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CorrodedCranium

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Fan of Linux, modifying firmwares, and open source software. Mostly here to kill time and contribute to Lemmy’s growth.

If you want to play a game together over XLinkKai shoot me a message. I have an original Xbox, PS2, and a PS3 I can use.

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Can you mount them? If so what does that look like?

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Should be similar on most Linux distros.

Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I’m working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end...

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I can’t say I blame them when it comes to going with what’s comfortable.

I used Windows and Linux while in school so it’s what I got used to. Whenever I use MacOS I feel incredibly lost

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I saw a comment once that said they are like sharks in that they can smell fear.

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Can you tell us some fun facts or stories?

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I’ve been a user for years and I would agree with that. The only issue I’ve seen people have recently are with Red Hat and their recent source code policy change

arstechnica.com/…/red-hats-new-source-code-policy…

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Ah yes me the intellectual using Kali Linux to play Skyrim

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You can buy thick water (designed for people who have trouble swallowing) at pharmacies and every so often I’ll mess with the new guy at work by filling a water bottle with it and taking a swig first thing in the morning after a weekend before saying something like “Damn don’t you hate when you forget your water and it goes bad?” and pouring out a thick stream

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Have you checked out this page?

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What laptop is it?

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Do you feel like you ever got over the initial setup period? A lot of what you are describing is what I encounter after a fresh install but I don’t typically have any issues after a little bit of tweaking.

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Two notable Americans having a snack that has erratic quality control

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Worth noting you can export your subscriptions on NewPipe so you can bring them to other platforms.

On PC you can you use Individious

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Yeah I get that. I wasn’t suggesting Invidious. I was saying NewPipe is a good option because you can port your subscriptions to other platforms.

You don’t need to start fresh every time you start using an open source alternative.

That said it would work in OP’s situation because it’s pretty much platform agnostic and there are available apps to make it easier to use on the Play Store. I still think NewPipe is the way to go though because it’s designed for Android.

Piracy safety aside for torrenting

So I know that if you torrent you should use VPN to avoid repercussions from government/companies ect. But what about ddls(for ex. Adobe products from monkrus), movie streaming or some things where a VPN wouldn’t make a difference such as activating Windows or office. Is there any safety things I should follow there or they...

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With DDLs I’d be more worried about malware then fines.

That said you should only sites that have HTTPS.

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Probably the Audiobook Bay

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Yeah. As long as you don’t make any alterations to the VM like sharing drives for example. If you had enough storage you could also make snapshots on occasion so you have a back up in the event of malware but you wouldn’t likely get malware unless you are opening the files on that VM

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OP may want to look at Garuda’s gaming edition. It seems to have a lot of good gaming packages I usually end up installing myself and it’s based in Arch Linux

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Appreciate the hard work!

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Pssht we’re all about Edison cylinders now

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Looking at you Intel ME

Is there something like the pirate bay but for direct downloads?

Im honestly scared to get into pirating but some things are just way too overpriced. i know theres the piract bay and such sites but it requires torrecting and a vpn but i cant afford a vpn so is there like a direct downloads version of the pirete bay or a safer alternative? im looking to get a few peices of media by the way....

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It depends what you are looking for. NES Roms? You can use Internet Archive and a download manager. Some romance playlist you made on Spotify and now want to burn on a CD? You can use a converter that will fetch MP3 files from YouTube.

The megathread is the place to look.

You may want to look into Usenet. There is a price involved but it’s not significantly more than a VPN.

To store stuff I use large hard drives. Most of my data is on one other device so those drives act as a back up in a way. It’s unlikely both devices fail at the same time

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If you are using direct downloads you probably don’t even need Tor. You should avoid torrenting through Tor. It puts unnecessary strain a volunteer network

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Is Railway Hosting what people are using for hosting Lemmy instances?

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I don’t do much. Most of them are friends from when I was a kid but in a weird way I worry they would judge me in a disappointed kind of way with how my life is going.

Most of them have kids, spouses, or careers at this point so I don’t know if they would be willing or able to make the time

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What gets me is people who park partially in the sidewalk

Another reason to leave Reddit: I forgot how hostile it can be

I’ve mostly left reddit and switched to beehaw, but I posted on somewhat of a niche tech-related subreddit today since there really isn’t a community for that here yet. And wow, I got instantly downvoted twice and the first comment response was rude and hostile. All I posted was a feature suggestion for software that I...

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Also more willing to engage from what I’ve seen

What do you do about abandoned communities?

Is there anything that can be done about abandoned communities? In my search for a battlestation community there is one on Lemmy.ml where the only mod is someone who hasn’t posted in 3 years and one on lemmy.world where the only mod is someone who mass created communities and has no intention of posting or doing anything....

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The good thing is Lemmy isn’t like Reddit where a subreddit becomes locked if inactive for an extended period of time. You could still post there and people who sort by new will see your content.

Even if the mod was active people would likely only see it by sorting through all or manually searching for it.

What video game have you played the most, that you think is garbage and no one else should ever play?

I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing....

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Hotline Miami 2. I’ve beat it on several platforms but I really don’t think it’s as good as the original.

Fallout 3. Mostly due to the mountain of technical issues it has on PC but even playing on console you can run into stability issues.

What’s the difference between all those instances?

We have Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, I think even yiffit.net. If I log in using wefwef it asks me where I want to login. And when I make a new account using another instance, it says ”… Lemmy is federated, so you can interact with everything on lemmy.ml even if you’re registered on a different instance.“ So if...

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On top of what other people have already said each instance has different rules. One instance might have rules against NSFW content and defederate from NSFW instances while others may be fine with it.

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threesixtyp is my top for TV shows. The only other unloaders I keep track of are for repackers like Fit-Girl and Gnarly

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Sure, but why would someone running a near-isolated instance want to list it there? They would just end up dealing with a lot of annoyed & disappointed users.

Maybe they only want to deal with a specific niche. For example a university that only wants to federate with other academic organizations

Gaming often fetishises the new but many great things exist in the past, so let's strap into our time machines and talk about our favourite games released before say 2010?

Just as with books, movies, plays etc the past holds a treasure trove of amazing experiences. Unless you have a lot more free time than I do it’s unlikely you’ve played anywhere near the majority of the classics. Let’s get out those pink sunnies and compare notes on some of our favourite releases....

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I played Max Payne and its sequal recently and I was surprised how well they held up. The gameplay and level design kept it consistently fun

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Does anyone know why I would be unable to view my own posts? I have tried Jerboa and the desktop version of Lemmy but under both when I sort by Overview or Posts both turn up blank. This has been going for a while not but I believe for a while after I lost the ability to view my posts in Jerboa I was able to see my posts on the desktop website.

I can still posts and get replies to my posts. Could this have something to do with me disable Show Read Posts in the settings?

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Oh yeah. The API change is official tomorrow isn’t it?

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Do you mean subreddits or account?

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I feel like it’s the occasional unpredictability that people are scared of. Whether it’s people being unable to tell if something was created by ChatGPT, if it’s pulling false sources, or people finding ways around set limitations and filters.

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Most places should have it. The Pirate Bay for example has Peppa Pig

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Ah gotcha. My bad

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Is there a reason you are avoiding logging in? Couldn’t you use a service like 10 minute email and essentially forget about it?

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That’s fair. Some software requires you to sign in again if you make network changes like connect to a VPN or if you update it so I can see why you’d want to avoid it

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Wasn’t /u/AwkwardTheTurtle kind of exploitative herself?

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Humble Bundle frequently has game development asset file bundles. One thing you might want to do is see if anyone reposted them online like people do with their learning to code books. You would just need to search for the name of the bundle you want.

Not exactly an answer just tossing it out there.

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (web.archive.org)

Fediverse can only win by keeping its ground, by speaking about freedom, morals, ethics, values. By starting open, non-commercial and non-spied discussions. By acknowledging that the goal is not to win. Not to embrace. The goal is to stay a tool. A tool dedicated to offer a place of freedom for connected human beings. Something...

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Thanks for the response. I was more referring to that specific example. The article talked about Microsoft dealing with word processors and linked that Wikipedia page.

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I was referring to those as (mostly) ethical ways of profiting off of piracy.

Again, nobody stops you, but most people wouldn’t see kindly to that. From leechers to other uploaders.

An example of this could be charging for songs on Soulseek.

That said I do wish console modding and the associated modding services were as popular as they were when the Xbox 360 was at it’s peak. Unfortunately it seems like what happened with Gary Bowser modding Switchs scared a few people out of the market.

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Do the mods of this instance have any consensus on defederation from other instances?

For example if they violate one of the instances rules such as

  1. No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, spam.
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Makes sense it is a bit of a nuclear option after all. I’ve seen the occasional post while browsing by all about sh.it just.works and their issue with exploding-heads and it made me curious so I figured I’d ask

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