Try a VPN to any EU country. I find that platforms can get really cooperative really fast when you wanna delete your account and they think GDPR applies

Unless you’re already in the EU in which case you could try “Mine” (saymine.com) although it’s been a minute and the AI stuff on their site does by fill me.with confidence

Sounds nice, where do i sign? :)

Oh look, I can see Norway from here

“I refuse to work in defense. I’d rather my work wasn’t used to blow anyone up” is a line I’ve used in multiple job interviews. I like to think the hell I end up going to at least has chilly weather and/or really good AC.

The “here’s how you keep doing this poorly but more efficiently” energy on display here is a refreshing change of pace from the usual “here’s how you do this correctly” crap peddled by normies (including me). You have my respect.

I’d like to second what priapus said - Helldivers is actually making fun of the type of blind patriotism you find obnoxious. It’s heavily inspired by Starship Troopers which is also a comedy movie making fun of that type of obnoxious patriotism. It’s all very tongue in cheek, devs aren’y actually pushing the patriotism.

I thought you were being serious as well. I’ve dealt with enough people who would genuinely make that argument so I assume nothing.

Effort or no, if an attacker can reasonably bypass it, it’s not secure. That’s why software gets security patches all the time, why encryption/hashing algorithms can fall out of favor, and why quantum computing can be pretty fucking scary.

The 7 Lives of Léa

Interesting French Netflix mini-series. Way better than it has any right to be considering its scale and I don’t think it’s gotten the attention it deserves.

I recommend watching in French with subtitles.

No, of course not. I was being sarcastic. I usually add a /s but this seemed obvious

The only logical approach here is to ban use the use of “Nicole” or “fediverse chick” across all instances and warn or ban anyone who upvotes posts that mention or vaguely allude to “her”.

Not to mention the jump in quality from the 128kbps audio you rip off YouTube (maybe 192kbps if you’re lucky) to the 320kbps mp3s you can off any self respecting torrent is MASSIVE (assuming non-shit source obviously). Heck, I can live with 320kbps. I barely notice the jump to lossless on my headphones/IEMs. 128kbps though, I’m not the most discerning listener but I can still hear the artifcats.

To add to what everyone’s saying since it hasn’t been mentioned (as far as I’ve seen): You can probably disable TPM 2.0 in your BIOS once you re-install Windows 10 so Windows Update will think your PC is incompatible with Windows 11.

I dunno what the security implications are but it’s been working really well for me so far.

That sounds strampunk af, I’d get it even if I didn’t need one if it did that!

Okay that makes way more sense then yeah. I don’t know of a single chromium browser that supports extensions on mobile so unsurprising

I love how it’s the people who know the most about how modern tech works that want nothing to do with 90% of it.

I’m trying. I’m trying so hard. But it keeps pissing me off because I have to dig through settings to undo changes they made to browser features that are standard across both Firefox and Chrome. It’s free and I’m not tryig to sound entitled but almost every single change they made to Chromium aside from the privacy stuff has me going WHYYYYYY?

The way they handle open in new tab, tlds like.internal, and ctrl+click to complete urls were the worst offenders off the top of my head.

Plus their ad blocker doesn’t even come close to uBlock Lite.

I just want v8 in a hardened vanilla Firefox wrapper that doesn’t go to the extremes that LibreWolf goes) :(

Not sure how Vivaldi uses extensions since you cannot add new ones from the chrome store…

Extensions in Vivaldi come from the Chrome Web Store, not sure what you mean by this

Beautiful

Steam isn’t perfect and I sure as shit won’t be the one defending a corporation, and this isn’t a good excuse at ALL, but if you’ve never gamed you wouldn’t believe how much worse it is on the other side (GOG being the only exception).