To give you an example this often happens in schools. The victim doesn't even need to be on social media at all. They find out anyway when a significant portion of the school is in on some rumour or organized harassment against them.
Mostly seems to be group chats / discord servers these days rather than on public social media.
Went with Linux Mint back in July, set up a dual boot in case I'd need Windows for anything. Figured something or other wouldn't work through wine or some such. Never have booted back to Windows since.
I think the only issue I've had is that my 8BitDo controller won't work via Bluetooth, but it works fine via USB. (Other Bluetooth devices have been fine, not that I have many.)
I haven't looked into it myself but one option I've heard is buying (often refurb/second hand because I think they're pricy) commercial displays such as businesses use (think fast food restaurant menus above the counter and the like).
Might be time to grab Psychonauts 2 at -85% (C$12). The first game was great. Not too much else I've been tracking is at a price I'd go for at the moment, though I haven't looked past my wishlist for now.
Cracking the Cryptic would be my top addition to the list. Daily solves of quality human-set variant sudoku puzzles and weekly cryptic crossword solves.
Still worth reporting to police. They might either know how to help you find the info they need or some info you happen to know but didn't think of might be relevant. If nothing else, they can put out a warning that has been happening around the area/school.
This sounds scarily like some of the sextortion cases that have been happening - mysterious stranger starts asking for more and more until they get nudes or other explicit content, then start blackmailing the victim to avoid having it released... it's nasty stuff, not least because they tend to target children.
A slight correction, en-dashes are used mostly to indicate ranges like Mon–Fri. Hyphens are a separate third thing, smaller than an en-dash.
hyphen– en-dash— em-dash
They get their names originally from having the same width as the letter n or m respectively in typesetting (though not all fonts follow that necessarily).
I tend to agree. They say it's specifically for the game preservation stuff, and maybe that's true. Most companies would create a separate non-profit with its own funding separate for such a thing (not that all those are necessarily great either). I like what GOG does in general and I think it's important they're there, but I don't have any intention of donating to a for-profit business based on the claims that they'll only do game preservation work with the funds.
I'm not spending an era reading through all the terms & conditions, but at a quick glance I can't see anything in the legalese about what they can/can't use GOG Patrons funding for, so it seems like it's just paying the company monthly for a few extra perks and hoping they'll use that cash for something positive.
In terms of automated suggestions, I've had some luck with Storygraph. It has better recommendations than Goodreads, as it actually tries to go by your reading history and recent reads, and allows you to filter by factors like mood, pacing, genre, page count, etc.
It's not perfect by any stretch, but it has found me stuff that I wouldn't have otherwise spotted.
Asking a local librarian is also an option. They're usually happy to offer suggestions, and I've seen it in some cases where the library's website has means to send a request for recommendations online.
Mary Simon, a Canadian citizen and an indigenous person (Inuk on her mother's side) who was chosen by Queen Elizabeth for the role on the advice of then prime minister Trudeau.
While the role has formal diplomatic ties to the monarchy, it is a Canadian who holds it and the prime minister who really selects them (in the guise of advising the crown on who to select).
Of course the monarchy has diplomatic power here (all the rich and powerful do) but the governor general isn't really an example of the crown being able to issue us orders or the like.
I sorta remember Earth: 2025 and Utopia being a bit like that. You'd generate turns over time and login once or twice a day to spend the turns. Not sure if that's exactly what you meant by BBS though, and the only ones I know offhand I think were all late 90s starts.
"It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy convent Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men."
Red Sister, Mark Lawrence.
Good book if you want something a bit like Harry Potter but aimed at a more mature audience and not funding the stripping away of human rights.
A little over a decade back, I had a laptop that came with Windows 8 but didn't actually meet the specs for it. I installed Ubuntu back then to get the thing to run reliably, and it performed really well that way.
On my home computers I kept using Windows, but with the trend toward less ability to control your system, more ads and AI nonsense being baked in, and just general bloat, when they announced the end of life for Win 10, I decided I'd switch to dual booting Linux Mint at the start of the summer. (I'm a teacher, and it seemed like the best time was when I could deal with my computer being on the fritz for a while if I messed it up.)
I set it up as dual boot because I figured here and there I'd still need to go back to Windows for some specific reason or other but that was back in early July and I've yet to encounter a reason why I really need Windows, so I genuinely haven't booted to Windows even once since the time I originally setup the dual boot and made sure it was working.
Honestly, so much of what we do these days takes place in browser windows that it barely feels different, other than it runs a little smoother and I occasionally have to run an old windows app through Lutris. (Had it installed anyway for games from GOG, and it turns out it works just as well for non-gaming apps.)
A redemption arc this late would've had to have been quietly making a great game, no big announcements in advance until it was done or nearly so and playable, and then letting it speak for itself.
I don't go in person to the library super often any more, but when I did I got in the habit of grabbing one book semi at random off the shelf. I say "semi at random" because it's probably from a section I enjoy (likely fantasy) and I'll quickly vet it as something I would at least possibly enjoy. But otherwise, just grab a random thing.
Pair that with a willingness to stop reading a book if you're not really into it, and sometimes you find gold where you'd normally not have thought to go looking. (A willingness to not be stuck with a book can go a long way toward making it easier to start one, in my experience.)
To give you an example this often happens in schools. The victim doesn't even need to be on social media at all. They find out anyway when a significant portion of the school is in on some rumour or organized harassment against them.
Mostly seems to be group chats / discord servers these days rather than on public social media.