i tried many different cyberpunk 2077 repacks from dodi and fitgirl and none would finish installation with wine

i can’t even afford to eat every day

i would never do that to a cat and i don’t have money for a new one

can’t wait for my s22u to die so i can do that

a few years back i was pirating some movie after a bottle of captain morgan. i remember not being able to play the movie and suddenly the file was gone so i downloaded it again, same thing. the next day i noticed the whole system running a little sluggish and some things just wouldn’t work. then i noticed that i had several notifications from windows defender, it had blocked the movie. checked the torrent again and it was a damn .exe… i ran malwarebytes and it found nothing. i didn’t bother reinstalling because it felt normal after a reboot, but it bothered me for the next two years until i hopped into team penquin. just do a clean reinstall, and you can forget about it.

if there’s a chance something nasty got loose on your system, i wouldn’t trust it anymore even if some antivitus succeeds in quaranteening something. if you didn’t have a primary password in your browser, all of the saved passwords may have been compromised. i would reinstall OS and change all the saved passwords.

i have used the MAS script probably 20+ times. for my family, friends, also my own computers and virtual machine back when i still used windows. no complaints with it, 100% safe.

my mom taught me how to pirate almost 20 years ago

how long has it been happening? have you installed any new sw that might be causing it? it could be some licence check for some program or even a failed windows update but just to be sure you don’t have something malicious running there, i would do a reinstall just to get peace of mind. it’ll probably be faster than trying to troubleshoot.

searxng.site is what i use. i didn’t even know it had different forks too

i was struggling with DDG too, but in another post i saw someone recommend searx and it is actually really good.

first visual inspection: is there any rash or poop or anything nasty in there? then sniff.

seems totally unusable for me too. even simple queries fail

literally any change or a new feature in any product of any company is only about collecting and selling your data, and never about making something actually better.

poop. it’s poop.