i tried using this stick as sycthe but I accidentally let go and thing got launched and broke in two, here's the final image before death
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The only reason I even have a microsoft account is to play Minecraft. Other than that, most of their services have perfectly good alternatives that are a lot better IMO
Fallout New Vegas and Animal Crossing (the 1st one from 2002)
Gen-z here - I know how to torrent lol. It's insane how tech illiterate a lot of my friends are, even in my IT classes don't know what HTTPS is or what an ethernet cable is so... yeah
Feels weird being known as "the guy who's an expert at computers" despite being a noob
it's probably a mix between his use of compound v and the brain tumour, considering his hallucination of becca controls it, a clear sign that something is wrong with his brain
it has been said in the past that using Compound V as an adult can lead to strange things happening as well (being a "freak" or "exploding") so yeah butcher probably has supe killing powers that aren't inherently powers
Why are you using Lemmy then? Go back to reddit if you aren't scared of them
I don't know if it's just me, but browsing virtually any mainstream website without an ad blocker or with alternative frontends is becoming harder and harder to justify. It's getting to the point where adblocking isn't an optional luxury - it's a requirement to effectively get basic information about things.
Yesterday, I was trying to search some information about Ghouls from Fallout. This lead me to this Fandom wiki page which had ads on almost every corner of the website, autoplaying video in the corner, asking for my age as soon as I clicked on the site, injecting polls and random unrelated videos into the communty wiki content and being incredibly slow to browse. A query that in the past that took 5 seconds now takes 50, for what? Money?
I get that online services cost a shitton amount of money to operate, but the sheer level of degrading quality is not OK. This is just one example of how services are completely barreling towards the shitter at 100+ MPH with no brakes or airbags. I feel some guilt for using content blockers, but that guilt is being wittled away every single day because of websites like this.
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Most people in the UK government regardless of their party don't give 2 shits about online privacy. Remember KOSA?
There are also much bigger issues at the moment IMO
during my childhood, you needed sky to watch stuff like nickelodeon and CN. shit was mad expensive, basicallv useless in the rain and had ads. It was awful
I live in the UK and have personally seen hate become so much more prevalent. It's very sad
I joined lemmy.zip because it had the lowest ping lol
thanks for keeping it alive for all this time
It's just a matter of all bark no bite - just saying things to get people to like you instead of any action
Tories need to be kicked out whatever it takes
LibreTube - uses Piped as video source by default. Subscriptions and playlists can be created, all without actually interacting with YouTube.
Clipious - uses Invidious as the video source. Also allows for subscribing and accounts. Lesser known client
NewPipe - Gets the source directly from YT. Allows for subscribing and creating playlists
Additionally, there's also ReVanced that lets you patch the regular YT app to include useful features.
Best thing I can come up with is use a third party camera app, like Simple Camera. Since Google decided to hard-code this into the app, this is your only option aside from using really inconvenient solutions
I've been using a lot of Debian based distributions recently after half a year on Arch. The main thing I miss a lot is the AUR. The convenience of having all my packaged in one format is a huge reason why I use Arch. Is there anything like it for the AUR?
I also think that things like Flatpaks and Snaps could be useful, as I don't really want to have tons of repositories for tons of programs I install.
What is that program/script that lets you view a pokémon in your terminal?
1 month old and 1000 users. Great milestone, good job
There are open source, free YouTube clients such as LibreTube that already had this feature. Still don't understand why people still buy premium when alternatives exist, that are much better.
The amount of data this app collects actually makes my stomach churn. Jesus christ.
Has anyone noticed that apps on F-Droid or that you just get from GitHub are just better than the ultra-popular apps on the play store? Most of them are open source and have no ads or trackers. But this isn't true on the Play Store at all.
I see myself always getting apps from F-Droid now because there is always an alternative to the ad-infested bloated privacy infesting BS that I find on the play store. It's unfortunate that it's gotten this bad, where the only reason I even use the play store is to install updates or games.
I have had Google as an app disabled for the past 2 months. I don't use google assistant or anything like that and I have had no issues. I'm not going to uninstall the play store, google play services or carrier services since I know those are pretty much integral to my phone.
I've used ADB to uninstall the vast majority of the bloatware or other software on my Samsung phone, but I'm not sure if uninstalling Google will actually cause my device to become inoperable.
