I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc

Interesting. Any idea why this is happening to SmokeAPI but not cream?

I used to use aptoide for piracy many years ago. I guess that’s not a thing anymore?

A DNS blocker like pihole, nextdns, adguard etc might help with that.

Also even reccomended torrent search engine websites suck and only crawls through some websites is there any you would rec

Stop using these sources and learn how to use qBittorrent with Jackett. You can search hundreds of trackers all ata once in seconds. You won’t miss anything unless it’s literally just not available anywhere.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-configure-Jackett-plugin

creamapi and related tools will not get you banned.

Unless you use them on multiplayer games, wouldn’t try that.

Honestly not sure about this. Seems a bit uninspired

Yup. Reality. No point using a hyper secure chat system if literally nobody you know is using it.

I still remember the ordeal of getting through the Fade portion of Origins… it was awful.

The rest of the game was top notch though

Outside of handhelds, I don’t really see the use-case of consoles anymore, to be honest.

Dragon Age*

Ok, but it was planned as one. I’m very wary of this project, to be honest. Seems like they developed one thing, changed it, then went back to the original vision - not a good sign for a cohesive, stable project.

I’m cautious about this game. It’s been redeveloped like 3 times into completely different genres, pretty much nothing has been shown about it, and Bioware is nothing like it was years back.

American internet prices are wild.

E3 really was a massive moment. Shame we won’t really have stuff like this again. I miss the yearly cringe.

My most upvoted post of all time is about this very issue https://sh.itjust.works/post/2882678

I migrated away from lemmy.world as a result

You’re going to need to give more information than this zero context screenshot. Is this a virus scanner? If so, which? Why are you scanning? What caused this series of events? What’s the full content of this popup?

Absolute worse case scenario: whatever you’re doing will not irreparably damage your PC. If you break windows or whatever you can just wipe your pc and reinstall windows via a usb stick. However, it’s not clear what’s going on here.

How does the process of requesting a street charger work, wouldn’t that require council approval or some such?

Because it doesn’t have millions of users in the EU and near a billion in revenue

People who use WhatsApp but have friends who want to use signal and vice versa.

Your average person really does not care about this stuff,they just want something easy and familiar. This is good for people who care enough to use signal but still want to actually chat to people.