And to all the armchair lawyers out there, the letter to Valve did not make any claims that we were violating a US copyright by including the Wii Common Key, as a short string of entirely random letters and numbers generated by a machine is not copyrightable under current US copyright law. If that ever changes, the world will be far too busy to think about emulation.
Oof I think this service is only worth it if you have a family plan and everyone helping. That is how I personally make it reasonable in terms of pricing.
In fairness, it’s not just 50 cents per day, it’s yet another streaming service that’s increasing prices.
And it’s all well and good saying “you don’t have to buy it”, but these streaming companies are starting to get aggressive with squeezing money out of people.
Google in particular is trying to crack down on ad blockers, and trying to force more ads at the same time.
Would be great if I could just pay for no ads YT without YT music.
In fairness, the amount of YT that I watch on TV/iPhone makes it worth the cost, but any increases and I’ll probably just cancel and watch less YT, which isn’t a bad thing.
Or maybe just look at getting one of those Turkish subscriptions for like £2/month
There's a lot of fatigue going around with everyone trying to sell you on their subscription service, "it's only x cents a day" becomes much more annoying when every facit of life also apparently needs to cost you X cents
I have had weirdos pick up my cat while he is walking behind me when we are outside together and try to take him home. And I'm like 'uh that is my cat, please put him down' and they look at me like I'm a nutcase.
I don't get why people assume a random cat they see outside is a stray or abandoned. Unless it is visibly distressed it's probably just someone's pet. There are a dozen semi-outdoor cats in a 3 block radius of my home.
I haven't played Pikmin but when it comes to BotW/TotK I still would prefer if weapons didn't break. Seems to me that it creates grind and it takes away flexibility, because more situational options take the same slots as raw power, and get spent just as quickly. Comes to mind also how XCom 2 insisted on turn limits, and one of the first mods it got was to remove the turn limits.
Sometimes designers insist on certain limits to prevent that players "optimize the fun away" but they don't realize that some players legitimately do have more fun without those limits.
It’s probably NTP a lot of banking apps have extra protections and if it can’t determine the time from its own trusted authority it may not allow the connection.
As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:...
Going straight to the point: I was wondering what is the criteria for kbin to pick federated magazines (number of subscribers maybe?) and if there is a way or workaround to pull/force them into the "All magazines" list....
Yes you can. You have to trigger the federation by entering the url to it into search (the url from the instance its on, not the kbin.social one it would have) or its exact name in the @name@instan.ce format. That’s how off-instance content gets federated. Someone needs to tell your server, it exists, and that they want it.
I think we can tag in the Paradox of Tolerance with a side of Nazi Bar on this one.
This type of "they're intolerant, but polite" shit needs to get nipped in the bud because it metastasizes quickly, and sends out a batsignal to other intolerant groups that this will make a fine home base so long as they hide their power levels.
Hello. I am trying out this software but I don't understand how boosts work. I see that my own boosts are shown on my profile, but when I click on Microblog, I don't see other people's boosts. Are they aggregated anywhere?
Welcome! Microblogs double as kbin's integration with mastodon. On kbin, it's a stronger upvote that boosts its visibility here, but it would come through to mastodon users as a retweet for anyone following you.
Only, kbin is an extremely young platform, so it's still a little awkward. You can follow users wherever but there is no dedicated feed to see what they post and reblog, for example, unless you go to that person's profile and look around under the post and boost headings. Which is a bit time-consuming. All that is still in the works.
That's also what "create new post" means, btw. Threads are kbin/lemmy posts. "Make post" is making a mastodon tweet. It's a thing to get used to.
Since "microblogs" is pulling content from mod-chosen mastodon tags, tweets will show up under the microblog section of any relevant community. But only if the creator thought to enter tags to look for, and only if the community was created on a kbin server. News@kbin.social has 2339 microblogs, but news@lemmy.world has zero because lemmy currently lacks this functionality.
I’ve seen different opinions on this. Some people will certainly be looking for community-maintained distributions since they are unlikely to undergo a change like this. In particular some sysadmin Youtubers (like Veronica Explains) have been saying that they are switching their clients over. But others have been saying that...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost what may be its final attempt to block Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard. It’s the second loss for the FTC after a US federal judge denied its request for a preliminary injunction earlier this week to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard until the conclusion of...
Not only because of this article, but merely an hour ago I have read also this post (numerous links provided in the post) about the dubious Brendan Eich.
Their crypto autofill scandal is all one needs to know about this company. If you’re marketing your browser as privacy focused and then pull stunts like that you lose all credibility in my eyes. Forever.
I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it’s NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?...
This threads got lots of good answers, but I haven’t seen it mentioned that snaps sometimes mean reduced functionality.
Use the docker snap? Sorry, it can only access your home directory so no -v /some/path:/somewhere for you
Use firefox or chromium and keepassxc? Sorry, your browser plugin won’t be able to talk to your password manager
And the updates… dear god. In whose mind was it a good idea to show a “firefox is updating, exit now to avoid issues” TWO WEEKS im advance. Closing the app does precisely fuck all unless you manually snap refresh it
Containerised applications are a fine idea, but snap is a horrible implementation of it
Dolphin Emulator devs give up on Steam release (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)
Oof I think this service is only worth it if you have a family plan and everyone helping. That is how I personally make it reasonable in terms of pricing.
I think I found an abandoned cat, what type of cat is this? (i.postimg.cc)
Miyamoto wonders why Pikmin hasn't sold more and why people think the games are difficult (nintendoeverything.com)
Pikmin 4 is due out for Switch on July 21, 2023
Ally (bank)mobile app fails without connection to graph.facebook.com (lemmy.world)
Not sure if this is a good place for this post or not, but here goes....
Bromite's fork is going to be branded as Cromite (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1766078...
[META] So... about the bots
As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:...
"Forcing" magazine federation from other instances?
Going straight to the point: I was wondering what is the criteria for kbin to pick federated magazines (number of subscribers maybe?) and if there is a way or workaround to pull/force them into the "All magazines" list....
Bigoted community on your instance
lemmy.world/c/christians...
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Help the EFF protect our digital privacy (www.eff.org)
OC KES 2.0.0: improved cross-platform compatibility, more stable, many new features
Original 1.0.0 release post here...
Origins of the Name "Lemmy"
Hello!...
Where do boosts appear?
Hello. I am trying out this software but I don't understand how boosts work. I see that my own boosts are shown on my profile, but when I click on Microblog, I don't see other people's boosts. Are they aggregated anywhere?
A relatively easy way to disable the "random posts" or "random threads" sections (desktop web browser) + suggestions for sidebar
Step 1: Install uBlock Origin on your web browser....
Will the RHEL debacle increase Debian market share in the server space?
I’ve seen different opinions on this. Some people will certainly be looking for community-maintained distributions since they are unlikely to undergo a change like this. In particular some sysadmin Youtubers (like Veronica Explains) have been saying that they are switching their clients over. But others have been saying that...
Court denies FTC’s last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard (www.theverge.com)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost what may be its final attempt to block Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard. It’s the second loss for the FTC after a US federal judge denied its request for a preliminary injunction earlier this week to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard until the conclusion of...
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
From the article:...
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (lemmy.world)
Why is snaps hated
I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it’s NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?...