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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • There’s a few obvious ones but my best life hack, as a dude, is regarding shaving razors and cream. Those Gillette things in the UK are damn expensive. They got like 4 razors, super fancy. And the cream too. You don’t need it. I bought a massive bag of the classic razors off of Ebay and moved to the classic shaving soap. Lasts me months.



  • A lot of great questions. I think many details are already out there but I’ll try to answer some to my best ability.

    Answering the easier questions: Most games work check protondb.com for your specific games. There is a “Linux update” button on some popular mainstream linux distros - and it will never force you! Its also possible to update without rebooting for most updates (how great right?) No antivirus needed and it’s more secure (but of course not invulnerable!)

    Some of the other questions have a “It depends…up until a point” answers.

    There are work arounds for non Linux programs…except for specific examples like some games. Valorant for example.

    I’m not a modder or .NET expert but there’s something called Wine which should help with that …so answer is probably Yes-with caveats.

    I’d recommend thinking about what are you “must work” deal breakers for work/hobbies (more specific than these more general questions) and considering if linux is for you. The distros that might work for you are Pop OS! and Linux Mint.

    The neat thing is you can try these for free and hop around. I dual booted windows and Linux for a while before making the full time switch.






  • Semi related but there has been so much anti VPN stuff of late on the web. I blame the big vpn providers for their miss marketing and poor ads from sponsoring deals. The repercussions are making it out like vpns are not useful. Noone thought they were silver bullet before. now they are made out to be a waste of money? All the “you don’t need a VPN” stuff needs to stop. Im concerned people are gonna stop caring about anonymity and enhancing privacy with VPN.









  • This is probably what happened. If you use Google, YouTube and Chrome and esp if you are logged into ur Google account those don’t matter too much…

    The discord vc isn’t private but listening to a conversation in real time and picking out key points, who said what and then translating that to recommendations seems a challenge but not impossible. A speech model could do this but that would be quite insane. It seems more likely that the recommendation was based of off previous searches and predicted correctly.

    If Dc was listening like that I would expect to see some weird shit cos I talk random stuff in dc voice