To exorcise parasites from the earth, ram a cross into the ground and magic godly waves will drive then out

I agree partially. For indie devs: get the game directly from the dev if possible, never get the codes, because the dev doesn’t really get money for those.

With AAA games, the picture is different. The business model for most has now pivoted to be about extracting money to the point where its absurd. And for them, I have absolutely no qualms with taking advantage of their bad business decisions.

Re: rolling updates breaking stuff. Doesn’t really happen. If there’s an issue updating there’s usually already an announcement explaining why and what to do. Also, Archwikiist just great.

• Arch
• daily everything (programming, gaming, whatever else flies my way)
• good, wouldn’t recommend this in particular to new people unless they aren’t afraid of a steep learning curve
• privacy, more control over my system, and my computer finally does what I tell it to. (Even if sometimes it probably shouldn’t, but then that’s on me). Oh also: it makes programming so much more enjoyable. Need a dependency pacman -Syu whatever-i-need, done.

If we have to use crypto (which I don’t really see a reason for to be perfectly honest), then I’d much rather seean privacy coin like Monero being used.

Just because it bugs me to no end: thats the original purpose of a VPN, not some privacy snakeoil. That being said most host-discovery doesn’t work reliably, or is not implemented by most programs.

As someone who quite enjoys lengthy video essays about obscure topics, I disagree.

If you see crypto as an investment, you shouldn’t use crypto, imho.