Scrapping is only okay when we're the ones doing it!

~ Every AI Company ever

Ngl after trying out Rootless Podman on my system (I was playing with Distrobox) I kinda wanna switch my whole Homelab to it, I'm just lazy, afraid the move to rootless with blow up everything and have zero fucking free time.

For all that I'm scared this will enable terrifying new exploits, I'm equal parts happy all this proprietary crap is getting blown wide open faster than ever.

Hell yeah, fuck yo lock-in, fuck yo apps biatch 🖕

Playable could mean anything from "slightly janky debug build" to "load into texture-less world, walk around for 5 minutes and BSOD"

Things like this is why I don't even bother.
"Thanks Aunt!" then just chuck it into the trash at home.
Or try replacing the brains with a Raspberry Pi, idk.

VR headset OS is hacked and nerved to the best of my knowledge.

More details please!
Meta Quest w/ blocked updates and DNS? Pico? Something else?

A bit ridiculous, but maybe the SmartTube app via Waydroid?

Not sure if that would operate well on a 4GB Pi.
I suspect you'll either need to keep the Android System always running in the background and sacrifice some of your RAM or go through a slow cold-boot every time you want to watch YouTube.

That being said, privacy friendly? Eh? I guess more than the official App but I don't think they're explicitly doing anything for Privacy since their focus is making sure the app keeps working amidst YouTube's constant changes.

There's some browser extensions that let you run the YouTube Smart TV UI on your browser but not really private. You get uBlock at best.

The most private option would be a front-end like Invidious, but it currently doesn't have Keyboard Navigation, so possibly hard to navigate with a Remote Control, you'd need a mouse or similar device.
There's a feature request for it but devs haven't gotten around it yet.

Maybe you could try to bodge it with a userscript? Idk.

'Politics: This topic has caused serious problems in the past and as such is subject to tight control. Discussion of the politics of open source it permissible in the lounge.

Ah yes, the 2 sexualities: Straight and political

I hate this "culture" (?) of recording/photographing strangers and posting them online, but on the other hand this is sooo funny. I'm sorry it happened to you lmao.

If you're wondering what this is about: The PS4 used to require its internal clock to be correct to play any game, even disc based ones, and the only way to do so is to connect to PSN, meaning that in a distant future when the PSN goes down (or Sony no longer allows PS4s to connect to it) all your games would become useless. And the worst part? They did all of this because of trophies.

Sony has fixed the issue on Update 9.0, but the fact that it was ever an issue and caused by a totally non-essential feature is baffling.

The best I've seen was yesterday where a website had the log-in button greyed out after the password manager filled my creds in.
So I had to manually click both the email and password field. Just click them. Then it enabled the log-in button.
So someone took their time to write a piece of JS that said "If the user hasn't focused both fields at least once, no login". Literally why? Extra code that does nothing useful.

I was hoping passkeys would be the solution to this madness, but it seems to me the entire spec gives too much power to the OS Makers and too little to the users because "mUh AtTtEsTatIoN" so now I don't know anymore

I KNOW RIGHT???

And people were like "oh the killer carved UWU what's this and Helldivers 2 memes on his bullets, that's common in Groyper circles"

Bro are you talking aboutttttt, what do you mean????
I just find it absurd how these niche-in-a-niche-in-a-niche communities develop and how seemingly random bits of internet culture turn into dogwhistles inside, it reaches a point where I'm just like dude, our lizard brains can't handle the internet. We just weren't wired to work like this, there's no way

Work wife.

Looking forward to the day I boot up a new game and all the characters look like this because I don't have DLSS 9 enabled

The most inefficient system ever invented by humankind so far

bro be like

I wish all

Closeted conservatives

A very

Die alone

Just taking this opportunity to remind everyone that the Limewire you knew is no longer. From Wikipedia:

Name reuse by unrelated companies
In 2022, Austrian brothers Julian and Paul Zehetmayr bought LimeWire's intellectual property and turned it into an NFT service.
LimeWire's name was revived in 2022 for an unrelated music-based NFT platform, an action with which Gorton expressed displeasure.

Please don't use no crypto bro NFT infused trash. Go watch the segment from Archive.org.
Seed the torrent if you wanna spread the word.

It's infinitely safer than this sketchy ass company.

Wow, they decide to kill off downloading books over USB and karma immediately strikes back lol

It's impressive how modern companies with thousands of professional designers manage to make increasingly goofy designs lol