Avoiding rug pulls

Jan 21, 2026 Update: Jan 21, 2026 155 Words

Who’s next?

Who’s next to get rug pulled?

I’m going to make a few categories to boil down my feeling about these services / software:

  • No Problem
    • Steam
    • Jellyfin
  • Lil worried
    • FireFox
    • Gmail
    • Android (OS)
    • Google Drive
  • Very worried
    • Discord
    • Windows (11)
    • YouTube
  • Already Hot Garbage
    • Riot Client
    • TurboTax (Business)
    • Cox Communications (ISP)
    • Amazon.com

Bonus categories:

  • Things I’ve cut out / moved on from

    • Reddit
    • TurboTax (Personal)
    • Facebook

  • Things I’ve just started using

    • Memos (Self-Hosted notes server)
    • VSCode (Writing this post / website with it)
    • Hugo (Static website “framework” / helper thingy)
    • Racknerd (VPS)
    • Porkbun (Domain)

Work version (Gamedev)

  • No Problem
    • Steam
    • Blender
    • Substance Designer 2021 (Steam)
    • Zbrush 2020
    • Cubase 11
  • Lil worried
    • Visual Studio
    • Extremely old theoretically still licensed Photoshop CS5
    • Google Drive
    • Self-hosted Perforce
  • Very worried
    • Unreal Engine 5.x
    • Windows (10)
    • Wix
    • Trello

No Problem

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Lil worried

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Very worried

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Hot Garbage

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