I think I’ll be picking up this game after reading this. Thank you for sharing your experience.

I’ve always been interested in this game but I had played Far Cry 2, I believe, and remember feeling it was just a chore going through the latter half of the game, so I was turned off of Far cry for a while.

I’m not American, but why would a rental agency need a customer’s SSN?

I just replayed Subnautica in VR. Such a great game.

You won’t lose them if you back them up. SMS Backup and Restore can automate the task for you.

1. Don’t go to the United States

If you really have to…

1. Backup phone.
2. Factory reset (make sure you really backed up everything)
3. Install only essential apps (not from backup). Don’t log into anything.
4. Cross border. (you just got a new phone and haven’t set it up yet)
5. Restore backup.

Ideas 1, 2, and 4 could come together with a permaculture food forest/farm. First task would be to cover crop the land to protect from soil loss and start replenishing some nutrients. Then, you have some time to make a good, phased plan of how you’d want to develop it.

Talk to experts and professionals whichever direction you take. They’ll often save you much more than they cost.

Steam Link works well if they’re still around.

I’ve heard of folding@home but haven’t really looked much into it.

No torrent needed, yt-dlp has you covered.

I can’t imagine it will be free and actually useable in any form.

Free*

*except you can only play one game in 24 hrs. *you can only play with four people *there is only a small set of prompts available

While it’s a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.

Right, but I would say the same thing and for a gaming machine, I would much prefer something that did the Arch install for me and worked for most games out of the box.

I’ve found CachyOS to be fairly uncomplicated and it’s gaming tweaks make most things work out of the box through Lutris. I’d probably avoid the standard Arch install for a newbie

That little blue triangle in the top left is quite the turnoff.

There’s no helping this one.

The internet must be a miserable place for you.

I wouldn’t worry about it, it’s just a minute detail.

Not that I’m familiar with. I would guess that the limited processing power of a phone would bring a pretty poor experience though.

There are quite a few options for running your own LLM. Ollama makes it fairly easy to run (with a big selection of models - there’s also Hugging Face with even more models to suit various use cases) and OpenWebUI makes it easy to operate.

Some self-hosting experience doesn’t hurt, but it’s pretty straightforward to configure if you follow along with Networkchuck in this video.

Except the hundreds of millions they have spent year after year since then.