“Piracy doesn’t hurt Nintendo, although I wish it did.”

I don’t think the admins mind, so you can just leave the post here. For future reference, head to somewhere like the steam, steamdeck, or steamdeck piracy communities.

I don’t think it really goes here, but here’s my advice lol:

Unless you really need steam hardware (the steam deck is amazing for commuters, for example), you probably don’t need to buy it. That being said, they are fun to use, so feel free if you’d like to.

You can also get some games that are difficult to play pirated during a steam sale (mainly live service games, I believe). Just wishlist and wait.

Thing is, at the scale that a home server is likely to be providing, you don’t really need an upgrade at all for any of the components except storage and maybe a 2.5gig ethernet card depending on services available.

Also, like the other commenter said: SSDs. SATA ones (unless you have free PCIE lanes then use an m.sata adapter board).

For a personal server, just buy a liquidated office/business workstation and add storage as needed. Probably will still be cheap since the win10 EOL has led a bunch of those machines onto auction sites.

Prepaid sims exist, no?

From “EV conversion kits” to “offline conversion kits”.

5 eyes originally, 14 eyes effectively through bilateral agreements.

Relevant Wikipedia section of the 5 eyes article

They’re probably operating out of a country where they are legally untouchable for copyright infringement. Or for that matter, just not in a 14 eyes country.

Idk why, but the top tab looked like a USB-C connector from a distance

My comment was referring to the fact that it is difficult if not impossible for governments to restrict a civilian’s access to effective lethal weapons. Legally, a government does maintain a monopoly on violence, and they can attempt to continue restricting the civilian’s access, but the continued development of technology is eroding the barrier of entry for effective weapons.

I understand it’s not a department or office lol, what I’m saying is any average joe now has the ability to download a single file off the internet and assemble a functional, reliable firearm with no prior experience. Or manufacture effective fragmentation IEDs. Or 3D print a lethal drone that can be controlled with a phone or a portable game console. With those developments, no population can be fully or effectively disarmed - so governments must accept that the population can be armed regardless of their wishes, and can disrupt the monopoly at any time.

“Sir, the 17 pounder won’t fit!”

“Put it in sideways.”

“The radio won’t fit!”

“Cut a hole in the back and have it stick out the back.”

“The engine’s no good!”

“Grab 5 car engines and stick them in together.”

Portmanteau of “True” and “Escape”.

Because online spaces allow us to Truly Escape reality :)

“This was a Triumph.”

“I’m making a note here, huge success.”

Social Darwinism mindset becomes endemic? That’s not exactly a bright future…

It’s not showing on my client either, hopefully they edit their comment.

Californian here, same with the states unfortunately…

It’s technically not Valve’s problem in terms of responsibility, but Valve considers it a problem because their goal is functional Linux support for all games on Steam. They want to achieve that to fully decouple from any dependency on Windows whatsoever, and to have leverage in case Microsoft tries to shut them out on Win11 or a future Win12.

But yeah, still sucks that some studios refuse to support Linux on arbitrary principle.

Statistically, you have enough income to pay your bills. If you haven’t got anything your government (or other organization) will pay your premium on your behalf.

It’s a half-measure, kind of like using a VPN. The problem with using your preferred browser is that it’s not designed to prevent any identifying leaks, so you could be fingerprinted at basically any time and your efforts will have been for nothing. Also, if you’re using an insecure OS (like the version of android that comes preinstalled with your phone), that’ll prevent its effectiveness full stop.

For situations like those, you aren’t really using Orbot (or any VPN-esque solution) for genuine privacy. Those tools are useful for Utility (circumventing region blocks, ISP filters, IP blocks, so on), and Plausible Deniability (Piracy, usually through torrenting). If what you seek falls into those two categories, good for you, but true privacy has to be achieved through something like Tails or a secure OS with Tor Browser, sorry.