I mean you can avoid all that. If you're just interested in music and retro games then just use soulseek and use the rom megathread. both of which are going to be either peer to peer or direct downloads. no torrenting.
Rom megathread (web search it) has quite literally everything. no need to search, no need to torrent, it's all right there. And soulseek with Nicotine+ just works like napster. sign up, be sure to share your music library, and then have at it.
Pixelfed is easier to use so you're right.
Peertube is fine but trying to find good content or a good instance is a struggle still. Frendica i've signed up for but really haven't used (in fact I think the instance I signed up on is dead).
I mean I even run my own peertube instance and I barely use it because I just can't find anything good to watch on it other than a couple tech channels that update once in a blue moon.
never really an issue with that either because most GUI menus will trigger via alt. even in something like KDE with the proper keybindings setup it's not an issue. heck even discord now has keyboard navigation.
are you using push to talk? that's the only thing I can think of that's not working for me. because everyone is saying it works fine in wayland but again I've used both flatpaks and packaged versions across multiple distros and the push to talk outside of discord or a game never works for me.
yes, it's faster. I use neovim and doom emacs so all my navigation is vim style. Therefore I absolutely hate using a mouse now and I find navigating a gui a chore. I mean like unzipping a file is easier, copy and pasting is easier, making a file, directory, whatever it's just faster via a terminal.
always my go to distro. love CachyOS.
well it's been happening with me across multiple distros like Arch, CachyOS, NixOS, etc and it's always been the same. yes I'm using pipewire so I'm not exactly sure what it is.
can't speak for OP but the only beef I have with wayland is discord. If i'm in voice comms it will ONLY work if I'm either in a game or my discord is focused. if I'm in my web browser or doing something else like in an IDE or terminal etc then voice doesn't work. It's annoying.
If anyone has a workaround for that I'd love to hear it. on x11 never had these issues but I can't use x11 as my primary machine is a hybrid nvidia and amd gpu laptop so no gaming on x11.
Sins of a Solar Empire. It's a space based strategy game that I've sunk hours into. years ago I used to have really shotty internet so it would go down all the time. I'd play that game for 8 hours a pop easily and the time would just fly by. I'm not even a big strategy gamer but I adored that game.
I use Qutebrowser. All links and interactions are keybound. so if for example I want to "click" on your user name I hit "F" which pops up a link hint and then hit whatever two letters are over the link. so for your profile it would be f + ll. that's it. everything that it's on a webpage that you would normally use a mouse to interact with can all be done with keybinds. It's great, it's quick.
Browser navigation is also keybound. if I want to go back I hit shift+h. forward is shift+l. to switch tabs it's shift+j or k. closing a tab is just pressing d.
there's also extenstions for chrome and firefox that will do the same thing like vimium and tridactyl.
If you've used Vim for an extended period of time then navigating the same way in a browser is actually awesome. takes a bit to get used to but once you do you won't go back and trying to use a browser with a mouse just feels slow.
so you want to provide your ID to various companies to do with whatever they deem fit? to leak said ID? sell it?
ok, have at it I guess.
yeah man do it. I'm making money hand over fist cleaning up AI slop, sure I'd love to have more clients in Toronto that need to dig themselves out of the LLM mess they made. get that government money that will eventually go into my pocket.
I'd rather that billion go towards housing though. But hey if they want to throw away a billion dollars over 5 years I'm more than happy to take a little bit of it off their hands.
Protip: If you're a developer and you're struggling to find work, bone up on your code review and freelance yourself to companies to clean up AI slop, been doing that for over the past year and I'm making more money than I ever did when I was just a regular web/software dev.