Same here, my bank has a really good cash back card.

Glad you found some good deals online. Do you do credit card churning at all?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVuabEckMMA

(From https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/kqw0si/guide_on_how_to_easly_run_pirated_games_on_linux/?rdt=44586)

• Download pirated game
• Install Lutris and find your game in it
• Install original game through Lutris
• Using WINEPREFIX=“/Lutris/game/prefix (eg. /home/USER/Games/originalgame)” wine piratedgame.exe install pirated game into this Lutris prefix
• Apply crack
• (optional) Copy your saves into this prefix’ c:\Users\Documents folder
• Change game executable in lutris from platform exe (like EGS or Steam) to your pirated game’s .exe
• Run game using Lutris.

If Lutris is having issues, you may have better luck using Bottles, also trying the non flatpak version if you are currently using flatpak.

Loglevel was at 7 before changing, systemd-analyze also seems to have an error with counting firmware on startup which seems to be the case with others as well. Aside from changing to a static address, I disabled a service that was waiting for eth0 which did not exist.

Changing to quiet and loglevel 3 seemed to decrease boot time slightly.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance/Boot_process

No problem, it’s an awesome repository with a lot of uses and some old games even have a play in browser feature.

Have you tried archive.org?

If by normal people you mean the general public, my guess is just Tiktok and social media.

I didn’t think about military surplus stores. There seems to be some items that people really enjoy, like the army poncho liners or old ammo canisters for containers.

I’ve been looking for a genuine army poncho liner but can only find knock offs online and cant find a reputable surplus store online if it exists

Yes, they got rid of the lifetime warranty and I personally haven’t worn them, but people tell me their old ones work well and have a similar opinion as yours.

Thank you, I didn’t realise there was a community already.

I got an airpod cleaning multi tool from Amazon and it actually works really well.

Also if you have the Sony xm1004, they have little foam bits in them and over the years they get soaked up with sweat and earwax, it’s really gross. So if you think your sound is super quiet and have earbuds with foam inserts, first use some tweezers and something to gently squeeze out the foam and clean with isopropyl alcohol.

I think the only reasonable way to do that would be using AI since the sponsors are placed randomly throughout usually. Unless you listen to a specific podcast and they do same length of sponsor in same time slot every video you could automate something that cuts it out.

Fair enough, I most likely broke the system due to not understanding it when using Endeavour. From my understanding now, someone can choose to not install de specific programs and additional endeavouros apps.

I’m sure there would be a way to create a script that puts the commands that you’d like in for a given url. Also haven’t used yt-dlp, it’s nice that they have sponsorblock built in.

Most of the guides I will try to add to my kindle or save on my laptop. Looking for Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, Animal Crossing, Elden Ring, Demons Souls. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it and may make a personal list of all the games and links.

I don’t have much experience with Plex, but if you can map the buttons in autohotkey you may be able to set it up to perform certain tasks in Plex. Also for consideration you should look into getting a small NAS setup with raid 5 in order to keep your media safe in case of a drive failure.

Being offline should not be a problem as long as devices are on the same local network.

I appreciate the big response, and definitely have to look into compiling and the build process, using git, more terminal centric applications, etc. I’ve seen that there is a distro to learn Linux that comes in stages, I don’t know what it’s called off the top of my head.

Setting flags does seem very annoying, it’s hard for me to keep track of programs and settings already.

I forgot to mention Fedora Silverblue. I’ve used it after Micro os and it was a better experience. Fedora seems to have a better out of box experience and had no issues.

I understand now, maybe give Debian a try with KDE.

Edit: or Fedora/Opensuse and their immutable versions (I believe the kde ones are in beta for immutable but work great if all you need is flatpaks)