Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Exactly. I almost never pay full price on Steam, and I add a lot of keys from Humble or Fanatical bundles where I only intend to play half or so.

    So yeah, I’m guessing it’s actually 10% or so of that figure if we make a few rules:

    • count bundles as a single game, and if one game is played from it, that counts for the whole bundle
    • assume games added to Steam are part of a bundle (perhaps in groups of 5)
    • don’t count games that were ever given away free
    • assume all games were purchased at a discount

    That would probably get us pretty close to the real number.

















  • Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro every day for my day job

    Probably easier to run a VM or dual-boot then. Trying to keep those up-to-date is going to be a nightmare.

    Honestly, if I were in your shoes, I’d probably get an Apple device. Adobe works great, and macOS isn’t as bad as Windows IMO.

    I liked being functionally untrackable online, and not getting ads shoved down my throat

    There are a lot of ways to get around that, such as:

    • uBlock Origin - blocks ads
    • use a VPN and switch locations periodically - limits efficacy of tracking
    • try Mullvad Browser - basically Tor Browser (i.e. the browser included w/ Tails), but without Tor, so fewer breakages

    But honestly, the first two are really easy to do and solve 80% of the problem with a very small amount of breakage, and Firefox is installed by default in most Linux distros, and is available in the repositories on those where it’s not the default.