Proton

Mullvad is good like the other guy said but Proton has port forwarding, which if you don’t wanna be a HnR jerk you wanna do

That means I have to leave my phone plugged into the computer while it installs rather than take my phone to browse memes on while I shit or whatever

Or, alternatively, you can bootstrap into a fine red mist as you get stuck to it and violently flung about

Lathes rule

And make sure you set it up right to do so

My dumb ass left VPN_AUTO_PORT_FORWARD set as “Tru” in my docker-compose and apparently that made the image assume I MEANT “false” so it was randomizing my port and not matching the VPN to it

Fixed that stupid typo and suddenly I can seed! I. Can. FIGHT!

They also combined Caravan POI’s with Tourist destinations, which really really fucked things up for people wanting to just see those and not thousands of other locations they want nothing to do with. Why are churches also mixed in there too? Makes no damn sense.

You can edit those out, though I agree them being there by default is fucking stupid, full stop

I recall reading somewhere that less than 5 years is the average time it takes for most individual works to earn the majority of its value, tapering off from there

So I’d probably do a 2-tier system:

Tier 1: independent civilians. After 5 years any normal civvie can take your work and use it without your permission to do whatever they want with it

Tier 2: Companies. Life of the author. For as long as the original creator is alive no company can ever use their work without permission

couldn’t do much without being the slog A Realm Reborn was.

I agree with everything else you said, but not this. I’ve seen multiple people write out different mild rewrites of areas and bits of the story to make it more interesting, and it wouldn’t have been much more work to flesh out the MSQ into more than just “go here talk to person” to the extreme it was. It didn’t have to be a slog

Hell, had they just picked between the two completely different stories in this expansion (hi Stormblood critique from 2017) and kept with that for the whole epac they could have produced something far less of a slog at least, and actually really GREAT at best (just look at the content design after all)

Shit my queue just popped I’m off to fight THE BEST BEE GIRL EVERRRRR

Probably because DT has seriously damaged many people’s view on their storytelling ability

ARR->EW is a fucking great ride though

Just some shows my wife watched as a kid, a couple of movies from the 60s

Unfortunately I got home yesterday and qbittorrent was off and all my torrents were gone

Checked the log and something went wrong but I’m still not 100% sure what, I think I might have fucked up the time settings though

I just finished reconfigging my whole old server into it’s new modern form and set it up so that at either ratio > 2 or 1 month of no seeding has passed

So far my overall ratio is fucking .78 because apparently nobody wants to download the shit I’ve got seeding other than me :'(

(Tbf it’s mostly old obscure shit rn cuz I’m catching up on more obscure releases of movies n shit this month, but that was maybe a dumb idea right after completely overhauling my setup and tracking my ratios now lol)

If you run your own server it’s as simple as setting

Online-Mode: false

And installing an account management plugin if you open it to other players (so people can’t just easily change names and impersonate someone)

I exclusively played on and ran cracked servers for 6 years (2011-2017), shit rules

I know my dad and I played Ace Combat, Crash Bandicoot, and Independence Day when I was suuuuuper young, so it’s probably one of those 3

Horrifically enough I remember equating one of the power-ups in ID to the shirt Steve from Blues Clues wore (this might legit be my earliest memory period) so it’s probably that steaming pile of garbage

Yes, after the rep had personally been trying to play dumb for almost 30 minutes. As a CSR myself I know it shouldn’t take 30 minutes to explain your delivery person THREW MY PACKAGE OVER MY 8 FOOT FENCE FEDEX I FUCKING SAW THEM DO IT. THE PACKAGE SAID FRAGILE ON IT YOU STUPID CUNTS WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND I HAVE SECURITY FOOTAGE

I kinda blacked out because I absolutely loathe being unkind to customer-facing workers but dear Christ this was a $300 object and I could hear the smugness as the guy played up his Indian accent (suddenly much more understandable after I snapped) while saying “I’m sorry sir I don’t see what the problem is they delivered your package???”

Fuck that guy, he deserves nasty customers every call

For me #2 would be “you have ADHD and won’t be able to be medicated so just don’t”

I’ve mentioned elsewhere my server upgrade project took longer than expected.

Just last night I threw it all into the trash because I just can’t anymore

Anti-Freeze soap is delicious!

I finally got one of these after using my normal bit-swap screwdriver with no ratcheting about a month ago and I’ll never go back

Bonus: craftsman make one that will ratchet the same way no matter what way you twist it. Just hold the ring and twist, screw goes in. It is amazing

I use Drauger btw

(Mint on my main machine but the testing laptop is on Drauger at the moment for funnies)

Gtk originally stood for for “GIMP ToolKit”

The “GNUs Not Unix Image Manipulation ToolKit” becomes Gtk (fucking autocorrect)

Naming shit on Linux is so fun

Many of us also lived through the era where any 13 year old could steal Mommy’s credit card and rent a botnet for that ezpz

My MC server a decade ago was tiny and it still happened every few months when we banned some butthurt kid

I’ve got a server I’m mass downloading anything I or my wife can think of and quite a few obscure movies and shows aren’t on the major sites in any form that has enough seeders to actually finish

So, Usenet it is, at least until I’m mostly done.

If I was huntig for it all by hand I’d probably not bother but I’m using the Arr stack for automation so