Cycling kickstarters have an awful track record. Make sure it’s make by an actual cycling company and even then it’s better to do a late pledge after some fulfillment and reviews.

Everything search app is easily my most used on my Windows PC. Instant, as-you-type file search by name with detail sorting and wildcard support. I set a keyboard shortcut as well. It puts Explorer search to shame. As good as Spotlight, which I was missing from when I had a Mac in 2008.

LaunchyQT - modern fork of Launchy that actually gets development. App launcher, dead simple.

FanControl - Fan curve software with all the features I want including hybrid temp sources, sensible automatic settings, visual graphs with an intuitive interface.

AutoHotKey - Hotkey scripting language that I can use even as someone who barely codes.

Transcribe! - Not open-source but it’s a reasonably priced audio and video slow down app for transcribing.

Yeah, it makes very little sense to “play the long game” on a private site to spread malware to a small user base when you could just go to any public tracker where it’s the Wild West. Could someone do it? Sure, but it’s really not realistic to expect that regularly.

Some of them have freeleech on some torrents. TorrentLeech has freeleech on every torrent over a certain size (I think 15 GB) + Box Sets of any size and then you just have to seed for 10 days total, then you can stop without penalty to your ratio. I have never paid money to TorrentLeech for access. I suppose this would change quickly if I was downloading individual episodes of a new show or 10 to 14.99 GB torrents, but that’s not my usual usage pattern.

I will say that some of your criticism is correct. I will often avoid using the private tracker to avoid having to seed for 10 days. I can’t get to a 1.0 ratio on private trackers, but I can on public ones, but freeleech seeding adds to my ratio with no penalty for downloading. The zero-sum vibe is both real and off-putting.

I currently have a ratio surplus of 34 GB, and it started me with 25 GB. The benefit is if I really want something, it’s easy to access

I watched it and it’s intriguing. The characters have similar roles to the real show and speak in similar ways. The problem is that the “writer” has no point of view and therefore the satire was completely missing.

Way overdue feature. I agree, perfect for locating bundle pieces as those quickly fall off the recent list.

It might be better in the short to medium term but it will be worse in the long term.

And the sequel! Literally just came out today on all platforms + netflix.

Hopefully they select trustworthy outlets. If they don’t then 🤷‍♂️

And it has to work with nvme over nvme and not just sata over nvme

It can’t be harder than Epic was, Amazon has no DRM 99% of the time.

They mean any alternative to first past the post, options being STAR voting, approval voting, or ranked choice. Basically anything that means a 3rd party vote isn’t a “wasted” vote.

It is in fact an algorithm because it’s choosing what posts to put in front of you based on multiple criteria (time since it was posted, votes/number of comments/time since last comment). They are relatively transparent and well documented criteria, though.

However, it’s not a personalized feed based on your interests and unsolicited data collection, which is what people sometimes mean when they say “the algorithm.”

Absolutely devastated. The shade. 💀

For anybody who was confused like me, this is a Nathan J Robinson parody account, not the actual Current Affairs owner.

The propaganda is people “like” their private insurance and don’t want to be “forced” to get rid of it. There is also an anti-tax streak that has existed since the 1700s (no taxation without representation, Boston tea party, etc) that lives on strongest in reactionary politics.

Edit: Oh and last time we tried to actually improve healthcare they scare mongered the public that there would be “government death panels” who decided whether you would get coverage. As opposed to the current reality where the death panels are real and run by private corporations.

I’ve had good luck with the For Dummies series but those are more like tutorial books and make sure it isn’t an out of date edition.

Edit: Also check out simple English wikipedia for short summaries that never use jargon unless it’s defined.

Lovers in a dangerous space-time

Unravel (requires ea origin launcher)

Nobody Saves the world is 50% off and is really really great, a goty 2022 contender in some circles.

Battleblock Theater is an oldie but a goodie and 80% off.

And the obligatory It Takes Two plug, also a GOTY contender.

Future games:

Surmount is coming out this year and has a demo out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675000/Surmount/

I believe Moving Out 2 was announced

I thought that was only novel because the steam deck doesn’t have ray tracing-specific hardware. It was also on a game that otherwise wasn’t very graphically intensive.

If your graphics card has ray tracing hardware, then it already worked (albeit maybe not as smoothly as on windows, check protondb for details per game).

Hyperbolica is a great game that takes place in several non-euclidian geometries. I highly recommend it, although not if you get motion sickness easily. It also has VR support and a Linux version of course.