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  • Continue Seeding

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  • No no, the opposite. I'm already using a paid seedbox service at this point, so that's not a priority for me anymore.

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • Nah, just cranky about it.

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  • Mullvad now, something else before.

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • I’m taking steps, slowly, as well. I’m getting off windows very soon, I’m working on getting off of various services these companies run one at a time. Depending on what really happens with Android and Google we’ll see.

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • I’m bothered that big companies, especially tech right now, no longer see their customers as people they need to please to stay in business, but instead as something they’ll inconvenience and squeeze as much as they can possibly get away with.

    They all got to where they are making, at one point, amazing products. Now? Fuck making windows useful, we can throw ads and AI at you every place we can think of. Fuck all of the parts of Android that made it stand out, we tell you what to install. You don’t want all of your data scraped and sold? Fuck you, there’s 3 of us and we’re all doing it. In fact we’ll never stop finding new ways to harvest data.

    Phones have basically stagnated entirely in the US. Sure you get moderately better chipsets, but what else? AI? I haven’t had a phone struggle with anything in… maybe 10 years. Instead features that people didn’t use enough just get removed.

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  • I gave up doing it myself. I pay $8 USD a month for a seedbox and call it a day. Mainly, my VPN when I made the decision and the one I use now don’t port forward, and I’m not seeding this stuff just naked like that.

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • So I bought it from giztop, they take the Chinese version of the phone, get the Google play store on there and get it set to English, plus a couple other things, so that it's easier for you to get started with. I bought this because I had thought they'd make a global version and I could flash that rom when that happened, and only deal with some Chinese sections of the phone for a short while, but for some reason they didn't with this specific phone, they did for the 14 ultra.

    I busted the phone out again to see the popup I was talking about, but actually one of the (semi) recent updates made it so the buttons are english. I am allowed to just install things with a few pop-up warnings and the phone does some kind of check. I wonder if it's because it's an "unlocked" phone (I don't know if it's the same in China where a carrier locks the phone to their network and has their own shit installed if you buy it from them) or what.

    Either way, interesting.

  • The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.

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  • Damn, I didn't know about the bundle.

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • I have a Xiaomi 14 pro, I just have to tap the correct button to install an outside app. (It's in Chinese, even though the phone is set to English, so i have no idea what it says but it gets me there).

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • It also becomes no different than iPhone, so.. what's keeping me to android if they do this? Or hey, maybe I'll commit to de-googling. I have CoMaps, I'm planning to setup nextcloud soon... Hell, I don't even buy anything on Google play anymore since it's so shit, i have no purchases tying me to the OS. Maybe I'll buy a cheap old iPhone so I can finally use imessage with everyone that's been bitching about me and use other tech for everything else.

    (I'm not going to iPhone, but the point stands)

  • Gaming handheld prices are out of control, except for the Steam Deck

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  • Also... they're not publically traded.

    They do not have investors constantly forcing maximization of short term profits at the cost of literally everything else.

    I fantasize about the idea of starting private companies for things currently dominated by public companies, with the sole idea of not being greedy and shitty.

  • Can someone explain what the *arr tools are?

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  • I setup a tdarr server/node today, it automatically sets up videos to be transcoded. I'm using it so my mini pc hosting jellyfin doesn't have to. This means the videos should direct play, saving significant resources on the mini pc. That should allow me a handful of streams at the same time if it happens.

    I put the node on my main desktop pc with a GPU, so when my server sees new videos land in my jellyfin folder it should have the windows pc grab the video, transcode it over on it's own ssd, then replace the original video on the server.

  • Alleged Nintendo Switch 2 Emulator "Maxim" Boots Mario Kart World

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  • I don't have the know-how, why couldn't this group do what's needed to get a dump of the decryption key? What's needed to make this possible?

  • Now you do too

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  • In all the media I've seen the arms basically just stay in place, half bent.

  • Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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  • I don't know, but i use stremio plus real debrid. I had to grab the torrentio add on to do it so it kind of fits the bill.

  • Steam Deck @sopuli.xyz
    Bongles @lemmy.zip
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    moving installers to desktop?

  • Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA

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  • I kind of want to pick one up, but i can't get a clear picture on if I should wait for a steam deck 2. From what I could find, they want to wait until there's enough of an upgrade to be worth it. At one point that suggested around 2025, but more recent stuff makes it seem like they're not even working on one, and other stuff hints that they are.

  • Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse

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  • It's telling how incompetent they've become when their LLM AI is the absolute worst one, including mechahitler before that update.

  • Software subscriptions: you own nothing and you'll be happy

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  • I love affinity, wish they'd support Linux and android though. They have an iPad app but no android tablet app.

  • Helldivers 2 is Coming to Xbox on August 26

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  • So a while after launch they turned back on requiring a Playstation account be linked, even on steam. Surely they're not expecting Xbox users sign in with a Playstation account right?