Xttweaponttx

joined 1 year ago
[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Idahoan here - yeah coming from a fairly mormon-laden family tree (and community), it's pretty common around here. And like others said it typically goes both ways - the guys treat it like the gals are helpless without a man to carry the income. This place is fucking backwards and culturally prehistoric.

Don't even get me started on the bigotry & maltreatment towards trans/gay folks. If there were a progress bar for moving toward healthy / compassionate behavior towards those groups this place would be at fucking 0%, genuinely. Obscenely disrespectful.

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

So stoked to see this. A bit disheartening to read this kinda shit, though=

“This victory against Google is an historic win for the American people,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “No company — no matter how large or influential — is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws.”

Only to be followed a few paragraphs down by

...a drawn-out appeals process will delay any immediate effects for both consumers and advertisers. The appeals process could take as long as five years...

Sigh.

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

YES emoji search would be amazing!

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

You could also give Shizuku a try! Connects to android's adb bridge over WiFi, right from your phone! From there you can use something like termux to shell straight into your phone!

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

For what's worth, I registered for the FCC's do not call registry way back and it helped a bit - but once you're registered, if you get spam calls, you can report the numbers to the FCC for having called you despite being on the registry. YMMV but it might be worth a shot!

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah I've started doing the same and its almost like they maintain a list of us time wasters 😅 I'll typically play along as long as I can so they think I'm all game. After they rage quit I immediately call the number back from a second phone and attempt to play dumb like I got disconnected, typically with some other dumbass that just resets and starts the script over, so I get a free two-fer 😂

It has become a fun little ride every once in a while!

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Ya know what dude, you're totally right! Fuck it, I'm making the jump! 😃🤘

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Damn, hadn't realized Mozilla was doing ad profiling! 😓

Anybody know of a way to disable that somehow, mobile\desktop? If its not a thing I think I might be jumping ship... Really hoped Firefox had their shit together!

 

The whole article's a great read, but here's a fun excerpt=

To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Hooray!! Been using this fork for a couple of months. Slap the swypelib in there and its the best keyboard around!!!

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Wow, super informative!! Thank you for such a detailed response! I'll definitely be looking into the CPRA

 

I'm taking a class on data privacy at the moment, and it made me think it would be interesting to see exactly what kind of advertising data has been generated by services like Google \ YouTube \ Etc. Is there somewhere online that's easy to punch in an advertising ID & find that sort of data, or is that something you'd have to request from advertisers themselves? (AdSense etc?) Or maybe do the service providers (mentioned before) store that data?

Forgive my ignorance - still learning about this stuff!

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For sure! Like I think criticism should be welcomed from a constructive standpoint, but there were some outright personal attacks in there! After reading the wiki page for Linus a coupla days ago my perspective is starting to shift a bit towards him 😅 woof

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Sheesh. Seeing just how long he goes on tantruming is kinda surprising 😳 seems like the guy was just trying to contribute... ya don't have you shit in mouth, right? Jesus

 

Not sure if this will help anyone else, but I couldn't find anything online about this and thought I'd share this with online just in case!

I just started playing Outer Wilds on the steam deck for a week or so, and was immediately in love with it. I decided to install it on my PC (popOS) to see how it looks with cranked graphics, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to sync my cloud saves! For some reason the deck kept saying the saves were syncing fine up to the cloud, but my pc kept sticking at 'checking....' when I asked it to sync...

In the end, I ended up finding a setting in the steam client that enables compatibility for every title in steam that isn't Linux native... when I flipped it on, Outer Wilds (along with like 4 other games in my library) all immediately resolved their bugged cloud sync!

So, I guess, steam will complain that it can't get your cloud saves to download, when really it doesn't have a compatdata folder for the saves to download to. Kinda jank!

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