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- Comment on Survey shows Gmail users would gladly sacrifice features for more privacy 1 week ago:
And this is exactly why I use ProtonMail. My old Gmail is now a junk folder I check…about never.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 1 week ago:
Yeah, grease is a big deal. After things like bacon, drain the fat into the trash (or into a bowl and later the trash), then wash in the sink. This minimizes how much grease is entering your pipes and thus vastly reducing the need to unclog your pipes.
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
Works perfectly fine on my machine I bought over two decades after the game came out, looks significantly better than when the game came out too. Sounds like pretty damn good upgradability to me.
- Comment on Judge admits nearly being persuaded by AI hallucinations in court filing 2 weeks ago:
Good on the judge for following up on the citations.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 weeks ago:
I see the subscription lasted the full lifetime of the subscription!
Victory!
Next problem please!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s pretty annoying. Best thing you can do do is sub to communities that don’t have it. As an example, the linux communities are pretty big and low on politics.
- Comment on internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 3 weeks ago:
Manual reviewers basically sort by ‘most flagged’ and start working down the list. By the time you get to just a few flags, it’s 99.99% BS flags, such flagged videos obviously would not be taken down and are in very, very numerous quantity. Videos that get flagged by more people are obviously more likely to be real flags and worthy of a reviewer’s time.
- Comment on Marshmallow Test 3 weeks ago:
Growing up impoverished certainly teaches one poor lessons for how to get out of poverty; however adults have the ability to learn and modify their behavior. Helping adults modify their behavior in positive ways must be encouraged as it is one of the ways out of the cycle.
- Comment on Match to lay off 13% of staff 3 weeks ago:
Why the hell does Match.com have 2,500 employees?
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
What will you argue if I bring up the fact that they ripped off countless Pokemon?
The case case isn’t about character designs, the case is about patents Nintendo filed after PocketPair released a game with said mechanics. The idea that one should be able to patent a game mechanic someone else has already released in their games is BS. Japan’s patent system sucks and Nintendo sucks for abusing it.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Summoning creatures from a sphere is hardly blatant plagiarism. Many, many, many games have the ability to summon creatures from an object. Pokemon was far from the first one to do it…
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
We are talking about gliding on a mount…a very common game feature…
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Japanese ones are particularly worse. In the US a successful defense is prior art, there is no such defense in Japan.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 3 weeks ago:
As long as they let you turn off the upscaling I won’t complain about it. Unfortunately there has been a trend as of late to force it on; the artifacting drives me nuts. It’s always harder to to see in youtube videos though, since they are compressed quite a bit compared to live play.
Biggest thing that concerns me was their focus on pushing one into multiplayer in V. I’m worried that is going to intensify since it made them so damn much money doing that last time.
Either way, game isn’t out for a year, and it isn’t out for PC for probably two years. So, just going to go back to enjoying my Breath of Fire IV playthrough I’m currently doing. :)
- Comment on I (M32) gained 140lbs in a year from bad choices, almost all in my belly (now 69-inches) due to rare genetics. With my unique proportions, I’ve outgrown most off-the-rack clothing options. Advice? 4 weeks ago:
In the short term, custom tailoring seems like the best option. Yes it is expensive, but, if you want things to fit right, it is the best short-term solution.
Managing my life with these proportions has become nearly impossible, as every movement is difficult
However, the long term solution is to start losing that weight you picked up. You didn’t have this issue before, and you won’t after getting back to a more normal weight.
- Comment on Microsoft says new accounts will be passwordless by default 4 weeks ago:
The gold standard is providing something you know (a password) alongside something you have (an OTP or fingerprint). This is two-factor auth in a nutshell.
using your face, fingerprint, or PIN
You leave fingerprints and images of your face everywhere you go; and in the case of someone spoofing those, there is zero way to change either. Such public information is not the foundations of a secure system.
And a PIN is just a shorter, shittier password. Why the hell would we replace a normal password with the least secure, most shitty version of a password?
- Comment on Kansas wants to use AI to spot guns in schools. One major company won’t say how often the system fails 4 weeks ago:
You want to help people so they don’t feel murder is their best choice in life, and if they do, you need to stop the threat. Having a camera go ‘someone might have a gun, I promise this isn’t the 1000’th false positive’ right as they start murdering people isn’t helpful.
- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 5 weeks ago:
Just keep participating. Other platforms will occasionally explode, people will look here, and if they see activity, some will stay.
If you look at active user charts for Lemmy, basically every time Reddit explodes, Lemmy picks up permanent users.
- Comment on Breath of Fire IV released on GoG 5 weeks ago:
Picked it up, excited to try it out. :)
For linux people, if you are having troubles launching it, add the following environment variable to the game: WINEDLLOVERRIDES=ddraw=n,b;dinput=n,b
- Comment on Breath of Fire IV released on GoG 5 weeks ago:
This game looks pretty solid. Worth playing?
- Comment on How is it to have very bright skin in America? 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s a small enough problem everywhere that putting any real thought into “will people reject me because of my skin” (as OP asks) is overthinking it.
- Comment on How is it to have very bright skin in America? 5 weeks ago:
Broad categories most would recognize are ‘asian’, ‘black’, ‘white’, and sometimes ‘hispanic’ or ‘middle eastern’. Most people aren’t going to get much more specific than that.
- Comment on How is it to have very bright skin in America? 5 weeks ago:
The racism you see on the news certainly exists, but remember what you see on the news is news because it is rare. You don’t see every obituary, because such common occurrences aren’t news.
It is something I wouldn’t put too much thought into regardless of your race.
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 5 weeks ago:
GOG games work great as well, I have recently been playing my GOG copy of Cyberpunk 2077 on Mint. You will want to use the Heoric Launcher as GOG doesn’t have their own Linux client. That launcher also works with Epic and Amazon games if you have any of those.
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 5 weeks ago:
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I personally recommend Mint as the out-of-the-box experience is very familiar to a Windows user and the OS comes with everything one would expect a desktop OS to have pre-installed. That said, don’t stress too hard over the distro. This isn’t like Windows vs MacOS where everything is completely different. No, basically all your knowledge of one distro is transferable to another distro if you decide to change it up in the future.
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At this point, I just assume a game works in Linux unless proven otherwise. There are some that won’t, mostly games that use kernel-level anti-cheats and specifically disable the game if running in Linux. There are only a few dozen games total that fit this description.
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Linux is less of a resource hog than Windows, so if your computer is strong enough for Windows, it will work fine on Linux.
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Dual booting using two different drives is generally the way to go. Doing two different partitions works, but Windows really, really hates other OSes being installed along side it, even other Windows installs. Gaming is my primary pastime and I haven’t booted into my Windows drive in months. From my experience for the average person, a dual boot is only something you will want temporarily as you get used to the unfamiliar OS.
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Good luck on your swap. I’m damn happy I did it and hope you will be too!
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- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 1 month ago:
Almost every language does this. It isn’t colonialism, it’s connivence and practicality. Some sounds don’t exist or are awkward, so a different name is used instead.
- Comment on Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks 1 month ago:
Thank you. <3
- Comment on Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks 1 month ago:
Would someone smarter than me explain the article a bit? I’m getting lost on what things like a ‘contained IP address’ is.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 month ago:
Don’t fix things that aren’t broken. There are plenty of broken things to actually work on.
- Comment on Found money. What do? 1 month ago:
I would say, put a reasonable effort into finding the owner. If the owner cannot be found, it’s finders keepers.
Key thing about trying to find owners of lost things: You cannot just say ‘is this your $200’. You need to do something more like, ‘I’m trying to find the owner of some lost money’ and if they claim it is theirs, ask them how much it was. This way you filter out grifters.