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Cake day: October 20th, 2023

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  • Depends. This is a leveraged buyout and there are countless examples of other companies bought like this and they don’t last long.

    They take on massive debt to buy it. Then they shift that debt to the company they bought and away from the individuals. Then that company is crippled paying down interest so they can’t innovate (not that EA did), then they’ll have to cut costs and the product will diminish. Likely pay out billions in dividends to the buyers can make profit and in 5-10 years EA will go bust or get sold again.

    The banks will be left holding the bag, but probably covered their loses by that time so can write off the rest of the debt.





  • There are plenty of resources online, but to get started I would go the easy route that I went and use docker.

    Look to set up an “arr” stack. Make sure you have it set up gluetun and link to a VPN.

    Essentially, you’ll buy a VPN connectio. Ensure this has P2P and Port Forwarding support.

    You then set up docker in a way that first connects the vpn. If the vpn doesn’t work then it won’t start the download client like qbittorrent.

    If you wait until after work I can share my docker compose file to give you an idea, but honestly if you’re somewhat capable with a keyboard then you can google you’re way to getting set up.