NutinButNet

@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I place little value on someone’s educational experience anymore since a lot of this can and is usually learned from nearly any place on the web or dark web.

  It seems that for an evil maid attack to occur, someone would need to leave the device unattended, specifically with their admin/sudo account logged in so they can create the access they want later. That is, unless they discovered an exploit in the system that enabled them to gain that access by some other means.

  The three best ways someone would be proactive against this attack are:

  • never leave your device logged in and unattended without some sort of passcode system being necessary to get in and execute commands/programs.
  • never leave “guest” accounts active on your device, even if they don’t have admin permissions. This can make it easier for someone to find other exploits to gain admin access.
  • always separate your accounts. Have a dedicated account for admin level escalations and use it only for that purpose and nothing else. If an attacker is to somehow get your attention away and leave your device unattended, at least this leaves them with no admin access on your main account

  If you suspect your device has been compromised, the best thing to do is to shut down and disconnect from the network (unplug Ethernet cable and consider removing the WiFi card; even with the device powered off) and have a professional inspect it. I say that because even if you reinstall the OS or even get another OS, there’s no way to tell if something hardware was added to allow intrusion if we’re worried about physical access being compromised to the device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best laptop under $200 to buy for YunoHost Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No TVs either? Most laptops over the last 15+ years have HDMI/VGA which is generally available on TVs made in the last 15+ years too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Kepler Tells Gamers To "Get Ready For The First <$1000 Console"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people have been recommending Bazzite recently. It’s like SteamOS in a lot of ways and focused heavily on gaming.

  SteamOS is unofficially available as well now but you’ll run into issues if you have Nvidia GPU like me.

  I’ve heard Pop!_os being good for gaming too, and while I’ve used it, I didn’t use it for gaming.

  This site has 11 that it recommends for gaming focused distros itsfoss.com/linux-gaming-distributions/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 won't be "making jokes every minute", because it's set in a totalitarian world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the game franchise itself is now the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Kepler Tells Gamers To "Get Ready For The First <$1000 Console"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to PC gaming, console players.

  Only with more steps in between.

  That price point might as well just get you to buy a prebuilt or save money and buy the parts individually and build it yourself. Throw on a free Linux distro that gives you that console feel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people gurgling the switch 2 so hard?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Game prices? I understand the Nintendo cult is always stiff. But for the last 10 years these people bitched about $70 games. And now they are just throwing excuse after excuse defending $80 games now. But the lie I’ve been hearing is “Sony has been selling $80 games since the PS5 came out” No… No it hasn’t. There is not one base PS5 game for $80 ever made.

  I’m very much against this and always have been, but I think not everyone has been. Some people will buy these games at any cost, especially when it comes to Nintendo and children. Children don’t understand the true costs and parents just want a happy kid and think it’s not that bad of a price for their kid to be happy. Most probably don’t pay attention to the price to see that it once was $50 and now is $80 for the new games.

  It’s infuriating for me because my boycott effectively means nothing when these people exist. But no matter, I’m happy with my PC and waiting on emulation when it comes to play these games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You forget that the companies making those cheap cars are often the same companies of the fancier cars. Thinking Hyundai and their Genesis line.

  Hyundai will never make a Sonata look like a fancy super car because then they won’t have any reason for someone to want to pay more for the fancier models that their Genesis line has for 3x the cost.

  The people buying the fancier cars want something exotic that no one else is driving on the roads. They will willingly pay the premium for that luxury to not look like the rest of the cars on the road. Many also don’t care what’s under the hood, i.e. doesn’t matter if a cheaper Chevy can beat their Maserati, they’re buying the car for the exotic looks.

  And then you also have some people who don’t want something flashy even if it is cheap. When I lived in a not so great area, I specifically did not want anything that drew attention to me. For example, I didn’t even want to wear knock offs of high end clothing like a knock off of Gucci clothing because it makes people think I have money and am a target for being robbed. So yes, I want the generic 4 door sedan the broke college kids are driving. Maybe the local thief won’t be so likely to smash my windows or try to carjack me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my turn signal all the time so I’m not one of these people, but here’s what I’ve heard from others over the years:

  • there’s a video of one woman being asked on a college campus and she said it’s not “manly” for men to use their turn signals
  • one cop on Reddit said he doesn’t use it when he “knows” no one is around
  • my dad would get on my mom about it and she said it was a bad habit of not putting it on (whereas my dad stressed us to use ours when teaching us how to drive)
  • I had a friend who brushed it off because “it’s just me being a girly girl” while making a stupid cute face gesture
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be someone wanting to share the WiFi on something like a tablet. Or someone using an Android phone as an “iPod Touch”, basically everything the phone has minus cellular capabilities but still wanting to share the WiFi with other devices.

  I could see this being very popular on flights and cruises where they charge you per device to pay for this one device and then share with other devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They shut down third party apps like Apollo. That was my last draw.

  Fuck using that garbage official app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We should assume that our chats/calls are being recorded on services like this. But why exactly is this done? Seems like it leaves a lot of liability on their end and then added costs for the storage of all that data.

  Are they required to or are they selling the data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to basically not snore at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! I’m seeing a lot of positive results so far :) I’ve been rubbing my belly today as it’s been getting a lot smaller 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to basically not snore at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I began snoring when I started gaining weight. So it’s likely common among people like myself that are not in the healthiest of state. But getting healthier will reduce it for myself.

  I didn’t use to snore at all prior to gaining weight. I let myself go for a few years but getting back to it now to get in shape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did this come from? If a graphics card, it may be difficult to gift it.

  I had this happen a short time ago where I got a new GPU and they gifted me a game I already owned and I tried giving it away on here and found that I had to run through all these time based verifications and basically only I could redeem it.

  If you have just the Steam key, you can give that to someone and they can claim the game and that’s that. But you may not want to post it directly on somewhere because bots are known to roam the internet and steal them first to sell them on weird websites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not familiar on that platform, unfortunately, as I’m on iPhone.

  But I think you should still be able to use virustotal’s website on mobile to check websites and also files.

  There may be a sandbox app available for Android, but I’m not aware of any particular ones to recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can check URLs and files at virustotal.com for free.

  If you have Windows 10/11 Pro and your computer supports virtualization, you can enable the Windows Sandbox in Windows Features too. This creates a temporary virtual machine with the bare essentials and no antivirus built in for testing stuff like this to see what the worst case scenario is if you visited/accessed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao guess I’m not a real fan then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft does this to our users at my job. They go to charge their password and it won’t accept it but won’t tell them what the requirements are. “Your password doesn’t meet our criteria.” Okay, so what are you looking for???

  Worst is that there seems to be a soft block at some point and instead of telling them that, it shows this dumb error instead over and over again no matter what password they choose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low flow toilets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The one I got off Amazon for like $25 is only slightly more difficult than replacing your toilet seat. Remove the existing toilet seat, screw this one in, put your toilet seat back on, connect to the water inlet the toilet uses. About a 30-45 minute job in total.

  There’s no electronics because it uses the water pressure to push the water through, so it’ll work even with the power out.

  Especially good for renters because it’ll be just as easy to remove and leaves no permanent change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced to lie on a questionnaire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking the same thing. But if this was a survey specifically for social media, there wouldn’t be a N/A option except at the beginning to make you not have to continue further and waste your time and theirs. (Survey for getting users’ input on social media use, etc.)

  But definitely agreed on other. There are so many social media sites out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld had to remove game features because of Nintendo lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wondered about this. Would they be in violation if these were mods made by them that they received no additional payment for? Does it matter if it’s released officially or by individual accounts of the devs?

  Thankfully Nintendo can’t do shit about every day modders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld's newest patch stops you from gliding with your Pals, and yes, it is because of Nintendo's lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s one of the more famous ones people know of …wikipedia.org/…/Universal_City_Studios,_Inc._v._….

  To summarize, Nintendo was getting sued by Universal Studios because of Donkey Kong’s likeness to King Kong, name and the fact h they’re both gorillas.

  Ironically, Nintendo chose Universal to make the recent Super Mario movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld's newest patch stops you from gliding with your Pals, and yes, it is because of Nintendo's lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As if I needed more reasons not to like Nintendo.

  Truly turned into the bad guys they had to fight against in their early days in the video game industry over frivolous lawsuits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft’s VR support is now gone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked playing in VR from time to time. Why remove it? I don’t get that. I can understand not including new features for it, but why remove it from the game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s why they’re doing it only for the new ones lol. Nobody cares to play their new crap so nobody is noticing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most cringeworthy scenes or moments in TV that you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of my favorite shows, definitely my favorite ending to a show, but I don’t blame you for ending there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most cringeworthy scenes or moments in TV that you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory Skylar White singing happy birthday song to Ted on Breaking Bad.

  Why did they do that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mesa NVK (NVIDIA Vulkan driver) now Vulkan 1.4 conformant on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a sweet looking GPU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Poppa’s House’ Canceled By CBS After One Season⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I just started watching it. Wasn’t heavily invested in it, but that was quick.