And? That doesn’t mean you can’t send them money on it.

If they have a ko-fi then just use the web ui to donate…

You can still send them money even if they can’t sell their games. e.g. they could have a ko-fi or paypal or something. As for finding new stuff, I suppose it’d have to be word of mouth unfortunately.

Sorry not sure I understand. Are you saying you don’t know who the authors are? You could look up the name of the game and find usernames and give them a message. I imagine most of them are on social media somewhere, or have email addresses, etc.

Aside from the fact that it was stored in a public database, there’s no need to store photos of the IDs at all. The account can just be marked as verified and move on.

Also I doubt that measure would keep a man out if he really wanted to join…

Get a steam deck and either run games not through the steam launcher or just install another linux distro on it?

If you’re concerned about SteamOS snitching because Valve I don’t know why you’d consider Windows which has proven extensive telemetry.

1. You shouldn’t “trust” as a basis for security or privacy. Eg for protonmail, Proton can still read your incoming emails if they arrive unencrypted; the only way to avoid that is to send E2EE email, which unfortunately most email is not. You should assume that if they can, then they are.

2. If you have to use proton for whatever reason (can’t afford to pay to self-host things, don’t know how to and don’t have time to learn, etc), it’s perfectly fine for everyday use for things that are not particularly sensitive ie you don’t have a highly resourced state actor actively trying to obtain that data. Just always keep the first thing in mind. Too many people treat anything that calls itself “encrypted” as a silver bullet.

But also for normal users it’s annoying as if you’re in the middle of something like filling out a form, clicking onto the next page will tell you you need to restart your browser, and you lose your progress. So yeah, I’m happy about this change.

I mean, the graphics card issue sounds like a Windows virus to me, so probably would be fixed with a Linux install.

Nothing wrong with being obsessed with a fictional character. Lean into it and find ways of fulfilling the pain you say you are feeling, eg maybe spend more time writing stories about the character to explore things you want to see the character do or go through.

If you really want to “get over it”, then focus on developing other hobbies and interests. Whatever your second biggest interest is, spend more time on that.

In that case, wireguard. I only occasionally need to access a service that’s not exposed to the internet, so I use ssh -L, but that would be quite inconvenient for your own use case.

I know tailscale exists but I’ve never used it, only tried wireguard on its own. Maybe there’s some huge benefit to using it but wireguard worked fine for me.

Yeah but in the past few months ive consistently found Swedish Mullvad servers to work (occasionally blocked but if you refresh the page it’s unblocked) whereas the Swiss servers, which I used to use, have been fully blocked for quite a while. I’m sure it’ll change in due time but for now that’s what’s been working. And I have found this for all the Swedish servers I’ve tried and all the Swiss servers I’ve tried. Only tried Mullvad servers as that’s the VPN I use.

Are you the UK? No, you’re someone who lives there. The UK is a state.

Problem with that is that the capacity of optical media is pretty small. I used to use optical media to back up my personal data but stopped pretty quickly as I was running out of space.

Ah right. I wonder if that’s the result of linguistic convergent evolution or however you’d term it, or if the common usage of “begs the question” arose from a misuse of the logical fallacy. I’ve not heard of the logical fallacy myself and only know it from the common colloquial usage, but English isn’t my first language so not sure how common the knowledge of the logical fallacy is among native speakers.

Can you explain what improper “begs the question” looks like…?

Deliberately not capitalising proper nouns as a show of disrespect (countries, people, titles, etc). Not “grammatically correct” but I think it falls under freedom of expression.

FreeTube has been working for me with Mullvad VPN set to Swedish servers. Also https://inv.nadeko.net/ if I need to share links with anyone.

You can also pick one that avoids the worst industries ie defence and oil. They will still invest in evil shit but they can still avoid the biggest no-nos.

It was obvious to me. Even without the context of being posed to linuxmemes it’s a silly-sounding story. Not sure why so many people in the comments seem to be taking this seriously—even if they couldn’t tell the original was a joke, it’s posted to a memes community.

Also, you can use a burner email and vpn if you want to add an extra layer of obfuscation in there for privacy.

It’s still all tied to one account. They could say, for instance, the same person searched for “beans”, “onions”, and “rice”, as opposed to not being tied to an account where those 3 searches could have come from 3 different people. Of course, a search engine like DDG is only promising to not track you to try figure out if those 3 searches came from the same person, but various anti-fingerprinting measures could make it infeasible for DDG to do that. For a paid search engine, you’d have to pay for a new account per search if you didn’t want it tied to any other searches, if you don’t trust that Kagi isn’t logging searches (which you shouldn’t, because you shouldn’t rely on trust for any threat model).

I really hope I don’t come off as a shill for them. It’s one of the few companies I actually really like.

Don’t worry, I get where you’re coming from and I most certainly think some people have a use-case for it.