You made it to Lemmy. You’re still among the best.

To be clear, all the content isn’t actually restricted to a certain time, but playing the associated story or mission with that content is.

With that said, I do feel like it would be better if I could play any expedition missions when I feel like it.

2nd: almost every low-end laptop I used has a module that can be pulled off of the main board to remove wireless features.

Unicode killed the ASCII-emoji star.

It’s one of those things that really makes me feel like I’m getting old.

Wow, manual emojis. Been a while.

I mean, he’s a billionaire. I guess there’s big money on propping up totalitarian regimes.

I was there. It was really weird. The people doing the inspections didn’t even know what they were looking for. What, a USB drive? It was clear to me that they had a very basic, normal persons understanding of technology.

This was mainly motivated by the MGM hacks so they could show that they were doing something in case they got hacked later for liability.

I wish we had independent radio where I live in the states. It feels like they’re all owned by the same company and you don’t hear real DJs going wild anymore. It’s more like top 40 in a selected genre.

I’d like to not solve a boolean satisfiability problem along the way, please.

This is the way to do it. Sadly, my wife really wants to use the Roku remote. I must oblige her.

I have the ax210 installed. Interesting. Is this an intel chip on this mobo? I wonder if you’re running out of PCI address space to map the devices as there have been some changes to how this work in the kernel. You migth try intel_iommu=off as a shot in the dark if it’s not getting detected at all, if you have an intel chip. Does lspci see the device at all?

Do you know what your Intel connectivity chip is? I’m curious.

Have you been able to try a more recent kernel version? It may have improvements in the driver situation.

Are you me? It pissed me off that the system was obviously designed to disregard my wishes one too many times. Luckily, gaming support has been very good.

Corporations would literally beat down your door and rob your grandmother in front of you at gunpoint if it was legal profitable to do so.

We must demand regulation to reign in their greed.

Antivirus doubly doesn’t make much sense on handheld. Today’s malware is more stealthy and focused on stealing your data, but what sensitive data are you storing on a gaming-specific handheld?

I guess there’s your Steam account, but the risk profile just isn’t the same, and it comes at the cost of performance which is already much more limited in this form factor.

User experience is more than raw performance numbers. In my personal opinion, the Steam Deck is still easier and more enjoyable to use.

I love cinnamon. I guess that makes me a classic guy. It’s nice without being too flashy.

Linux desktop main for about a year, and I mostly use it for gaming. Thank you Valve and Wine developers!

I’d be more worried about the ROM that runs before the bootloader that you can’t inspect, or possible hardware implants if you don’t trust the bootloader shipped to you from the vendor.

In a perfect world, it would be nice to have a checkbox per app where I can select whether it should share anything with the system libraries.

I wonder if running it in a container such as flatpak would help.

Oof, that definitely doesn’t look good from a security standpoint.

Oof. Us and over one hundred of our closest friends.

Paywall.

But by the title, very disappointing to hear.

The year is 2024. I purchase a nice TV to shun nearly all of its features and never connect it to the internet because it’s designed to be actively malicious.

So the implication is that keeping the masses in check is the primary goal and protecting the children was the incidental part?

Friends don’t let friends use PayPal. If something goes wrong and eventually something will, you will find zero customer support. Add exploitation to the list of reasons.

Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

Or be independently wealthy.

I wouldn’t say they’re not losing users. Rather, the tide is going out. The whole market is shrinking in favor of mobile devices for the non-technically inclined. An increasingly higher proportion of their users are enthusiasts and business over the casual user.

Important quote for readers:

Once the Guardia Civil obtained the iCloud email address, the documents show that it requested information from Apple, which in turn provided a full name, two home addresses and a linked Gmail account.

I have mixed feelings about this. This doesn’t sound to me like the actual iCloud data but rather it’s metadata for an account the police know already exists. It’s certainly not great, but it could be worse.

Sauce? Interested.

I just assumed this is because they fired all their experienced people and they don’t know how to host their website, so you’ve got junk coming from all sorts of domains in their attempt to patch something together that works.

Mostly true. I will not deny there are benefits to bringing your phone. They are also substantial risks. Protesting can be risky business.

It is actively rolled out right now all the way back to iPhone 11 (2019) while the device is powered off. Version 16 is current, and the power “off” tracking was backported to older devices.

Android support is spottier. We’ve had powered off features one OnePlus for some time, such as the ability to trigger alarms while turned off, but more advanced features like location tracking are much more recent to Android because it usually requires specific hardware support to operate while using almost no battery. Apple has the privilege of vertical integration, so they were able to update older firmware.

I think this trend is very concerning, because with no user-servicable battery, we’re essentially forced into having our phones on to some degree at all times.

Here you go:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/ios-15-find-my-network-can-find-your-iphone-when-it-is-powered-off/

And here:

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-8-android-15-powered-off-finding-features-3425709/

And there’s a few more about offline beacons about if you want.

Phones are tracking devices. Do not bring your phone, not even turned off because many phones emit Bluetooth beacons and other data that can be recorded and traced.

If you bring a phone, make sure that phone has no idea who you are.

I’m not excusing it, but it makes sense technically because we can’t directly execute the D3D shaders, and converting it just-in-time could cause initial stuttering. It’s a kind of vendor lock-in in my view, and some translation step is needed. Steam even goes a step further and tries to ship you pre-compiled shaders, but it’s not perfect and especially games that update often can end up generating the shaders locally on a regular basis.

I’ve definitely noticed this, but it hasn’t stopped me from enjoying my games so far.

I main Mint. Less annoying Ubuntu. Better user experience IMHO.

I wish I could do this. There are none left in my area and I’m not drilling and refining my own gas.

Hmm, I’ve had that fail on some cheap Chinese phones. They have other software that kills things in the background irrespective of the setting. I developed a VPN client and was never truly able to solve this problem on some low memory devices.