I used to do this with Gentoo, and it was always a blast! Glad that you’re having fun “rolling your own!”

Gosh! This takes me back! What a great game!

I bought the various flavors of Gameboy just to play the slew of those games.

I tend to play a lot of the old text-tile games that I cut my teeth on back starting with Angband. Any of those variants are enjoyable, but I pretty much stick to Zangband (Angband adding in the work of Zelazny) and frogcomposband (It’s a mouthfull, but FUN).

I have my Mastodon instance broken out into docker containers running on one of my “beefy” servers in my homelab. I don’t regret setting it up at all, but I’m glad I’ve resisted lemmy/kbin/etc. With Mastodon, I don’t feel any guilt about keeping it to myself, and having no anxiety about someone losing content. I tend to feel like if someone is creating content on a platform I own, I have an obligation to treat it with respect, as opposed to how I feel about my own content.

Here’s the (excellent) guide I followed (mostly).