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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They can literally setup an instance themselves. By the time it is identified as such, the damage is basically done. Just make a new one. Or use one of the many instances not requiring approval. Or fill out the form with ai. They don’t actually need an insane number of accounts for their subterfuge. Having just “some” and keeping them tied to conversational themes/topics seems sufficient?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume you mean unsolicited phone calls with this? I haven’t gotten any of those in about a decade, if not more. And those were isolated cases as well. We have laws against that sort of thing. It’s not been a problem for a very very long time (early 2000s or so).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got 'em⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s level, not flat. Measuring flat-ness is a whole different complexity and ball game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t notice anything like this, not even slightly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft bids farewell to Windows 10, millions of users won’t⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, if you’re in the EU you get 1 year updates free.

  Microsoft has already made this available make months ago to US and the rest of the world, but required the weird MS login and settings backup to OneDrive. This is against EU rules, and the ruling that it isn’t ok came like a month ago or so. Since then Ms has been scrambling to make this possible, but I know many people who didn’t have the option even a week ago.

  If you’re in the US or most of the world (but not EU), you can enable 1 year of updates by logging in with Ms account + backing up settings once per OneDrive. This enables updates, and you can instantly undo both things again, which won’t undo the update status.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The attack seems similar to sidechannel attacks for CPUs, where you’d essentially read protected memory by observing side effects. Same idea but with pixels sent to the display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea I was wondering why the option to prolong updates hasn’t appeared yet for me. This explains it, and had been rumored. I wouldn’t upgrade to 11, and don’t mind keeping my win 10 partition around for a bit, as there are (thankfully rare) cases where I do need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering all that the article is saying it’s that there are “multiple hardspace” things coming, it sure uses a lot of words. Still, that’s all it’s saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This video is over a decade old at this point. It’s even in 4:3 for God’s sake. I mean his argument isn’t wrong, but with flatpacks and other formats like it existing the relevance changed quite a bit.

  We just needed valve to step up (I think he mentioned it in that talk, been a while since I saw it), and for MS to just make Windows shitty enough to at least gain momentum.

  For what is worth, as a user I haven’t had that experience that it’s hard to find apps at all. Quite the opposite. Almost all apps I wanted to use were just in my package manager. I think I have 1 flatpack installed, not even sure…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at what might happen: say you go on a date, you like each other. Maybe you end up together, maybe for just a while, maybe for a long time or you get married. Do you really care why or how you met then?

  Even if the opposite happens, so you go on a date, you don’t really get along or aren’t each other’s type. What did you lose? An afternoon or an evening? And you (probably) still get some nice conversations out of it, or just “experience” in dating. Not really a big loss either.

  It’s hard enough to find someone. Take any chance you can get, no matter how much of a long shot it may be. You said in some comment that he has a “wide social circle” or something like it. I would be glad he managed to use that for you in this way. If it doesn’t work out, nothing of value was lost (if anything it might be embarrassing for him in his social circle, I don’t know). If it does work out literally everyone just wins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard drives that aren’t used will get data errors over time. Usually for data storage this is counteracted with what’s called a “scrub” every so often (like few months). This just means the whole drive content is read, and the drive itself will figure out if any areas have a “weak signal”, and just rewrite that part.

  Having only 1 drive without any mirror and without any way to detect potential errors (let alone a way to correct them) is a recipe for disaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, sorry. Turns out it was a different person posting this, and I had somehow assumed it was the same person replying, my bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it clearly has nothing to do with the spiciness, and just with whatever your digestive system doesn’t like about jalapeños (or them being pickled). Why would you agree that spicy food is relevant here when it clearly isn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried living entirely on IPv6 for a day, and here's what happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish I could run ipv6 only at home, but due to a variety of factors, I just can’t. Lacking support for it is actually the least of my problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s just say I also don’t play platformers, basically ever. It was fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played inside, but limbo is absolutely fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in the EU. The violations of Google and Amazon I mentioned also happened in the EU. Feel free to look up the repercussions on those. Having rules is irrelevant if there is no way to actually enforce them, or at least verify them. It would be doable (maybe not quite “easy”) to have that verifiable, but there is no system or law in place for it as it stands right now.

  You can trust them companies that would put surveillance equipment like that in their stuff to not abuse it, that’s your call. I just won’t use it. In quite a few EU countries this wouldn’t be allowed anyway, btw. At least not with current laws in regards to video recording in and around traffic. For example dash cams are still not fully legal in Germany, and only very limited recording (and storing) of footage is permitted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes totally. I would trust any company to always do this the right way. And there would never be an incident where some footage gets leaked, or passed around the office. “Oops there must have been a malfunction”.

  Yes like Amazon AND Google haven’t been caught saving private conversations that their voice assistants recorded totally unintentionally even though they weren’t triggered. They did totally say “sorry” and won’t do it again, ever. Right? Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds nice until you think about the implications for everyone that doesn’t vandalize or destroy these bikes. I’m most certainly not going to rent one if it has 360° surveillance capabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG summer sale is live⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … and Amazon games. People who have or had prime accounts often have large amounts of free games on there from claiming them in the past (often via twitch).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WotC did some shady shit before, too. Certainly right improve since the acquisition though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 2 is free to claim on Steam for the next two days⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No of course not, but if it’s run under proton/wine it doesn’t even have access to any normal files. When it’s run natively it does (documents and all that). I’m not saying it’s doing anything with this, or even that it would make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 2 is free to claim on Steam for the next two days⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in general. Typically, games with kernel level drm or anticheat just didn’t work at all.

  Borderlands 2 specifically has a native Linux version though, and it may or may not abuse this fact. It isn’t run in a sandbox-like environment like Windows games that run through proton, but according to protondb it does run through proton? In any case yes, it’s probably better than running it on Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Definitive Guide to Steam Play Tools⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This comes at the perfect time. I was thinking I’d have to find out how to run modloaders or managers on Linux, but I guess I got my answer right here. Thanks for posting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA rebrand and refresh their anti-cheat into EA Javelin Anticheat, still blocks Linux / Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With my backlog of games I have, but never played, I really find it hard to care. I’m not running out of games. Keep piling on reasons for never buying your games. So I won’t. Not my loss.

  Eventually it’ll be enough reasons for enough people that they’ll notice. Guessing it isn’t that time yet though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean for ksp2 saying it failed cause they had “no experience with this kind of work” is kind of weird, since neither did the ksp1 devs when they started that. And they didn’t fuck it up either, let alone this badly. Remember that it was a passion project of harvester, working at a PR firm that just happened to let him do it under their roof and employment. The company did not even have any basic experience in game development, arguably even software development in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re into primarily gaming, try PikaOS. It’s Debian based and uses the same tooling, but it’s on an optimized kernel. Is generally geared toward gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You do know Heroic exists, right? It works perfectly fine.

  And I prefer an open source solution integration multiple platforms to a single closed solution per platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physicists vs Normal People⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only works in America though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube, when the walls fell⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, he doesn’t do sponsorships and doesn’t want to. Missing out on “only” AdSense is one of two revenue streams (the other being donations/patron).