I've had exactly this happen to me. It was my own fault but it took a bit of work figure out.

I take no delight in killing but Russian forces could leave Ukraine at any point and put an end to it.

Backups need to be reliable and I just can't rely on a community of volunteers or the availability of family to help.

So yeah I pay for S3 and/or a VPS. I consider it one of the few things worth it to pay a larger hosting company for.

unless they open source their code and/or provide some public interface to test and validate feed content

This honestly seems like a good idea. I think one of the ways to mitigate the harm of algorithmically driven content feeds is openness and transparency.

I like a lot of FFXII even though I get why it isn't as beloved as others.

I'm from the Midwest US and I know there are words and sounds I pronounce with a Midwestern accent but I can still type and spell them correctly.

If'n I typ lik dis den o'course people gonna think I hev the big dumb or that I'm a mole from a Redwall book.

Look upon what thou has twat and ponder it.

Yeah the golden age of streaming has long passed. Now it's an expensive, ad-ridden fragmented mess of data harvesting.

Unironically Powershell is great and learning it has propelled me through the last 12 years of my career as a Sysadmin. My biggest complaints with it are generally Windows complaints or due to legacy powershell modules.

Performance was 'okay' on my RTX2080 but I had to return it because the EA launcher was breaking steam controller input which made it unplayable.

It's clear that Valve's competitors undervalue the user experience that Steam provides and don't understand why it's so sticky.

If magic was real, expert magic users would not trust it at all.

"Haha yeah I mostly do transfiguration magic but I do some evocation too occasionally. No I don't eat any transfigured food or do any of that at home or anything honestly I'm surprised it works at all."