Most content (excluding their own) is not available in all regions due to licensing issues.
Actually, even including their own for some dumb reason. For instance, Paramount holds the rights to Star Trek, but there’s no way for me to stream some of the shows legally, because Paramount+ isn’t available where I live.
Which to me makes no sense. It’s just a freaking website, globally accessible, hosting content they own…
Today I was contacted by someone at work. She graduated school with me and our 20 year reunion was coming up. Why did she contact me at work? It was the only way they were able to track me down. I was included in promotional material by name. She told me I "was the hardest to track down"and I had to smile....
I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn’t bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.
… for now. They’ve already replaced the old Notepad with a bloated UWP version, so it probably won’t be long before it starts sending telemetry as well.
IT guy here, the NFC thing isn’t really a concern (NFC doesn’t work that way) or for that matter, any other wireless technology, as it’ll need to authenticate with your phone somehow. If you can somehow simply scan data from a phone without any form of authentication, that would be a massive security hole - something that would be patched by the vendors real quick. Also, if something like that were possible then the TSA/FBI wouldn’t have any issues pulling data from locked phones. Think of all the times you’ve had to put your phone thru the xray machines at the airports. Also see the case of FBI vs Apple for instance.
The other issues you’ve mentioned are valid though. Heck my Galaxy Fold won’t even fit in that slot.
A better option, IMO, would be to create this community on retrolemmy.com - as the name implies, it’s a community centered around retro gaming and computing, so it’d be a more appropriate place for it. :)
I just want to play Magic the Gathering Online. I need it for nothing else. It runs like ass under WINE and even Proton. So if there is any other way I can do this, without going the nuclear option, I don"t even need to setup a VM for it.
Have you tried installing MTGO using Lutris? Apparently it works fine, but you’ll need some tweaks. The key is to use windowed mode, disable music and card animations:
Runner options: -Use the latest version of lutri-proton if it’s not the default. -Use windowed (virtual desktop) mode and the display resolution of whatever device you are playing on. This was the biggest fix of most problems for me with stuff related to proper rendering of windows. -All else is default from Lutris install
System options: -Uncheck restrict number of cores -Disable desktop effects -All else is default from Lutris install
In-game options: -Disable or silence music and Uncheck play client startup music -Disable card animations(summoning sickness and foil treatment)
I’ve also found that it is always better to close the program using the Stop button on Lutris, there’s a bug where sometimes if you close out of the game via the Close button in the window, it will not properly stop the game, and will prevent starting the game back up again. I also tend to start the game in Lutris instead of via a desktop shortcut.
I’m going to cut a microfiber cloth in pieces to make small cloths to clean your glasses with. So, i was researching which overlock stitch best to use on my regular sewing machine and suddenly came across this scientific article:...
I mean, this goes beyond sewing and microfiber to all synthetics containing plastic: that includes materials like polyester, nylon, acrylic etc. I would personally recommend avoiding ALL plastics as much as you can, when it involves your food (so no plastic containers, food processor jars etc) and of course, avoid clothes made from these materials completely.
At the very least, you should avoid tops and bedding/blankets/pillows made from synthetics, to reduce the amount of microplastics you’re breathing in to your lungs. Microplastics/nanoplastics are pretty much everywhere now and they’re known to cross your blood-brain barrier, cause inflammation and can even cause cancer. We’re in too deep to avoid it completely now, but we can certainly try and reduce our exposure to it.
In my experience (W11 + Fedora on UEFI Thinkpad), I’ve seen it actually get rid of the Fedora entry from the UEFI boot list. Reinstalling GRUB from chroot didn’t fix it, so I used EasyUEFI and manually added the Fedora EFI file to the boot list and that worked.
So it wasn’t simply changing the boot order, it actually nuked Fedora from the UEFI boot list.
Just upgraded my M1 Air, loving the new animated wallpapers and lock screen.
My only pet peeve is that the offline phase of the upgrade took a whole 20 minutes - something which no other OS requires - yes, even for Windows, the offline phase of an upgrade is usually in single digits.
So this is something Apple definitely needs to improve upon.
Sure, I mean it’s not a big deal. But it felt a bit odd considering macOS and Apple Silicon usually flies in pretty much every other task, so the lengthy update just felt a bit out of place.
I feel kinda bad about feeding google with data. Is there some name server I can point my servers to that upholds my privacy and does not run analytics on the requests it gets?
Mullvad’s DNS. It’s available for non-subscribers as well, and their privacy policy explicitly claims they do not log DNS requests in any way. mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/
They support both DoT and DoH, and also have various servers for blocking ads, trackers etc (if you wish to use them): github.com/mullvad/dns-blocklists
Well, if you’re using Mullvad’s malware/ad filters etc there’s really no need for a PiHole in the first place (unless you’re doing some funky custom filtering).
It runs entirely in RAM, administration is super simple, no ssh, easy to update/and upgrade, immutable, minimal distro designed specifically for secure container usage.
That looks like a fun mix of analog and digital, done right. I might have to pop into to our local pinball place and see if they’ve got anything similar.
How about Gogs? The whole thing is < 30 MB, and is lightweight enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. You can even get a native binary package if you want to run it without the overhead of Docker.
Apologies if I’ve missed this, but it hasn’t popped out to me. Are there shortcuts one can use on a connected keyboard/trackpad that one can use to go back from a post to a community, for example? Like Cmd-[ or Cmd-⬅️? Or swipe with 2 fingers? If not, can this be a feature request?...
If you’re browsing with a keyboard/trackpad then Photon may suit you better instead - and I can confirm it supports standard trackpad gestures and keyboard shortcuts for navigating back.
New streaming services give you the same convenience you had in the 90s (lemmy.world)
Greatest satisfaction (lemmy.world)
Got tracked down for my school reunion
Today I was contacted by someone at work. She graduated school with me and our 20 year reunion was coming up. Why did she contact me at work? It was the only way they were able to track me down. I was included in promotional material by name. She told me I "was the hardest to track down"and I had to smile....
Winlator v5.0 Released (github.com)
Winlator is an Android application that lets you to run Windows (x86_64) games and apps using Wine and Box86/Box64....
Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)
Innovation in Japan: McDonald's installs phone cleaning devices. Kills 99.9% of germs within 30 seconds while customers wash their hands - VIDEO (ua-stena.info)
McDonald’s installs phone cleaning devices....
18+ What the Fuck Amazon?! (lemmings.world)
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Where can I find a signed Windows 7 image for VirtualBox?
I just want to play Magic the Gathering Online. I need it for nothing else. It runs like ass under WINE and even Proton. So if there is any other way I can do this, without going the nuclear option, I don"t even need to setup a VM for it.
Sewing and microfiber release
I’m going to cut a microfiber cloth in pieces to make small cloths to clean your glasses with. So, i was researching which overlock stitch best to use on my regular sewing machine and suddenly came across this scientific article:...
"Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" will consist of 2 consecutive cours (lemmy.world)
dengekionline.com/articles/204279/
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Windows eats partitions (lemmy.world)
Cyberpunk Music - Midtempo / Synthwave / Darksynth Dark Clubbing (open.spotify.com)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/00fc85c7-e05b-4d80-854e-18cea4aa5046.png
Apple Releases macOS Sonoma With New Widget Features, Safari Updates, Screen Sharing Improvements and More (www.macrumors.com)
What non-evil DNS server do you recommend?
I feel kinda bad about feeding google with data. Is there some name server I can point my servers to that upholds my privacy and does not run analytics on the requests it gets?
Alternatives to RancherOS?
Hi all!...
Retro-eXo - Win9X Emulation and Project challenges (youtu.be)
Here eXo (of eXoDOS fame) talks about the problems of 9x emulation, and why it’s currently not feasible.
[OC] Holy pinball Batman! (lemmy.world)
Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor (techcrunch.com)
Keyboard/trackpad shortcuts for going back
Apologies if I’ve missed this, but it hasn’t popped out to me. Are there shortcuts one can use on a connected keyboard/trackpad that one can use to go back from a post to a community, for example? Like Cmd-[ or Cmd-⬅️? Or swipe with 2 fingers? If not, can this be a feature request?...
Wood Bundles for Balloons (abload.de)
You can also use a regular old torch for this, but those take up weapon inventory slots, whereas you can carry 999 wood bundles without issues.