My first choice is Pop!_OS because my graphics cards are NVidia, but you said that you don’t like their DE. My second choice is LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). It is boring and stable and gets out of your way.

JDownloader should work.

Pirate today, buy tomorrow…unless its a AAA dumpster fire. Always pirate AAA games. The gaming experience tends to be better because pirates remove all the anti-cheat and other BS.

My wife and I were piss poor and getting finance degree at a third rate state college. I was paying my way with PC support. One day I spent money I didn’t have to buy a Wndows NT certification book and used the university’s T1 line to pirate NT 4.0 for myself and MS SQL and Oracle 7 for my wife (I also bought a CD of Red Hat Halloween). Almost thirty years later we literally saved a presidential election and are the ones keeping significant parts of the US infrastructure from falling apart. All thanks to piracy.

There is some functionality not available through the web apps. If you work in a corporate setting, the odds are really good that the web apps won’t be adequate for you.

One example that comes to mind is one of our clients that has us file a report once per quarter. The report is an Excel spreadsheet that can be filled but not edited. The submission demands that the file be then password edit protected and uploaded along with the password. You cannot secure files that way via the web app. We literally keep a Windows VM with the a copy of the desktop office suite, just for this client’s quarterly form.

Fun Fact: I started “archiving” games off of BBS back in the intel 386. By the early 2000’s I had hundreds of games and apps going back to Zork and other very early PC, backed up in hard drives, CDs, and Zip Drives. I have no doubt that I might have had one of very few copies in existence of some games.

Sad Fact: They all went missing after one of our moves. All I have left are a small stack of zip drives and no zip drive to read them with.

The point is that, had it not been for a moving mishap, I would have copies of long lost games to share with the world, all thanks to piracy.

I use to run RasPlex on a PiZero with a Bluetooth gamepad as a Plex client. There has to be a jellyfin equivalent. For some time, I have just used older game consoles as media clients instead.

Or…hear me out…stop streaming service enshittification.

Did you ever make the custom mapping available on Steam?

I literally just started the work this week so I’m still trying to figure out what bindings work best for me.

Renoise music tracker DAW.

I run everything through a Tailscale intranet, so that should not be a problem.

🏅 Thank you.

Oohh, is there a synology client? I have to look it up.

I happily pay for Audible. It is probably the one Amazon service I truly appreciate. That said I think I should have the right to archive the library DRM free given that I have already paid for it. I don’t think this should be considered piracy at all.

A UPS should always be your first or second purchase if only for power conditioning and brown-out protection.

That’s the difference between randomizing a playlist and shuffle play. If you randomize a playlist, the songs will never repeat unless you have them in the list twice. YouTube Music’s shuffle play often plays the same twenty songs over and over out of a playlist with over six hundred songs.

Jokes aside, I have paid for Google’s music service since it launched (RIP Play Music), but I am a millisecond away from canceling my subscription because Google does not provide me with any way to randomize playlists. I don’t mean shuffle play. That shit is broken and always has been. It would not be a big deal if I could randomize my playlists on demand, but no.