Regardless of if a regular user will think this way or not, it is good to have options, precisely for providing them as an option to a regular user, even if they end up not implementing them. The other option is NOT having the option. Which one do you think is more beneficial across the board?

It is ethical to pirate a game, or all of them. Full stop.

They use Samsung fridges, interesting 🤔😂

That may very well be the case. Now, is it really a conspiracy when everything points to it, or is it a justified suspicion?

Personally, in this paragraph:

The technology isn’t going anywhere, when the bubble pops and hardware prices come down, local open weight models will be sufficient and the hardware to run them will be cheaper than cloud models.

I honestly believe that the AI hype is just the justification for the price hikes on hardware, the point is removing access to capable hardware for all of us so that they can have most, if not all, control over the population.

I certainly hope you’re right, but all signs say otherwise, in my opinion anyway.

It just blows my mind how so many comments use the term ‘purchase’ as if this new enshitification step still allowed for the dictionary meaning of the word.

I used to suggest bitwarden to everyone, now it’s basically ‘start using KeePass, keep a copy of your db in a USB drive in your safe, have fun’.

Yeah, this path we’re on seems endless. I’ve always played on console more than PC, and have had every PlayStation generation and all Nintendo’s up to the wii-u (my son does have a switch first gen and wanted the switch 2, I told him he could get one when he pays for it). With all the bullshit in the gaming world I’m looking to build a ‘Steam Machine’ of my own eventually to throw the PS5 out the window (or sell it 😏) because I’ve found that my way of thinking is entirely incompatible with every tech company out there except Valve (So far). I haven’t touched the PS5 in about 4 months but my kids still play on it, I have been keeping to my steam deck mostly.

What happens when I decide ‘fuck Sony too’? Prices for parts to build my 'Bazzite console skyrocket and now I have to save more to be able to build something mildly functional.

This whole tech environment has gotten so fucking tiring.

I was a full blown Google fanboy until around 2017. I had all their tech, no matter how new it was. Then I started looking, and my race to get out of there was fast and furious. That’s when I landed on LineageOS first, then Calyx and have been on GrapheneOS since the pixel 6 came out. It was brutal, honestly. I swore by Google.

Never been an Apple fan, I’ve always seen it as expensive shit that’s only good to show off that ‘I can spend more than you to do the exact same shit’.

Then there’s Windows. My last time on windows was also in 2017, and looking back, I do have to thank Google for opening my eyes to all the shit these companies were turning into.

At the end of the day, each of us need to make a choice. Go with Apple and land in their walled garden and everything that comes with that. Choose Android with any OEM and bend over to Google AND the OEM. Get a pixel and bend over to Google (or nuke Pixel stock and install GOS, CalyxOS or whatever rocks your boat). Go the dumb phone way and only bend over to the carriers. Too many factors influence this, not just philosophy, taste or choice. Some people genuinely need a phone that will work with banks or cards, others can live without. Others, as is my case, can separate their life into 2 devices, I have a pixel 8 pro that I use exclusively for work on stock pixel, and a GOS pixel 10 Pro XL for my personal life.

This technological life is a fucking mixed bag for sure.

Phillip Koskinas, Riot’s Head of Anti-Cheat, writes on X that hardware bans last for a maximum of four months and apply exclusively to the game in which a cheater was caught.

Now we have a name. He probably thinks he is doing the Lord’s work with kernel-level anticheat, and we should all be grateful for his awesome contributions to gaming 🤣

They would still carry the exact sake vulnerabilities.

Genuine question here. I don’t really get the idea of using print and then a pin. If I want more security, then I use the pin alone, if I want more convenience, then I use a print. Can someone please give me an example in which using both actually makes sense? I honestly don’t see how using both would benefit security, it certainly does not benefit convenience.

I can see the use of 2 factor with a PIN and then a hardware key like a yubikey, or a pin and then a password, that does make sense to me, focused on security alone and doing away with convenience.

Is there ONE person in Lemmy that’s not an asshole? I’ve been searching for non-assholes here, no luck so far.

Plus, that great feeling when we tell someone “lol, that would never happen to me, normie!”, makes the satisfaction of it worth every ounce of being an asshole.

And how exactly were we expecting it to go? ‘Kind of bad’? 🤣

I’m just cross-posting. I don’t think it’s slop at all, it was made with AI though, pretty sure.

Actually, I use Baikal for contacts and Radicales for Calendars. It helps me keep everything well segregated.

Self-Hoster 🏡

• Fleet: 4–5 devices · 11–20 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself
• My MVPs: Radicale, Baikal, OPNSense, Home Assistant, AdGuard Home

I have 1 Google account use specifically for spammy shit. That account is tied to a completely fictional person and lives inside 1 chromium browser.

My phones and computers have never seen a Google account other than inside the VM that runs that browser.

I’ve never been in one of those corporate controlled rolling cages, and hope to never be.

I’ve been on neo store for a couple of years for the apps that have no APIs ready in git repos (for those, Obtainium is just the greatest). I tried the new F-Droid app, and it is way smoother than the last time I tried it, and the UI improvement is amazing. They still show you apps that haven’t been maintained for over a year up front, but that’s not a deal killer.