I can second Beelink here. I bought a Beelink SER5 for US$380 as a gaming computer for my kids. It’s an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with a Vega GPU, 16G RAM and a 500GB SSD. It probably won’t work well with the latest graphics-intensive games, but it’s been great so far with a bunch of games my kids like.

That one worked so well that when I needed a new desktop computer for their schoolwork and similar, I got another Beelink, this time a Mini S12 for US$200. It’s an Intel N95 with 8G RAM and a 256G SSD. Works absolutely fantastically for its purpose.

Both are tiny and silent.

I mean, I think most of us understand why GOG’s Linux support is miles behind Steam’s, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is behind. Years ago I bought several games from GOG because of the no DRM policy; but once Steam released a Linux version, and began pumping resources into Proton, the choice for me was easy, and I switched over. I understand GOG’s position, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with people pointing out how GOG doesn’t have the same level of Linux support as Steam does. That’s useful information.

The Messenger. I saw a post here a bit ago about Sabotage’s upcoming “Sea of Stars” which looked interesting, and I saw they’d also done a Ninja Gaiden-inspired game several years back, so I picked it up.

I’m a couple hours in, and I’ve been really enjoying it. It has a very NES-like feel, while still being a smooth experience, i.e. not held back by the limitations of the NES, just inspired by it. Apparently it kicks into an SNES-style experience later on, so that’ll be fun to see.

I’m not sure how enjoyable it’d be to somebody who didn’t grow up on the NES, but I’ve had fun with it so far.

Go to the /sub path on the server, e.g. https://kbin.social/sub.

To avoid having to type that in each time, you can enable a top-bar that has a link to “Subscribed”, among others: click the gear on the right, and next to “Show top bar”, select “Yes”.

Maybe there’s an easier way to manage this, but I haven’t found it.