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flatpak for something as low level as a VPN is just not a great use case. I say that as a huge proponent of flatpak.

I don’t know if I would call that a Muppet but fair enough lol

The muppet on the wall?

Don’t count standard notes out just yet!

They offer discounted plans upon request!

https://standardnotes.com/help/56/what-if-i-can-t-afford-the-price-of-extended

Valve’s Artifact Classic card game. I actually found the basic formula to be really fun.

I think this game died for two reasons:

A) The game was review bombed for its monetization (IMO a lot of this was the non-target audience trying it and leaving a bad review)

B) Valve said following the review bombing that they were going to make major changes. This resulted in a lot of Artifact fans (IMO) leaving the game because … why invested and learn a game that’s going to undergo major changes.

So Valve worked on Artifact Foundry (and never finished it) … before eventually everyone at Valve gave up and released both Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry for free. The original Artifact Classic is still a great time with a friend and all cards are now totally free so you can build whatever decks you want.

It’s basically a AAA studio card game, with cross platform support, released in complete, for free … because of some poor decision making. Some things may be unbalanced but if you’re playing with friends anyways … just have a friendly agreement to not use the cards that cause problems in your decks. It also could bounce back into active development if it starts to acquire a player base again (because Valve).

You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain – DC Comics

(I hope they do find a way to make this “for the best” – maybe reviving Scroll like technology + private advertising + actually checking to make sure advertisers are legitimate so you can pay to turn ads off on lots of websites and the ads aren’t leading to malware – but it’s very concerning in general)

Might want to check your sent mail to see what all is in there … Maybe your account got hacked and used to send spam (?)

Yup… It looked like a really bad attempt at photo realism in 2024. At this point you either need to use cartoon-like graphics or some sort or actually pull off the photo realism.

It was pretty obvious that game was never going to reach either of those marks.

I was definitely excited for the prospect of a Sim’s competitor, but this wasn’t going to be it… I think they did the right thing pulling the plug.

I’m surprised, I was pretty sure anything with Battleye flat out rejected virtualization.

I thought Destiny used Battleye but I must be mistaken on one of these points.

There’s nothing to suggest they haven’t been able to spare the resources or hire more component people.

Hiring more people to work on new products is often a better route than hiring more people to work on the same product as well because there are fewer toes being stepped on.

My biggest frustration with the remaster is they didn’t touch up the hotboxes… Which maybe some people are fine with but I’ve had a lot of “crashes” where the cars were close but not actually touching.

A company can do multiple things at once.

It’s basically just pihole AFAIK but for the VPN.

OpenGL is an older graphics API with a lot of issues I won’t get into here.

You’re almost guaranteed to be better off using DXVK.

AFAIK, Windows firewall is perfectly fine, usable in commercial spaces, etc. You’re probably going to be getting into more “hobbyist” firewalls even if you do find one … and a firewall isn’t something you particularly want that with. You want something that’s well designed and well maintained.

(I say this as a guy that has run Linux on basically everything for … over a decade)

If you’re going to use Windows … just use Windows firewall. There’s no real reason that I can think of anyways to replace that one component with something FOSS.

Proton because I get it basically for free under my existing Proton plan and because of Proton’s stellar reputation.

That’s not to say the apps aren’t a bit buggy or missing (Linux doesn’t have one) though.

Best for what requirements?

Lots of space? Ease of use? What devices? Web access? Etc

I don’t think there’s a way currently, but I’d definitely like one.

I was a teen in the early 2010s. It’s not a hard and fast rule, but the people I know that I grew up with (myself included) that are doing the best with their careers, did the best in college, and were least subject to peer pressure/had good impulse control had parents that did not censor their access to the Internet and instead had conversations about time management and gave them room to fuck up in high school.

I went to a community college during high school per my parents pressure and promptly fucked up one class having to drop it and having my parents pay $600 instead of tanking my GPA.

BUT, I never dropped a single class at university and graduated magna cum laude. I had the room to fail when it didn’t matter as much.

I don’t want to be a backseat parent, but as someone that grew up in this mess myself and saw a lot of people hit the pavement, please consider giving them more freedom as they get older so they can fail while you’re still there to catch them. You don’t need a firewall to stop someone from watching videos all day … just check in and see what they’ve been into all day; encourage them to create stuff not just consume it.

I was also very isolated in high school, depressed and hiding it, and the folks I met playing video games on the Internet honestly were a huge factor in my continued existence. Some are still very good friends well over a decade later.

Perhaps a different perspective, perhaps not. Do what’s right for your kids, but every time I hear about parents policing their teens Internet usage I get concerned because of my own lived experiences. Have a nice day.