krakenx

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

They are all over Boston.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How? Having an unlocked bootloader or root breaks Safety Net, which disables many apps. You need an unlocked bootloader to install custom ROMs.

Magisck used to be a workaround, but Google has been sabotaging it at the OS and hardware layers, so it wasn't working the last time I tried a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Toothpicks work great. They are wood or plastic so they won't conduct electricity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Vote buying is legal now. Elon did it the last two elections.

But also, that's not what she is doing. She is using campaign funds to have dinners (legal) and then asking attendees to bring items to donate and then giving those items to other needy people. None of that would be illegal even if we were still a country of laws.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Once updates end in October, Windows 10 won't be secure and probably shouldn't be allowed to connect to the internet. It will still continue to function though. You can buy a year of extended support for Windows 10 for $30, but it's unclear whether there will be support after that.

Probably best to start switching to something else, or plan to run that PC offline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Asus ZenFone 8

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

And they will purchase their next phone sooner if the battery on their old phones die early.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

This is commonly repeated, but I wonder if the majority of folks are actually against something like a 70% tax rate on $10 million per year in the absence of all other issues.

I think most republicans are actually in favour of such a tax, they just care about the other issues they are told about by their news sources like crime, religion, and immigration more.

There is also a legitimate concern about the tax money being misused or stolen. The amount of taxes already collected per year is already incomprehensibly large, yet society gets almost nothing for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Check which codecs your phone supports and buy a Bluetooth dongle that supports an HD audio codec. LDAC and APT-X HD are almost indistinguishable from an aux cable.

But yes, even those codecs max out at a pathetic 900kbs, and only have a few feet of range at that quality/speed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It basically only protects against hardware failure. It's not going to protect you from ransomware or even just accidentally clicking delete.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Capcom just started adding game breaking DRM to their archive of old single player Steam games because an exec got butthurt over a nude mod for Street Fighter. Now Steam Deck support is broken and my mods don't work with games I purchased years ago. The pirated version is now better once again.

At almost the exact same time, Valve sent a DMCA notice to Portal64 because for some reason they care about people playing a homebrew port of a $2 15 year old game on 30 year old hardware.

I used to think Capcom and Valve were two of the last good ones. Turns out there aren't any good ones....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They spent $350 million making Secret Invasion, which was a bad show in every way. They have no control over their costs, yet they squeeze everyone as hard as they can.

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