• Abzu - hated the underwater movement controls
• Deponia & MechaNika - the protagonist is an asshole
• Papers Please - too stressful (works well as a piece of art, but wasn’t an enjoyable experience)

I used Feedly for many years, but recently switched to Newsblur, and I love that it lets me filter out posts by tags or keywords, finally don’t have to use external tools for it.

I still see it, albeit rarely, on some subreddits, eg. NatureIsMetal

I’m using whichever is the freshest version BakaBT allows (v4.5.4 right now).

https://github.com/Vulpelo/hide-youtube-shorts

this works for me

thanks :)

Yea, iirc I went IE -> Mozilla -> Firefox.

Are their Windows binaries safe to use? I don’t have the knowledge to compile it myself.

thanks, I’ll look it up

Yea, I remember when it was just Mozilla browser. (I’ve been an internet user since around 2000-2001-ish.)

I’ve been a Firefox main since before it was even called Firefox :D

As much as it lagged behind in speed in the early days of Chrome, back then Chrome didn’t have anywhere near to Firefox’s amazing selection of addons, many of which were essential to my workflow.

That also meant that I hated Firefox’s switch to WebExtensions, as it gutted most of the addons I used at the time, and it took them many years to get back as many features as possible (which of course has never been all the original features).

I even switched to Firefox ESR, then when that dropped support too, to Waterfox for a few years to retain the ability to use classic addons. But eventually it became too much hassle, and I have been a Firefox mainbranch user again since 2021 :)

For the handful of websites that only work in Chrome (or when I need to test my own websites), I’ve been using Brave in recent years. It’s weirdly into crypto nonsense, but at least those features can be disabled. But if anyone knows a better Google-less Chromium browser, pls let me know!

My main game for the last 1-2 years has been Genshin Impact, and a cursory googling says that it does use kernel level anti cheat.

I never tried Linux, but I consider it every few years. However if I weigh that

• O&O Shutup10 and group policies can remove all the telemetry and intrusiveness from Windows +
• most of my work involves Adobe products +
• my main hobby is gaming, with the vast majority of my games not having a Linux port

there are simply too many factors that would make Linux to be more hassle, have less performance or downright impossible to serve as a substitute for Windows, while for me personally not really offering any practical benefits over Windows.

looks nice, but I’m a PC user

thanks, it looks nice!

Huh, just looked him up, sad that he died so young :c

I tried out Fluent Reader (Windows) yesterday, but it was a bit buggy and lacked some necessary features, so I’m testing NewsBlur for now. The free version is kinda limited, but I love the training feature, and in general it feels the most user-friendly out of the 4-5 services/apps I tried yesterday.

Not that advanced, but two things I found useful:

• If you’re in a country that blocks torrent websites but not trackers (eg. UK), visit the sites via Tor browser.
• Rutracker.org and Rutracker.ru are surprisingly not blocked in the UK and have lots of good software. They’re BBCode-style forums, so fairly obvious how to navigate/search them even if you don’t speak Russian. If you want to read the description or comments of a specific torrent, pop the page into google translate.

thanks, I’ll check it out! I’d probably go with one of their cloud instances, as self-hosting is a pain with my skill level.

thanks!