AMD GPU + KDE Plasma with Wayland finally gets me close enough to the smoothness of Windows, especially the per-display settings for fractional scaling and high refresh rate were sorely lacking on Linux. It’s not perfect yet (and neither is Windows’ implementation) but it improved the Linux desktop experience a ton!

I just went the ol’ VPN route and got a YouTube Premium family subscription in Turkey. It’s about 2€/month for 5 people; peanuts essentially. I wish I could avoid giving money to Google entirely but I’m mostly using Apple devices to consume YouTube content and my four friends who share the subscription with me do as well. So yeah, that’s the trade-off I can live with.

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Do you have a personal device with your own password? I’m sure there are journaling apps out there. It’s not quite the same as pen and paper but better than nothing. Best of luck to you!

Or you could just use the Microsoft Activation Scripts from massgravel on GitHub. These generic keys can be found in Microsoft‘s documentation anyway