That’s the option I take… deleted FB in 2012, Twitter in 2018 (not that I actually used it, posted maybe 20 things in 7yrs) and have never used any of the others. I’m on mastodon and lemmy, I use signal & telegram and have to suffer whatsapp for immediate family.

I told everyone else that I was only going to make an effort with people who made an effort with me… and that solved the fake friends side of the problem… Because all I got for years was ‘but you’re not a facebook’ as a reason for their laziness and entitlement that I must bow to their convenience as it’s far more important that protecting my mental health.

When I have to describe social media… I do as follows.

There are 3 types of social media users.

1: Those with wealth who have no worries and can portray the image of living the simple life full of hobbies and joy… which is easy to do when you don’t have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to pay the bills. they hoard wealth instead of giving. 2: Those that have no wealth and are desperately trying to convince others that they do, and that their life is so much better than yours. 3: The sheep that believe both of the above and would like to fit into one of those groups.

Meanwhile… the ones actually living the simple life, their best life, the relaxing life… aren’t on corporate owner social media willing giving up their privacy and freedoms so a billionaire can get richer.

Better way to look at it, he did a speed run through the game and completed it with 30% of the whole game done… The other one is doing all of the side quests and extras so he can get 100%

The games are listed on GOG, basically as games that have existed but they are not available to purchase.

posted the exact same thing… loved those games.

that’s not what it means… investigator could mean a single person, investigators could mean they hired a firm to do the job and multiple people work for the firm.

People love to look for a reason to be offended by things.

I’m just waiting for the day they get the rights to the games No One Lives Forever 1 & 2 from back in the early 2000’s.

Loved those games, especially 2… 60’s setting, female spy protagonist… Excellent games.

I pay for netflix… dumped prime a couple of years ago and got given disney+ for free for 12 months. I have my own server and am on version 3.2 of it after my first dedicated one I built in 2009. I’ve kinda had others before then, but it was an old PC I hooked up to my old CRT tv in about 2002 which struggled to play some mpeg2 content due to the weak single core CPU it had in it.

Now it’s running on an AM4 setup with a Ryzen 5 5600G, so I can use the PCIE socket that used to have a GPU in it for a SATA expansion card, so that I can triple the number of HDD’s it could hold. I’m slowly going through it once a year replacing the oldest 6TB drives (without about 80,000+hrs of uptime on them) with 14TB archive drives I rip out of seagate external drives. 4 more to go… to add to the 4 already done.

I think my first dedicated server had 3TB of storage (2x 1.5TB) and I still have one of those drives in an external drive that I use occasionally to fill with movies and shows when I go away and take one of my shield tv boxes with me… but mostly I take an external 500gb ssd as it doesn’t require a power supply and I rarely have enough time to watch 1TB of movies and shows whilst away.

Over the last 15yrs, it’s been rebuilt a few times and upgrade many… adding extra drives, swapping out CPU’s and so on. 3 ground up builds with the last one being built in 2020… Normally when I build a new system for myself, the mediaserver gets upgraded with my old parts… Hence the last one being on windows 7 and an AMD FX 8350 with DDR3 ram until mid 2020.

Currently about 70TB capacity.

My next one will have a dedicated raid setup with parity… it’s the one thing I’ve never been able to do with such a random collection of different size drives… hence normalizing them all to the same kind of 14TB ones.

Manchester police had a higher body count than the attacker is not the kind of headline that makes them look good.

It’s a pyramid scheme, always has been… every decade for the last 30yrs there’s been a few of them… The dot.com boom and bust of the 90’s was the start, in the 2000’s everything went ‘digital’ which was the same old shit with an LCD added to it and a doubling of the price, digital services for games/music/movies where they could take away what you bought… then they got even more serious in the 2010’s where the real enshitification of the internet started… the ‘cloud’ where you were no longer allowed to own your own data, subscription fees for everything… ‘smart’ appliances that just tracked you and stole your privacy for the enrichment of a few billionaires… Crypotocurrency, the biggest scam and pyramid scheme to date… and now in the 2020’s, crypto as a means to launder money and bribe politicians, massive corruption, fraud and consolidation of power by evil people and their corporate paymasters… and of course… the newest and worst pyramid scheme of them all… AI…

The only way to win is not to play… don’t use it, disable it, remove it… every time you use it you are encouraging them to invade you life, take away your rights and exert control over what you can do and think… I know some of you will think that’s an over reaction, you will learn one day that I and others were right to warn you as I have been doing for years now… But by then it will be too late, the climate is burning and these billionaires are trying to make it happen quicker, they value their wealth more than your very existence and they will hide away in their bunkers and private islands as the rest of humanity burns.

Takes me back to 2008 and Rockstar claiming that GTA 4… was designed for hardware that didn’t exist yet after that shit show of a shitty port to PC… It would be a further 6yrs before I could play that game at a reliable 19080p, 60fps… then GTA5 came out a year later.