Social skills are like any other skill; they can be learned. I’d suggest volunteering. It’s usually okay if you’re a bit weird and awkward so long as you’re contributing. I’ve done a fair bit of volunteer work and been on both sides of that. Plus it gives you a common goal and instant common ground with people; there’s at least one thing you all care enough about to do it for free.

Apparently it’s coming

Look into syncthing. Not sure about encryption tho and I’m not in a position to check RN.

There’s a repo for it maintained by ghost, but you have to do the install and setup yourself. Can’t vouch for reliability, never used it.

Pretty sure if you self host your own ghost install it’s already available.

Saw it coming but I didn’t think it’d be that quick.

Not familiar with those particular games, but if you’re lucky there might be a third party mod manager that takes some of the hassle out.

I’m pretty sour on murena. Never used their hardware but their cloud services have been down since October last year.

Dialing in to a local BBS to play 4-player deathmatch DooM 2, circa 1995.

How the fuck do you even pronounce Zoox? I swear the marketing departments are just mashing their keyboards at this point.

A subscription fee for a fucking license plate? We already have that, it’s called registration.

The first one wasn’t even good.

Oh wow I can’t wait to strap a hallucination machine to my face

Yes. And? You think they care? Premium isn’t there to benefit you, it’s there to benefit Google. As soon as the money stops coming in, they’ll look for other ways to squeeze it. We’re already seeing it with streaming providers shoehorning ads into their paid services. It’s not that much of a stretch.

I give it a year, tops, before they start serving ads in premium too.