If you had real shitty internet back in the day (read 56k modem) and you liked to play russian roulette you would dump satellite traffic with a skystar2 DVB-S card. You never knew what you'd get realistically, found some true gems underneath mountains of coal in the day of (still) unfiltered internet.

Care to ELI5 for us casuals who did not catch and are missing the obvious?

Ubisoft won't own my money too!

Bought Hogwarts Legacy a week or so on a deep discount and I'm enjoying the hell of it. During december I traditionally watch the Harry Potter movies so now I expanded to the game. So far it might be my game of the year since I didn't try Baldur's gate 3 yet, I'll pick that one up on a sale later on. I'm taking my time and explore every nook and cranny in the game. I was hyped for Diablo 4 as a long time devotee but in it's current form it's simply not fun and needs quire a rework for me to pick it up sadly. The atmosphere, visuals, music, even combat is spot on but it lost way too much on other fronts. Starfield is another game which I put on hold as I simply didn't continue the game at some point, will probably resume it after a few more patches.

Croatia has also effectively dropped Coke (at least for the moment) but for an entirely different reason
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/coca-cola-hbc-withdraws-some-drinks-croatia-while-illnesses-investigated-2023-11-08/

Wait I was under the impression that some time ago they lifted the embargo as US-Cuba relations have improved a bit. A man would think raising an embargo would improve relations even more /sigh

This one's hilarious, but that one's not gonna work for long as they will axe almost all non-government approved VPNs

Seeing a lot of Manjaro here, what's the deal? I installed it just yesterday on a test machine to check it out as I plan on steering over from windows long-term so just browsing what's out there. Don't really have issues and it ticks the boxes of a more user-friendly installation and comes out of the box with Plasma. I may try out pure Arch or the GUI fork just not to have the hassle of setting up the DE

Just to add a perspective from the other side of the fence, I have a gaming laptop running Windows 11 (yes I know) where this (or a very similar) issue has been plaguing Ryzen users for at least a year and a half. The issue is that TPM per se is not causing issues if turned on, but if BitLocker encryption is on it will cause occasional audio stutters and intermittent complete system halts. The only thing that reliably helps is completely turning off Bitlocker, the TPM chip can stay on and is of course needed for W11. OEMs and AMD have been digging their heads in the sand like ostritches and they have released the odd fix that does nothing to fix the underlying issue. I can't see MS doing anything to reverse course on requirements and am getting a bit fed up with their BS lately, browsing what distro might suit me best and might pull the trigger and finally switch...