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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the subscription lasted the full lifetime of the subscription!

  Victory!

  Next problem please!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the hell does Match.com have 2,500 employees?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This game looks pretty solid. Worth playing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it to have very bright skin in America?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Linux is less of a resource hog than Windows, so if your computer is strong enough for Windows, it will work fine on Linux.

  4. 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.

  5. Good luck on your swap. I’m damn happy I did it and hope you will be too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You bastard!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to exercise at home instead of gym?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is the critical basis on why all diets work. One can eat as healthy as they want, but if they eat more calories than they expend, they will gain weight. Tossing aside such a fundamental concept is silly. Instead, build upon it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to exercise at home instead of gym?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  CaloriesIn - CaloriesOut = WeightChange

  Fat forms using spare calories. Any diet that involves eating fewer calories than what you burn will reduce your body fat.

  As long as you have that part right, you are free to add any other requirements on your diet you wish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes place in Japan circa 1579…300 years before the advent of the incandescent light bulb

  These little jabs are great.