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Ehh… I’ve yet to get a virus from pirating games. Only virus I’ve ever gotten was on my childhood PC when my uncle was watching some sketchy adult content. I was just playing neopets at the time, so I doubt it was me

Kernel level anticheat is mostly in MMORPGs, which is my preferred genre, though there are some games without it. Notably Final Fantasy XIV, and Guild Wars 2 have no anticheat in the client at all. It also depends on the anticheat how much I’m willing to put up with it. XIGNCode is a hard no from me, but nprotect, and easyanticheat are both whatever IMO. Pick your threat model though.

The most complicated game is Wurm Online, and that’s because there’s something going on with my desktop where it just. Crashes. Constantly. I can usually get it to stay on indefinitely after 8 restarts, but it’s annoying.

Consoles are only future proof if you consider that eventually games will stop being released for them, and parts will stop being made. Sure you’ll be able to play the games you already own on them forever, but… Also your PC will be able to run any game on them forever, at least until the hardware degrades, but that also goes for consoles.

If you want to go fully no DRM, GOG is your best bet for most games. Itch.io is also there, but it’s mostly indie games, which isn’t everyone’s scene.

Overall I don’t think of it as complicated, but I’ve been PC gaming consistently for… 25 ish years? I’m largely used to it.

I used to do a lot of pasta, but I stumbled upon a master recipe that works so damn well. It’s based on chicken rice, which is a dish seen… Basically everywhere? This is all by weight:

• 1 part meat
• 2 parts veggies
• 2 parts rice/pasta
• 5 parts water
• Season to taste

You only need 4 parts water, but I find the rice comes out better with 5.

I have yet to find a combination that tastes bad. Some things to try:

For jambalaya use half sausage, half chicken for the meat, then use a mix of onion+green bell pepper+celery for the veg. Brown the meat, throw the veg in until it’s soft, then throw the rice and water in.

Toast the rice first! Don’t wash it if you do or it won’t toast right. Oil in a pan over medium heat until the rice is brown.

Most commonly I use spam as the meat, since I don’t always have chicken on hand. Usually have to undersalt it for this.

Overall I use peas and carrots most for the veggies, since they come really small. Broccoli also works.

Use frozen veggies! They taste fine, they’re just as nutritious as fresh, and they save a lot of time

Season salt (any kind, I use Tony Chacheres) is an amazing thing.

If you want a side with it I usually do Greek yogurt+fruit. Ton of protein (helps keep you full longer, great if you can’t snack on the job), plus some fiber from the fruit. I use fruit canned in juice for it. Just strain the fruit first. A small can of fruit in a pound of yogurt is how much I do. Put it into containers and you’re done!

Given your sunny disposition, I’ll politely decline.

Most countries. The bigger concern is typically whether they can compell them to keep logs, which not all can. Sweden (I believe) is one where they can compell a company to share logs, but not keep logs

Depends on where it hits, really. Some places you die instantly, others you’ll suffer then die, others you’ll become personally disabled/have your personality entirely changed, and sometimes you’ll be fine after the recovery

I like it! Bookmarking for future reference, since it seems helpful. Only thing I’d noticed that I think would be a good addition: Some kind of XMPP client, at least one of them. I use Dino on desktop primarily (fairly modern UI, has the core features in, but is made for GNOME so looks a bit funky on anything else), but Kaidan, Pidgin, and a few others exist.

Crying isn’t inherently harmful, but if you suddenly start crying a lot more than usual it might be a reason to see either a doctor or a psych. It’s a symptom of stuff, but if you just cry a lot normally that’s fine

Scurvy.

It’s easy to miss, and super easy to treat. Literally have heard of people going into the hospital for it, being given a glass of orange juice, and feeling better within minutes

To add onto this, like others have said, it also doesn’t actually create any long-term jobs. It’s a construction project, then a remote facility, nobody’s ever at these things

Yeah, it’s a pretty common factor. The weird thing is my church wasn’t particularly anti-gay, and none of my family cared, but Catholicism is inherently anti-gay for the same reason it’s inherently anti-birth control: sex is only for procreation in the eyes of the church. Because of that I didn’t actually come out to anyone in my family until I was in my 20s, and about to leave the state.

While there are a lot of problems with Christianity*, the bigger issues run deeper than the faith. People cherrypick the shit out of Christianity so they can live their lives, especially Catholicism**. People use their faith to justify their shitty opinions, while ignoring the faith when it goes against their lifestyle/other opinions, see: people calling empathy a sin despite that being Jesus’ whole thing.

There’s definitely a world where Christianity* can coexist with everyone else. It’s just getting there is the problem, and if we want to get there, then Christians* need to actually pull their heads out of their asses, and listen to the people around them. Also to face actual consequences for their shit-ass opinions, since having their kids cut them off apparently isn’t enough

• Includes Catholicism and Protestantism, I don’t care what y’all have been told. Protestantism includes Mormonism, I don’t care what y’all have been told. ** The Old Testament is full of stuff no one cares about, see Leviticus 19:19, or Deuteronomy 23:2

This is what I do. I use strawberry on desktop, and all of it is linked to ListenBrainz for recommendations

Never heard that term, but I now know how to find more things to enjoy, ty!

Oh, wild, didn’t know that. I hadn’t gotten into it when it came out.

I did kind of toy around with the idea of throwing Endless Eight into the rest of the series every couple of episodes instead of back to back if I rewatch. I was kinda tired of it by 6, plus I think the deja vu every couple episodes would be fun

I do still think the confusion was kinda fun, in a certain way. That does explain why episodes 16-28 were chronological though

I mean, the entirety of my interaction with my parents was:

Mom: Dumped me on her mom, and grandma

Dad: Left the state to chase tail

So, y’know. Short list of things not to do.

In terms of adults in general:

• If a kid is failing in school despite knowing the material, maybe something is wrong.
• Do not give an 8 year old unrestricted access to the internet when LiveLeak was a thing
• If a therapist says the kid has depression/anxiety, don’t bring them to another therapist just because one of the drugs that’s prescribed for that can cause suicidal ideation in some preteens
• If a therapist lets you stay in the room while the session is going on, the kid is 100% lying to everyone in that room, maybe even themselves
• Don’t stay in the room with the therapist
• Literally those last 3 points are what keeps therapy from working for me. I can’t trust therapists at all. DO. NOT. DO. THAT.
• If you’re religious, and your religion is anti-queer, your child can still be queer, they’ll just be miserable, and not trust you

I think that’s it, really. Aside one thing: They’re people, not property. Treat them like people, and you’ll have a lot better time with them.

Honestly I think having someone pull a giant mallet out and squish me like a pancake would fix me.

For comparability with each other, this table from Hagezi’s block list on github is a good reference

Honestly the difference mostly comes down to the software you use, from what I can tell. Generally if you use an extension it will be more comprehensive in the blocking, since some sites (like YouTube) serve ads from their own domains.

Also, the Adblock format is what’s used by a lot of the software that blocks ads at a DNS level, at least that consumers will use. Per the table it supports Pi-hole, AdGuard, AdGuard Home, eBlocker, uBlock Origin, Brave (only in aggressive mode), AdNauseam, and Little Snitch Mini, which is pretty comprehensive.

Aside that there’s hosts if you want to do it on a Linux desktop. I don’t recommend that, as you need to manually update the list every so often, though I’m sure it could be automated if you really want to.

Personally I just shoved one of Hagezi’s into AdGuard Home and called it a day. I check it about once a week to see what domains are getting pinged most, and block any suspicious ones.

Edit: No idea why the table condensed that much in the picture, removing it since it’s not really useful if you can’t see the whole table

You can already do that, at least in America. This isn’t a hot take, I did a report on it 10 years ago in college.

Lot of people are talking about Qobuz’s music recs, so figured I’d drop this here:

If it becomes a problem, ListenBrainz gives good recommendations. I use PanoScrobbler on mobile to sync listens. Only issue I can see is that it is owned by MetaBrainz (not affiliated with Facebook), which is an American company.

If you listen on multiple devices, you can also use gpodder (self-hostable if it’s a concern) to sync your listens. I use Kasts on desktop, AntennaPod on mobile. Kasts is on mobile too, but the UI on mobile is… Infuriating at best

There are several books which are hundreds of pages while measuring in the single-digits in sentences, it’s one of my favorite genres. Commas, semicolons, and emdashes are your best friends