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Maybe MEGA? Really depends on your use-case

Compare it to the steam deck (a bit more pricey, but can also run emulators). If you want a more polished nintendo-like experience however, the switch is probably not a bad purchase (consider you have to add to it the hefty cost nintendo puts on their games and the fee for playing online, if you want to).

Yeah if incivility is in the rules it should be enforced for everyone.

Sorry to ask but since you keep using that word, what does tankie has to do with putin? Wasn’t it something about the soviet union?

What you are saying might be true as well but given your uncivil comment history i am pretty sure a mod “being tankie” is not the reason you are silenced in those communities…

2. Had your same exact issue, and after jumping through hand-made solutions and countless clients i finally found a client that works perfectly out of the box for screen sharing with audio, has no other issues and comes with the big plus of having customization plugins Vesktop (i think its on flathub too so if your distro ships that probably get it from there).
3. Had the same issue here too and yes, while my “main” game got recently proton verified and i could finally get totally rid of windows, there are some few (BattleEye mostly) games with no anticheat support.

/s?

That was a very interesting read, thank you!

“.com.tw” lmao i see what they did there

The process is broken if the people you rely on suck. It is inevitable that someone, in a form or another, will be representative of the group of people you are part of (may it be a dictator, an influential priest, or an elected representative); we have the luxury of living in (somewhat?) democratic countries. The way out of surveillance misuse is making (or forcing) our politicians pass laws that restrict what companies or agencies can do with our data, or how they can use them. I think spreading awareness about this topic is the most effective way to push these kind of rules in effect.

While individualistic “guerrilla privacy” might be effective for yourself, it’s like a band-aid on a broken bone. If 99% of the people around you don’t care about it, or simply are unaware (family, neighbours, friends), you will join the surveillance system no matter what: from a family member uploading your details to meta, to a stranger taking a picture with you in it and posting it, to your neighbors ring camera, to your friend’s iPhone constantly scanning the surroundings to report nearby devices (your phone, for instance) to “improve location data”.

If there is no laws that prevent evil actors from misusing this power, really little changes in the bigger picture by you using signal or protonmail (while you should do it, don’t get me wrong).

EDIT: i know this will be controversial, but to me this is a good metaphor for it: the world is slowly getting hotter due to companies just caring about profits and politicians passing no laws to reverse the process, while instead actually taking bribes from those companies to not do anything about it (look, look, it’s the same duo again) and your solution is… You dig an underground bunker to survive the next heatwave/hurricane.

Shit smells like Google’s browser add-on Google tells you to install if you want to opt-out of Google’s tracking. Nice.

This is the first time I will be on this other side of this argument, but let me disagree. The technology behind it isn’t inherently bad, it’s the people running the system having access to it that scares us. Take Snowden for example; when he exposed what the NSA was doing with US citizens data (with the help of big companies), do you think he meant that the internet or security cameras are the threat? They sure as hell are a good vector, but you don’t trash nor blame your pc for being the mean though which that is achieved. The problem is who we put in power and how we held them accountable for misusing it.

AI is officially the current catch-all tech term for news titles right now

Should have used public transport ;)

Meta will face daily fines of 1 million Norwegian Krone (€89,500) if it doesn’t comply with the order.

Mhhh

Edit: should have made it proportional to their revenue (as it should be done with every other fine)

I feel like it is still too early to talk about “AI cannibalization” or “feedback loops” as that would mean that a big proportion of the training data is AI-generated content itself, against all the rest that could be scraped off the internet or the public domain, I don’t think this is happening yet.

What people might experience instead, and perceive as dumbness, is that given that the datasets used to train AIs cannot really change that much in a short time (unless we wait for another hundred years so humans can produce actual human original content to train the AI again), and as the mathematical models used to build answers based on the datasets are pretty much the same, a person talking with ChatGPT will over time perceive more and more that the answers are built using a “pattern” or a “structure”, aka the model derived from feeding the dataset into the AI training itself.

Just my pennies on this, let’s also consider that is in human nature to be excited for something new that sounds cool, and then to get bored when you got accustomed to it and pushed it to its boundaries.

It’s pretty damn good (android 12), especially considering i got this second hand from a random guy

I can’t see any added value of having an unremovable battery that isn’t entirely outweighted by the advantage of you being able to replace it.

Giving up your right to easily replace a key part of your phone just so in the event it gets stolen a thief can’t take it out, to me feels like saying that pissing on your food so the person next to you won’t eat it while you are gone is a good idea.

Additional points:

• Any phone thief probably has the tools (or knows a guy) to remove any battery from any phone.
• In case your phone has an account lock feature, that doesn’t go by just removing the battery, they would have to do some advanced wiping, which would make having the unremovable battery useless anyways.
• “Oh but at least i can track them down and feel like a secret agent on a mission against the thief bad guy” 1) Dont, i dont think your phone is worth your safety. 2) they can just put it in a faraday bag as others already pointed out. Or literally a tinfoil wrap. A “faraday bag” is actually a stupid piece of radiation blocking pouch you can buy for 10 euros on amazon really.

You know what instead actually prevents your phone from being stolen? Paying attention to your pockets and avoiding to flex the latest iphone model around. I am absolutely sure “safety” and “consumer security” are points companies will bring up against user-removable batteries

It is a common misconception, this and this are the same phone. It’s a 2016 model btw.

I currently still own an LG G5 (LineageOS). This is what an actually removable and replaceable battery looks like and should be like. This is that same phone in water for two minutes. This phone is from 7 years ago. Only phone left on the market nowadays with those capabilities (probably even better) is Fairphone.