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.
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
Wdym, they made CoD Black Ops 6 /s
I'd be power tripping just to feel like a human being too if I had billionaire balls in my mouth 24/7
I'm as anti crypto rugpull nft bullshit web 3.0 is gonna be uuuuge bro i swear bro where are you going bro as much as the next person buuuuut...cryptocurrency is a godsend in shithole countries such as mine where the local currency is a joke and and possession of any non local currency is illegal
I didn't know about the whole Nord sending data to Google thing wtf. That immediately puts them on my shit list.
Yeah cash in snail mail is probably not the smartest haha. I personally use a card on Mullvad for the convenience alone - piracy isn't illegal here and their no logs policy is good enough for my use case but it being an option tells me they take that stuff seriously at the very least which is why I mentioned it.
Please reply here if you find the other one that lets you send cash. I'm loving Mullvad so far but it's always good to have options.
This. For most people, they either hated the 3.0 update (assuming 2010), or hated the enshittification after 3.2.2 (assuming 2012).
Mullvad seems to be the go-to if you want privacy (although no one thing is 100% private if you wanna go down that rabbit hole). No personal info requried, not even email. They claim no logs and they have gotten raided once and cops found nothing. I believe you can even mail them cash anonymously for a sub. Flat fee of €5/mo ($5.19/mo US) - you can pay for a single month or buy in bulk, costs the same either way.
Windscribe is another good option. More of your run of the mill VPN that seems to be well reviewed. Their free tier gives you 10GB/mo so you can see if it's right for you (although torrents may not work - I don't remember for sure). You can easily snag a whole year for $30 US as it goes on discount a lot.
Personally used both of these and haven't had much to complain about. Both have great apps for almost every platform, tons of locations to choose from, torrenting works, and Netflix works (for the most part). Speeds also seem solid but I do have crap tier internet. Reviews seem to agree though.
Of course do your own research, don't just take my word for it. People also seem to like NordVPN but I can't really speak to that.
Edit: Nord sends data to Google apparently so that's a big no.