It’s for boosting Wi-Fi reception, don’t worry about it.

Oh lord please have mercy! Blacklisting the file extension right now!

When you’re connected to a webpage for 40+ minutes you’re being exposed to all kinds of info stealers, trackers, cryptominers, etc.

If you just check what you’re downloading is an mkv, you are pretty much risk free.

I dunno. But if AirPlay works by sending your screen over wifi, it might be a bandwidth issue. Streaming video from youtube to your phone and then from your phone to a TV can be quite intensive, especially with modern phones being 1080p or more, which takes more bandwidth to stream to a TV. I’ve had this problem on a slow wifi on Android, and there’s not much you can do to fix it besides upgrading your router.

However, it doesn’t mean that’s exactly what is happening here. Certainly someone could be throttling video quality on purpose and we wouldn’t really have a way to prove it. With how shady and monopolistic big tech companies are, I wouldn’t put it past any of them (google and apple)

Afaik it wasn’t a temperature problem, it was voltage related. Obviously cooler temps help, but you would probably still be vulnerable to this.

B-but capitalism breeds innovation!

Wow, I’ve actually never seen this disc. However, funnily enough, I have another disc with that program burned into it. Someone didn’t read the notice, it seems.

TF2 currently under attack by the aussies. I’m going to bed right now, so I can’t defend it.

The books they shared still had DRM on them. As we all know, if it has DRM you don’t own it. They never gave away any book, so I don’t see what they did wrong.

Depends on the system, but normally, the OS provides a way to encrypt a file using the user credentials. It’s completely seamless while the user is logged in and using the computer. It’s true that any program running with the user privileges and within its session can open the file, but once the user logs out it’s unreadable.

I really like blue and teal, so the gay men flag looks really cool to me. I also like the asexual flag, but I have no reason for that one. It looks cool.

The launch was terrible, but there are some things that keep them apart from the rest of terrible launches.

Cyberpunk 2077 was a really ambitious game, with a lot of new mechanics and incredible graphics. Beasts like that are really difficult to optimize for a large range of computers with different specs, so at first it ran poorly on some.

The most notably buggy release was the PS4 one. And rightfully so. They were trying to run a truly next gen game on a console which was more than a decade old. They not only had to optimize the game, but they basically made a completely different game, with different assets and engines, which was really difficult to do. Still, it was too much for the console, especially old PS4s that were full of dust or had old fans and were overheating.

Another important fact is that users were also pressuring CDPR into releasing Cyberpunk 2077. It was delayed at least once (maybe twice, I don’t remember), and people wanted to play the game. They probably had to choose between delaying it another time or releasing it without polishing it that much.

I believe it was Cyberpunk 2077 that started the trend of “release now fix later” games. However, I don’t think they really did it on purpose. The game was too ambitious for its own good, and having to develop, optimize and test two basically different versions of it was too big of a task for a studio that in today’s terms wasn’t even that big. The rest of the AAA producers just realized that CDPR still won loads of money at launch, and decided to release incomplete games on purpose, after seeing that CDPR could make profits that way.

But must importantly, CDPR did an amazing job at fixing the game, unlike many other studios releasing broken AAAs. They optimized the code, fixed most of the bugs, improved the AI massively and made the game really stable, to the point where I’ve seen it running at 40 FPS on 10+ year old overheating laptops. Even though it took a while, they still delivered the game they promised to their buyers.

It is surprising how much the landscape changed in just 5 years. All the right wing parties got a boost, but most importantly, the ultra right and christian right parties. All those are surely going to want to implement ChatControl and measures like that because “We need to protect our children!”

I’m also scared of all the new Q-Anon type parties that last time didn’t even exist and this time won a few seats. Ultra right conspiracy theorists that now have more seats than even the pirates.

Also look at the results from Gernany or Austria. AfD and Orban. Pro nazi and pro russian parties. We’re going back in time for a remake.

Discord customer service is abysmal. I’ve had to contact them twice, and twice I have been ignored. They answer 10 times with the same AI generated response: “Have you tried turning it off and on again? Have you tried logging off and on again? Have you tried resetting your password?” I tell them I have tried everything, and they still answer with the same response, just paraphrased a bit differently.

Wait, what happened now? Do they want to ban Lemmy?

Fourthed

Spain has not really banned Telegram. It has instituted a temporary restriction while the company appeals. However, this restriction isn’t really enforceable, because it must be implemented within 3 hours of the ISPs receiving the ban notice. However, ISPs can only receive these notices oficially on working days, and right now they’re celebrating easter.

Telegram has 3 days to appeal the ban, and it probably will appeal before ISPs start blocking it. The appeal will most probably be accepted (as Telegram is an important company, and many people there use it as their only messaging app).

Thus, the ban will probably be lifted even before ISPs start blocking Telegram, unless something goes terribly wrong.

Hallo!

Fun fact. When you open Microsoft Edge for the first time, and there’s no clear button to deny it permission to access your info, Alt F4 doesn’t work.

I’ve never seen an app ignore Alt F4 like that (I didn’t know it was even possible), and it freaked me out a bit the first time.

Wow, you’ve kinda described me in that post.

I’m not an expert and, like I said, I’ve been kinda lonely for most of my life. But I’ve come to find out some things that help me with social life.

The most important thing to do is just being yourself. After trying to analize the reason why social gatherings drain so much energy from me, I’ve found out that it’s usually trying to be someone that I’m not what tires me the most. Trying to seem more social, trying to control my nerd impulse of overexplaining things that aren’t relevant to the conversation, that kind of stuff.

Some people might find you awkward, but the truth is that if you need to “fake a personality” in order to be someone’s friend, that person isn’t really your friend.

The people that will actually stay with you and be friends with you will be the ones that like you as you are, and you can just be yourself with them. That usually drains a lot less social battery, and I’ve found that it’s way easier for them to understand when you don’t have the energy for meeting up.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s perfectly OK to have different “personalities”, and I have some filters even with the people I’ve met like this. But it just seems to me the less filters and personalities you have to keep, the easier it is to keep up a social relationship with someone.

I’m sorry for any possible grammar mistake, I’m on a mobile phone and I don’t have an autocorrect app. English is not my first language either, so I’m sorry for any weird expressions too.