The UK cannot believe every tech company will allow the govt to pre-approve updates instead of just pulling out.

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From living in HK, they all look very similar / have similar security features so most people are used to the different designs. Might be easier to scam tourists tho.

I used to also think gaming and Linux are not really that compatible, but Proton being built into steam makes it easy to run pretty much any game out of the box now.

Just bought the Arkham collection because the sale was 75% or something.

Also been playing CrossCode from the sale.

'tis a joke

Best option, although still not a very good one, is a browser with an invidious instance website ( e.g inv.tux.pizza ) as they have no shorts. Probably one of the few solutions on IOS.

Alternative frontends definitely work for now. Otherwise Brave Shields seems to work for me.

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Driver support has always been excellent on Mint. My MacBook air Wifi adapter would normally not work on other distros, but Mint was out of the box fine.

bookwyrm.social has a rating system if you don't trust Amazon stuff, but it's less useful IMO because it's a smaller number of reviews.

Watched Disaster Artist this week. I thought James Franco doing a stupid fake accent for an entire film would get annoying, but honestly surprised at how it doesn't just make fun of Wiseau and frames him somewhat sympathetically.

Think Mastodon or Tumblr

Lots of royalty free books are available online due to being beyond their copyright period. Obviously you're more looking for current-era books which were intended to be free, but Crime and Punishment is a great example of a great read for free.

Always best to assume online that anything you post anywhere is imortalized forever. However for a decentralized platform I hope this is just negligence and not malice.

Edit: other comments using the email analogy explain this is just due to decentralization making global deletion impractical.

Strange number of govts seem to be doing these kinds of things recently. Like India banning several E2EE messaging platforms.

Recently tried Taylor's Colombian San Sebastian beans. I wasn't expecting too much but for $8/225g it specified a collective of farmers and was roasted fairly light. (Package said light, but definitely more of a medium). Tasted pretty unique too with some acidity.

Using a Kindle Basic for a few months and it's pretty great. No issues with side loading via Calibre and it was only about $60. Ads on the cover are a bit ugly, but never seen any in the interface beyond the lock screen.

Currently using a V60 + Aeropress. Going on holiday soon so maybe I'll bring the Aeropress along.

SIM card are really easy here. $33 HKD at 7-11 will get you about 50GB data (I think with even more data at slower speed). Chungking mansions always has tons of adaptors and stuff like that for a good price.