I have an idea
I've gone that road and I'll tell you that making a windows virtual machine is much less of a headache. I'd recommend using qemu/kvm over something like virtualbox because otherwise it won't be very usable
- Doesn't track you like discord does to remain "free"
- You audit the code for security and privacy issues
- You can self-host or fork the code for yourself if you ever need to build a backup because some idiot decided to purchase the original revolt project and decided to screw with it
- It has an open source license so the software can never be privatized, it's essentially a public utility; for everyone by everyone
Our Story:
The Revolt project originally started back in 2019 by a group of three students from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, looking for an alternative to the already emerging, closed-source chat platforms. Our main focus for the project was to create an open-source, completely compromise-free platform that offered all of the same features and competed against other chat apps
- Revolt is made with collaborative effort, and if you like coding it makes it so if you can to try and code stuff to add custom functionality or plugins or whatever else. Like a public utility you can add to it and develop it communally, though in this case it would be a public utility serving a public with a population of just you. But because of the GPL license Revolt uses, it makes it so that you need to share your changes. Whatever form the source code takes, it remains a public utility until perpetuity.
Step 1: Caffeine
Going only off this post for context:
I've learned that depression will make me retroactively look at my past and keep wondering if I could have done anything different, and that the fact that I didn't do things differently means that I wasted all that time. It's been an uphill battle figuring out to let go of that and acknowledge the past as it is. I know, for me at least, accepting that hasn't been easy and I still need to work on it. I can't speak to your experience nor make any judgements for it as we are obviously different people with different histories.
However, ultimate responsibility for your nephew's well-being is 99% on your brother, assuming he feels any remorse to begin with, and your nephew's mother.
You're asking what if, the next thing which you probably are already thinking of is what now? That, I have no clue, and will end up being whatever is most reasonable for you and your family. Your parents are supportive so they might be willing to discuss next steps in dealing with your brother. I think it's important to discuss with the rest of your family as well about intervening steps to cut your brother's access to the family, his children more so. Given that your nephew committed suicide already means that the home environment probably isn't ideal for the other kids and they might not have enough time between now and whenever they're 18 to keep dealing with it.
Assuming your brother isn't a lost cause it might be beneficial to have an intervention or see if you can convince him to seek psychiatric and therapeutic help.
If not, then getting him as far as possible from everyone else is probably a potential next step to minimize the amount of damage he is able to inflict.
Agreed, notable people switching over is something that makes sense to talk about in a community dedicated to talking about the fediverse, some people are just too pedantic about categories.
If the smash roster was made up of geriatrics
Wow