Yeeeeee eah, I priced one out a couple weeks ago from my preferred, local supplier and immediately left the site. It’s a shame because I have some Pi3b and a 4 that I’d love to retire. Still functional, but pokey.

I’m betting tied of being priced-out of everything

CAD$2,983. Yeah, no thanks.

My exact setup, and I’ll happily echo jjlinux. It’s been flawless the last three years since I set it up!

Can’t recommend Windscribe enough!

@trilobite@lemmy.ml:

100% this!! My aliasing service (Addy) removes tracking pixels and gives me a nice little overview of the pixels it’s removed over the last week.

I can’t recommend an aliasing service enough (in addition to the other benefits they offer).

I suspect that has a lot to do with it. I do wonder how much of those deals were above board and how much of them were… not.

I’m running with a rig I built in 2018. I’d hoped to upgrade around the 10-year mark, buuuuuuuut I might see if I can wring a little more life out of everything longer. My 2080 Ti is, thankfully, still chugging along but I’m sure that won’t be forever.

Yet another hobby I’m quickly becoming priced-out of

I refuse to believe that these component shortages weren’t at least somewhat intentional

“You don’t need to run your A.I. locally. Pay us to supply the A.I. for you! Let us handle your personal data instead. It’s safe with us. Promise. What? You want to use that graphics card for gaming?! Well, that’s too bad!”

I gotta give that another try. I played it for a bit back when I had Game Pass, but it never really clicked for me

I put-off picking up and playing Fields of Mistria, and I’m sorry I did. I’ve invested a lot of time in it recently and I love it. I recently picked up and started playing News Tower, and it’s been pretty addictive, too (sorry Fields!)

When I’m away from my PC, the last month it’s been the original Octopath Traveler on my Switch 2 (but I can’t justify full-price for the Sw2 upgrade.)

sigh I just wanna upgrade my video card, man

More and more, I’m finding that it isn’t enough to just give one of my alias addresses. I’ll make my account and then immediately end up locked out unless I give them my phone number (looking at you, Discord) or upload my ID/take some live selfies (looking at you, Slowly), or sometimes both (looking at you, LinkedIn).

I miss the days when I could just browse and use the internet anonymously

I cannot stand how they operate over there. I currently have six different Workday accounts, for six different companies. With each, I’ve had to upload my resume and re-create my profile, filling in my experience, education, etc… because their parser blows.