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csolisr ,

I know about its existence, but I’m not sure how safe is it as a way to prevent Epic (and potentially Tencent) from tracking my personal information.

csolisr ,

More accurately: the games have support for Xbox styled controllers, because Windows ships with support for that. However, they usually don’t have support for PlayStation controllers unless the game actively adds support for them, or Steam Input deals with converting the controller inputs to Xbox format on the fly. Most of the time, Epic exclusives do neither of the above.

csolisr ,

So what you’re telling me is, that Johnson and his little Johnson measure the usage of each other’s Johnsons?

Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices (finance.yahoo.com)

Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn’t easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of...

csolisr ,

Remember March 2012, when SOPA and PIPA were about to pass, and many websites were blacking out as a form of protest, some people were advocating for a “Black March” to have everyone boycott Big Media, pirated or not, for the entire month? Yeah sure it didn’t spread like wildfire because of course, the population is already too addicted to popular culture to drop it cold-turkey, but at this rate people may be forced to give it a go by force.

csolisr ,

If I need to pay taxes anyway, at least I prefer to have the investment returned back to me in some way, and this seems like a nice way to do so.

csolisr ,

60 FPS videos are only available at 720p and above, so maybe your browser is defaulting to 480p?

csolisr ,

Know what would solve this problem once and for all? If people collectively decided to boycott “popular culture” and entertain themselves without bowing to the copyright industry

YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. (www.androidauthority.com)

YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

csolisr ,

If anything, I expect two things to rise - people that just stop watching videos online cold-turkey, and pirate mirrors of popular YouTube channels

csolisr ,

Even if you purchase them directly instead of using the online pass? Guess I’ll have to check it for myself

Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' (www.windowscentral.com)

Xbox’s new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error ‘0x82d60002’::Got error 0x82d60002 on your Xbox accessory? There’s no fix, Xbox is going to block the use of detected unauthorized accessories with its consoles from November 12, 2023.

csolisr ,

Console developers sell at a loss specifically to tie you to their ecosystem and get as much money from you as possible. Which is why it’s so complicated to get a PC equivalent in specs to, say, a PS5 at the price of an actual PS5 - unless you go to the used parts route and learn how to assemble parts by yourself.

csolisr ,

As a user of third-party controllers on the PS4: yup, the DualShock 4 security is a pain. And the DualSense security hasn’t been cracked yet - the closest gadget I’ve found actually uses Remote Play to bypass the authentication requirement.

csolisr ,

I expect to see distros that use Flatpak as its exclusive package manager, even for the bare-metal, in the near future. Also, Linux as a remote desktop on the cloud will probably be attempted at a larger scale, given that Windows 12 is rumored to try that route.

The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... (www.pandasecurity.com)

The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

csolisr ,

I’m surprised that so few people decide to follow the spirit of the law and, just, boycott media instead.

csolisr ,

Or more accurately, experiencing culture and media that social pressure coaxes you into being interested in.

csolisr ,

Ah, the good ol’ “rules for me but not for thee”

csolisr ,

I’d say that bronze is tainted and should be entirely disposed of, but that would probably annoy environmentalists.

csolisr ,

My mom likes to do assorted crafts, so we have a few painted adornments, even a 3D painting of sorts she made using some specialized putty and acrylic paint. It looks real nice, I should upload a picture of it later.

csolisr ,

Expecting Colombia, Peru, Chile and South Africa to be next on the pumping

csolisr ,

Nice… can somebody add a 60 FPS patch to Metal Gear Solid 1 by the way?

csolisr ,

Linking to Lemmy threads on related subreddits for as long as Reddit allows us to

csolisr ,

If you use Docker, somebody has been taking the effort of wrapping the new Rust-based self-hosted sync server into a Docker recipe: github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker

Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use 'admin' as a password (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use ‘admin’ as a password::Security researchers found that IT administrators are using tens of thousands of weak passwords to protect access to portals, leaving the door open to cyberattacks on enterprise networks.

csolisr ,

There is a chance that I once used the user ‘admin’ with the password ’ istrator’ for the laughs.

csolisr ,

“Maximizing profit for the shareholders” is usually in direct opposition with “minimizing expenses for the clients”, as the current price hike waves in Silicon Valley can easily prove.

csolisr ,

I’m surprised that Twitch still doesn’t allow users to upload pre-made videos besides of channel intros. Amazon has the technical infrastructure to actually compete with YouTube on its own turf, and they decide to just limit themselves for no particular reason

csolisr ,

I’m currently using YunoHost behind CG-NAT with a Wireguard VPS bypass, but plan on moving to a Dockerized setup soon because of YNH still using an outdated version of Debian. What do you recommend me to keep my setup as similar to YNH?

csolisr ,

Personally, the plastic bag ban has resulted in me just purchasing much less or avoiding purchases entirely, especially if it’s something I’m unable to carry to my home with my bare hands. In hindsight that has reduced a lot of primary waste as well

csolisr ,

If anything, I expect the measure to encourage people to not drink coffee at all, or to wait until they’re home instead.

csolisr ,

Personally, I’ve actually tried to just go without media. If Big Media is so concerned about unpaying eyeballs, I’ll try to prove their actual point

csolisr ,

You can always try searching on Trending Communities or New Communities, that’s where I’ve found many new interesting communities to follow and I have both of them on my RSS feed to ensure I don’t miss any news. In related topics, the main Wordpress.com site is finally enabling ActivityPub so expect many blogs to start interacting with the Fediverse and, who knows, directly cross-posting to Lemmy.

csolisr ,

At least in my country, bus drivers that need to help people in the wheelchair to get up on the bus are already at the edge of their patience. Don’t even talk about helping them stuff seven bags of groceries as well. That’s why unfortunately, taxis are still a necessity

csolisr ,

That reminds me - are there viable alternatives to each of these?

csolisr ,

“Eh, my next salary is coming soon”

csolisr ,

Tim Sweeney taking cash from yet another morally questionable source after Tencent? Why does this surprise me so little.

csolisr ,

Wondering how will F2P games with anti-cheat react to the news. Knowing that much of their player base may jump ship to Linux to avoid the subscription fees, will they relent and start using less invasive anti-cheat programs, or will they try to adapt specific versions of Wine / Proton to work in rooted mode?

csolisr ,

Great for you! My only reasons to stay stuck with Windows are 1. anti-cheat and 2. niche programs that don’t work correctly under Linux because they use several Windows programs in daisy-chain

csolisr ,

I’m currently trying my best to substitute the latter one of them using free software tools, I’m currently facing a technical problem though. As for anti-cheat, I’m dropping Destiny 2 as soon as I finish the main story

csolisr ,

Or you can pronounce it “heef” as in Spanish, just saying

csolisr ,

Please do - it seems it was not recorded on the AccessNow’s YouTube account

csolisr ,

Calling it already, they’re only moving to Steam to aid in the anti-monopoly argument so they can sell themselves to Microsoft

SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS (github.com)

I’ve already been paying for YouTube Premium for many years to get rid of advertisement, and I’ve been using SponsorBlock for a year or so on my laptop to skip the inline ads, but because most of my watching of YouTube happens on the TV I always had to use the remote to skip it. It helps to see the “most rewind” area so...

csolisr ,

I’d love to use it on my smartphone as well… problem is the interface was designed to react only to directional buttons, not to touch inputs. I wonder if somebody can manage to add the ability in the source code?

csolisr ,

My only issue with Newpipe is that I can’t sync my “watch later” list with Google’s servers. That, and I can’t reply to comments straight from the app. Otherwise I’d probably be using either that or Piped.

csolisr ,

Currently using Revanced, I’m hoping to see a way to actually integrate my Google account with something else, in a similar manner to what SmartTube is somehow allowed to do.

csolisr ,

Heck’s sake, Ballmer hexed that one on Stallman, with all that saying that “Linux is a cancer” and all that

csolisr ,

Not only have I cancelled them almost a decade ago - I don’t even watch series or movies anymore, and barely listen to music outside of the radio. I’m disgusted with the many crimes committed by Big Media and want to have as little as possible to do with it.

csolisr ,

In my native Latin America we have this saying, “ladrón que roba a ladrón tiene cien años de perdón” (“a thief that steals from a thief has a hundred years of forgiveness”) and… yeah guess it may apply here

csolisr ,

Oh and don’t forget the autistic-to-linuxer pipeline

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