Yeah, I do daily VM-backups which include all of the data on syncthing. No matter what you have, you always gotta have a good backup-strategy.

I use syncthing for some of my “can-never-lose-these” files. syncthing synchronizes files between different devices. This is not an online-file-hosting thing like Google Drive or OneDrive. These files are physically present on all synchronized devices.

My server is the “main” (you can make everyone equal) syncthing every other syncthing connects to. With an established connection, files will be synchronized on participating devices. AFAIK, syncthing is compatible with Windows, Android and Linux.

This way, my important files are on my server, my smartphone, my PC and my laptop and every single one of these devices must simultaniously explode for me to lose my data. Also, it’s on docker hub

pi-hole is another great one. Local adblocker for the whole network, just set it as your DNS server or let the DHCP server propagate this DNS server to your clients. This too is on docker hub

Oh, well. I’ll see how it is when we’ll play barony. It’s not like this game is the only choice, so we can always switch.

Thanks for the heads-up!

I don’t plan on playing any of these games over any kind of network anyway. I’m all for couch coop / pvp, it just hits differently :)

Good to know, thank you!

We always play on someones TV anyway. These are typically 46" ore bigger and have at least FullHD resolution. Would this be manageable?

You’re welcome, I’m glad to spread the old-school pre-internet local couch coop fun :)

My personal favourites are

MageQuit

This is the most addicting of all the played games. I bought this with a “fun little magic-based pvp-only game for now and then” mindest. I thought “super smash brothers but magic”. I started playing it with my friend on his TV “just for an hour” and suddenly, it was dark outside and time to go home.

The next meeting we planned on playing MageQuit for a round or two and then move on to one of the other, yet unplayed, games. The moving on part never happened, MageQuit was just too much fun.

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

This is the game for the whole family. You (up to 4 players) are in a spaceship. The spaceship has different buttons and levers in different places to control different things like acceleration, changing direction, aiming / firing weapon, directing partial shield or countermeasure etc. and you need to rescue your bunny-friends.

They are scattered around the levels, sometimes hidden, sometimes locked up, sometimes guarded etc and you need to work together with your teammates to direct the spaceship. You get quite a few different weapons and shields / countermeasures, which can also be combined, you upgrades for the ship, can buy different ships etc.

It looks and sounds adorable, but if you don’t work together, it’s way harder then it looks. This is a game with a campaign and story.

Regular Human Basketball

Think basketball, but stupid and fun. The regular humans are actually motionless robots which need to be moved by using switches and levers inside it, which is what your job is. You even have a jet-boost at some parts of your regular-human body. We laughed our asses off.

It is similar to Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in the sense that, you need to work together to control a bigger machine. This is just a pvp only game, no story or campaign.

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Race each other to the finish of an obstacle course. After each round, everyone picks a new obstacle to place and expands the course. Seldomly have I ever seen such bullshittery as my friends and me created in this game and then had to go through.

I always search steam sales for local multiplayer games. I have not tested all of these yet, so I’m going to categorize them here.

Games I already played with someone (e.g. “tested”)

• Boomerang Fu
• Brawlhalla
• Castle Crashers
• Gang Beasts
• Guacamelee - Super Turbo Championship Edition
• Helldivers
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• Regular Human Basketball
• Just Shapes and Beats
• Lethal League Blaze
• MageQuit
• Magicka / Magicka 2
• Make Way
• Overcooked
• Road Redemption
• Speedrunners
• Towerfall Ascension
• Tricky Towers
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• Wobbly Life

Games for future play sessions (not yet tested)

• Barony
• Beat Me
• Chained Together
• Fling to the finish
• Geometry Wars 3
• Goat Simulator
• Party Club
• Pummel Party
• Screencheat
• Sonic Segal All Stars Racing
• Stick Fight the Game
• Treadnauts
• Unrailed

Have fun :)

MageQuit was way more hilarious than I initially thought. I went to a friend to play another 2 or 3 games over the span of 6 to 8 hours. We started with MageQuit and suddenly, it was 8pm. We also played MageQuit and nothing else the next time we met.

It’s going to be very funny when we finally all gather and play a free-for-all 6 player match.

Every cent was well spent on this one.

I only use my steam deck for portable, local multiplayer games. Well, except for when I play Pokemon Red / Blue / Yellow with EmuDeck.

I mostly find new titles via filtering by local multiplayer tags and buying stuff that’s on sale and looks interesting. If it looks good but isn’t on sale, I throw it on my wishlist-pile. There’s plenty of fun stuff for couch multiplayer sessions!

The last time, we played

• Make Way
• Road Redemption
• Lethal League Blaze

All time favourites

• Super Smash Brothers 64 / Brawl / Ultimate
• MageQuit
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• SpeedRunners

Ha, that would’ve helped me a few times. Good to know!

Still, I wouldn’t switch vim for nano ever again. nano is a good and easy start, but I think if you do more than just basic editing of a few files every now and then, learning vim is the way to go.

vim is pretty customizable, widespread and it has been around for quite some time after all. If you think you need it, somebody most likely already made it as a vim-plugin :)

vim was such an unimaginable improvement over nano for doing stuff on linux servers. Having an in-shell-editor search-and-replace function alone is worth everything you have to do to learn vim.

And after I was comfortable around vim because of all the “training” on servers, I just switched to vim fulltime. No more GUI editor for me!

My smartphone sleeps in a different room than I do, we’re not THAT close. So I need to physically move to another room to stop the alarm in the morning.

Ah, yeah, “most users don’t care” is true. Being the only IT guy in my social circle, I can verify this :D

I’ve been interested in computers and IT generally for more than 2 decades by now, so I don’t think my experience reflects the experience of a standard user.

It didn’t take long for me to grasp the concept of the fediverse and federation in general and I really like that specific aspect of lemmy. Still, I think there should be an infographic like the this somewhere visible or mentioned and linked directly on join-lemmy.org for new users to understand. It’s a very nicely summarized text with visualizations of what this actually means in practical terms. If you’ve been living your whole life in the “single-owner” Microsoft / Apple / Android circle, the terms “decentralized” and “federated” might seem like foreign concepts.

I found the linked infographic in the “welcome” thread for new users on lemmy.world.

I joined lemm.ee because it was the most active of all the servers, but in retrospect, I should’ve joined sh.itjust.works just for the name. FYI - the second most active lemmy server (when sorting by activity on join-lemmy.org) is lemmynsfw.com, so congrats to beating the horny people!

It’s also interesting to see which communities you really subscribe to in a completely new network. On reddit I joined so many subreddits, sometimes just on a whim. And now, most of them don’t even interest me anymore. A nice, fresh start, really is the perfect time to apply the lessons learned from past mistakes.

[EDIT]

I’m using the Voyager for Lemmy app on Android as that one is open source and on GitHub. And the progressive-web-app version can be self-hosted in a docker container.