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DreitonLullaby OP , (edited ) to technology in Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late!

Thanks for that. Edit: Sorry, just found out I was wrong about notifications in the paragraph below. They technically are sent through SpotPass, but the process of archiving them, while theoretically possible, is a bit more complicated, and there isn’t enough time left to start developing a method now.

I don’t know this for sure, but I think that your news notifications are archived as well, as I’m pretty sure they were all received through SpotPass; so while that’s not exactly game content, it’s still something else.

DreitonLullaby OP , to technology in Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late!

SpotPass was/is a free service provided by Nintendo that was only on the 3DS and Wii U consoles; Nintendo Switch doesn’t provide this. Essentially what it’s purpose was, was for Nintendo to send various pieces of content to players for their games and apps. For example, Tomodatchi Life had various time-limited costumes distributed to players on a half-monthly bases. This was some of the data I had on my console. Other examples include special distributions of special Pokemon in pokemon games. So, in a sense, you could call the SpotPass data “DLC’s”. That’s why they are important to preserve, as they are DLC content that was distributed for free. They also include notifications, since all the notifications sent to you were through SpotPass. There’s also some DLC’s for New Super Mario Bros. 2 that require you to receive a SpotPass notification in order to install.

DreitonLullaby OP , to technology in Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late!

It’s so strange. I’ve got 120 upvotes on just this one Lemmy post, yet the most likes I have on any of my Reddit reposts is 14 on r/technology, followed by 9 on r/nintendo, and the other 3 subreddits I’ve shared on have no upvotes at all. I would have thought Reddit, being so much more popular than Lemmy, would get way more upvotes. I’ve certainly gotten a fair few thousand views already on Reddit, yet so little upvotes. I just find this strange.

DreitonLullaby OP , to technology in Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late!

Thanks so much. Every bit helps. I noticed only 4 people dumped their 3DS data and 0 people dumped their Wii U data in the past couple of hours, so there’s going to be a very small amount of extra dumps by Apr 8th at this rate. I’m gonna continue sharing as much as I can. I was gonna go share on r/technology on Reddit, but saw that one of their rules explicitly forbids posts that are a “call to action”. What a stupid rule, why even stipulate that?

DreitonLullaby , to technology in YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google

It actually works like this in the FreeTube app on PC or NewPipe on Android. It feels so much better having my own home page showing only videos who I’m subscribed to. Plus another added benefit is that you can put your subscriptions into categories, which is a great way of filtering down to the exact type of video’s you feel like watching at the time. FreeTube personally stopped my unhealthy video-watching habits almost instantly, which were basically psychologically trained into me by YouTube’s algorithm.

DreitonLullaby , to technology in YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google

That’s how I work, But I use FreeTube instead, which works the same way. There’s a trending videos page, but it doesn’t reccomend stuff based on your history.

DreitonLullaby , to piracy in GOG basically acknowledges piracy in a meme

How is the meme acknowledging that GOG installers are shared in groups? This doesn’t say anything about sharing anything in a group, other than “My game has no DRM, and yours does”

DreitonLullaby , to piracy in GOG basically acknowledges piracy in a meme

You mustn’t have looked at many games then. As someone who 95% only buys games from GOG, and has a wishlist of 190+ games, the vast majority of the games on the wishlist have DRM in their Steam versions.

DreitonLullaby , to technology in Facebook and Instagram are currently down.

Woo hoo! Yeah!

DreitonLullaby , to technology in You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

I game on Linux and mainly play games bought from GOG. Both GOG and Epic games are extremely easy to get working, and are as simple as downloading Heroic Games Launcher, signing into GOG and/or Epic, and choosing the game you want to download from your library. While it is possible to use the official GOG Galaxy client with Lutris and WINE, I personally don’t recommend it, as it’s quite a glitchy and laggy experience, and is only done by people who can’t live without GOG achievements. For GOG… just use Heroic. It’s just as easy to use as the official Galaxy client is on Windows and also supports cloud-saves.

I’ve never used Amazon, but Heroic also recently added downloading your Amazon Prime games as an option, which I imagine is just as easy to get working as GOG and Epic Games already are.

This part isn’t necessary, but if you want to play those games but launch them from Steam, you can add each game individually to Steam as a non-steam game through the Lutris or Heroic Games’ interface. A handy app I recommend, which I never hear people mention, is BoilR, which automatically adds all of your non-steam games in bulk into your Steam Library.

As for the EA App and Ubisoft Connect, I ditched them over a year ago due to not wanting to support the companies (same with Epic). I honestly don’t remember what the process was exactly for those launchers, but I do remember it was very easy to set up in Lutris.

Lastly, I’ve never used Battle.net either, but I’ve heard it’s quite easy to set up in Lutris.

DreitonLullaby , to technology in You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

The people saying to switch to Linux are half-joking, half-serious. Sometimes we can be a little too pushy by bringing up “just switch to Linux” too often, but usually we have good intentions for at least trying to encourage the switch, and it often-times does come from a place of care.

DreitonLullaby , to technology in You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

Truly Truly, I say unto you, install Linux; it’s what you really must do.

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DreitonLullaby , to technology in Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

These are exactly my thoughts about tech YouTubers. They have no idea what they’re talking about and encourage mindless consumption. Glad I’m not the only one who’s thought about this.

DreitonLullaby , to technology in Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

The site you’ve linked to literally uses Facebook and Google browser trackers. Pretty hypocritical of them if you ask me.

DreitonLullaby , to technology in Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

I don’t think I’ve used Google Chrome itself for over 3 years now (excluding on other people’s devices). I don’t plan to ever use it again either.

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