before http was available.

Rapid Application Development

Agile Software Development

Zing! Love it. <3

Highlander :P

We invited another friends’ family over to sit at a table in our driveway. Had dinner, chatted, handed out lollies to about 40 kids, gave them compliments on their costumes. The 10 who were without costume got the same lollies and “Happy Halloween”. I remember what it is to be a kid.

The parents chaperoning kids around are usually not in costume.

As for our decorations and costumes, we had fake spider and snake out, I dressed up family members in a sugar-skull shirt, and I wore a NIN Ghosts shirt.

Before heading out front, my dad-joke got a groan, when I said, “I am dressed as ghosts!”

Fully free distro list

If you know how to source hardware that uses fully-free drivers, they are worth a look.

Guix and Parabola also look interesting.

You probably didn’t even know it’s pronounced Jimp too!!

/s

MATE (prn: MAH-Tay)

because it comes with standard Trisquel and is a smooth DE experience.

Iceraven is a Mozilla based standin.

Can install FFUpdater here:

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/

and then select it from there.

yucata.de - community built website to play board games online (start easy with: Spexxx, Hey that’s my fish, Mountain Goats, Rose King, Balloon Cup, Ali Baba or City Blocks)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon - multiplatform polished roguelike

Sauerbraten FPS - Q3/UT style shooter

Holding down on the map --> pressing ‘Actions’ --> then ‘Download map’ works very well offline, thank you!

I did not know about the offline satellite download within OSMand, TIL.

What is the most open and still usable satellite tileset? Is it MS Hybrid?

That works for online usage, thanks.

Does not seem to cache the satellite tiles for usage offline.

Note: I had to enable ‘Online sources’ to make the underlay option show up.

Thanks for checking.

Thanks for this.

Do you know what happened to RMaps?

The previous page for it on fdroid 404s.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion, I added some extra info.

Do you know if there is a solution where you can pre-load satellite imagery tiles, for use when away from coverage areas?

GMaps WV will show ‘No internet - Retry’ if you are out of coverage areas, and is unusable offline.

Hi, I added extra info.

Do you know if it is possible to pre-load satellite imagery tiles, for use when away from coverage areas?

Also, is the MS Hybrid mapset installed from, Plugins --> AnyGIS online maps collection ?