Random Dent

As far as I can tell there aren’t really any rules anymore if you annoy rich people enough. They just sort of come after you regardless.

Last time I checked it seemed like it wasn’t quite there yet in terms of features, but admittedly that was a few years ago so I’ll have to give it another look. Thanks for the reminder!

An open source 2D animation suite that can compete with Toon Boom Harmony. I bought an (expensive) perpetual license for Toon Boom Harmony years ago, and then they moved to a ridiculously overpriced monthly subscription model and deactivated my license, essentially ripping me off for hundreds of dollars. So ever since then I’ve wanted something to come along and put them out of business.

I’m switching for political/ideological reasons TBH. It’s a good service and it works well, but one of the company’s co-founders recently made a huge donation to the Örebro party in Sweden (as in, big enough to account for 72% of the party’s entire income for 2025.) The party’s leader, Marcus Allard, has called for mass forced remigration of immigrants, including people born in Sweden, and has referred to immigrants as “damn parasites.”

In fairness, this isn’t the political position of Mullvad the company, it’s a personal donation made by one of the founders and the CEO and others have expressed discomfort with it. But the fact still remains that if I keep giving the company money, it will keep funding the co-founder, who will (presumably) keep funding the party and I can’t in good conscience send money if I know it’s going towards something I disagree with that profoundly, even in a roundabout sort of way. I only have about 30 days left on my subscription anyway so I’m going to just let it run out and then switch to something else.

Yeah I use QBittorrent, and Mullvad for a VPN (although I’ll probably switch soon once my subscription runs out.)

For this very reason, I have my VPN set up so that if it’s off, the whole internet connection is shut off. And as a backup, my torrent app will only work through the VPN interface, not the general network. I know what I’m like, and would definitely forget this all the time lol.

I think if it was me I wouldn’t worry about it. As you say, it’s his money and you’ll presumably outlive him, so then your options are: a) just leave it and then your eventual funeral stuff is mostly sorted, saving your loved ones a bunch of money and stress one day or b) you can just disregard it and do whatever you want.

What the Lindsey Graham ladybugs thing means. Once known it can never be dis-known.

I try to live by a sort of chill flow chart:

A PROBLEM HAPPENS! CAN I DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT?

        |           |
       YES          NO
        |           |
        |           |
   DO THE THING     |
        |           |
        |           |
        -------------
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    DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT

We don’t do the slippers thing but here in Canada we don’t wear shoes indoors either. I shake my head when I see people in American TV shows laying on a bed with their shoes on lol.

Good to know it’s easier! I assumed it’d be safer because Linux generally is lol. Presumably because Denuvo is kernel-level and Linux doesn’t let it fuck about with the kernel or something like that?

I’m an introverted person who finds people exhausting, and I’m around people all day long. I hit some kind of point of extreme burnout about three years ago and things never let up, so I’m functional pretty much all the time but if I get any peace and quiet for more than about 30 seconds I just pass out indefinitely until someone wakes me up again lol.

I kind of do that too, only I don’t start from the start each time. Mine’s just an ongoing thing that’s been going for years now.

I saw someone doing it at a big film festival once, for a preview screening of a huge movie that was still months from release. The director of the movie was in the audience! The audacity lol

Can confirm for the Steam Deck! Not that it supports it explicitly, but Valve doesn’t really seem to care what you do with your hardware lol.

The only limitations are that it’s Linux, so you might run into some trouble with Denuvo/Hypervisor and stuff like that. HV cracks allegedly work on Linux now, but I haven’t tried it yet.

I like the Wombats version too.

Oh and Heart’s cover of Stairway to Heaven (not 80s or 90s but still a banger)

I like Denzel Curry’s cover of Bulls on Parade.

They do a good Sheryl Crow one too!

I was looking at IVPN. I still have some research to do but I haven’t found anything sketchy on them so far.