Seeker Of Truth

Sometimes seeking is hard and I am just tired. Don't judge me for taking a break...

[Seeker Of Truth @SeekerThuth]

"Mockery is not the product of a strong mind" #lexathe100

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Lotus seed pods appear to make different facial expressions

The round seed holes can line up like eyes and mouths, making the pods look like they’re smiling, frowning or reacting

[Sadhna @sadhna6389]

Netflix has 260 million subscribers. Netflix is betting that 250 million of them never open the settings menu.

One guy did. He worked Netflix customer support for 3 years. Handled 15,000 complaints. He told me something that should change the way you watch tonight:

"Every single complaint I got for 3 years was caused by the same 10 settings. Not bugs. Not content. Settings."

"'Why is my picture blurry?' Because Netflix set your streaming quality to Auto which doesn't mean best quality. It means lowest quality Netflix can get away with before you notice."

"'Why are my recommendations terrible?' Because 3 people are watching on your profile and the algorithm thinks you're one person who loves true crime, kids cartoons, and Korean dramas at the same time."

"'Why does every movie look like a soap opera?' Because a motion smoothing setting you've never seen is turned on making a $200 million film look like it was shot on a phone."

"'Why do I scroll for 45 minutes and give up?' Because autoplay previews are feeding the algorithm false data every single time you pause on a thumbnail. Netflix thinks you're interested. You were just reading the description. Now your homepage is full of content you'd never watch because you accidentally trained the algorithm to recommend it."

"'Why can't I find anything good?' Because your content maturity rating is set to a default that hides 40% of the library. Shows and movies that exist on your account right now that you're paying for right now are invisible to you because of one setting you've never checked."

"I spent 3 years answering the same 10 complaints. Every single time the fix was the same: 'Let me walk you through your settings.' Every single time the customer said the same thing: 'Why didn't Netflix tell me this?'"

"Because Netflix makes more money when you scroll. Not when you find something."

Here are 10 Netflix settings that are ruining your experience right now and exactly how to fix each one in under 5 minutes:

🧵

[Sufyan Maan, M.Eng @sufyanmaan]

PAID VERSION → FREE ALTERNATIVE

1. ChatGPT Plus → Google Gemini
2. Netflix Premium → Tubi
3. Spotify Premium → SoundCloud
4. YouTube Premium → NewPipe
5. Canva Pro → Adobe Express
6. Microsoft 365 → LibreOffice
7. Adobe Photoshop → GIMP
8. Figma Pro → Penpot
9. Adobe Premiere Pro → DaVinci Resolve
10. Grammarly Premium → LanguageTool
11. Midjourney → Microsoft Designer
12. Notion AI → Obsidian
13. Claude Pro → Google Gemini
14. Adobe Illustrator → Inkscape
15. Zoom Pro → Google Meet
16. Slack Pro → Discord
17. Dropbox → Google Drive
18. Adobe Acrobat Pro → PDFgear
19. GitHub Copilot → Codeium
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26. Trello Premium → ClickUp
27. Calendly Premium → Cal. com
28. Audible → LibriVox
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30. Disney+ → Tubi
31. Apple TV+ → Pluto TV
32. Xbox Game Pass → Epic Games Store
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34. Adobe Lightroom → Darktable
35. Loom → OBS Studio
36. Typeform → Google Forms
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38. Zapier → Make
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44. Todoist Pro → Microsoft To Do
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61. Beautiful ai → Google Slides
62. Tome → Google Slides
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88. Affinity Designer → Inkscape
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90. Adobe InDesign → Scribus
91. Affinity Publisher → Scribus
92. Adobe XD → Penpot
93. Cinema 4D → Blender
94. Autodesk Maya → Blender
95. Autodesk 3ds Max → Blender
96. ZBrush → Blender
97. Substance 3D Painter → ArmorPaint
98. Pro Tools → Audacity
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100. Ableton Live → LMMS
101. Logic Pro → GarageBand
102. Adobe Audition → Audacity
103. Motion → Blender
104. DaVinci Resolve Studio → Kdenlive
105. Final Cut Pro → Shotcut

MARKETING + BUSINESS

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110. Similarweb → Google Trends
111. BuzzSumo → Google Trends
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114. Sprout Social → Metricool
115. Later → Buffer
116. SocialBee → Buffer
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120. Intercom → Tawk to
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125. SurveyMonkey → Google Forms
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127. Asana Premium → OpenProject
128. Monday com → Taiga
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130. Microsoft Project → ProjectLibre
131. QuickBooks Online → Wave
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134. Dropbox Sign → SignWell
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137. CamScanner Premium → Microsoft Lens
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139. AnyDesk → RustDesk
140. Dashlane Premium → Bitwarden
141. NordPass Premium → Bitwarden
142. Squarespace → WordPress
143. Wix Premium → WordPress
144. BigCommerce → WooCommerce
145. Elementor Pro → Brizy
146. Divi → Brizy
147. WP Rocket → LiteSpeed Cache
148. Yoast SEO Premium → Rank Math
149. Rank Math Pro → The SEO Framework
150. WPForms Pro → Forminator
151. Gravity Forms → Forminator
152. MemberPress → Paid Memberships Pro
153. Google One → Proton Drive
154. Microsoft OneDrive → MEGA
155. Microsoft Teams → Jitsi Meet

DEVELOPER + TECH

156. Replit Core → StackBlitz
157. Postman Pro → Insomnia
158. Docker Desktop Pro → Podman
159. Datadog → Grafana
160. New Relic → Grafana
161. Sentry → GlitchTip
162. Firebase → Supabase
163. MongoDB Atlas → Supabase
164. Vercel Pro → Cloudflare Pages
165. Netlify Pro → Cloudflare Pages
166. Heroku → Render
167. AWS → Oracle Cloud Free Tier
168. Twilio → Telnyx
169. Algolia → Meilisearch
170. Pinecone → Qdrant
171. OpenAI API → Google AI Studio
172. Claude API → Gemini API
173. WebStorm → VS Code
174. PyCharm Professional → VS Code
175. DataGrip → DBeaver
176. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate → Eclipse
177. Rider → Visual Studio Community
178. Visual Studio Professional → Eclipse
179. Sublime Text → Notepad++
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184. GitHub Enterprise → Gitea
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186. Elasticsearch Cloud → OpenSearch
187. SendGrid → Brevo
188. Mailgun → Brevo
189. Make → n8n
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DATA + ENGINEERING + PROFESSIONAL

191. MATLAB → GNU Octave
192. Mathematica → SageMath
193. SPSS → PSPP
194. Stata → Gretl
195. Tableau → Apache Superset
196. Power BI Pro → Looker Studio
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198. Alteryx → KNIME
199. Minitab → Jamovi
200. ArcGIS → QGIS
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203. Revit → FreeCAD
204. Fusion 360 → FreeCAD
205. Rhino 3D → Blender
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207. LabVIEW → GNU Radio
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209. ANSYS → OpenFOAM
210. Wolfram Alpha Pro → GeoGebra
211. QuarkXPress → Scribus
212. Microsoft Project → ProjectLibre
213. Microsoft Visio → diagrams net
214. Tableau → Metabase
215. Power BI Pro → Apache Superset

MORE FREE ALTERNATIVES

216. Adobe Premiere Pro �� Kdenlive
217. After Effects → Natron
218. Final Cut Pro → Kdenlive
219. Adobe Acrobat Pro → PDF24
220. Adobe Express Premium → VistaCreate
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222. Figma Pro → Lunacy
223. Sketch → Lunacy
224. Photoshop → Photopea
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226. Illustrator → Vectr
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229. Ableton Live → Cakewalk
230. ScreenFlow → OBS Studio
231. Loom Business → ScreenPal
232. Slack Pro → Mattermost
233. Zoom Pro → Jitsi Meet
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237. Evernote → Standard Notes
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239. Notion → Anytype
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241. Jira → OpenProject
242. Monday com → OpenProject
243. Calendly → ZCal
244. Typeform → Tally
245. Mailchimp → MailerLite
246. Hootsuite → Publer
247. Sprout Social → Buffer
248. HubSpot → Bitrix24
249. Adobe Stock → Pixabay
250. Shutterstock → Pexels
251. Envato Elements → Pixabay
252. Freepik Premium → Pixabay
253. Epidemic Sound → Free Music Archive
254. Artlist → Pixabay Music
255. Dropbox → Proton Drive
256. Google Drive Storage → MEGA
257. NordVPN → Windscribe
258. ExpressVPN → Proton VPN
259. TeamViewer → RustDesk
260. AnyDesk → Chrome Remote Desktop
261. AutoCAD → LibreCAD
262. SolidWorks → SolveSpace
263. MATLAB → Scilab
264. SPSS → Jamovi
265. Tableau → Metabase
266. Power BI Pro → Metabase
267. ArcGIS → QGIS
268. WebStorm → VSCodium
269. PyCharm Professional → VSCodium
270. DataGrip → Beekeeper Studio
271. Postman Pro → Bruno
272. Docker Desktop Pro → Rancher Desktop
273. Datadog → Prometheus
274. New Relic → OpenTelemetry
275. Sentry → Highlight io
276. Firebase → Appwrite
277. MongoDB Atlas → Neon
278. Vercel Pro → GitHub Pages
279. Netlify Pro → GitHub Pages
280. Algolia → Typesense
281. Pinecone → Weaviate
282. Elasticsearch Cloud → OpenSearch
283. GitHub Copilot → Continue
284. Cursor Pro → VS Code + Continue
285. Zapier → n8n
286. Miro → Excalidraw
287. Trello Premium → Taiga
288. Asana Premium → Taiga
289. Adobe XD → Penpot
290. ProtoPie → Penpot
291. Zeplin → Storybook
292. Adobe Audition → Ocenaudio
293. Camtasia → ShareX + OBS Studio
294. Microsoft 365 → ONLYOFFICE
295. Google Workspace → ONLYOFFICE
296. Adobe Acrobat Pro → Stirling PDF
297. Microsoft Visio → yEd
298. Microsoft Project → GanttProject
299. QuickBooks → GnuCash
300. Xero → GnuCash

300 PAID TOOLS.
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Stop paying for subscriptions when free options exist.

Bookmark this.
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[Polygon @Polygon]

It Takes Two Meets Micro Machines in This Co-Op Game Coming in 2 Weeks https://t.co/pl46LufX6r

[DomTheBomb @DomTheBomb]

To celebrate the release of Dispatch on Xbox on July 29th! I am hosting a worldwide giveaway for two copies of the game on any platform!

Rules to Enter:
1. RETWEET and LIKE this Tweet

2. Follow Me on Twitter/X

Winners picked on Saturday August 1st at 8 PM EST!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

On the same day Sony told a billion gamers to embrace digital forever, it quietly showed them the catch.

Two announcements, one blog, an hour apart.

First: from January 2028, no new PlayStation game will ship on a disc, digital only.

Second, buried below: Sony is closing the online stores for the PlayStation 3 and Vita, so you will no longer be able to buy games there at all.

Read together, they are not two stories. They are the whole argument about what you actually own.

A disc is the last thing in your home a Silicon Valley company cannot reach. A PlayStation game from 1994 still works today, and the law lets you resell it, lend it, keep it forever.

That is ownership. It is protected by something called the first-sale doctrine, and it applies to physical objects. It does not apply to digital purchases. That is not Sony being cruel. That is the quiet legal truth underneath the whole shift.

Sony's own spokesperson said it plainly today. With all digital content, you are not buying the game. You are buying a personal license for non-commercial use. Not the thing. Permission to use the thing, which depends on the company's servers and goodwill. They once pulled a game called Concord two weeks after launch. Buyers got refunds, but the game itself simply vanished.

This was never really about discs versus downloads. It is about moving the largest entertainment medium on Earth from a world where you own an object the law protects, to one where you hold access the law treats as rented.

Convenient, cheaper, and easier for almost everyone. Also revocable in a way a disc never was.

The click of a disc into a console was ownership. The download is permission. Sony just showed you, in a single morning, how differently the two age.

Do you agree with what Sony did??

[GameSpot @GameSpot]

What if your cozy farming sim had a serial killer? 🤔 This is Grave Seasons.

[Seeker Of Truth @SeekerThuth]

Τι αηδία σύστημα αυτό φέτος; Οι άνθρωποι άφησαν τις ζωές τους για να κριθούν τελικά από την επίδοση άλλων ατόμων. Από την άλλη, τι πιο ελληνικό.. #MasterChefGR

[Epic Games Store @EpicGames]

A neon-noir thriller where Bigby Wolf must confront the monster within that threatens the future of Fabletown. Wishlist The Wolf Among Us 2! https://t.co/agLYFFs06p @telltalegames

[IGN @IGN]

The zombie apocalypse happened, but you still need to eat. In Last Harbor, you'll man your boat, fish, cook, and deal with zombies off the Washington coast. #IGNSummerOfGaming

[Seeker Of Truth @SeekerThuth]

Καλέ όντως έσωσαν τον Σαμ? #MasterChefGR

[Jesper Kyd @JesperKyd]

The Assassin’s Creed Ezio’s Family Music Box has been released by Ubisoft and Wayo! It includes a printed score that I’ve signed.
@assassinscreed @WayoRecords @Ubisoft @UbisoftMTL

[Epic Games Store @EpicGames]

If you need us, we'll be swimming with the Leviathans 🤿

@Subnautica 2 enters Early Access on May 14. Wishlist now! https://t.co/qBJIGUycq3

[Seeker Of Truth @SeekerThuth]

Α ρε Κωνσταντίνα, είσαι από τα άτομα τα λίγα #MasterChefGR

[Seeker Of Truth @SeekerThuth]

Wassan #MasterChefGR

[Seeker Of Truth @SeekerThuth]

Αχ και προσπαθησε να της απαντήσει 🤣 Μας το έκανε ακόμα καλυτερο #MasterChefGR

[Seeker Of Truth @SeekerThuth]

"Good luck"
ΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑ και πολυ του ήταν #MasterChefGR

[Seeker Of Truth @SeekerThuth]

To #flathunters σήμερα

[Seeker Of Truth @SeekerThuth]

Το να θες πλυντηριο με 800€...μα τι είναι αυτά που λέει #FlatHunters

[Out of Words @outofwordsgame]

👑​ Charming looks and the most flamboyant clothing, but what lies beneath all that paint?

Watch as our most extravagant character, the Prince of Many Colors, from #outofwordsgame, is brought to life!

Join our fantastic fabricator, Sofie, for the full video on YouTube!