Which games?

For older games: MechWarrior 3 and 4 (plus expansions). Thief 1+2. Freespace 2. Gothic 1+2. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

But in general, I play a lot of weirder, niche games that just don't get a lot of traction for community fixes and so on.

You might be interested in Fooyin?

https://fooyin.org/

Exactly why i made my comment! Thank you! Will check it out! So many players out there for Linux it is hard to keep track!

Fooyin looks to be inspired by foobar2000 that compiles natively on Linux, but I haven't tried it.

https://fooyin.org/

Apparently Audacious is a descendant of XMMS, though I haven't used either of them.

https://audacious-media-player.org/

I'm on my 8th year of using my original iPhone SE, have replaced the battery a few times and the screen a couple of times. It's still doing what I need it to do on iOS 15, but I noticed a few big names apps have stopped supporting iOS 15 in the past year so the installed versions are the last compatible versions (e.g. the installed versions of Uber and Netflix are > 6 months old).

Performance-wise, it can stutter a bit on modern websites and sometimes in some apps, but otherwise works reasonably well. A few weeks ago I noticed it was struggling more than usual and chewing up more battery, but then I cleared up some disk space and it's been running fine.

The minimum supported iOS version for some of my must-have apps (e.g. WhatsApp, my banking app) is currently iOS 15, so I imagine when that changes I'll need to finally upgrade my phone. Feels like its days are numbered.

That's impressive, thanks for sharing! I miss my original SE, the size was perfect. And I felt iOS 15 and 16 were really solid updates.

Curious - what makes it easier on the 5S? I've replaced the battery and screen on my SE a handful of times and from i can tell from iFixit the process to do the same thing on the 5S looks identical.

Oh maybe I'm wrong then, I felt like I read that the 5S was easier.

I only have Facebook, mostly because of local community groups, buy/sell pages, marketplace and some group chats. I find blocking the news feed effectively allows me to use it as a tool without being subject to brainrot.

It looks like Secure Scuttlebutt may also be relevant here, as it was designed with unreliable networks in mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt

Surely the fact that it's open-source means that it can always be forked if it trends in a direction you don't like?

Distrowatch already has too many options.

Shame, Amyl and the Sniffers would've put on a hell of a show ;)

I agree though, Melbourne is absolutely bursting at the seam with events, groups and activities in almost anything you could possibly be interested in. It's particularly noticeable for me coming from Sydney. I saw someone in a local FB group suggest holding a whip-cracking jam meetup in a park and it generated significant interest.