https://racknerdtracker.com/ keeps all the deals that don’t expire.

Not at all. And that’s without whois privacy.
.com .net .org .us .me are $24.95/year
.meme is $24.99/year
.io is whopping $69.00/year

Whether yes or no I can’t answer, which is what people seem to be discussing. Also “hormone blockers” probably doesn’t sound that scary (at least it seems that’s what they do anyway).

Anyway, this is just sex part. Do you feel like telling your parents “I will not be having sex”? Someone you should consult it with is a medical professional, but parents just if you feel like it makes sense. I don’t know how open you are with them.

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).

The start.
Pretty obvious.

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.

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

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.

Yeah… I only have mobile data, so that would be a problem. I switch carriers depending on needs, the one with most data is cheap, but is also most overloaded. Depending on location during the day, it can get all the way down to around 0.3Mbps on download.

I’ve seen the anti-cheat warning on GTA V page on steam, plus it needs additional account on Rockstar Games. I like GTAs the most. But also, I apparently can’t even buy the original GTA SA anymore. Seems like a mistake considering its popularity.

Yeah, profile updates take quite a while. I once got a reply from the dev on it, I think they said it’s updated every 24 hours or something like that. Just some unexpectedly long time.

How would you feel if your parents died protecting your life.

Depends. If I was about to die a painless death, quite disappointed as that’s basically the life goal.
Otherwise, I don’t know, my father often says he wants to die, so sounds like success.

Really, the situation would have to occur, there’s no other way to tell. I only know I’d be really sad if it happened to my dog.

*Okey dookie

I am probably not the right person to answer, but to me it seems decent.
Hell, under current conditions, half the price is in that RAM.

Anyway, for the use case, definitely seems fine.

Now, for me the minimum requirements for such use case, if Windows isn’t required, are simply a 64 bit CPU, 4GB of RAM, and an SSD. SSD makes a really huge difference.
It’s now been maybe 2 years that it died, but I’ve been doing fine with a Core 2 Duo T7500, 4GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT and random 128GB SSD powered laptop. It only struggled when I tried to use it for YouTube… and when I tried Gentoo on it. The compilation took 3 days just for me to realize I screwed up something in the config and had no network.

What about more extreme cases, say Castaway (movie) type situation. Stranded on an island in middle of nowhere.

But conveniently, one of the packages has a functional 2m battery powered radio and a Yagi too. There’s no one you can make contact with, except… the ISS.
What if the ISS was the only station you could contact?
“Hello International Space Station, I am stranded on an island after a plane crash. Can you help?”

Free Starlink during disasters for everyone, but for surveilence child protection and anti-terrorism you must accept X as a Certificate Authority.