GOG for offline games, Steam games that are online multiplayer or can benefit from cloud saves.
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Noita, Slay the Spire, Children of Morta, Brotato...
You mean the ones with the six holes? I'm almost certain those are Jazz drives.
For me what made a huge difference was adding acid, specially for stews. A hearty splash of vinegar or soy sauce while stewing, or even a dash of lime just before serving takes it from "meh" to "seconds please!".
Time to piss off both camps an start calling it f5x.
There was a period when game music had some really memorable metal. Another one that always stuck with me was the Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries soundtrack.
Looks like an old one too, based on the ashtrays in the armrests and the "stereo" headphone plugs.
Square gigs.
Donwside to 2: Your VM becomes harder to move between hardware, you lose snapshotting capabilities from a copy-on-write image.
5 is flexible, but has limitations. For example you wouldn't want to run databases on NFS volumes.
If initialization time is the only problem with 4, you could create several smaller images on the disk. Create the first one, initialize the VM and set up an LVM volume on it, then start creating more volumes and extend the LVM volume.
These days I would recommend CrowdSec over fail2ban.
What REALLY irks me is that the gboard keyboard on Android is context-sensitive. No, I don't want to have a shortcut for ".com" when long-pressing the period key while typing an address, I want to type a fscking dash!
There are surface mount boxes.