I mean they can’t exactly ignore the law, can they?

I’m not sure how newsworthy this whole topic is, but apparently it sets some people off, so it generates clicks if nothing else.

I love Sublime Merge. Worth every penny.

No. Yes. Probably not for most use cases.

Good point, didn’t even realize this was from 2012.

Not sure, but maybe you can snapshot these subvolumes independently?

I like that Linus is so strict on not breaking user space because this obviously aids with compatibility and it’s probably a big part of why rolling releases work.

But I sure hope Linus’ eventual successor won’t be toxic and…cringe. It’s hard to take someone serious when he’s raging this much.

Goes to show how much money they made with lousy “remasters” and GTA Online. The only proper new game they released in between was RDR 2.

I almost forgot that delayed PC releases are a thing with Rockstar Games.

Not sure I’d recommend getting anything resembling a computer with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage nowadays, but it’ll certainly still work.

I’d probably start with a minimal Debian installation (or Arch if you prefer being on the bleeding edge I guess) and then add GNOME desktop and whatever else I need afterwards. I don’t recommend checking the box that says “GNOME” in the Debian installer, as that installs a whole bunch of packages you’ll probably never use, and disk space is at a premium here.

Performance should be doable as long as you don’t multitask a lot, but don’t expect any wonders as 2 physical cores really isn’t a lot these days.

That should snowball quite a bit considering remaining personnel probably has to work more hours to compensate for missing personnel.

Things rarely are black and white.

iCloud Mail, because using custom domains and “Hide My Email” aliases are included in iCloud+ which I have anyway (any storage subscription includes access to iCloud+), it’s free and it works fairly well.

But ProtonMail and the likes are obviously way better in terms of privacy, but iCloud Mail works for me.

We’ll see how it turns out, but I don’t see myself grabbing/playing this game.

GTA V was good for the time I guess, but to be honest for me the single player was just okay, and while I enjoyed some multiplayer sessions with some friends (heists and other activities were kind of cool), many other sessions were ruined by hacked lobbies and whatnot. They need to have dedicated servers to host the lobbies to get cheaters somewhat under control, but I don’t see that happening as that would cost money.

Currently an iPhone 13 Pro with iOS (obviously :'D).

Overcast iOS app comes to mind.

I started a second (and third) run of Baldur’s Gate 3 (4 and 3 Player group respectively), one as a barbarian and on as a bard. It’s definitely my favorite game in recent memory, it might even be one of my favorite games or single most favorite game ever.

Besides that, Mario Wonder has also been great, although I didn’t play a lot of it yet. I did finally get a (used) Switch for that game though, so I’m definitely intending to play through this game at least once.

Oh you’re right. Didn’t even realize AdGuard was GPL in its “Home” version.

Free beer is freeware, but it can be closed source.

Free speech is freeware that’s also open source with a permissive license, so you can create an opinionated version of it.

All kind of achieve the same thing, but in different ways.

Pi-Hole is the completely free way of doing ad and tracker blocking at the DNS level. Free as in free beer and free as in free speech.

AdGuard is free as in free beer but not as in free speech.

Both solutions mentioned above have to be self-hosted.

NextDNS is a managed service for which you have to pay a (very small) monthly fee for. The advantage is that - once setup - it pretty much just works (exception being custom updates to filter lists, but that applies to the other two as well). What’s cool about that is that it’s reachable from outside your local network, so you can use it on your phone or whatever even when you’re not at home (they offer apps and profiles for easy setup). You can expose your Pi-Hole/AdGuard DNS to the outside world, but this has some caveats and probably higher latency/worse availability.

Opinions differ when it comes to privacy, but I’d say they (NextDNS) are trustworthy/not selling your data as this doesn’t seem to be their business model. Obviously, with Pi-Hole you don’t have to trust anyone (except the code authors unless you study the code yourself), so when in doubt Pi-Hole wins in this regard.

Be careful when setting up either of these as the default DNS service in your home network, especially when other users are in your network, as the default configuration of either of these will break some websites, services and apps to stop working and you (the admin) would have to handle the errors your users are getting by adding exceptions and/or different filters. The good news is that there are more conservative filter settings available that will still block most ads and trackers while being way less likely to break anything.

Did you try the TeamSpeak 5 beta client? It uses CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) I think so it should be pretty platform agnostic. You can join TS3 servers with it just fine :)