Ugh, this kind of “moderation” is almost making me want to take my instance and set up communities that are structured with different rules and guidelines that would mostly allow it, because frankly, fuck censorship of anything that’s not hate or illegal speech.
Then I realize that’d be a job I’m not being paid for and I don’t.
Sigh.
So while not entirely related, I have a question.
I’ve got a Windows 10 box hooked to my TV and you’re right, it’s great.
Until you end up with fonts so small they’re unreadable, even with a 300% scaling on the 4k TV because it seems like every third random gaming piece of software just fucking ignore scaling.
You ever find a working solution to that?
My ass is old, and trying to do couch gaming from a PC means it’s a 50/50 chance I’m either squinting and giving myself a headache or having to walk over to the tv to read whatever stupid shit some game has decided to use 8pt font for.
You say poor opsec, I say free advertising.
Would anyone in this thread have paid ANY attention to this movie otherwise?
Same.
There’s almost never only a single option to offer me what I’m after, so I’ll just go back to my search results or whatever and pick the next link and move on.
There’s no way in hell I’m giving some jackasses my phone number, though. I don’t even like giving people who really actually need to be able to call me my number, so why would I give some sketchy-ass website it?
No.
I pirate everything, but am very very reluctant to do so with software or games.
I only pirate in cases where the company involved is just too gross to support (looking at you, Adobe), or if there’s absolutely no other option.
But I consider pirated software and games absolutely suspect 100% of the time, because I’m old enough to remember when every keygen was also a keylogger, and every crack was also a rootkit and touching any pirated software was going to give you computer herpes without fail.
So maybe it’s not that bad anymore, but I mean, do you fully trust in the morals of someone who would spend the time helping you steal someone else’s shit to not add just one more little thing to it for themselves?
As far as it matters for this, a hypervisor is a hypervisor.
I use qemu/kvm because it’s what I’m used to on the linux side, but I don’t think it has any particular feature that makes it more safe compared to like virtualbox or vmware or anything else.
It’s such the best meme, and a thing that so many people need to see at every opportunity so keep posting it.
Yeah, I don’t let anything that has to be cracked out of an isolated VM until it’s VERY clear that nothing untoward is going on.
QEMU has proven perfectly lovely for a base to use for testing questionable software, and I’ve got quite a lot of VMs sitting around for various things that ah, have been acquired.
There is nothing like interacting with real people to show you how unreal, unproductive, and honestly uninfluential the chronically online environment is.
This: the internet is fake bullshit from start to finish.
At this point, staying online feels a lot like making a choice to be miserable and have shitty mental health.
And yes, I’m aware the irony or whatever of someone posting that online, but my online footprint has gone from your usual corporate media shit down to… uh, Lemmy.
Which is not by any means perfect, but it’s a lot less fucking awful than what Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Reddit are trying very hard to do to you.
I’m not saying it is or is not a false positive, so please read the rest of my comment with that in mind.
But, that said, this is not new: AV has triggered on cracks and cheat software and similar stuff since forever.
The very simplified explanation is that the same things you do to install a rootkit, you do to cheat in a game with or crack software DRM.
Bigger but, though: cracks and game cheats have also been a major source of malicious software for just as long, so like, it’s also entirely likely that it’s a good catch, too.
Or maybe I don’t buy enough?
I dunno, I’ve just kinda changed what games I play to things that appear to also be the same kind of stuff that Epic is making deals to give away for free?
Also, in fairness, I do buy the occasional game for console even if it’s available on PC as sales permit, but we’re talking a game or two a year at most.
It’s almost stopped me buying ANY games, at all.
At some point within a year or few of a release the odds of anything I find interesting showing up for free on epic is damn near 100%.
It’s the ultimate patient gamers bit: wait 2 or 3 years and that game you want will be $0.
(It’s why my epic library is now bigger than my steam library, despite spending $0.)
Working rootkit anti-cheat, so I can dump Windows.
I’d argue the problem is that Hollywood has lost the ability to make cheap movies, and thus if it doesn’t gross a billion dollars, it’s a flop.
A stupid example, I’ll admit, but I think most people will agree was good: The Breakfast Club. It had a $1 million budget, which isn’t shit even adjusted for inflation (about $3 million).
Maybe they should find people who can make a movie for less than a hundred million and see if they come up with any winners?
Stuff your mouth full of cotton, and find someone to kick you in the head a few times. That’s pretty close.
Listen, I can’t deal with my sore back, bum knee, AND a hangover all at once.
How did any, and I mean any TV executive think that was a good deal?
I doubt they thought about it and/or care. It’s probably a case where they don’t have the rights to offer the missing seasons, and threw what they had up anyways because fuck it, someone will watch it.
Or with Netflix, you’re exactly right.
I don’t honestly expect Netflix to survive long-term, since there’s absolutely no reason to subscribe to them anymore.
They don’t have any shows that I could name that I’d be interested in, and it’s damn internet meme that they’re going to kill everything after a season or two.
It’s utter incompetence by the c-levels, and has pretty much put them on a trajectory to eventually just glide into irrelevance.
I’ve started spending 100% less on streaming services this year.
When all the content I could possibly want was on Netflix, I happily and without reservation paid for it. I would have even paid more, (and did, when 4k streaming became a thing) and was generally happy with what they offered.
But of course, we all know that their content licenses were not renewed, and then they engaged in a non-stop campaign of cancelling any show I found remotely interesting, and that was basically the end of a 15-year subscription history with them.
And it’s not like any of the replacement services were better: they all had little bits and pieces of shit I might want, but they had multiple tiers, mostly with ads, and I just couldn’t be fucked to figure out which service had what content - and, worse, sometimes they had the content but not EVERYTHING: who the hell wants to watch a show on a service that has season 2,4,5 and 6, but not 1,3 or 7?
You would have to subscribe to several services to get everything, and suddenly they were looking worse than the cable subscription they were supposedly replacing, but were claiming to be better than.
Basically, they made a product worse than me doing it myself, and so, after a very long stretch of paying for shit, I went back to uh, not paying for it.
Spotify is in that list too: I realized I was a grumpy old man and that for my purposes I could just buy and rip second-hand CDs and build a library that didn’t cost me money every month, and well, if I bought a couple of CDs a year, it was STILL in my favor by a huge margin. (And, as a bonus, I wasn’t contributing to certain poor choices of podcast funding they had made.)
…so it’s true, but her parents just decided it’s not worth chasing any further.
Cool, cool.
And frankly, even if he’s not a facist himself, the CEO saying something that fucking stupid makes me think that you shouldn’t trust him to run the slurpee machine at a 7-11, let alone something sensitive like your email.