Well I really dislike updating my computer (and on this topic, Windows Update is inconvenient and slow as balls!) and finding some new BS from Microsoft on it.
One day it’s Copilot, which I could just use on the browser if I really wanted to, the next day it’ll be Recall, which just… no.
Know what I mean?
Having a transient lifestyle like that sounds like you shouldn’t have children, at least to me.
I hear the Titanic Wreck is a lovely place to visit this time of year…
My guess is: Got IP Address from Reddit, asked ISP for data.
I’ve seen this type of thing reported so many times, seems like ISPs will give out your data willy-nilly if someone so much as looks at them funny
If they come up with some way to make it as hard as possible for the buyers to share these cracked games among them, they could make a lot of money with this.
DRM for Piracy? Disastrous
Only now?
My Windows computer stopped felling mine when 10 came around
If that’s an Apple Silicon Mac, they paid an arm and a leg to get this much ram 😵💫
On the cracked severs I used to play, they used to have a plugin that would make users register a password when they first visited and type it on all subsequent logins, to protect users’ accounts.
Widely considered?
Surprised to hear that, whenever someone posts him on Lemmy most of the comments act like he’s the best thing since sliced bread in video form
Wait? Are you telling me the 🫨 face is not justified??? Impossible!!!
I like Simplewall.
By default, it blocks everything and shows you a popup whenever an app or service tries to make a connection, similar to LittleSnitch for MacOS if you’re familiar with that.
The first few minutes can be a bit annoying as you figure out just how many background services in Windows are trying to phone home, but after that, great peace of mind knowing nothing will talk to the internet without you knowing.
Definitely overkill for most users, but if you don’t mind the initial burden, highly recommend.
Seconding Simplewall, it really just works.
A short while ago, Jimmy Secretan posted this response on everything that happened today:
“We have paused everything related to our Fediverse ingestion for now and we are removing everything ingested.
To be honest, the extreme negative reaction was a surprise to me, as I thought interaction between disparate systems was the entire point, but clearly we didn’t navigate the culture correctly.”
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Yeah those were some dark days :(
It’s what they should have done from the beginning, there must be a horde of MSFT employees holding back the urge of saying “told you so” to their boss right now lol
The best part of this ‘hacking tool’ is that it’s 5 lines of Python and the rest is just fluff lol
God, you know what I really wish I could do?
Run an Android VM on my phone. Imagine being able to do whatever you want with your device and still having a “stock” device for those pesky apps without having to actually have two phones.
It is seemingly possible, but the only app I’ve ever seen do it was “VMOS”: a proprietary app, impossible to trust.
Just sent them a couple of bucks. Wish I could give more but the conversion rate on my currency is atrocious lol 🫠
???
Taking down PirateBay didn’t kill the torrents it hosted
So. Fucking. True. oh my god.
I want to turn Bluetooth on in a script!
Linux? Two or three commands.
Powershell? Here, run this monster or download an application to do it for you and call that via the command line.
Last time I used Windows, the only way to suspend the machine was either poking some random ass .dll from System32 or downloading PsSuspend by Sysinternals ffs!