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OpenSUSE got me onto Linux and was such a great option for a first distro. I still think about changing back sometimes. I’m surprised it doesn’t get recommended more often.

Not the standard answer, but here’s another opinion: I think Signal is a good alternative.

Depends on how you use Instagram. If you’re just sharing with closed groups of friends and family then just make some groups in Signal and share pictures with each other there.

If you want to post to everyone or look at everyone else’s posts then this obviously isnt going to work. But if your use case is as I describe above then just try using your private chat app.

I tried signing up. Porkbun asked me to upload a photo ID before they would make an account for me (UK). Noped out of there.

I’ve had Windows cause enough problems with wrecking my Linux boot partition to not want to try this again. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. It works fine most of the time. But I’m not willing to risk that rare occasion when windows renders my Linux drive unbootable. Maybe there’s a way to fix the boot partition and I haven’t figured it out. But restoring my whole system is so annoying that I wouldn’t risk it.

So i would recommend that the best option is to consider just ignoring that game and playing the endless number of great games out there that run on Linux already.

This is what the Gabe Cube and Steam Deck are for. Price rises have been unfortunate and normies aren’t going to consider those anymore. I guess the Nintendo Switch 2 with some game cartridges might be their next choice…although this is obviously a huge mistake if the point was to find a company with consumer friendly practices.

It is impossible to make a good decision. There are so many brands, and information that is important is so difficult to find. I’ll happily pay more for brands that focus on sustainability, avoid slave-labour-like practices, support communities, don’t fund genocide, etc. But it is exhausting trying to keep up. I see it on Lemmy all the time…a digital product I use or pay for because the last information I had was that they’re good; but then there’s an uproar that it was bought out or the founder supports some appalling ideology or something. Can’t fucking keep up.

I tried signing up and they wanted a copy of photo ID or something ridiculous. Noped out of there. Is that just a UK thing or what?

“Piracy is almost always a service problem”.

GabeN was right. When the service was good, I never felt the need to go down this route. I’ve been buying music, video games and streaming shows and TV for over a decade. But now the hat and eye patch come out again.

“Protecting the kids” was never the goal.

You’re correct in saying that their primary goal has seen resounding success.

Charging that user for the amount they consume doesn’t pay for the infrastructure upgrades and installations that are now required. This is normally distributed across users as the use is distributed across users. But with data centres it is easy to point towards a single user now and charge them for all of this…and that’s what they should do.

Same. Except work seems to block my cloudflare tunnel so I have to use Synology reverse proxy.

If your whole identity, personality, community or social group is based on hating something then you should reevaluate how you spend your time. This is only marginally worse than making your whole personality being a fanboy for a specific brand/product. Things are there to help you do stuff, so get on and do that stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You’re preaching to PC gamer enthusiasts. The majority of normies see PC as too advanced and complicated. Most go looking for consoles. The console market isn’t going down any times soon and devs can make plenty of money from this huge and very lucrative consumer.

I spend a lot of time looking out for undervalued products on eBay and sniping auctions. It is quite laborious. I imagine it would be most useful in this sort of shopping. Or buying tickets the second they become available, or tracking sites for cheapest air fare or hotels and completing the transaction on those sorts of things.

I don’t advocate using it. I wouldn’t want to. But I imagine people will use it a lot for things like this.

Not really. Workers are left taking the blame for forced implementation from the executive level. They save the costs and work staff harder… But when it fucks up then the workers can take the blame. Responsibility for this needs to sit higher up with those who forced faulty tools on everyone. AI is being forced into the NHS against all protests and objections.

Full list of options…before this turns into a long list of options: https://alternativeto.net/software/winrar/?license=opensource

I’m more of a PeaZip person myself.

Arch BTW… 😎

Is there some sort of “index fund” for open source software. I use tons of open source software and intermittently sprinkle one time donations on certain projects. I’d rather have it simplified and donate regularly to a foundation that spreads the funds fairly to big projects and small ones and one that I might not use but benefit the world at large.