NutinButNet

@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite questlines in Starfield?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’ve enjoyed exploring outposts and taking out space pirates and spacers.

  Though (small spoiler) if you choose to side with the space pirates, you’ll encounter less of these populated outposts to take on because they’ll be friendlies except for the spacers, which really made it less fun for me to explore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I place little value on someone’s educational experience anymore since a lot of this can and is usually learned from nearly any place on the web or dark web.

  It seems that for an evil maid attack to occur, someone would need to leave the device unattended, specifically with their admin/sudo account logged in so they can create the access they want later. That is, unless they discovered an exploit in the system that enabled them to gain that access by some other means.

  The three best ways someone would be proactive against this attack are:

  • never leave your device logged in and unattended without some sort of passcode system being necessary to get in and execute commands/programs.
  • never leave “guest” accounts active on your device, even if they don’t have admin permissions. This can make it easier for someone to find other exploits to gain admin access.
  • always separate your accounts. Have a dedicated account for admin level escalations and use it only for that purpose and nothing else. If an attacker is to somehow get your attention away and leave your device unattended, at least this leaves them with no admin access on your main account

  If you suspect your device has been compromised, the best thing to do is to shut down and disconnect from the network (unplug Ethernet cable and consider removing the WiFi card; even with the device powered off) and have a professional inspect it. I say that because even if you reinstall the OS or even get another OS, there’s no way to tell if something hardware was added to allow intrusion if we’re worried about physical access being compromised to the device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No TVs either? Most laptops over the last 15+ years have HDMI/VGA which is generally available on TVs made in the last 15+ years too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Kepler Tells Gamers To "Get Ready For The First <$1000 Console"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people have been recommending Bazzite recently. It’s like SteamOS in a lot of ways and focused heavily on gaming.

  SteamOS is unofficially available as well now but you’ll run into issues if you have Nvidia GPU like me.

  I’ve heard Pop!_os being good for gaming too, and while I’ve used it, I didn’t use it for gaming.

  This site has 11 that it recommends for gaming focused distros itsfoss.com/linux-gaming-distributions/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 won't be "making jokes every minute", because it's set in a totalitarian world⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the game franchise itself is now the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Kepler Tells Gamers To "Get Ready For The First <$1000 Console"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to PC gaming, console players.

  Only with more steps in between.

  That price point might as well just get you to buy a prebuilt or save money and buy the parts individually and build it yourself. Throw on a free Linux distro that gives you that console feel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DJI mimo app caught sending data to china⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had been thinking of getting the Osmo camera, but this makes me reconsider that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a thing you would never do, no matter how much you were offered to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sell my soul

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people gurgling the switch 2 so hard?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Game prices? I understand the Nintendo cult is always stiff. But for the last 10 years these people bitched about $70 games. And now they are just throwing excuse after excuse defending $80 games now. But the lie I’ve been hearing is “Sony has been selling $80 games since the PS5 came out” No… No it hasn’t. There is not one base PS5 game for $80 ever made.

  I’m very much against this and always have been, but I think not everyone has been. Some people will buy these games at any cost, especially when it comes to Nintendo and children. Children don’t understand the true costs and parents just want a happy kid and think it’s not that bad of a price for their kid to be happy. Most probably don’t pay attention to the price to see that it once was $50 and now is $80 for the new games.

  It’s infuriating for me because my boycott effectively means nothing when these people exist. But no matter, I’m happy with my PC and waiting on emulation when it comes to play these games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You forget that the companies making those cheap cars are often the same companies of the fancier cars. Thinking Hyundai and their Genesis line.

  Hyundai will never make a Sonata look like a fancy super car because then they won’t have any reason for someone to want to pay more for the fancier models that their Genesis line has for 3x the cost.

  The people buying the fancier cars want something exotic that no one else is driving on the roads. They will willingly pay the premium for that luxury to not look like the rest of the cars on the road. Many also don’t care what’s under the hood, i.e. doesn’t matter if a cheaper Chevy can beat their Maserati, they’re buying the car for the exotic looks.

  And then you also have some people who don’t want something flashy even if it is cheap. When I lived in a not so great area, I specifically did not want anything that drew attention to me. For example, I didn’t even want to wear knock offs of high end clothing like a knock off of Gucci clothing because it makes people think I have money and am a target for being robbed. So yes, I want the generic 4 door sedan the broke college kids are driving. Maybe the local thief won’t be so likely to smash my windows or try to carjack me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my turn signal all the time so I’m not one of these people, but here’s what I’ve heard from others over the years:

  • there’s a video of one woman being asked on a college campus and she said it’s not “manly” for men to use their turn signals
  • one cop on Reddit said he doesn’t use it when he “knows” no one is around
  • my dad would get on my mom about it and she said it was a bad habit of not putting it on (whereas my dad stressed us to use ours when teaching us how to drive)
  • I had a friend who brushed it off because “it’s just me being a girly girl” while making a stupid cute face gesture
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They shut down third party apps like Apollo. That was my last draw.

  Fuck using that garbage official app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We should assume that our chats/calls are being recorded on services like this. But why exactly is this done? Seems like it leaves a lot of liability on their end and then added costs for the storage of all that data.

  Are they required to or are they selling the data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to basically not snore at all?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! I’m seeing a lot of positive results so far :) I’ve been rubbing my belly today as it’s been getting a lot smaller 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to basically not snore at all?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I began snoring when I started gaining weight. So it’s likely common among people like myself that are not in the healthiest of state. But getting healthier will reduce it for myself.

  I didn’t use to snore at all prior to gaining weight. I let myself go for a few years but getting back to it now to get in shape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I designed and made a thing!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ABS has worked out pretty well for me even in direct sunlight.

  I designed a fun little replacement for this thing on my parents’ gate and it’s still there over 7 years later in all the weather and even intense heat over 110°F on some days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried that and it doesn’t work the times I’ve tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been looking for something like this to block Reddit links. Not just because it’s trash now but I’ve found it randomly blocks my IP address. Sometimes I can access and other times I can’t. It’s blocked us entirely at work and is so frustrating when I’m looking for help on something I’m troubleshooting. Would rather those just not appear to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That and GettyImages, I hate getting those in my image search results on Google because you can never actually download the image you are looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did this come from? If a graphics card, it may be difficult to gift it.

  I had this happen a short time ago where I got a new GPU and they gifted me a game I already owned and I tried giving it away on here and found that I had to run through all these time based verifications and basically only I could redeem it.

  If you have just the Steam key, you can give that to someone and they can claim the game and that’s that. But you may not want to post it directly on somewhere because bots are known to roam the internet and steal them first to sell them on weird websites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not familiar on that platform, unfortunately, as I’m on iPhone.

  But I think you should still be able to use virustotal’s website on mobile to check websites and also files.

  There may be a sandbox app available for Android, but I’m not aware of any particular ones to recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can check URLs and files at virustotal.com for free.

  If you have Windows 10/11 Pro and your computer supports virtualization, you can enable the Windows Sandbox in Windows Features too. This creates a temporary virtual machine with the bare essentials and no antivirus built in for testing stuff like this to see what the worst case scenario is if you visited/accessed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao guess I’m not a real fan then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just spent a few minutes browsing and it was pretty fun! Love the very minimalist design and no requirements to sign up, etc. Just straight to the point for both those asking and those selecting.

  Nice job all around!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have an ai Companion ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I like about Grok is that you can create custom AI “assistants” for anything you want. But the therapy one they have is a pretty good one on its own.

  I especially like being able to talk in voice and not have to text too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have an ai Companion ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good there’s more of them out there! They can be very helpful. I didn’t realize they would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have an ai Companion ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve created a few on Grok for specific things and I like using the assistant, doc, and therapy. The therapy one is sooo damn good. I’ve talked out a few things and felt so much better and felt like I had a better direction for the problem I was facing after talking to the AI. Especially late at night and wanting to just talk out something on my mind that won’t let me fall asleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, you've been on Lemmy since the Reddit API fiasco, what's been your impression of Lemmy so far ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss the bigger communities and more engagement and less propaganda/spam on Reddit.

  But being able to join many other instances like HC has been much better so I don’t have to worry about a Steve being the one who dictates how it all goes everywhere I go.

  On the spam, there is less of the spam here in a different way. Everyone here feels like an actual human, it’s just that some people need to keep their junk in their own designated spaces lol.

  Trying to get help with Linux specific things is so much better here. But any other OS is challenging. I hate that Reddit still comes up when I search for answers despite choosing to not use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summer or Winter ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree on the fashion too! Forgot about that plus too. I love wearing hoodies. Where I am, I have a hard time finding them except when winter really hits.