If MMOs count, EVE Online at well over 12,000 hours over the last 20 years.

If not, nethack has probably consumed close to 1000 hours of my life.

Why read when you could just angrypost, I guess.

Why not defederate? How much friction is there in making a new account on their instance to:

• get support in an appropriate forum, and:
• keep a fire gap between that account that is a known consumer of Product X and your other account that has lots of other data that maybe shouldn’t be tied to your verified consumer purchases like a giant sign saying “triangulate my interests and sell crap to me”

Fail2ban and Nginx Proxy Manager. Here’s a tutorial on getting started with Fail2ban:

https://github.com/yes-youcan/bitwarden-fail2ban-libressl

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporations/facebook/all

Common EU win

Cooking! I’m not a weird loner with a fire fetish, I’m channeling my inner Francis Mallmann. No really, if you get really serious about it, cooking can be a great solitary, hyperfocus, hobby. From distilling my own sea salt to cataloging where to harvest wild fennel and clams, it’s not something I’d want to do in a group.

And, you do get to have people over in circumstances you completely control!