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Well it’s also. Windows XP. There’s updates. Install them when you want to. Windows 10: There’s updates, install them soon unless it’s pro then install them when you want. Windows 11: Please install your updates, you have twenty seconds to comply. Windows 12: What’s that, you were in the middle of editing a file with 8 hours worth of edits? Tough I’m rebooting now bitch.

Strawberry jam, when you want marmalade.

Enjoy it while you can. The age of enshittification will be upon us. With fully locked bootloaders and the only way to install true FOSS mobile OS is to pay 3x the price for half the capabilities of a normal Android phone.

Come back “tomorrow”

Yeah, but the problem is… You need to leave home to be a serial killer. Well, no wait. I mean to be a good one. I think if you kept inviting people to your house and killing them, it would be a bit of an easy trail to follow. So, being a successful serial killer is too much work.

I’ll do it tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow.

I’m based in the UK. But my instance only actually has single digits of actual active users. So, it’s not bothering me too much.

The moment I get a letter from OFCOM, or I see they’re enforcing against smaller federated sites, I’ll just remove non login readable capability and make it entirely invite only (which won’t be a problem, the only people joining for ages were bots and when I added the AI blocking/cloudflare protection they’ve stopped coming too). Until then I am assuming they’re going after the actual social media companies.

I work from home (and did long before covid). I used to joke that apparently something serious is going on, but I hadn’t noticed.

Ahh, that’s the modern terror.

Then I suggest they use an XNOR pointer instead! Checkmate patent trolls!

Or, you do the tutorial, play for an hour don’t come back for a year and don’t know what is going on.

Yep, same. Well I actually remember finding the best ways to copy a game on a tape error free first. Some, without protection you could just save back to tape for a digital reproduction (and this also allowed tape to disk conversion). Actually those with non destructive copy protection could kinda be copied too if you knew a little Z80 ASM. Others, you needed to copy tape to tape and hope the quality turned out OK.

But yes, then bringing your box of copied disks (Amiga in my case) into school and swapping with your friends was the way to go.

That’s fine. I’ll make my own internet. With blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the internet!

Yeah it’s definitely windows. But I don’t have a choice on my work laptop. The old 16gb model became a nightmare after swapping to windows 11 and moving to using teams. That combination just killed it dead.

It isn’t already? Even my new work laptop came with 32gb of ram. In windows at least 16gb is useless before you even try to launch a game.

Seems to be not so bad for those with a credit card at least. They have my payment info already. So just adding another form isn’t terrible.

Also the text says mature sexual content. So seems like it’s specifically the porn games I guess.

I mean, if I were athletic I’d probably already be playing a sport. I think these two things in my case are intrinsically linked.

Well it’s not a scam. It works exactly as advertised. But, just like in casinos, the house is always the winner.

I made a multi-threaded UK lottery simulator that draws 68 million lotteries per second on my machine. It shows the ROI on average is around 30% meaning the “house” (lottery company/government/charities) gets 70%. Here’s the last line after 5.1billion draws:

Draws: 5,130,046,351. 3: 56,022,165, 4: 2,521,545, 5: 38,525 5+b 5,918 Jackpots: 113. Losses: 2,491,081,393. Cost £10,260,092,702, Winnings £3,058,100,000 ROI: 29.810%. 68,548,225.400 draws/s

Yes that means you will wait on average 45.4 million draws before you hit the jackpot.

In any case. You could implement the meme like the lottery and make money and I assure you, if you made the full info public people WOULD send you money and you’d keep the 70%…

It’d look worse without the patches to be fair.

Linux secure boot was a little weird last I checked. The kernel and modules don’t need to be secure boot signed. Most distros can use shim to pass secure boot and then take over the secure boot process.

There are dkms kernel modules that are user compiled. These are signed using a machine owner key. So the machine owner could for sure compile their own malicious version and still be in a secure boot context.

It’s for backup purposes mainly. A lot of cloud backup providers don’t store permissions.

So if I restore the data I can then restore the permissions after. So these are the folders I am backing up (with some exceptions in /var)