I went from thinking of upgrades to enjoying my backlog of old games. My wallet and library are both happy and I’m enjoying the games I’m playing.

Tuta mail is garbage. Used it for over a year and the search was terrible event when using the exact text from the mail. They also deleted my account despite me actively using it.

Look for a different mail service.

I haven’t tried it myself but Ubuntu desktop 24 has remote desktop built in. You could try it out on a VM?

then others will

Unfortunately, I don’t think the others want to compete fair either. It’s a big race to shove garbage to consumers.

Reminded me of this bit from Barge Ballad

Oh you’ve got to remember

Way up atop the mast

Knowing all the river routes

That you never learn from the charts

Well I do remember

By emailing your input? Kinda like chess by post.

Or text based adventures