this person adults - enjoying their office software

US of A often has way lower hdd prices compared to Europe.

Take the serverpartdeals price and add shipping and import tax.

System Settings > Security & Privacy > Application Permissions

Find Steam or Stean VR in that list, click on it and then you should see a button "Screen Sharing:" "Manage 1 Session"

I think pinetime is alright for 66€

Games often write to Program Files, system-wide redistributables, or shared folders. VC++ runtimes, DirectX, .NET, PhysX installers all require admin.

Repack scripts are usually written to “just work” everywhere, so they have the stuff mentioned above built in. Or maybe fitgirl is just lazy and asks for admin even if it is not strictly needed.

There is definitely a risk of malware etc. when pirating, so you are not dumb to be wary.

Ideally you'd install the game in a VM first and run some virus/malware check on the whole VM afterwards.

Waiting for the pine64 shift with this one

What happens with your data and backup if:

• your drive dies?
• someone breaks in and steals the pc?
• your house burns down?

How will file history help you get back those files?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup#3-2-1_Backup_Rule

The idea that a minimal backup solution should include three copies of the data, including two local copies and one remote copy.

Yeah, when you are in a window, right click on the taskbar (or press ALT+F3) > special application/window properties > search for focus stealing prevention

Sometimes you have to fiddle with the matching criterea to get exactly the window you want.

You can also find a list of all your special app configs in the settings app.

at some point windows removed the focus stealing prevention setting. So I moved to KDE plasma, which has global AND per app focus stealing prevention settings.

but maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum’s decision that I am missing.

Licensing money.

The one I installed, obviously.

Aaah finally, malware for Linux, truly the year of the Linux Desktop!