Usually end up buying games during Steam sales, or sometimes via Humble Bundle… though nowadays Humble Bundle hasn’t been as interesting after they were bought out and the founders stepped down. Before all that Humble Bundle used to have some great Indie bundles with lots of Linux and Android games.

I would also probably buy from gog.com and itch.io but haven’t really needed to yet.

I’m usually looking around for games with Linux compatibility so any game storefront that ignores Linux gets ignored by me.

This 100%, especially since OP says they are currently in uni. Make friends with other peeps in school, they’re the ones that will get you into other jobs even if it’s just a lead or recommendation. That’s why often you’ll see offices/companies with a few people from the same schools, lots of times they already knew each other.

And sometimes the uni friends are people that start their own company to do their own thing, once I worked in an office where 80% of the employees were just other dudes the owners went to school with.

TBH meeting people to get into working my field was the only valuable thing I got from going to college.

Use and support windows systems at work. I’m at a small business that uses some ancient software that is only Windows compatible.

At home am fully switched over to Linux.

Insurance is a scam. But to be fair you can actually have both, with a high deductible HSA compatible insurance plan you get to pay for both insurance you never use as well as put other money aside into an HSA account that earns interest and gains for you. It’s a good idea to have an HSA and max it out if possible.

But beyond that I don’t disagree with most of your points. It’s insane having a system where you’re paying thousands of dollars, and worse if you actually do need health care you get the privilege of paying even more thousands of dollars extra until you meet your so called "out-of-pocket’ expenses before the insurance provider starts covering things on their own.

With my own health insurance I would actually need to pay out about $12000 (premiums + out-of-pocket) in a given year before the so-called health insurance actually starts covering expenses themselves… and this is assuming they don’t decide to deny any treatment and refuse payment. Like sure I guess that’s better than paying for a one-off surgery or major health emergency directly… But I doubt I could afford that every year if I was actually needing regular treatment for an ongoing health issue.

Won’t somebody please think of the oligarchs!?

Tor is not needed for that, death/gore type sites exist on the regular clearnet internet. Probably something like watchpeopledie would have that sort of thing, among other sites.

Interesting, can’t say I noticed anything amiss with Chrome Linux/Windows but I uninstalled/re-installed the extension just in case. Does make me wonder if it happens to be acting up when installed with other extensions or with particular Chrome settings.

You can use lemmyverse to browse around, there are at least a few communities that exist. e.g.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=artificial

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=llm

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=llama

etc.

I’m a bit curious about people’s setups for self hosting LLMs so sometimes I browse !localllama@sh.itjust.works for example.

Three that I like to play when commuting

Breakout 71 https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.lecaro.breakout/ - This one is great though all the powerups make it a bit too easy if you play it for a while. But it’s a good one if you just want get into playing something quickly.

Ball2Box https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simondalvai.ball2box/ - It’s a pretty simple game but surprisingly addictive if you’re like me trying to get a perfect score on each level (there’s a ton of levels).

Calculate https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.rechnen.app/ - Practice doing math in your head!

Correct. It’ll be a new bunch of new steps, and would be forced to wait 24 hours to do the actual install, but otherwise sideloading unverified apps will still be possible through the advanced flow steps. So Jerboa and/or other apps from unverified accounts can still be installed. I do wonder how that affects the other app repos like F-Droid, like I guess F-Droid would need to be aware that the new advanced flow steps are active when attempting to do app installs.

From https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html

• Enable developer mode in system settings: Activating this is simple. This prevents accidental triggers or “one-tap” bypasses often used in high-pressure scams.
• Confirm you aren’t being coached: There is a quick check to make sure that no one is talking you into turning off your security. While power users know how to vet apps, scammers often pressure victims into disabling protections.
• Restart your phone and reauthenticate: This cuts off any remote access or active phone calls a scammer might be using to watch what you’re doing.
• Come back after the protective waiting period and verify: There is a one-time, one-day wait and then you can confirm that this is really you who’s making this change with our biometric authentication (fingerprint or face unlock) or device PIN. Scammers rely on manufactured urgency, so this breaks their spell and gives you time to think.
• Install apps: Once you confirm you understand the risks, you’re all set to install apps from unverified developers, with the option of enabling for 7 days or indefinitely. For safety, you’ll still see a warning that the app is from an unverified developer, but you can just tap “Install Anyway.”

But I guess if you’re in a rush and don’t want to go through all that then you could probably still install apps via ADB.

I tend to follow bands and musicians I like and check out who else they play music with.

e.g. I go to their shows and if I like the the other bands playing I tend to check them out later and buy their music on Bandcamp. Then from there I’ll also follow the socials of all those bands so when they mention other bands, or if they’re going on tour with other bands, or playing music fests with other bands, then I check out those bands too.

I hate social media / Instagram but every once in a while the algorithm will mention something worth checking out, kind of rare but it happens.

Seems to work for me, if anything now I have too much music to check out and not enough time to listen to it all haha.

Is that most airlines? TIL.

Or did you mean “accommodate” aka have you buy a new ticket at full price?

So far I’ve only ever missed a flight once, by about 10-15 minutes, and the manager working that day absolutely did not want to help me out, kept saying I had to buy a brand new ticket at full price. I managed to get lucky when he walked away and the clerk working the counter quietly rebooked me on the next flight with a flight change fee (I think it was around $75 vs buying a full price ticket that was $300-$400). I kind of assumed all airlines are like that but now you’ve got me wondering.

Oat milk is fine, or even just drinking it black unsweetened.

Though in the last few years I’ve gotten into the habit of having my cold brew concentrate with Ripple Unsweetened. And before that was using Silk Protein unsweetened… it was sort of Silk’s version of pea protein drink, I think it got discontinued haven’t seen it anywhere. Ripple goes well with my coffee… Silk’s version was especially good with coffee, I’d still be buying that if it was being sold anywhere. Silk’s was a bit creamier and thicker than Ripple so it sort of gave the coffee some extra flair if that makes sense.

For these type of drinks I mainly try to find unsweetened with a similar nutritional profile like dairy milk e.g. it should have a decent amount of protein, calcium, vitamin D, etc. Most oat milk I’ve seen doesn’t have that so I usually don’t buy it, it’s more something I’d use if I’m at a coffee shop or someone’s house.

Can’t speak for other countries but in the U.S. counterfeit bills are usually used to buy something cheaper at a store and receive real money back as change from the cash register. e.g. Pass a counterfeit $100 bill for a $20 purchase & hope that the cashier accepts it and gives you back $80 in real bills from the cash register. Think of it as a more roundabout way to take money out of store cash registers, that’s the main purpose of counterfeit bills.

I work with a business that has a storefront and people do come by every week or so to try to pass counterfeit bills. Usually the staff knows enough to check $100 bills but every once a while they miss the counterfeit.

Not sure if this applies to the entire northwest coast but I had a friend from a small town in the northwest who said the water was colder and there were more sharks in those waters. So it wasn’t like beachfront property where people would regularly go swimming.

Also like the other comment mentioned those areas also tend to be steeper, more cliffs, etc so I imagine developing property around there could get expensive, and that’s ignoring if any of those areas are park / natural preserve areas.

There’s also https://ip4.me/, nice and simple ipv4 test.

(it also does other IP lookups via https://ip6.me/, https://ip6only.me/, https://whatismyv6.com/)

Seems like a good diagnosis, they probably have the setup and equipment to do a better PSU test vs anything you had on hand. Testing for load is a bit tricky, you’d normally see instability during runtime once you’re in Windows or whatever, it’s not that obvious if you can’t even get into Windows.

The current Windows install is pretty beat up so you should prepare for a re-install - but once the hardware is stable you’ll be able to properly test if Windows is able to fix itself and boot up correctly, could be by some miracle it all comes back up in the end.

Curious what you ended up doing - I sort of suspect it might be an issue with your GPU and would attempt replacing that before writing off the entire motherboard. GPU errors keep coming up with your build (the Windows crash earlier seemed to refer to GPU, and now as you say the motherboard trouble code also mentions GPU) so there’s a wild chance you had both bad RAM and a bad GPU. But I can’t think of a good way to rule out GPU without actually plugging in a working one in there, not sure if other people would have better ideas.

Well that’s your answer, you usually won’t get a normal Windows boot up with bad RAM. And if by some miracle Windows manages to make it to the desktop with bad RAM it’s just going to crash out sooner or later.

You’re not going to be able to do any Windows re-installs with bad RAM either.

The good news is that’s very unlikely all your RAM is bad. You have 4 sticks - this will take a bit of time but what you can do is take out all RAM sticks. Then install one stick, do a memtest run, if it looks okay take the stick out and repeat with each of the other 3 RAM sticks. That should give you an idea on which RAM stick(s) are bad, the bad ones just keep them aside and don’t re-install them.

After testing each RAM stick individually you can re-install all the good RAM sticks, do a final memtest run & verify it all works together (it should be fine at this point but sometimes you have to do multiple memtest runs to suss out bad RAM).

Once you remove all bad RAM your system should be able to boot into a Windows USB install and make it through the entire install normally. Or alternatively you can test if your current Windows 10 can fix itself once the RAM issue is resolved but there’s a good chance it’s pretty broken now.

If you’re at the “Preparing Automatic Repair” screen that means it skipped booting from USB and is trying to boot from internal drive with the messed up Windows install. Maybe try booting without any internal drives connected to see what it does, most computers would boot normally then complain there’s no boot device.

Also your earlier post mentions you are using an Asus ROG Crosshair Hero VIII Wifi motherboard so some other ideas…

• According to the manual that motherboard should display a boot menu when you press F8 at the beginning of the boot process when the initial Asus logo appears, it probably won’t work every time but when it works after the BIOS finishes scanning RAM and hard drives it will give you a boot menu listing your bootable SSDs as well as any bootable USB devices it found. (if your boot USB isn’t displaying there then you’ve got a different issue, maybe you formatted it wrong, maybe you need to disable Secure Boot temporarily, etc.)
• That motherboard has a Q-Code LED in the upper-right of the board, it’s a little LED that displays alphanumeric digits. When the system hangs look at the board & see if it’s displaying anything in particular, that could give you an idea on what the issue is. Cross reference with the manual all the Q-Codes are listed there (see https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-crosshair/rog-crosshair-viii-hero-wi-fi-model/helpdesk_manual/)

Next time you’re in the BIOS I’d suggest making sure Q-Code is enabled (it should be by default but just in case) and probably disable Quick Boot if there’s an option, the boot process might be going too fast for you to catch a USB boot with F8.

Dunno if any of that helps but hopefully it does… good luck!