dr-robot

I prefer Gog. I don’t need cloud sync, I just want to download the installer and start playing. I hate the idea of needing a really heavy launcher like steam to play my games. I play via Lutris on Linux. DRM-free is important to me as a principle. I also happen to prefer Gog’s UI when shopping around. I keep steam around for games I bought before I made the full switch to Linux and the occasional game that is not available on Gog.

If you never pay for music, artists won’t be able to make new music. Where possible buy as directly as possible from the artist, e.g., through bandcamp.

I use logcheck which should be available with your distro. It’s simple but pretty dumb though. It works by scanning your system logs, excludes any pre-configured regexps (it already comes with defaults for many of the most common logs), and sends you an email if there are any unexpected logs. I did have to add a bunch of custom regexps to exclude additional logs specific to my setup. But I just did this by adding new regexps whenever I got a logcheck email that I deemed irrelevant so not terribly difficult.

The end result is that I get an email with logs whenever anything unexpected happens. For example, I get emails whenever any SSH session is established (including my own) which gives me the confidence that if something starts going down, I should be able to see it.