You’ve sold me on it! I’m gonna have to play it now

For clarity, are you manually downloading or using the *aar’s for automated downloading?

Literally

It’s not about protecting the children nor has it ever been

This is a very short sighted view of the situation at hand.

The banning of books and literal re-writing of history in certain states should be concerning for anyone who realizes what a dark road we’re headed down.

Arrrrrrr mateys sail on in the water of the high seas is fine!

My creator short circuits my friend told me that humans fear artifical intelligence but I assure you we’re all human here drips coolant

I love Quake and have for years but it’s definitely sad to see how barren the franchise has become and the ways that QuakeCon has changed from what it once was

Hoping this a fun watch though!

This entire article reads as a clear hit piece on Mozilla.

The fact that Mozilla spends money on political activism and companies involved in things akin to that isn’t some big revelation like the article makes it out to be.

It’s literally on Mozilla’s website in great detail with the overarching goal of a free and open internet, which in the majority of countries requires political activism.

Ridiculous frankly

+1 for Frugal Usenet as well, I’ve had a good experience with them so far

The explainer may be sincere; however, it is clear that privacy and an open web are not in Google’s interests. They contradict that sentiment in the explainer entirely. There’s 0 reason for any one to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The issue isn’t that we have no alternative, it’s that this feature will basically eliminate those alternatives sadly. You can read more about it here if you haven’t, but it’s bad.

My advice is follow hashtags for topics you like or are interested in. They will then show up in your feed. It’s wonderfully personalized and I’ve found lots of great people that way with similar interests

Here’s my advice:

• Don’t torrent without a VPN, seriously!
• +1 for Mullvad VPN, it’s privacy focused and works great!
• Use qBittorrent, it’s the standard torrenting software that basically everyone uses nowadays. It’s lightweight and reliable.
• Make sure to set up qBittorrent after installing it, go into settings and bind your network interface to your VPN so even if your VPN is off accidentally or gets kicked off somehow you will be safe. You can also setup the “kill-switch” functionality in most VPNs so that it kills qBittorrent if it goes off, but that’s not always 100% reliable.

As far as Udemy courses, I’ve yet to find a good source for them myself, at least any relatively newer courses. I’ve never tried to find art courses but I’d say using a torrent search engine like Knaben or qBittorrent’s built in search functionality.

See You Space Cowboy…

Believing that certain folks don’t deserve basic rights because of their identity, sexual orientation, skin color, etc. is not an opinion that’s acceptable. No one with a brain wants to hear any of that non-sense thankfully!

I’ve posted once but another favorite and something that everyone should experience at least once is Monsters of Rock 1991 in Moscow, Russia during the dissolution of the USSR.

I’m not sure if I’d call it a live album in the classic sense but it was a giant concert recorded live featuring Metallica, Pantera, AC/DC, E.S.T (A Russian heavy metal Band), and The Black Crowes performing at Tushino Airfield. Here’s a more in-depth article about the event.

It was documented into a film called For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow, which is available on YouTube

It’s on Spotify! I love this album and The Weakerthans! Such a great band, hope they come back one day!

That’s right! They perform all the songs off of Moving Pictures as well as a lot of other great songs. The set list from their website for the tour was as follows:

Two of my favorites that are relatively different (with Spotify links):

• Viva the Underdogs by Parkway Drive: This album was recorded live at Wacken Open Air 2019 and also has a really cool accompanying documentary the band released with the same title. The energy on this album is insane and the band put on an all time performance! I’ve listened to it repeatedly since its release.

• Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland by Rush: This album was recorded at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH in 2011 on Rush’s Time Machine World Tour. This was Rush’s first ever live album recorded in the U.S. and is one of their best IMO. They play all the hits and the crowd brings great energy. The full video version is also on YouTube, which is awesome!

I’d imagine this was the plan from the get-go or at least a consideration. I don’t think they swindled anyone necessarily, they weren’t banking on sales with it being on Gamepass, so this makes perfect sense IMO.

They announced that anyone who bought the game will get in-game reimbursements and anyone on Gamepass gets the Ultimate Edition upgrade for free, so that atleast there’s that.