Sneakernet is getting worse and worse these days, I’m learning the ancient art of astroprojecting into random people’s rooms to consume media.

Seems like it, I switched to my current instance explicitly to avoid dealing with this stuff

No, my point still applies. It sounds like they refriended the new account then set it to private, leaving a trail that could still be manually recorded

Please enlighten me on what I missed

very careful not to disclose any information to steam

proceeds to associate with everyone they were previously friends with on public logs

I just want to point out that if your friends accounts were public like you imply they wouldn’t have even needed to use the site. All the site does is automate the data collection process. The only way to fix it is to make private accounts the default.

The fact that the company Valve went with KDE instead of GNOME for there popular linux device seems to indicate that it is at least stable. I could get some user testomonies on /c/Linux about KDE if you want?

Yep, since I mostly pirate obscure games I don’t need to worry about the VPN. Lutris works great for fitgirl-repacks

You may want to have a look at this list for possible alternatives

There are a couple, though the quality varies. Mojeek and marginalia seem to be good alternatives personally

Well the article says they have 16 (half are only half time) employees working between at least 5 projects, so it looks pretty possible, and most of the smaller engines are made by one or two people

Huh, it seems it depends on the existing sources, I’m not particularly sure how that works

From what I see, there are 4 5 options on annas-archive.org

1. Use fast(but fee charging) direct download

2. Use ipfs

3. use torrents

4. Go to source pages (libgen and/or zlibrary)

5. Slow direct download [Edited]

It sounds like you clicked the link to the source as opposed to the mirrors

No, more like a mirror in that it hosts all of zlib and libgen’s content as well as providing torrent and ipfs links for the files (which they seed)

Anna’s archive acts as a drop in replacement for libgen and z-library, also doesn’t cost anything

Nope, just means that you can’t make over 200,000 US yearly if it has over 200,000 downloads