I have never spent a dime at EGS, but I have hundreds of games from their giveaways. I’m rich!

And a bunch I didn’t complete, but felt I got good value from for <10h playtime.

Same, but also add Fanatical and game giveaways.

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.

Same, but with 10 ish. I even had a Saturn with fewer problems, and those were notorious for issues.

I’m in Utah with <1/10 the population and see them fairly frequently.

Well, if anyone points out a pedo in my neighborhood, I’ll do something about it.

Yeah, why do you think you can put bumps on my nice, flat screen. Entitles pieces of crap… :)

… I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror

I wonder if this will fix Twitch too, video playback in VODs seem to get stuck as well…

Yeah, not buying that kind of nonsense. I hate how defensively I have to think when buying a car. This and electronic ebrakes really bother me.

So, the opposite of an abacus as a replacement for an ALU?

Two options:

• your statement comes off a bit ignorant - a failsafe would just pop the latch (and up and down motion) and wouldn’t be impacted by braking forces (front and back motion)
• you weren’t explicitly saying bad things about Elon Musk

But the general idea of things still working despite failure is the essence of what the OP was saying. People seem to not like comments that refine what others say (I have plenty of experience there), they prefer comments that either correct or blatantly support the parent comment. I don’t get it, but whatever.

Wordpress does a lot of things. You need to specify which things you want to do in order to narrow down a replacement. For example:

• static site? - Hugo, Jekyll, etc - just generates regular HTML
• personal cloud? - NextCloud/OwnCloud
• ecommerce? - consider nopCommerce or OpenCard

The more you can narrow your requirements, the easier it will be to find a secure solution.

It’s technically a bit faster, but yeah, I think charging more is the bigger motivation.

Exactly. A plug-in architecture is a feature, and it’s really hard to secure. Instead of going that route, they should have instead solved specific problems. When you make it easy to add someone else’s code, you also make it easy to forget to remove it later, or to not stay updated on which plugins are deprecated/abandoned.

A plug-in system is insecure by design for a public-facing service. YAGNI, so pick a handful of stuff you actually need.

So it goes.

Good luck! I also don’t like spending money, so I don’t blame you. Definitely consider a dual-boot w/ Linux though, it can at least help you separate work from play. :)

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.

But they do because they control their developer ecosystem.

I agree that consoles should allow competing stores, but that’s not the current reality.

Set time limits.

There are apps that block opening apps longer than some amount of time. I used that to reduce my Reddit usage to a healthy level before I eventually bailed on it. Or you can use the simpler strategy of setting an alarm for yourself (e.g. if you want to play an hour, set an hour timer when you play).

If you find you’re consistently going over your time limit for a given thing, stop using it and replace it with something that you have a healthier relationship with. At a certain level, it’s an addiction, so cut out what you’re addicted to and replace it with something else that’s interesting. For example, if you like shooters but Splatoon is sucking too much of your time, maybe play Metro, Superhot, or Wolfenstein, each of those is SP only and has a clear ending, so you’re unlikely to get addicted to it.

I switched largely to SP games, and now I’m much happier and have a healthier relationship to games. The same is true for other things I used to spend way too much time on.