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  • I love virtual cards. I use privacy.com for all my online stuff. Not a solution for this purpose unfortunately.

    As for your divide-it-up approach, that’s an interesting thought. I guess I’m a little concerned about signing up for several cards with several companies and several privacy policies. Feels a little weird to me, but I do see the merit in not having all your eggs in one basket.

    As far as the Apple Card and Goldman Sachs is concerned, I’m still trying to figure out which details are given to whom. Its hard to find info about it. I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re right and it’s the same as any other card from Goldman Sachs.






  • I try to buy things on GOG when I can just for the sake of diversifying my dependence on one company.

    There are plenty of guides to setting up Heroic Launcher on the Deck. Once its set up, it’s easy to install games.

    I’ve found GOG games to run perfectly fine, and cloud saves work perfectly.

    Lastly, I saw some other people saying GOG doesn’t have the latest version of this game specifically, so definitely check that before buying.


  • Admittedly, some of the games I’m about to mention take time to get good enough at to turn your brain off, but here’s some of my favorites for listening to audiobooks.

    Bloons TD6

    Any roguelite - currently I’m loving balatro and spelunky 2

    Backpack battles

    Tetris Effect

    Mario sports games

    Mini Metro

    Kingdom

    In general, I find it helpful to tell yourself that it’s totally okay to “lose.” When you are listening to an audiobook, you should be spending most of your attention on that. You don’t need to take the game seriously.


  • In addition

    • They have filed some controversial/anti-innovative patents.

    • Their printers phone home with encrypted information. Last I checked, there were speculated security and privacy issues with it, though someone should correct me if this was resolved.

    • They only open source their slicer because of the GPL licence, but they don’t open source anything else (firmware, hardware, etc).

    Again, I just recommend people look into these things before they buy a printer. Do your own research and come to your own conclusions :)


  • As other people have mentioned, Prusa and Bambu make the most reliable printers on the market. The plus side to Bambu is the price. They are definitely cheaper than prusa printers.

    However, I would make sure to be aware of the controversies surrounding Bambu. This is not a deal breaker for many people, but it wouldn’t be right not to at least take a glance at them. Especially considering you are on Lemmy.

    This is where Prusa shines. They have not had nearly the same amount of controversies. Their hardware, firmware, and software are all open source. They also have amazing customer support. As others said, a used Prusa can be found within your price range.

    This is just something to know of. I know a lot of people who are happy with both brands, and you can’t really go wrong either way. I just think this is another thing to consider.