In most countries it’s the sale point which matters, not which state you reside in, for indirect tax. I would assume it’s the same in the US. For example if you’re on holiday in a different state or country, they wouldn’t charge what you’re charged back home.

But then, assuming you’re not sailing the high seas or taking help from fit girls, you’d be spending similar amounts on the same kinds of games for the PC? Or am I mistaken somehow?

I want to know more!

Yeah, I don’t see any reason to buy (or pre buy!) any game at all. At launch you’re paying double for a beta version basically. Like you said, wait for the actual game to be released a few months later at a good price.

No, sorry I haven’t tried it with Syncthing. Mainly using it for immich, seafile, a matrix server, some arr apps and a status monitor called dashdot. Would be useful for syncthing though, never thought of trying it - I’ll give it a shot over the weekend and let you know how it goes!

Thanks, it took some prompts but it worked in the end! I used a few subdomains of an actual domain I use for email…

I used chatgpt to create the exact steps, commands and configurations I needed for my setup and achieved this the seemingly cheatful way. I used nginx and certbot. Worked like a charm. Congrats!

They should compare notes with cdpr on how to, and how not to, go about this

Out of those I’ve tried hetzner and milesweb and I thought hetzner was better in terms of ping times for me and easy to use

Quake 3

Why would it take 2 to 3 hrs? Download time of container images?

That last para is missing the fact that you’d have to go to a store and buy a CD and come back home and play vs downloading in a few minutes in today’s time plus get insane discounts. Not to mention easily conquer compatibility issues. Also use controllers very easily including dualshocks. You can still have desktop icons, you can ignore the friends list, and disable notifications/pop-ups.

I’m liking Evolution so far, and for Windows+my phones a paid solution, Newton

Finally those Y2K consultants will get another project

Servarica is well priced, and Hetzner is what I ended up using after trying many

I guess their TOS will cover them?

I agree completely, it is ridiculous and should be stopped immediately, but I don’t see a way this problem can be fixed. EU is trying, for example after GDPR all these cookies became horrendously annoying. What you’re suggesting will lead to clearer and possibly lengthier EULA or TOS documents but in essence we would still have to either agree with them or not use that service. While a lot of open source and self hosted options exist to replicate many of the services, but you can’t rely yet on that for everything.

You can sure as hell double down on strict privacy settings and use a lot of privacy friendly options like librewolf, mull, private dns, nextcloud, matrix/jabber, VPNs, immich, better search engines, Open street maps, and OSes like arch and Graphene.

Not bad that you can opt out though, I don’t think reddit will give people an option

I’ve been dabbling in self hosting recently and found that chatgpt can help you setup a lot if you don’t get annoyed and keep fixing your prompts. It even writes out your docker compose files for you and you can ask it questions on what things mean and what’s linked to each other. If you do try it out though, avoid giving personal info like passwords in the chat.

How are you measuring your speeds? I think cloudflare speed tests were more accurate for me then ookla, but in the end downloading a large file over usenet gives me the best picture

Edit- and that made me realise my ssd was a bottleneck, replacing that helped me go from 500-600 to about 900-950 on my gigabit connection