Same here, my bank has a really good cash back card.

Glad you found some good deals online. Do you do credit card churning at all?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVuabEckMMA

(From https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/kqw0si/guide_on_how_to_easly_run_pirated_games_on_linux/?rdt=44586)

• Download pirated game
• Install Lutris and find your game in it
• Install original game through Lutris
• Using WINEPREFIX=“/Lutris/game/prefix (eg. /home/USER/Games/originalgame)” wine piratedgame.exe install pirated game into this Lutris prefix
• Apply crack
• (optional) Copy your saves into this prefix’ c:\Users\Documents folder
• Change game executable in lutris from platform exe (like EGS or Steam) to your pirated game’s .exe
• Run game using Lutris.

If Lutris is having issues, you may have better luck using Bottles, also trying the non flatpak version if you are currently using flatpak.

Loglevel was at 7 before changing, systemd-analyze also seems to have an error with counting firmware on startup which seems to be the case with others as well. Aside from changing to a static address, I disabled a service that was waiting for eth0 which did not exist.

Changing to quiet and loglevel 3 seemed to decrease boot time slightly.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance/Boot_process

No problem, it’s an awesome repository with a lot of uses and some old games even have a play in browser feature.

Have you tried archive.org?

If by normal people you mean the general public, my guess is just Tiktok and social media.

I didn’t think about military surplus stores. There seems to be some items that people really enjoy, like the army poncho liners or old ammo canisters for containers.

I’ve been looking for a genuine army poncho liner but can only find knock offs online and cant find a reputable surplus store online if it exists

Yes, they got rid of the lifetime warranty and I personally haven’t worn them, but people tell me their old ones work well and have a similar opinion as yours.