Man, I might have to look into using Slackware again for the first time. No matter how much more comfortable I've become with systemd, I still hate it with a passion. If Slackware can handle at least XFCE well, preferably Cinnamon, it's worth diving back into. Been 25 years though.
As much as I Iike and respect Slackware and Patrick Volkerding, I would go with Arch if I were you. According to the change logs, the last commit was June 23rd of this year. Arch is more actively worked on and developed. I learned Linux on Slackware so I will always be partial to it, just like I learned Unix on OpenBSD and will be partial to it as well. But for me, Arch is the way to go for Linux. Arch's wiki is fantastic.
I hope nobody is truly shocked by this. Outraged? Yes, but shocked no. The US 3 letter agencies have a long history of overreach. Our elected officials are complicit in this all in the false name of "public safety" and "anti-terrorism" when their is little empirical evidence to suggest either mission is being accomplished. Instead, we have agencies profiling Americans on a massive scale that would make Brezhnev of the USSR jealous if he were alive today.
Agreed! I think even a year from now it will improve by leaps and bounds. My only complaint about Lemmy is the lack of a tool chain for instance maintenance. I would like to see that developed or at least some documentation of general SQL commands to keep the size of the database manageable.
Rapid development is essentially a capitalist notion anyway. I would much rather slow, methodical, and quality development. Look at what Big Software is churning out these days and it is utter shit. I am looking at you Microsoft and Adobe.
If I had to guess there might actually be no real tangible reason other than your cats might like the "mouth feel" of the piece of plastic. They might simply enjoy chewing on it. My poor old girl Ashleigh would sleep on top of my PC's tower even in the blazing heat of summer. She was kind of floofy too so I could never understand how she could tolerate the heat coming from the tower. Cats are cats and very individualistic at that.
It is very area dependent and what path your data takes. It just so happens that the pathway that my data takes to reach Hurricane Electric's server in NYC is really optimal. I have latency comparable to a native IPv6 network. It's certainly better than my ISP, Verizon's, native IPv6 in my area where my data goes to Virginia and then back to NYC.
I have IPv6 connectivity through Verizon FiOS. The trouble is that in my area it is poorly implemented and markedly slower than IPv4. I would much rather use 6 but not at a performance penalty.
You could really pick anyone you want. You're going to need followers though. Since your game engine is open source, I would be happy to promote it. My Mastodon account is @housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com. May I ask what license you've chosen?
You could use an IPv6 tunnel broker service. I know Hurricane Electric offers a service free of charge. I use it and it's not bad. Hurricane Electric also has an IPv6 tutorial. See (https://www.he.net)
Verizon, my ISP, offers IPv6 in my area but the implementation is broken and it ends up being an order of magnitude slower than simply using IPv4 and HE as an IPv6 tunnel broker.
The same goes for my place of work. It's going to be shit loads of fun when we are forcibly transitioned. I hope before that time I will be doing web development work and kissing my professional career in infrastructure good bye.
No, I am good now. Thank you for asking! 😁