If by normal people you mean the general public, my guess is just Tiktok and social media.

Thank you, I didn’t realise there was a community already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVuabEckMMA

(From https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/kqw0si/guide_on_how_to_easly_run_pirated_games_on_linux/?rdt=44586)

• Download pirated game
• Install Lutris and find your game in it
• Install original game through Lutris
• Using WINEPREFIX="/Lutris/game/prefix (eg. /home/USER/Games/originalgame)" wine piratedgame.exe install pirated game into this Lutris prefix
• Apply crack
• (optional) Copy your saves into this prefix' c:\Users\Documents folder
• Change game executable in lutris from platform exe (like EGS or Steam) to your pirated game's .exe
• Run game using Lutris.

If Lutris is having issues, you may have better luck using Bottles, also trying the non flatpak version if you are currently using flatpak.

Yes, they got rid of the lifetime warranty and I personally haven’t worn them, but people tell me their old ones work well and have a similar opinion as yours.

I forgot to mention Fedora Silverblue. I’ve used it after Micro os and it was a better experience. Fedora seems to have a better out of box experience and had no issues.

I’m sure there would be a way to create a script that puts the commands that you’d like in for a given url. Also haven’t used yt-dlp, it’s nice that they have sponsorblock built in.

I have heard of Gentoo, but not Funtoo. I’m still fumbling my way through Arch but I will definitely make some VMs one day to see what it’s all about. From my understanding (correct me if I’m wrong please) Gentoo is like Arch but even more customization, everything has to be compiled from source.

What is your experience with Gentoo, how would you describe it compared to Arch? Also I’ve seen FreeBSD as well and think it would be super nice for a server but not able to play games without difficulty due to fundamental differences to linux.

I got an airpod cleaning multi tool from Amazon and it actually works really well.

Also if you have the Sony xm1004, they have little foam bits in them and over the years they get soaked up with sweat and earwax, it’s really gross. So if you think your sound is super quiet and have earbuds with foam inserts, first use some tweezers and something to gently squeeze out the foam and clean with isopropyl alcohol.

I understand now, maybe give Debian a try with KDE.

Edit: or Fedora/Opensuse and their immutable versions (I believe the kde ones are in beta for immutable but work great if all you need is flatpaks)

I think the only reasonable way to do that would be using AI since the sponsors are placed randomly throughout usually. Unless you listen to a specific podcast and they do same length of sponsor in same time slot every video you could automate something that cuts it out.

I am not an expert by any means, but depending on the mileage on the car and how much life you expect to get out of it, I feel that taking care of the rust now will be better sooner than later. My guess for price would be 1000 max, anything over that you should consider holding off on and using the car until you can’t anymore, maintaining the basics (oils, tires, brakes, fluids, etc) and putting the money towards another vehicle or down payment if possible.

I didn’t think about military surplus stores. There seems to be some items that people really enjoy, like the army poncho liners or old ammo canisters for containers.

I’ve been looking for a genuine army poncho liner but can only find knock offs online and cant find a reputable surplus store online if it exists

Most of the guides I will try to add to my kindle or save on my laptop. Looking for Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, Animal Crossing, Elden Ring, Demons Souls. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it and may make a personal list of all the games and links.

I’ve messed with a decent amount, listed in my post. Most distros weren’t customized the way that I wanted them to be or I didn’t like the looks so I prefer Debian and Arch for simplicity’s sake depending on the use case and going from there.

If it’s a case of hardware compatibility I would reccomend either sticking with the distribution that works or just hardwire your ethernet connection. KDE Plasma is a DE as far as I know but KDE Neon looks really good if that’s what you meant.

That is true in the same way that Ubuntu is Debian. I prefer the base version where I can choose what’s necessary for me for resource management and troubleshooting purposes. I forget what it was, but there were a few issues where Endeavouros was not working properly and the Arch wiki solutions did not work for it, could have been my error as well at the time.

Fair enough, I most likely broke the system due to not understanding it when using Endeavour. From my understanding now, someone can choose to not install de specific programs and additional endeavouros apps.

I appreciate the big response, and definitely have to look into compiling and the build process, using git, more terminal centric applications, etc. I’ve seen that there is a distro to learn Linux that comes in stages, I don’t know what it’s called off the top of my head.

Setting flags does seem very annoying, it’s hard for me to keep track of programs and settings already.

I love xfce, I’ve tried some WM like AwesomeWM and I see the appeal for sure, it just takes a while to get used to, like VIM, which I want to mess with as well. Asahi Linux looks super good, but I honestly don’t dislike macOS that much.

Changing to quiet and loglevel 3 seemed to decrease boot time slightly.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance/Boot_process

Loglevel was at 7 before changing, systemd-analyze also seems to have an error with counting firmware on startup which seems to be the case with others as well. Aside from changing to a static address, I disabled a service that was waiting for eth0 which did not exist.