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- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 1 day ago:
As far as I know an internet connection is required on a vanilla OOBE setup of windows 11 with today’s iso or a dell/hp/lenovo preload.
Most user systems ship with W11 Home licenses, no pro, so they don’t even have a domain join option.
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 1 day ago:
Yes, invoking a command prompt to enter a command is under the hood for most users.
I work in IT, I know all the tricks. I also know how users tend to behave. Anyone who is tech savvy can figure out the ins and outs and get around all manner of things. If you just follow what you can click on screen and stick strictly to GUI and zero customized OOBE tweaks you have no other option.
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 2 days ago:
I use CachyOS, but for the vanilla home user “I bought a laptop!” at bestbuy or whatever the fuck, there’s no local account option anymore. It’s connect to the internet and sign in with microsoft, and nag you constantly every 3 days until you activate onedrive and other microsoft services.
I got an ARM64 laptop through work to test to see how it might work as an experiment and this has been how the device behaves from day 1. It’s a nightmare.
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 2 days ago:
Enterprise and SMB always have practical workarounds that consumers do not need to deal with.
The only way to create a local user account on windows 11 now without fuckery is pretending you are going to domain join. No other method exists without under the hood tweaks. A similar workaround would work.
But none of this actually protects kids. The goal is to have total surveillance over as many users as possible in their home life. Enterprise is already handled by m365 and google workspace after all.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 4 days ago:
There’s something like 5000 releases on steam a year, mostly indie
- Comment on No fear! 1 week ago:
So fun. Segregation and ramprant racism everywhere.
- Comment on No fear! 1 week ago:
Some safety equipment encourages accidents.
For bicycles though, can’t really say anything negative about helmets. They save brains.
American Football though? I bet the concussion problem would go away overnight if they took them away. You don’t bash your head against someone unless you think you’re invulnerable thanks to a helmet anyway.
- Comment on Alabaster Dawn - Early Access Release Date Trailer 1 week ago:
I liked what I could figure out with crosscode. I got to a point where I was stuck and could see no way to progress though, and this was relatively early.
Trailer for this one looks phenomenal. Those animations are awesome.
- Comment on Hamdurger season 1 week ago:
BAH HAMBOG!
- Comment on Hamdurger season 1 week ago:
I dunno, looks like a Hotdurger to me.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This doesn’t look slave plantation-y enough.
I also can’t find the pointy white hat.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 weeks ago:
I skipped the switch 2 despite heavily using the switch 1 for many years, and i’m planning on skipping future iterations of playstations as well. PC has usurped consoles for me entirely.
Even couch gaming on linux is better than a console. I’m all set. The deck or it’s equivalents handles any handheld gaming I want to do and it’s trivial to stream locally if I don’t want to have a gaming computer near my tv.
Oh, and i’ve ditched microsoft controllers to. 3rd party quality is phenomenal nowadays and it’s not limited to any one brand. I have this flydigi and 8bitdo stuff that all feel amazing and are more reliable than microsoft’s own. It’s so nice not being dependent on overpriced garbage!
- Comment on Day 624 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
You could do far worse. It’s surprisingly smooth and still looks phenomenal.
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 2 weeks ago:
Or is it a charge on a magnetic medium somewhere?
It’s just all weird when you get down to the science.
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if I should upvote or downvote.
This is supposed to be wrong answers but…
- Comment on Day 624 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
This game runs and looks amazing on the deck. For a while it was given the black “unsupported” mark on the deck because the deck didn’t support the multiplayer mode, so they literally broke off the MP as free dlc. They definitely put work in to make it look and run wonderfully just for the deck though and it shows.
Wasn’t super impressed though past the visuals. Nothing pulls me back to this game. Formula just feels flat.
- Comment on A job's a job 2 weeks ago:
Corn.
- Comment on Day 621 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
My wife is up to 800 hours with this game across half a dozen saves. She’s doing a completionist run right now that’s about 200 hours in, getting close.
Kind of amazing how much depth there is in this game and little hidden things that you’d never find unless you REALLY put time into it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much. That age old meme of money/time/energy is spot on, and when you have all the time and energy it sure does feel like the only time that matters is now.
But it’s only one short part of life. If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that I should have been an anesthesiologist. lol
- Comment on Bean virus 4 weeks ago:
Why do people keep buying this shit?
You don’t have to leave your house. $50 aint much to a lot of people, even those making minimum wage in a lot of cases. People have way more disposable income in this country than they let on, there’s always ways to minimize expenses. Housing costs are probably the biggest costs for me, and that could be split four or five ways if I really wanted to save money (but i’d rather spend thousands of dollars a month to not deal with other people.)
My brother routinely takes a ride share service to mcdonalds with his wife, they eat, then they go back in another rideshare. it’s still cheaper, and the food is always fresh, and the rewards you get from app rewards programs are honestly pretty good when you game the system.
- Comment on Bean virus 4 weeks ago:
I think between the tip and fees, it would be closer to $18 or so.
The fees are insane, they triple dip the one sided negotiation.
- Comment on Everyone brings up leatherman multi tools, this is the real edc shit. 4 weeks ago:
But what if I’m allergic?
- Comment on Reporting an absence 5 weeks ago:
They could… you know… just use the back door.
- Comment on JPEG is pronounced Jay-Fegg 5 weeks ago:
I think this is the best one here. Hey can you send me that document as a gaypeg? Thanks!
- Comment on Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal 1 month ago:
I actually sat through a pitch for downdetector. They have an enterprise product that shows historical data and trends. You have to pay per service monitored, it was wild.
Expect these to be put fully behind paywalls or some other privacy invading method to maximize value extraction. They use tools to gather outage info from all kinds of sources on social media, not their websites so they don’t rely on user reports as much as some might think.
- Comment on Game over 1 month ago:
We call them Karen
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 month ago:
As much as I think nintendo and the pokemon company are evil shits, I do believe overall pokemon go was net positive for humanity.
The physical health benefit from all those people walking around, and the mental health benefits from said populations being more social and friendly with others won’t ever show a statistic for lives saved, but I think it’s reasonable to assume lives will be saved from extra exercise and positive social interactions.
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 1 month ago:
Beautiful, it’s not even listed on are we anticheat yet either (but there’s a github request to put up the denial.)
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 1 month ago:
Sucks their game sucks. At least there’s countless other options!
- Comment on Bean thinking of you, Lemmy 1 month ago:
Unbeanleavable, where’s the fucking corn?