Same for banks in Slovakia, but you typically have monthly packages that will include unlimited withdrawals. Say, €7/month.

But it’s all over the place.

cupholder.exe

Sorry, but the argument above was for a regular user, who doesn’t know what Rufus is, who doesn’t know the concept of OS, who simply knows thinks the files are saved “on the computer” (while they somehow ended up on OneDrive).

I said personal experience. It could be individual.

But I am not flexible enough.

Still, that’s just a theory, needs confirmation by personal experience.

I like Open Camera. Also let’s me select audio source, and there’s “unprocessed option”. Usually needs tune up with audacity to increase volume, but my phone’s audio processing sounds like 8kbps MP3.

Here’s a sample, same recording conditions.
Default: https://files.catbox.moe/d2n7sg.flac
Unprocessed: https://files.catbox.moe/xf9ab8.flac

The start.
Pretty obvious.

You are both wrong. The salmon is silent, because it’s a fish.

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I don’t know what exactly the topic was, but I gues it might have been ham radio, in which case, yeah, it can’t be encrypted, but you would also need a license and ID yourself with your callsign. Found the link.

Transmission Frequency:
136-174 MHz / 400-470 MHz 

Meshtastic uses (one of) license free bands (915MHz), that’s basically free for all with Tx power limits. But that also means a lot of RFI from many random devices: thermometers, car keys, etc.

Might waste some more of their time though.

Just a small note, in uBlock Origin there is a blocklist named “EasyList - AI Widgets” that seems to work fine, at least with Google. It also has entries for duckduckgo.com.

Nah, I tried Windows 11. That was more complex.
CLI magic to create local account on installation (apparently doesn’t work anymore)
gpedit who knows what to disable automatic updates
disable BITS because it was hogging CPU
disable sysmain because it was hogging SSD and CPU

And then there were still random problems like advertisements that looked like programs which would actually download something upon clicking them (I remember seeing TikTok in the start menu). CPU would idle pretty low… until I connected it to network.

The picture often looks better in viewfinder than when I finally snap it.

Native American who’s citizenship is being argued against in the Supreme Court

You should go back to your home country or something like that. /s

Except during that time before Christmas.

Still sounds pretty complicated to me as a European. Schengen Area is pretty cool. No border checks, no stops, cross wherever, you don’t even need a passport. Just the same ID I am required to carry with me anyway.

I was just checking around for GTA, and there comes my “future proof”.

I thought I could get a used copy on DVD. First I checked GTA SA, apparently not usable because modern Windows dropped support for SecuROM which is required, and it probably wouldn’t magically work under Wine either.
And I’ve found cheap boxed GTA V, except that apparently the activation code is single use, linked to account and non-transferable, so those discs are not very useful.

With consoles, you can buy a used disc and use it. And it also won’t randomly stop working because the software became “old”.

For PC, I think this is the case where piracy simplifies things.

Oof, hard one. My favorites are basically the GTA series. I like open world games where you can more or less do whatever. As such, GTA online also sounds nice.

But it’s not really specific. Some games are good, some not. I also like Contra, Battletank, Donkey Kong, Galaga, F1 race, Lunar pool from NES games. They just work, and they can be learned as they aren’t random. Well, Lunar pool feels a bit random-ish because it depends on aim and shooting strength.

But I’d also like to try going through The Last of Us for example. And Minecraft is kind of mandatory. I also like playing CODM on my phone as it’s free, and has online multiplayer. For some reason, these games can often be free on Android. But I usually go playing it a lot for like 2 months in a year, and then almost never.

If you are willing to risk a little work, I found Linux Mint as an OS really easy to install and use, and then it will be future-proof (unlike windows) as well as free.

I use Arch, OS is taken care of. Awesome documentation, and I don’t have to care about version upgrades because there’s no such thing. I still don’t know how to properly update Debian. Though Mint has GUI for that, so it’s fine there.
The bootstrap image is also pretty cool. I wanted Arch on a VPS, but I couldn’t boot any installer. I could however use provided Debian rescue environment to download the bootstrap image, chroot into it and use that as an installer. Really cool thing.

Considering that Steam comes pre-installed on Manjaro, that should be fine. Or at least it did when I tried it.