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What is your favourite gaming console you have played?
360 for me. All my friends had one and spent soooo much time playing halo 3 and GoW online. Good times
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What is your favourite gaming console you have played?
360 for me. All my friends had one and spent soooo much time playing halo 3 and GoW online. Good times
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Is CompTIA Sec+ really that hard?
Is this your first CompTIA cert? I took my Sec+ the same year that I did A+ and Net+ and from what I remember there was a lot of overlap. In my opinion, Sec+ was the easiest out of the three so if you’ve passed the others then you’re definitely capable of doing it.
That being said, I got mine in 2010 soooo 🤷
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It's time to dump Roku
Instead of a Roku Stick, you could use the Google TV Streamer or Apple TV 4K…..…..Amazon's Fire devices are also an option, but I figure anyone with moral qualms against Fox may have similar issues with anything tied to Jeff Bezos.
I got a kick out of the article recommending Google and Apple like they’re the ethical option against Amazon here. Any sane person with moral qualms against Bezos will have plenty about Google and Apple too, so let’s not pretend that any of them are anything less than evil.
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DeGoogled phones, made in Europe: Fairphone, Volla, SHIFTphone, Punkt – a full review.
Shame on tuta for the headline. Sure, they’re European companies, but according to the article everything except the Volla phone is made in China.
Per the article, the Volla phone starts manufacturing in Taiwan (which I 100% support) and then finishes in Germany so that’s the only one of these that I’d actually consider.
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One of the most detrimental things to a productive society is when people think their actions don't make a difference
Earlier today I was thinking about a conversation that I had a few weeks ago about Tesla. I mentioned that I would love to have one but I'd never consider buying one while Elon is still with the company. Their response was the normal "eh, I don't really think about that kind of stuff" and that was that. It was just a polite conversation so we didn't go into values or beliefs about it, but I'm certain that they were being truthful and didn't really have any deeper thoughts on it. Most people just simply don't care.
As for me, I believe voting with your wallet is the strongest thing that any one of us can do, at least while lobbying is still normalized within politics. The billionaires and mega-corps only care about money and they'll only change if something is affecting their bottom line.
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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)
I’m not switching at this time because I already bought a lifetime pass about 7 years ago. If ANY of my functionality gets changed by Plex then I’ll be switching
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Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for de-Googled phones
Surely this would be nearly impossible for visually impaired people, which makes me question the ability for governments to implement this on their websites.
I know about screen reader software for visual impairment, but to expect a blind person use a separate device with a camera to take a “photo” of a QR code on another screen is beyond comprehension. Well, at least it would be in the normal timeline.
I guess I’ll have to switch to a dumb phone out of spite now.
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CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court
My first reaction is: lmao fuck Krafton
My second reaction is: you absolute fucking idiot, what did you expect when you sold to a mega corpo??
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Reitti v4.0.2: A New Map Experience and Update Progress
Hey Daniel, thanks for making this and 4.0 has been a great update! I've been using this with owntracks since I saw it posted here a few months back and it's been great.
There is one thing that I was wondering about - do you have any plans to be able to smooth out wonky data that gets imported? In my case it's from google takeout. I recently imported my location data from my old google takout backup and location data is all over the place. For example, here is my 2017 trip from the US to Japan and back. I totally understand that this is a problem with the data though
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Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. Would that work?
anything to distract us from the Epstein files
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What's the Country of Origin for the new Steam Controller?
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/306939718599
The photos in this listing show the retail box. It’s China alright
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Trump renews push to annex Greenland after Venezuela strike
Anything to distract us from the Epstein files
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Is it ethical to buy Subnautica 2, now that it is released in early access?
It will never be ethical to buy Subnautica 2 as long as Krafton is still involved.
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Hosting a matrix server with synapse, how do you handle registration?
I don’t allow registration but I can manually create accounts. My server is just for me and a few others so this is perfectly fine for me
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TikTok charged for breaching EU rules with app's addictive features
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I agree get rid of it (along with all social media) but TikTok in Europe isn’t owned by the US. That’s still the version owned by China/Bytedance
The US owned version was spun off just for the US market.
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TikTok charged for breaching EU rules with app's addictive features
TikTok in the US was spun out into a separate company. The global version of TikTok hasn’t changed, so the issues that the EU has with tiktok are still with china/btyedance.
That being said, let’s get rid of social media everywhere!
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Is Plex really Self Hosting?
So I ask, when you are hosting something that is entirely dependent on a commercial entity to function, is Plex really selfhosting in the spirit of this community?
I understand where you’re coming from but, to me, self hosting is an ethos, not a checklist. If self hosting has to be void of a commercial entity then my services at home that are available externally aren’t self hosted since I have to rely on my ISP for that to work. And all of the electricity for my servers comes from a commercial company so those aren’t self hosted. And using a public domain isn’t self hosting.
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Trump renews push to annex Greenland after Venezuela strike
Anything to distract us from the Epstein files
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Reitti v4.0.2: A New Map Experience and Update Progress
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Your work is appreciated, cheers!
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Youtube vs. Odysee, Twitch vs. Kick.
I had looked both Odyssee and Kick when I first heard about them. To my eyes, they seemed like YouTube and Twitch without as many guardrails, but in a bad way.
Sorry, it doesn’t answer your question but I ended up subscribing to Nebula and I don’t regret it. I don’t use twitch and only use the FreeTube client for remaining content that is only on YouTube.