And importantly, people died from that shit. Not every time, obviously, so you get morons with survivorship bias lamenting safety laws.

A kid in my neighborhood died from falling out of the bed of a pickup truck. Hit his head and was gone.

You want to do some cool thing and you find instructions online.

But that shit only works when t every single aspect of the s is the exact same version.

Which will never be the case, so now you’re at co desperately trying to improvise the steps that, if you inherently knew how to do, you wouldn’t have needed instructions for in the first place.

I don’t understand the need for any such clients in the first place. Steam is used to sell you games, and install/manage/run them for you.

But unless you’re a child you shouldn’t actually need any of that. I’m perfectly capable of going to Factorio’s web site, buying it, downloading it, and running it. On any platform it supports.

That’s not a critique of this software project, I bet it’s cool. I just don’t need a middleman between me and video games. It’s the store that wants to sell me more and more and more or the publisher who wants that.

Parents worry about their kids. All mammals I’ve ever heard of do this. So when you tell human parents that they can have a better chance of finding their kids if their kids are missing, injured, or abducted, that’s going to appeal.

I don’t believe it’s about sUrVeIlLaNcE at all.

Is dropping support for 32bit hardware more important than being able to run on everything?

Because it has always seemed like one of Linux’s core strengths is that no matter what your hardware is, you can run Linux on it.

I cannot stress enough that I would download a car.

My self hosted projects have someone to appreciate them - me.

Marketing means bothering people. Two of the raspberry pi’s I own are dedicated to fighting unsolicited marketing. Marketing is anathema to me.

Zelenskyy is a hero.

“I don’t need a ride; I need ammo.” - when the US wanted to evacuate him to safety. That may be the most badass thing I’ve ever heard of, at least that happened in my lifetime.

Yeah they can kiss my ass. Video selfie. Fuck that.

I made a very minor edit once that was perfectly legitimate and corrected an error. It was immediately reverted, ensuring I’d never donate so much a $0.01 to Wikimedia. Probably over 20 years ago now.

I hope it has turned around since then and that OP’s words and effort aren’t in vain. I’ll never know.

The next time this happens look at task manager and see what % memory you have available.

Also as others have said consider replacing your HDD with an SSD, that’s the single biggest upgrade you can make to see a massive difference in quality of life with your PC.

“Paid search engine” <— no thanks.

Because after twenty years of it your body will be wrecked.

I work in IT and have multiple coworkers who actually work physically harder than I do (in their roles vs. mine) in their 60s. One is 65.

Got lots of 65 year old factory or construction workers, do ya? And I’m talking about laborers, not supervisors etc.

This is silly. Absolute worst case, we go back to bartering for goods and services. There will never be a need to panic.

Then you should talk to a professional until you feel differently. This is not normal. Being smart is good. Being curious is good. Being a lifelong learner is ideal. Whoever or whatever taught or showed you otherwise is wrong.

Awww, is the Nazi tired of being hated? Too fucking bad. Our grandfathers (great grandfathers for the young folks) killed people like him, so he ought to be happy he’s upright and able to ruin millions (or more) of people’s lives.