implying Google has customer service

Games are free on PC, or at least very cheap if you insist on actually purchasing them

firefox and a torrent client

It’s not crypto mining, because crypto mining is basically worthless on consumer hardware now. What it does is run its own ads and pay you for enduring them and being spied upon by them in its own cryptocurrency.

Pop os, but don’t install brave, it’s bullshit cryptocurrency spyware.

Really the whole Trashfuture extended universe is fantastic

Trashfuture is the best tech podcast

Man, we’d really be screwed without piracy and emulators. This number only counts legal availability.

“It’s great right up until it breaks.” is a perfect summary

I get the same warning popup behavior closing the tab with the mouse or with ctrl-w

I used Manjaro for a while. Twice I had updates break stuff so thoroughly that I had to reinstall the OS entirely. The second time, I installed Pop OS instead and it’s been smooth sailing since.

I like Gnome with Pop OS’s tiling

Doesn’t your browser warn you about closing a tab with an active text input field in it? I get an “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popup.

The most common reason for something to be “better in the app” is that the website is full of popups telling you to use the app

To ensure software freedom you must first destroy capitalism

The profit motive is antithetical to software freedom

A quote from a review of the game Alien: Resurrection written in 2000:

The game’s control setup is its most terrifying element. The left analog stick moves you forward, back, and strafes right and left, while the right analog stick turns you and can be used to look up and down.

You may recognize this as how every console FPS works now, but it earned the game a 4.7/10 at the time.

pirate more than ten games and you come out ahead

Borked again smdh

Pure ideology