CharlestonChewbacca

I’ve been saying this for a long time. It’s a great way to lose weight fast, but it is NOT a long term health diet.

Yeah, it’s painfully obvious that’s the case.

You can use Ubuntu and Zorin just fine without the terminal.

They do

Because you need to transfer that heat somewhere.

150 degrees F is a normal temp for a CPU, but your computer isn’t gonna run well in a 150 degree room.

Fair enough.

Have you played BG1 or 2?

It’s missing some of the gesture customization others have. I particularly like the left AND right swipe gestures in Thunder. Plus, there are more actions you can assign to them.

Thunder also has more visual adjustments. Things like edge to edge images and post action customizations.

Also, the reply window makes formatting and quoting easier.

The feature different isn’t big though, and most of them aren’t a big deal.

I’m not sure why you think Thunder is ugly though. The way I have them setup, they look almost exactly the same, except I have nested comments in factors more visible on Thunder, which makes it a bit easier to track the conversation.

BG3 is great. So far I’m thinking it’s the best CRPG of all time. I’d recommend it over DoS 1&2, which is saying a LOT because DoS2 is amazing.

Thronefall is a great, cozy game that still scratches my RTS itch.

I think New Star is probably only going to work for specific people. It has the look of Virtua Racer, with old school arcadey car feel, in Formula One style races with a career mode based on managing your sponsorships, pit crew, and engineers, while upgrading your car. It’s absolutely nothing like NFS.

I’d recommend it if you liked games like Rush and Cruis’n USA, and Formula One.

If you’re looking for something like NFS, NFS Heat was pretty solid. Forza Horizon 5 would be another game you might enjoy. Project Cars 3 is another solid Arcadey racer. I mostly play Sim and Simcade racers, so I don’t have a lot of recommendations for arcadey racers.

This isn’t just full magazines…

I agree about Plex. But I don’t get the love for Sync.

It feels kind of clunky and it lacks some features many of the other apps have. Personally, I’m liking Thunder right now, but I’m excited for Boost to come out.

Sync has ads unless you pay, it’s not open source, and I haven’t actually found anything superior about it.

It definitely looks promising, but I still don’t think Jellyfin and Reiverr are quite ready to compete with Plex yet.

This will be my first clear weekend for a while.

I’ve been playing a BG3 campaign with my buddy when I got a few spare hours, so we’ll probably play that some this weekend.

I’ve also been playing Thronefall. Great, simple tower defense RTS kinda game.

Also been playing New Star GP. A retro style, arcadey Formula One game in a retro style similar to Virtua Racer from the devs that made Retro Bowl. It’s got a fun little career mode.

There is. It’s called Apple News+

https://www.apple.com/apple-news/

lmao please

In the grand scheme of the media industry, they are. Moreover, Floatplane is a separate entity with < 50k users.

I don’t use Spotify, but yes, I pay for YouTube premium (which comes with YouTube Music, which I use instead of Spotify). I use YouTube a lot. $13.99 is not that much money for so much video and music content.

And I’m not saying don’t pirate anything ever. But come on, when people build a platform to try and do things right, to ethically support their creators, we ought to support those platforms.

It does when they can’t keep running the service anymore because your broke asses won’t support it.

It’s a small platform that costs a lot to run. Attempting to provide a fair and ethical alternative to YouTube.

Don’t use the service unless you’re going to support it.

Here’s a good guide, t’s old, but nothing should be too different.

https://www.cuttingcords.com/home/ultimate-server/getting-started

Use radar instead of Couch Potato.

You can find up to date guides for any of the individual products.

I recommend NZBgeek’s lifetime subscription.

Then, set torrents as your news group’s backup and you should be good to go.

Spend an evening setting this up and you’ll be golden. Just subscribe to any shows or movies you want and it will automatically download them when they are available.

You can set preferences around quality, file size, language, format, etc

It’s safer, faster, more reliable, and much easier to automate.

I only paid $20 for a lifetime subscription.