I wonder if someone will be able to actually remember that during duress

My home alarm has a duress password but I’m never able to remember it

Fun fact: tencent removed any kind of cloud backup from WeChat, even if that data would be so valuable for ai training. Or they could monetize it by having users pay for storage. Probably they got fed by too many government access requests. Btw I’m sure that the ccp is simply siphoning all the unencrypted chats (the app of course doesn’t offer any kind of e2ee) at the server or network level and doing automatic “backups” in real time for every citizen

Why windows 11 silently and automatically sends back to Microsoft servers the decryption key for bitlocker?

Why WhatsApp is asking every fucking month to enable unencrypted “backups” on Google drive?

Users have the convenience of Easy data recovery but also someone else.

I use cachy on my laptop but I wouldn’t call friendly an arch based distro that during setup asks the user “which of those 19 desktop environment do you want? Choose wisely only one”

It doesn’t even have a gui to install new software (at least, I am not an expert, I chose hyprland and it didn’t install that, and when I manually installed KDE Discover and the GNOME software manager, they only show and install flatpak apps - but because I’m not an expert I might have messed something up)

There’s a chance it will happen outside the USA.

Deciding to send to the landfill every PC sold after 2018 is a decision that they saw analyzing only numbers from big American corporations. “Anyway they lease the computers and have a refresh every 3-5 years”

But the rest of the world?

Here in Italy I still see people on Windows 7

When I traveled in southeast Asia I saw people using windows XP

Or Brazil, where the import taxes make a windows 11 compatible PC ultra expensive

Regular people and small businesses , especially outside the USA won’t simply buy a new PC just because Microsoft and Intel needed the line to go up.

That seems nice, it’s even on gog

It’s the same Asus that doesn’t allow bootloader unlock anymore for “stability concerns”?

So, basically that article has been written with the purpose to show their users the BlueStacks sponsorship, while bashing on slow and clunky emulators like BlueStacks 😂

And the huge drawback that if the kid finds some “easy trick to win matches” on YouTube and gets vac banned, the parent also gets vac banned

For PC games that’s impossible, at most you can find a disc-shaped steam redeem code

Pay a fee of 0.30€ to receive the otp via SMS every time they want to login without the proprietary otp app and 0.30€ for each payment to authorize

Why the Google identity check is completely useless:

Step 1: scammer acquires stolen id card

What’s the difference between malware developed anonymously and malware developed anonymously but registered under a fake id? It can be installed today and it can be installed tomorrow. Do they really believe that malware developers will doxx themselves when publishing their malware?

Counter-counterpoint:

Banks use their app to generate the otp and they reinvented the wheel so if you want to login you need to install it, can’t use a generic authenticator. I am not aware of any single bank in the EU that allows the use of generic authenticators.

For McDonald’s, using the app gives at least 50% off. A menu in the app costs 5 euro while on the store kiosk costs 12 euro. I do not personally care because I find their food to be just barely edible, but I understand why there’s a need to install the app

I’ll be the asshole: why the fake money wasn’t immediately converted to real money giving directly the exchange address instead of a locally hosted wallet? Except bitcoin all the shitcoins are devaluating in real time

It’s trivial to detect running in a vm and behave differently

It’s more like “why the industry standard to allow games installers to run as admin is widely accepted?”

Or “why a crypto wallet needs to have unencrypted files in the user home, ready for exfiltration?”

google saw that EU allowed apple to do something similar, so why not take the chance to lock the garden…

Not surprised. stripe, PayPal, visa and Mastercard wouldn’t just give up to millions of dollars in fees just because a small Australian group asked for it

Playstation 2, 3 and 4 could run a web browser (although in all cases it was netfront, worse than Microsoft explorer 6)

Checkmate, the playstation 5 doesn’t have a web browser

At least doesn’t literally take 20 minutes like the previous Winchester exploit 😂

Checking, downloading and installing irmware updates is the only thing that works on a banned console. Of course they are not allowing it because they’re nice, just because they want to close eventual exploits

Your comment, paraphrased:

Nintendo is Nintendo and they can never be wrong, I will defend them and ask for proof. Then deny any proof given.

You asked proof of a brick, I showed you proof of a brick.

Ah yes, sorry, it’s not a brick. Because it turns on and, because it doesn’t even show the icon of those legitimately purchased games that are unwrapped in front of the camera, you can go to settings, then you can, uh, toggle between dark mode and light mode. Yes, totally not a brick. People pay $450 for a game console not for playing games, just to stare at the empty screen.

If a device has a single purpose, which is playing games, and it can’t play such game, how it’s not a brick?

“It’s not a brick, it’s just a paperweight!”

I found one of the many for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqFY3rICDWs at minute 7.15

He can’t play Yakuza 0 and puyo puyo tetris, because it can’t download the mandatory update, it can’t launch games. Technically it’s not bricked, but because it can’t launch legally purchased games, it’s effectively bricked.

It doesn’t even show the game icon on the screen!

False, too many games require internet access for the first start to download the actual games

Banned console = you can only play 1st party games as almost all 3rd party devs ship empty cartridges with no game inside

It’s already happened that Nintendo remotely bricked a switch 2 because its owner bought an used game, but that game was dumped by its previous owner.

You also have no intention of buying 100% genuine original, but used, games?

Switch 1 was feasible as its CPU was similar to the ones found on a $200 android tablet from 2018 so even a Chromebook can emulate that.

Switch 2 is comparable to a mid range modern gaming PC so we have to wait at least a decade for full speed emulation, if not more

Instead of buying a license for a game for $70 you subscribe to a rental service that gives you access to 500 games for $10/month.

Or, instead of buying a $500 console or a $800 PC you just buy a $60 controller and you stream those games running on “the cloud” (=someone else’s console) for $15/month

Problem is that the service is provided by Microsoft at a loss and when they’ll get enough critical mass, they’ll enshittify it.

The economic proposition is good, but I think it’s just to teach gamers that “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy”

You mean Teams or the other incompatible Teams, with the colors inverted on the icon?

The worst part is that it’s technically possible to do that using the bd-live 2.0 specification

This is pure speculation, the language in the t&c describes what happens now: the console and/or the account gets banned from online gaming

unless you stumble on a brick, fall down and accidentally install a rp2040 on the switch, then accidentally flash picofly when trying to understand what’s going on

How I can’t play N64 games without a subscription? 🏴‍☠️

I read a review with 3.8/5 rating on a e-reader review website:

This means the device is essentially a hodgepodge of leftover parts glued together with some of the biggest bezels we’ve ever seen. The top tablet is pulled from the bottom of the bin, so it is maxed out at Android 10 and cannot be updated.

Cons

• Absolutely zero dual-screen applications
• Old tablet and old e-reader screen
• Stock Pen is terrible
• Only Supports Android 10

With a review like that they still give 3.8/5??? Sponsored much, huh? It should be 1/5

In Europe it’s like this:

Want to do a chargeback with American express or similar credit cards: call the toll free number and do it in less than 90 seconds, instantly approved

Want to do a chargeback with a debit card: you need to go to the police station and report the seller for fraud, then find the chargeback form hidden somewhere on the bank website, fill it and send it back together with the police fraud report via FAX (no email) to the bank, which might or might not approve it in 90 days. If it approves that, they will take a 30 euro fee from what you will get

This should of been on PS+ Day One

I’m not a gamer, but isn’t a ps+ subscription mandatory for online gaming? If it was free for ps+ games, that meant it was f2p from the start

For me is completely broken. Maybe for you fanboys it works

“Where’s Argentina?” - “ok, setting a route to Argentina”

“Turn off all the lights except in the living room” - “ok, turning off the lights in the living room”

Google assistant would have replied “sorry, i didn’t understand” or with some completely unrelated score