If you really want to piss off Europeans all you gotta do is make the claim that the EU is subsurvient to US foreign policy demands which means they’ll throw away any of their beneficial policies or laws to retain good standing in the US hegemony, no matter how absurd or insane US leadership is.

Yeah I might switch over too because immich didn’t originally have some of the sort and detection features like Photoprism.

Photoprism is pretty good but it doesn’t have some of the nicer UI features immich has.

My old windows install was so cooked thst I had successfully made an illegal CON file (cygwin?) on NTFS, which Windows would refuse to delete because it should be impossible to make such a file.

After a completely fresh install, the settings app refused to launch after a day and of course sfc/dism did jack all.

Said “screw it” and dual booted Fedora because my previous experience with Ubuntu sucked snd I saw that video of Linus saying he never used Debian or Ubuntu because it didn’t used to be user friendly to install. Searched up his preferred distro and it was Fedora.

Kept Windows around for a couple of months for one game until one day windows overwrote grub after an update.

Nuked it again and installed only Fedora. Found out the game now had solid support in proton so I literally did not miss anything from Windows.

Photoprism users every time this topic comes up

The whole point of PC is digital data though.

The original DOOM was shareware, you were allowed to copy and share it with your friends or online however you wanted because it promoted and popularized the game.

CDs on PC were always just a retail medium. Unlike classic consoles, there are very few PC games that run right off the disk. It was usually an installer.

I know people complain about Steam all the time with “you don’t actually own your games” but you do own your PC and the filesystem which means you can copy that data and do whatever you want with it. No EULA on earth is going to stop you.

Of course if it ships with DRM or relies on steam to launch, then yeah that’s lock in, but that’s where GOG and pirate repacks fill the space.

It was inevitable for consoles to go full digital because 90% of sales are digital and it gets the inherent convenience of digital media, but consoles don’t let you access the filesystem and do whatever you want. It’s a locked down system with a metric ton of security to prevent you from ever copying the game data.

Retail will also always reduce profit, especially for smaller developers who need to rely on a publisher to sell on their behalf.

Steam and GOG take a 30% cut, so it’s probably better to promote itch.io or some other platform if that’s a concern.

Because YOU-tube is where the POOP is

Lol that thread is a cesspool but I’m glad in classic lemmy fashion, its not shadow banned or locked.

I don’t want to add more fuel to the flames but it’s a case example of why I don’t take the EU seriously when it comes to free speech laws or claims of “secularity”.

France and UK were out here blocking Bosnia from arming itself during the genocide carried out by Serbia because they didn’t want a muslim country to exist in Europe.

feddit banned luigi and pro gaza content because it’s apparently illegal to discuss those topics in Germany, as if an internet forum talking about foreign news needs to be regulated by the government.

It’s not as bad as reddit, but there are some seriously god awful comments on that post trying to justify poorly disguised ethnic filtering laws.

Supersized Form Factor

If you want something that fits the SFF cube shape so you can throw it next to a TV or desk for video output, you can probably go for the SYS-A22GA-NBRT.

Easy to upgrade CPU & RAM later down the line if you start doing more stuff with it, plus space for dedicated GPU if you ever want to do heavy media server stuff.

Would avoid pi due to the underperformance for the price. Plus best bang for buck usable storage will always be HDDs. SD cards are nice but you have to disable journaling to keep the writes low as to not wear down usable blocks.

6. War Thunder is objectively crappy for every nationality unless you’re a rich russian whale who eats stalinium for breakfast

Yeah i meant consoles and console disk rips lol.

Don’t know what they’re doing these days exactly but I think for PS4 era they were still doing IO on the disk for game data reads. But that was around when SSDs started becoming cheaper, so one of the upgrade paths was digital release + SSD.

tbf bluray is the medium so it loads immediately instead of downloading first.

Although considering the max cap is 144 Mbps, I wonder if that’s actually too slow for modern games that rely on SSD speeds lol.

I’m more annoyed that general media is giving them free marketing just because it was a name brand over a decade ago without bothering to contemplate the fact that it was over a decade ago.

For a videogame franchise, that’s a massive amount of time for so many factors to change. It would be like if they gave that horrible ghostbusters reboot full media credit just because it has the name “ghostbusters”, so surely it must be a massive release worthy of everyone’s attention.

The irony in all of this is that GTA6 is going to fall victim to the “GTA clone” concept that so many other games fell into. It will have none of what made GTA a massive hit and instead have all the stuff GTA clones tried to “copy” in a poor attempt to be a massive hit.

Rockstar is just cashing in on a decade’s worth of hype and anticipation knowing full well that they’ll earn a crap ton of money just like every other half assed AAA release this era. They’re protected from initial skepticism because they haven’t released anything substantial ever since RDR2, so there’s literally nothing to critique them for. They can even wave off the lazy GTA remastered collections as outsourced material that has nothing to do with them.

I just hope the userbase doesn’t continue to ride the train after the release because it just makes developer expectations worse for everyone else. Crowbcat is still highly unpopular due to his RE4 remake videos, despite the fact that what he presented is nothing uncommon among other games in the industry that have gotten much more criticism for botching the source material.

Nintendo DS

That era was so good that Nintendo didn’t even know what they had until they screwed it up and lost to modern smartphones.

This is deadass how every AI started out before each company/state started trying as hard as possible to prevent it from explaining how unethical and horrible their parent company/state is.

Best one was Gemini hiding Google’s war crimes and Deepseek hiding China’s war crimes.

Lol didn’t it get delisted? I think the dev mentioned only like 6 people ever bought it.

Surprised steam hasn’t done the same.

His demand to return to the US and give himself in was if he got a public (non military) trial.

The government’s offer under Obama was that the only guarantee they would provide was that he wouldn’t be subject to torture.

Even if he had negligible effect on state level surveillance, the documents he shared provided some insanely valuable perspective into the capability and power of nation states in the cybersecurity space.

Anything the NSA is or was doing can also be applied to other major countries like China or Russia, and the capability + compute power has only grown in size since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_disclosures

EDIT: Also in true American foreign interest memery, the top two most heavily surveilled states are Iran and Pakistan.

Ayyy nice. I’m still on my ye olde R4 clone lmao

None of them really, they were all novel technology ideas snd advancements that every company and their mom adopted because it became the next silicon valley investment money printer.

Blockchain started out as a decentralized network concept that’s still useful today.

AI started out as a tensor statistical concept that’s still useful today.

People say QC is a grift because every silicon valley giant has invested heavily into it because they want to be the first if it becomes viable. It’s just what they do. They throw money into everything and if they get something successful, they pump it as much as they can before it dumps.

Even FOSS software isn’t invulnerable. Half of AWS’s SaaS platforms are just automated FOSS software running on their cloud infrastructure without so much as a hint of donation or development into the project itself. They just want money, they don’t care how they get it.

NSA is that you?

Also jokes aside, how does the use case compare to some existing tools like BBOT?

This seems morr geared towards public facing targets than targeted information OSINT (user profiling, etc.)