I would keep the castle, but turn off the heating in all but 3 insulated rooms and live in the area I needed. Might even open up the rest of it for tourists.

Best to be safe and hate everything to have maximum compatibility with potential partners.

True. And I do see the point some make in saying they want to show demand for Linux native apps and don’t want to show demand for Windows apps (via comparability layer or VM). I think there is an option to filter Linux native games in the Steam app if I’m not mistaken.

Why would you want to turn it off?

If you might need Windows, then yeah sure dual boot. Best to put it on a separate drive. Windows can screw up the dual boot sometimes. I’ve had to do a full reinstall a number of times before because Windows breaks GRUB and I don’t k ow how to fix it. Do whatever you want as long as you know what you’re getting into. If there’s no critical data involved then it doesnt matter if something breaks.

I don’t give a shit about waterproofing. I want more battery, repairability and a headphone socket.

But that’s not what normies want. So fuck me.

Put OP on monitoring CCTV.

Only my family, friends and work. But I’m working on cutting them out of my life.

There was a big uproar amongst normies when the WhatsApp TOS changed…but people forget quickly and prefer convenience. That was our one chance to convert everyone over.

I’m forced to use WhatsApp chat so I keep it installed begrudgingly. But who the fuck is using WhatsApp stories?

Use the poor man’s replacement plastic tub.

But the point isn’t to see everything. The feeling of FOMO is what’s seems to drive people to madness. For a game that’s been developed for over a decade with multiple cycles of content release every year; I’m not surprised that people don’t get a chance to see everything. I see that as a positive and not a negative.

Other games do similar things. I play a lot of Dead Cells and can’t get beyond 4BC. Most people will never get to end game content to see all bosses or unlock all items. Who cares. As long as the game is fun.

My first play through of PoE was with no guides. I made it up as I went along. Had a terrible “build”. I enjoyed taking weeks to get through the campaign slowly and reading all the lore. Every league I played, I got deeper and deeper into the content…learning to make tons of currency, getting a character to lvl 100, etc. It has been great playing it off and on. The game is fun without experiencing “everything”. But if I ever engaged with the online community, all I would hear is “I’ve played 3000 hours and this game is shit”.

Path of Exile

Good fun game, but online communities are committing to min/max the fun out out of it. I like blowing up monsters, I don’t care about optimising my chaos-per-hour rate.

I want to support an EU company and the eco mission, but I also want privacy. I used to use Brave but I want to move away from that and still avoid leaking my data to Google.

Lego Death Star win condition

I changed to Ecosia when I last saw this chart. It’s working really well and is my main search engine across all my devices now.

But now I’m considering moving to Mojeek if that’s better for privacy.

Cool. It’s a good service.

Willy Wonka has no cards.

Searching/surfing YouTube is like searching/surfing Imgur. It’s a site for content hosting so you can link from other places. You have to go to online communities to find links to good videos.

There are good channels that are worth subscribing to, but going to YouTube directly is like trudging though a swamp.

I’ve been with them for years and they’ve been awesome. Customer support was good when I was having trouble setting up my custom domain. Their web interface dose look a bit retro, but I never use that anyway (email in Thunderbird and online drive accessed with WebDAV, calendar and contact access in phone apps).

MailBox has been great as a single solution to get rid of all Google services from my phone (including contact/calendar sync). Highly recommended.