This is almost what I want. I looked into it and you can follow from mastodon, but it just gives a post title and a link. That’s probably because it’s a full blogging architecture. I don’t imagine users would want to have to click a link for a short bit of information.

If they could be married in some way, it would probably be perfect.

The context that I am thinking of is say some sort of authority that previously used twitter to disseminate information.

For example @UN_NERV@unnerv.jp on mastodon is used as an earthquake warning service. I don’t really see any direct interactions on their masto, but they have 20k followers and is obviously a useful service.

I’d imagine that others might consider using Mastodon in a similar way, but they don’t because you have to manage an entire server and take care to remove unwanted content that was downloaded locally.

I think it could draw in both more users and corporations if there was a one way flow of information. Many people used twitter for news updates and more and I feel like mastodon could replace that.

If it was stupid easy to set up a broadcasting service on mastodon like that, that are opt-in by default could benefit many.

It might be over-engineering with the presence of RSS feeds and such but, if something could be tightly integrated with Mastodon to achieve the same goal of easily disseminating information to various servers, it would draw both users and companies.

There was an issue with Debian installs a few weeks ago where it broke due to some modules. It can be avoided by using the net installer.

If you’re using an Nvidia card, you will need to download the appropriate drivers. The Debian docs explain the steps, just read carefully to make sure you don’t miss something small.

If you want to make it as seamless as possible, use Debian with Gnome.

Apart from that, there is virtually no difference. You can get and use all the same packages. Games on steam run without issue (or any more than reported by other distributions). I don’t use PPAs but between official debs and flatpak, I haven’t had any issues getting software that I needed.

FWIW I ran: Apex Legends, Resident Evil 1+2, FFXIV, Gears 5, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and plenty more without a single crash or glitch.

I also switched to Debian from Ubuntu. It wasn’t perfectly smooth but once you get set up, it’s as stable as can be.

This is an interesting piece of history that I have never seen. Thanks for sharing

It was yesterday but good to know that there can be at least a general timeline. I guess I’ll just have to put up with all the walls for now.

Right now they’re giving me a run around for it so it hasn’t been so easy

Well, I contacted them and used the GDPR as my reasoning. Let’s see if they comply or come up with another excuse.

Shady to say the least. But as long as you have a single ban active, they keep you from deleting it

Think I have any actual recourse to pressure them into deleting it? They won’t let you delete any account with an active ban

I got caught up in it. At this point I have no respect for the company. This was one of my favorite games to play but I refuse to touch any EA products anymore. I only hope they unban me so I can officially delete my account.

Edit: After going through 12 emails, with 6 consecutive different associates, In which 5/6 asked me for verification that I owned the account instead of actually progressing the case - I finally reached someone who helped. I submitted a request on the site and am waiting back to get confirmation my data was deleted.

The email chain went like this: Assistant 1: Requests verification code and asks if I want to exercise my right to be forgotten Me: (verifies and confirms) Assistant 2: Sends a disclaimer and asks me to confirm Me: (confirms) Assistant 3: Asks if it’s for this account, if there are any others. Me: (confirms) Assistant 4: Requests verification again and asks if I am trying to exercise my right to be forgotten. Me: (confirms) Assistant 5: Requests verification code and asks me if I have any mobile games. Me: (confirms and answers no) Assistant 6: Requests verification code again. Asks if I am exercising my right to be forgotten. Me: (says I’m not confirming any more and to delete my damn data according to the GDPR)

Right after that someone contacts me that they are looking into it. Eventually I get an email with a link to the help site that asks me to to confirm my email I follow through, request a deletion and it says to wait a couple days for a confirmation email.

I also receive another email from another associate shortly after (#7) asking me to confirm that I want to request my data is deleted.

A fuckin’ nightmare.