Unfortunately seems to be an oversight in the implementation of new software locks and their requirements, and is fully patchable. Xiaomi has seemingly already released patches in China as per the article, so this is moderately disappointing for anyone who wants a cutting edge, bootloader-unlocked device.

Everything except the Mac line has a locked boot process. So your iPhone or iPad must run the latest iOS, must have an Apple ID, must source apps from Apple, and Apple has gotten so good at securing their devices that its basically killed hobbyist jailbreaking.

Anything you do on these multi thousand dollar devices is only because Apple allows you to— reluctantly, I might add.

There's no concievable way for Filipinos to move on from Facebook when it's the only platform that's mostly usable with free data. It's been a while since I had to use it, but iirc the experience was mostly complete sans Post media. Comments loaded photos just fine and most people uploaded the post's photos in the comments as well, as a courtesy.

So yeah, bar facebook making an incredible mistake, zuck's trojan is here to stay.

And Reddit just got lucky that they implemented New Reddit on the Web and first-party apps on Mobile right as it took off here in Ph, so most pinoys don't know what they missed out on Reddit's more focused, simpler times and with the relatively recent death of the 3P API.

As I read somewhere on the internet, Reddit does have an interest in expanding the Philippine userbase. But I think it's a vague plan at best and at some point, Reddit wont get the ROI they want.

Reddit isn't new or dazzling like Bluesky. It popped off in 2019 and the pandemic helped it maintain momentum but it has the same problems Lemmy has right now.

The biggest subreddits are chugging along but its not gonna foster any small communities the same way a Facebook group will. and I suspect most lurkers will just go back to facebook eventually.

Android Authority 's TL;DR (conveniently) doesn't mention the actual downside to this update. But it's fine imo, since this was actually a pretty insightful read.

My TL;DR:

• Google's ARR/VRR implementation is hopefully more compatible with the GKI system vs. current per-vendor, per-device implementations
• To add this support, vendors must implement v3 of the Hardware Composer and Hardware Abstraction Layer APIs.
• That means also undoing existing kernel changes for their devices and retooling it to support HWC & HAL v3. Lots of engineering time.
• This solution still isnt perfect. There's a notable limitation in something called the "panel's Tearing Effect", but im not an expert at displays so CTRL+F it for the paragraph in question.

Think you're taking this too seriously.

To the average Joe, yeah, Windows is easier to install than ever. But to anyone with a passing interest in the OS has needed to do more and more work just to keep the OS recognizably sane vs the mess it has become.

Contrast that to Linux, which has stayed recognizably sane or even getting better.

It's not confirmed. Its just pessimism, albeit very well argued and precedented.

This article talks about how it used to be that gaming was split into two markets. There was consoles, dominated by three corps (Nintendo, MS, Sony) and PC.

This article talks about how the markets are becoming less and less distinct and how Valve is seizing an emerging opportunity to dominate all forms of gaming with Valve's Steam Deck and SteamOS.

The Deck basically validated the handheld industry that was previously very niche, underpowered, and kinda jank with a first-party, fully supported system with robust hardware under the hood. It also gave Valve a predictable hardware platform to build SteamOS as a replacement for Windows as a low level OS. The only problem being that SteamOS was still very dependent on being run on Deck hardware. Now though, they're taking the first steps to letting it work anywhere, starting with other handhelds.

By pushing SteamOS adoption on handhelds, it targets Nintendo's hardware niche. Nintendo is somewhat secure though since their first party titles are what move their systems.

By slowly replacing Windows, it erodes Microsoft's OS monopoly, which threatens the Windows Store as an alternative marketplace. At a time when Microsoft is already a decade into a dying Xbox brand, and one that is also constantly on the back foot (only company without a handheld and very dodgy support for existing handhelds) And a Microsoft that acquires studios, only to shut them down.

Sony is the least affected since PS5 is the winner of the 9th gen of consoles + they already sell some of their games on Steam. And also, Sony is Japanese, so Sony gets all the japanese titles, once again, unlike Xbox.

I didn't take my time to read this with my full attention, I'll be the first to admit; But I think this article is being way too dramatic and paranoid. And thats coming from somebody certifiably overdramatic and paranoid.

EDIT: to add, it does have some reference to past and current events in the technology space but it quickly devolves into baseless, referenceless speculation.

Also, is this just a "stole this topic from xyz social media" article but from Hacker News instead of Reddit?

The type of person to rock Calibre would probably have airplane mode on constantly. Mine's been that way and I still have epubs sideloaded on my Kindle from when I first got mine all those years ago.

I think the point is it would have been truly ironic if the AI itself was the authoritative fact checker instead of merely being a tool that built another tool.

If Claude was the fact checking tool instead of the ISBN validator, that's the real irony.

If in a messed up future, only an AI could catch a fellow AI, what's stopping the AI collective from returning false negatives? Who watches the watchers?

WTF is that title, Guardian??

Anong issue sa titulong "Sara Duterte pledges to have Marcos Jr Assassinated if She Is Killed" or something similar?

So far, so good; made a new save and the performance improvement is already very noticeable. There's still problems - loading that save will have me stuttering for the first minute - but overall seeing the game run so smoothly on my ancient Sandy Bridge system makes me so hyped for when MP is re-enabled and some mods are ported forward.

The changes to combat are also so obvious in hindsight. Why would working out make my arms sore, but taking the lives of a hundred boids wouldn't? There's going to be way, way more painkiller abuse moving forward than in my previous playthroughs now.

Amphoreus is v3.0. Haven't seen it for myself yet but a chief complaint sticks out: The cutscenes like to fade to black and tell instead of showing characters do fun/cool things. Otherwise its been quietly positive.

Fugue has also been gone since 3.0 dropped. Grind and wait for a rerun I suppose.

Remembrance seems to be the new meta going forward but its not like your teams will become useless. Strong but no longer the strongest. (As a guy who still uses DoT.)

As another commenter pointed out, Lingsha is rerunning right now alongside Feixiao and Topaz.

It's probably a lot of small things adding up. ZZZ, WuWa, hell even the game itself has been adding characters with big flashy animations. I guess players just want more visually engaging storytelling on top of visually impressive combat.

Again I haven't seen the new stuff for myself yet so just treat me like a parrot.

I wish I had a source but AFAIK it was planned, but MediaTek might be reconsidering, since Qualcomm's X Elites haven't exactly sold very well. Adoption is too slow.

I wish they put out Mini ITX boards or NUCs. I'd love to mess around with these SoCs in Linux.

Looked for the first post that mentions this new Firefox version. It's funny, my Work Profile installation appears to be enrolled in an A/B test for a newer design, while my main profile has the old layout.

Have to say, I seriously disagree with the new layout. The amount of padding and size of every menu item, the misuse of my phone screen, is just absurd. I can't tell if this is supposed to be the normal OoB experience or if my installation suddenly had accessibility accommodations for myopia turned on and set to maximum. I can't share screenshots for comparison, but it's rough.

I'm not aware of good posting conventions, so I posted this without a timestamp. However, for people without SponsorBlock installed, I suggest you jump ahead to the 36 minute, 45 second mark.

Here's also some more verbose details:

Title: Community & our shared dreams for the Filipino youth
Subtitle: 2024 Fr. Antonio Gonzalez, O.P. Memorial Lecture

EDIT: I've edited the post with a different, more streamlined title (imo) and added the timestamp. Again, if this is unwelcome behavior, please dm me or reply to this comment.

(I don't use lemmy very often, so please be patient if I don't reply... for days....)

There probably isn't an automated solution for this, but you could just get the SHA checksum of your BIOS dumps and compare them to others' checksums on the internet.

As for how, well, you can use the shasum command in the terminal on linux. for windows, powershell has get-filehash. and 7zip for windows has a checksumming function as well.

Vivy Fluorite Eye's Song

Stumbled upon it in ~2023 while I was away from my PC, nothing on my phone, and borrowing the family TV and their Netflix. A real hidden gem.

I might be behind on the Tech News, but did Qualcomm really win the license dispute with ARM that quickly? Over the Nuvia/Oryon IP?