AceSLS
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This has always been the case when “buying” things on Steam. Almost every digital good you buy is like that
Only thing that changed is legislation is finally catching up and these companies won’t be allowed to use the word purchase/buy anymore in the near future
- Comment on Tough Shit 4 weeks ago:
This was very informative
- Comment on Amazon's Stock Clearance: Upgrade Your TV with Amazing Fire TV Stick Discounts 1 month ago:
Fucking ad for a Spyware infested piece of shit
My parents use some, they spam my PCs fucking firewall logs like hell. They also regulary get silent updates which make them slower and slower and slower (which shouldn’t be possible because it’s freezing all the time)
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
ReVanced if you want the original Youtube app
Otherwise there are dozens of apps which don’t show ads
SmartTubeNext for AndroidTV
- Comment on US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps 2 months ago:
The Ars article seems to suggest that they were able to crack his phones pretty easily
Android uses data at rest encryption, which isn’t really useful without a lockscreen PIN/password since data gets decrypted after you unlock your screen the first time after each boot
Although it doesn’t appear he was actually using any encryption apps to store material; rather, he used a fake calculator app as password protection. Obviously not the brightest bulb in the drawer.
Agreed, he probably felt safe enough “hiding” the files. Definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed, which is great because fuck this guy
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Or use a RAM disj
- Comment on MW2 remastered multiplayer mod shut down by Activision day before launch 2 months ago:
I really hope those people will refund the game. Won’t hurt Activision much, but every bit counts
- Comment on I'm all of them 3 months ago:
When I jump into some place with a pretty low ceiling (like catacombs in Dust 2) I sometimes duck irl to not hit my heod
- Comment on I spoke with Llama 3.1-405B 3 months ago:
Sadge, you tried to improve Lemmy by posting something and got downvotes for your work
Don’t let yourself feel down about this, you tried to do the right thing and it didn’t work out. Try to understand why things happened the way they did and most importantly never stop trying what you think is right :)
Tbh I didn’t read the article but I’m glad you posted it because every post on Lemmy contributes to it being “alive”. So, thank you
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Is ADB faster than MTP
Yes, at least for every device I had in the past 6 years. By a lot actually
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
ADB via USB for speed, rsync via WiFi for everything else
- Comment on NVIDIA talk up their transition to open source GPU kernel modules 3 months ago:
Does this mean pre Turing will stop getting updates?
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 4 months ago:
Doesn’t even need updates, in the 10 years I was on Windows it didn’t want to start after shutting it down again like 7 times
I hated having to reinstall every year
- Comment on Lossless Scaling: Frame Generation For Every Game - But How Good Is it? 4 months ago:
Same problem as Magpie, that’s because they wrap the game window into another window which has desynced refresh times and horrible input lag. I really don’t know how people can play using this
- Comment on Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say 4 months ago:
Could you imagine how little the police would get done if they had special accounts with unlimited access to every OnlyFans account? Personally if I had something like that I would probably just phase out of this reality
Ummm, you do know there is a website for that right?
- Comment on Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say 4 months ago:
Imagine thinking OnlyFans content is better than free content
Spoiler: It’s not. Most of it is even wayyy worse than many things you can find for free
- Comment on is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital? 4 months ago:
This won’t go well
- Comment on Help me out here 4 months ago:
Relevant last place comic:
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
All of them.
Biggest difference a distro does is their update cycle and how much the distro “takes care” of you. Some of them do everything behind the scenes to make it just work. Others need more user interaction to reach the same state (but tend to teach you the inner workings too, which will open up a LOT of customization)
- Comment on Chrome for Android tests feature that securely verifies your ID with sites 4 months ago:
I’m sure this won’t be abused like everything browsers allow websites to do
- Comment on YouTube offers virtual trophies so you can feel bad about quitting premium 5 months ago:
Hard disagreey the arrows let me know what channels and videos to avoid
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
I don’t think it is in backups only. My guess is they store your full edit history for each comment/post/whatever. Newest one will be shown on the frontend, rest is for data vampires
- Comment on QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid! 5 months ago:
Same here, especially something with AI?
I’m currenly using Unexpected Keyboard with dvorak layout which works insanely well (especially for Termux and such)
- Comment on 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog 6 months ago:
On android I’m pretty basic:
uBlock Origin JShelter LibRedirect Dark Reader
On PC I’m using some more: uGet integration Video Download Manager (grabbing links for yt-dlp) SideBerry Bitwarden
and probably some others I forgot right now. I also try to not use to many addons
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
That’s what I do
Get my Music from different sources (most streaming services can be downloaded from) and then tag them with MusicBrainz Picard. Sorts them neatly, gives them mostly way more metadata than any other streaming service and sometimes I tag them by myself
Currently using Symphony on android because it supports user defined artist metadata seperators (really wish more music apps would have that feature)
On PC I’m using mpc and controll it mostly via cli
- Comment on Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio 6 months ago:
Luckily we already have maaaany good games available to download. So even if all future games were only playable on some cloud I wouldn’t give a fuck
- Comment on Steam Client Update Adds 150% Scale Factor by Default for 4K Monitors on Linux 6 months ago:
Nice. Maybe they’ll fix the constant shader cache recompiling next (which has been known for a loooong time now). Or maybe the double/tripple/quadruple downloads when switching your Proton version
As much as I like most of Valves actions, steam is just a steaming pile of garbage
- Comment on How do recommend eating this? 6 months ago:
Buy it dinner first
- Comment on Fallout 4's "next gen" update is out today and might break your mods - here's how to stop it 6 months ago:
Not true. You can always use steamcmd/the steam console to download any old version
There’s even tools to help with that
- Comment on Apple Develops Breakthrough Method for Running LLMs on iPhones 10 months ago:
This comment sums it up pretty nicely:
LOL innovative invention of swapping memory to storage…… maybe they can call it something cool like “cache”.
Apple being “inovative” my ass, lmao
