Just anecdotally speaking (last time I used mint was many years ago), I used to have problems on there from outdated (GPU) drivers and/or an outdated kernel often when playing games back then, but I don’t know what developments happened since then. Back then, problems vanished for me when I changed to Manjaro.

If this persists and no obvious issue can be found, looking into how to upgrade your AMD/NVIDIA drivers or overall kernel beyond the standard ones shipping with stable mint may help in the end (maybe there’s a memory leak somewhere in an interaction with an older version?) - or switching to a different Distro, as frustrating as this may end up being. (If gaming is a major activity you plan on, Garuda or Bazzite are the current recommendations)

But treat this one as it is: basically a blind guess based on anecdotes from many years ago. Fingers crossed you’ll have it sorted out.

To anyone here interested in more things adventure and narrative gaming: !adventuregames@lemm.ee

Sad, but, yeah, that is more than understandable, the whole database migration alone would be a massive headache to get right, I think.

When setting up my own here, I was debating to go for PieFed because I like the underlying features - but having had no sysadmin experience before, I went with Lemmy due to better documentation. But I am thinking about switching - can you “migrate” your instance, or did you just set up a new PieFed one and abandon the old Lemmy one?

Sounds like an easy way to do unproportional damage to projects with a bit of location spoofing.

Oh, just to not accidentally create the wrong impression - that’s not me, I just shared the video and didn’t want to editorialise the title. If you want to give them your message (that I think is important, indeed) - you can follow the link and should be able to comment with many different activitypub account options (PeerTube itself, Mastodon, etc.) - sadly, I don’t think Lemmy is possible yet, because its design isn’t user-centric but content-centric, and it lacks some of those AP-capabilities.

Yeah, I personally wouldn’t choose them, but I think they do fill a niche for non-techie users, who will gladly pay a (sometimes hefty) premium for having less hassle on the setup and maintenance sides, when compared to getting A VPS or dedicated server somewhere (or setting smth up at home).

Their videos are also usually pretty informative, including e.g. the one about managing mastodon storage - since it’s topical here.

Ah, yeah, I keep being scatterbrained and impulsive when crossposting, and forgetting he sadly doesn’t even link direct links in the video description, instead of just to the website itself. Will add the link to the lemmy post bodies at least.

The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time.

And that’s just not bloody true.

Couldn’t have said it better myself