Avoiding rug pulls

Taking command of my computer

Jan 21, 2026 Update: Jan 21, 2026 265 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:

Personal
Applications and services I use in daily life

No Problem

Steam Jellyfin

Lil worried

FireFox Gmail Android Google Drive FreeTax USA

Very worried

Discord Windows (11) YouTube

Hot Garbage

Riot Client TurboTax (Business) Cox Communications (ISP) Amazon.com
Work (Game Development)
Applications and services I use at White Lotus Interactive

No Problem

Steam Blender Substance Designer 2021 (Steam) Zbrush 2020 Cubase 11

Lil worried

Visual Studio Photoshop CS5 (Old AF) Google Drive Self-hosted Perforce PlayStation DevNet

Very worried

Unreal Engine 5.x Windows (10) Trello Miro

Hot Garbage

Wix Meta "Horizons" First Bank
Not Sure Yet
Applications and services I recently started using
Memos VSCode Hugo Racknerd Porkbun Purelymail Thunderbird
Recently moved away from
Applications and services I cut out
Reddit TurboTax (Personal) Facebook Plex
  • 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)
    • Purelymail.com (Email Server)
    • Thunderbird (Email Client)

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