moopet
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- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
Alright Blank Reg.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 1 week ago:
their advertising was just as bad until relatively recently. And their offers are just as bad. Like, 90% off all the time. 90% off a price they never charged and made up. It’s the same as with pizza places, where they say the pizza really costs £20 but if you have this voucher you can get it for £5! What a deal, right?
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 1 week ago:
I switched from Nord to Mullvad recently and it’s much more stable on linux, and on android it’s less glitchy, and the signup process was beautiful. I’m normally very critical of software, and I was really impressed with how smooth it was.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 1 week ago:
Why would I want a calendar with my vpn subscription? It’s like bundling a barbecue with your purchase of a new jacket.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 4 weeks ago:
Just add a 1 at the end of them all. That’s what I do when my work says I have to change my password.
- Comment on Advertisements 5 weeks ago:
This is why I have concerns about AR cybernetic eye replacement technology in science fiction (and maybe in real life sometime). You’d install adblockers for real life… and then get some virus that makes the adblocker hide the bus as you’re about to cross the street.
- Comment on Advertisements 5 weeks ago:
My kid had assumed that the hideous intrusive ads were some form of malware attack.
She was spot on.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 5 weeks ago:
Ah, makes sense. You’re right about firmware updaters, and I don’t know if I’d trust one running under Wine anyway tbh. Who knows what weird system calls they make assuming you’re running Windows 95 or whatever.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 5 weeks ago:
What do you mean lacking support for keyboards and controllers? Maybe for doing weird custom stuff like RGB, but for anything else they’re standard HIDs and will work with anything, no “support” needed. You can plug a USB keyboard and mouse into your phone and it’ll work if you want.
I’m currently playing Clair Obscur on linux through steam with a cheap fake xbox controller I got off ebay, and it works perfectly. I’m using an Nvidia card too, and I haven’t had to do any customisation or anything.
Easy anti-cheat won’t work, so Valorant/Fortnite, etc. are out of the question for now, but any games that don’t use that kind of malware are probably fine.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 month ago:
I don’t even mean the USA, loads of EU countries, Australia, etc.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 month ago:
You think it’ll be the bad example other countries learn from, but loads of other countries are already following suit.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 month ago:
The government can decree that ISPs have to block the IP addresses of known VPN endpoints. That’s perfectly possible. They did something similar with piracy sites before (e.g. if you go visit piratebay on virgin media you’ll get an error page). It’s a game of cat-and-mouse because if it’s done with DNS then aliases pop up immediately, and if it’s by IP then other proxies pop up, but the fact is they could make is so difficult for average users that people give up.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The stupidest thing about this that I always go on about is that they’re saying the better scale is the one that goes from 0 to 100. i.e. metric. So why not use that for other measurements?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Repurposing words like that is underrated.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 month ago:
I thought Control was excellent, but the original Alan Wake was a bad joke.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 month ago:
2080S currently, though I’ve had others before, can’t wake up from standby with the power button or USB. On the other hand, once it’s in standby, it’ll turn itself back on after 30 minutes or so. The firmware on nvidia cards has always played badly though. I had an 8800 that I’d have to turn on several times each day before it would POST.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 month ago:
Standby with nvidia gpus is broken still, but everything external I’ve plugged into my system works first time.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 month ago:
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- Comment on A sampling of the responses to a tweet about ICE shooting out a 21-year old's eye in Santa Ana. 2 months ago:
If I was on whatever that site is, it’d be a handy list of people to block.
- Comment on 2nd page, etc. loading slowly 2 months ago:
Just discovered this thread, but yes. It’s been this way for quite a while (weeks at least) and I’ve seen other people mention it from time to time.
- Comment on we need more users 2 months ago:
oh that’s a great feature
- Comment on we need more users 2 months ago:
Pruning is a bad idea imo. Old communities here (like on reddit) can be great resources for solutions to technical problems, for example. And weird one-off communities that have like 2 memes from a decade ago can be really funny when you get linked to them.
Perhaps a notification-type nag, a tab of “communities you used to use but haven’t posted to for a while” but with a snappier title, alongside “local” and “all”.
- Comment on That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.' 2 months ago:
U2
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 months ago:
Gotcha, thanks.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 months ago:
I’ve seen people mention it elsewhere in this thread. But what is MBA? I get nothing relevant when I search for it.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 months ago:
I didn’t know Microsoft 365 and Office 365 were different things. From the outside, it’s as opaque as Apple’s version names.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 months ago:
Free private repos were always available on Bitbucket (for example) before that though. The things added by Microsoft were all catch-up.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 months ago:
(previously satire)
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 months ago:
Remember how many things got the name Exchange or Outlook back in the day?