technology Technology We're Watching Facebook Die
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 4 months ago 100%

    Those two are really the only good use cases today for facebook. Insane how Marketplace pretty much overnight almost killed local listing sites. Events I don't see good alternatives, don't have much hopes for that one, time will show

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  • linux Linux You think Linux is living a Renaissance with Gaming and New Non-Technical Users?
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 5 months ago 100%

    I just switched to Bazzite yesterday and it's insane how far linux has come. Next-next and everything works, even on a nightmare combination of hardware (Lenovo Legion half assed uefi, amd apu+ nvidia gpu).

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  • privacy Privacy Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 5 months ago 90%

    To be frank I have used it since it started way back and it continues to have the best user experience among messengers. I myself don't use it for any crucial information but as a messenger with it's featureset it's second to none. When a better alternative pops up which will have a better UI and such an extensive featureset I will probably switch over

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  • privacy Privacy Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 5 months ago 100%

    Yeah leave us alone

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  • technology Technology Microsoft will now urge you to ditch local accounts on Windows 10
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 5 months ago 100%

    For the first time in a long time I might stick seeing the state of Linux today, especially Plasma 6. I'm eyeing Fedora 40 or Bazzite, tried Kinoite and pretty much everything I need works out of the box, the only thing I need to figure out is OneDrive.

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  • worldnews World News Thousands gather in Iran in show of support for attack on Israel
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 5 months ago 57%

    How down-puttingly assuming of you to know me or my country who in its entire long history never invaded someone and was mostly a vassal for others. We gained independence after a bloody civil war which tore the country apart and saw its fair share of genocide, during which the whole world stood by the sidelines. No, muslims are not the only victims of this cruel world.

    No, I generally don't comment on politics exactly because it breeds polarizing comments like this, but this open call for death for any side is horrific from my point of view, who saw what it does to a nation. This outlook of complete eradication of the other side is what is preventing any possible long lasting peace, and truthfully if the people don't recognize it there won't be anybody left to see it. As it currently stands there will be no peace until one side completely displaces the other, which is not what I or the vast majority of the world want.

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  • worldnews World News Thousands gather in Iran in show of support for attack on Israel
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 5 months ago 78%

    Who in their right mind celebrates kills on humans, in the end only regular people get harmed in any conflict, never the instigators from both sides

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  • privacy Privacy Why I no longer use a VPN (most of the time) and nor should you - YouTube
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 5 months ago 100%

    Shout out for Smart Tube, the best YT app on smart boxes/android TVs, never had any issues

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 6 months ago 100%

    Now that you say it like that, why do purely singleplayer games need internet connectivity at all beside DRM and shovong DLCs down peoples throats

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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ Appreciation post for db0 admins in light of .world blocking /c/ piracy and similar /c/'s .
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 6 months ago 100%

    Care to ELI5 for us casuals who did not catch and are missing the obvious?

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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 6 months ago 100%

    Maybe yt-dlp might be for the job?
    Just a few days ago I downloaded some videos from Vimeo without issues which required sign in to even view

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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 8 months ago 100%

    Ubisoft won't own my money too!

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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ Feeling the lack of moderation now Reddit?
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 8 months ago 100%

    Right off the bat it sit right, thank you

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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ Feeling the lack of moderation now Reddit?
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 8 months ago 100%

    In the same boat, I miss it still, other ones have a worse UI for me and hate the ad slots in the app although I have DNS ad blocking but its still annoying. Do update me if you find a good replacement as we're looking for the same thing

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  • gaming Gaming Hogwarts Legacy Just Broke A 14-Year Games Industry Streak – For the first time since 2008, something other than Call of Duty or a Rockstar game was the best-seller
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 8 months ago 100%

    You may hit the nail on the head, once you get the broom you just breeze past everyhring. The forbidden forest may be the most dense content wise on foot, everything after that does feel more sparse as it was designed with the broom in mind. All in all I still enjoyed the game and got my moneys worth out of it, I did pick it up rather cheap on a sale

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  • privacy Privacy Authy Desktop client will be discontinued from August 2024
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 8 months ago 100%

    I'm (still) using the regular Keepass but that is indeed a nice feature, might consider switching to it for TOTP. Thank you!

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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 9 months ago 100%

    My favorite was Total Annihilation, it had great orchestral music, and was also the first legit game i bought. Totally worth the money, and I also won't forget the moment when I copied the CD for backup and found out it had normal audio tracks, had to immediately check it in the CD player - and it worked!

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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 9 months ago 100%

    That's exactly how I use it, I buy the subscription pretty much exclusively for OneDrive for myself and my close family, the office suite is a nice plus. It's the cheapest online storage when you calculate the size per dollar and is even cheaper when you look at it per user basis.

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  • privacy Privacy Telegram Android Notifications
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 9 months ago 100%

    Damn, didn't occur to me at all, I do use MicroG, but that still doesn't explain late notifications on the iPhone. This is going on for quite some time, friends also report the same issues regardless of plaform

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming Battle.net update breaks Wine/Proton compatibility
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 9 months ago 100%

    Thinking about it we may actually have less breakage now as Blizzard has started selling Diablo 4 on Steam provided they implement it well. Does that version come with battle.net launcher as mandatory or is that requirement foregone beside account linking?

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  • privacy Privacy Telegram Android Notifications
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 9 months ago 100%

    I've noticed notifications are working sporadically now for quite some time (at least half a year now) for both Android (both Play store version and APK) and iOS from my experience. Only on the deskptop version of it are notifications instant, hope they will fix it at some point

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  • gaming Gaming What video games have you played recently? What are you currently playing? And what will you play? - Discussion Thread #1
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 10 months ago 100%

    Bought Hogwarts Legacy a week or so on a deep discount and I'm enjoying the hell of it. During december I traditionally watch the Harry Potter movies so now I expanded to the game. So far it might be my game of the year since I didn't try Baldur's gate 3 yet, I'll pick that one up on a sale later on. I'm taking my time and explore every nook and cranny in the game. I was hyped for Diablo 4 as a long time devotee but in it's current form it's simply not fun and needs quire a rework for me to pick it up sadly. The atmosphere, visuals, music, even combat is spot on but it lost way too much on other fronts. Starfield is another game which I put on hold as I simply didn't continue the game at some point, will probably resume it after a few more patches.

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming TUXEDO Computers Launches First All-AMD Linux Gaming Laptop
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 10 months ago 100%

    So it's the perfect sleeper PC that can be procured at work without anyone raising eyebrows because it's not in-your-face gamer aesthetic

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  • technology Technology Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 10 months ago 100%

    Right off the top of my head I can think of two:

    • best chance sites are working as intended, including DRM compatibility
    • probably best integration with streaming solutions and integration with other apps
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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ How to patch YouTube on Android with ReVanced
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 10 months ago 86%

    I'a bit lazy so I just use precompiled apk's from some good soul from the internet and avoid the hassle alltogether. I roll with a release until something breaks, whick can go for quite some time and then manually just install the new build, works flawlessly. Here's the source I use

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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 10 months ago 85%

    Just a few days ago I pulled an old Sony's NWZ player as they still have superior audio quality compared to phones. I had to throw it away after 10+ years as the battery died.

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  • worldnews World News Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%

    Croatia has also effectively dropped Coke (at least for the moment) but for an entirely different reason
    https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/coca-cola-hbc-withdraws-some-drinks-croatia-while-illnesses-investigated-2023-11-08/

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  • worldnews World News General Assembly votes overwhelmingly against US Cuba embargo, guess who opposed
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%

    Wait I was under the impression that some time ago they lifted the embargo as US-Cuba relations have improved a bit. A man would think raising an embargo would improve relations even more /sigh

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  • apple Apple New EarPods question
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%

    Thank you for conforming, just ordered the earpods

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  • apple Apple New EarPods question
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%

    Thank you for the detailed testing, that helped!

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    Apple potemkinhr 11 months ago 87%
    New EarPods question

    Just a heads up, I'm not an apple user, it never clicked with me but this might be the best spot to get an answer for my specific use case. What I do like was their old 3.5 mm jack earphones, but the playback controls never worked right on my android phone, probably because of the wiring layout or some DRM screwery. I've been looking to buy a second pair of them as my primary one has been confiscated by my better half, and I saw that they put out a USB-C version of those. If any one has those headphones, can you test them out on an android device, or if you are sure can comment if the volume and playback controls work outside Apple's devices or are they locked to just their devices? I didn't see that info in any reviews and would know that bit of info before buying them blind.

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    thinkpad ThinkPad ThinkPad T480s – What is this port?
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%

    Like some others have said, it’s a docking port of some sorts but I’ve never seen it in practice. In our company we buy the universal hybrid usb C docks and they are great. The connector has also a more useful secondary USB C port which you can use for charging if the primary port dies for some reason, saved us on numerous occasions that way so the user can work while we prepare a replacement machine.

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  • thinkpad ThinkPad Finally upgraded a €180 Thinkpad T480
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%

    I flinched there for a second but I absolutely hate the s subversion of the series forgoing the RJ45 port completely. We procure them for some high management and execs. The base version is rock solid

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  • synology Synology Synology issues after manual DSM update
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%

    From what I've seen the issues didn't appear for everyone so not sure what the deal was but for the past few days everything's working and fixed

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming Distro recommendations and Nvidia advice?
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%

    Man you just nudged me to it, will definitely try it out with my Legion together with PopOS as I'm fed up lately with Windows 11 lately, saving this post for later. I do very much like and prefer KDE, didn't Mint have a KDE integrated release at some point or am I going senile? EDIT: definitely not senile, they had it as an option until 19, bummer

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  • synology Synology Synology issues after manual DSM update
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%

    It seems they are silently fixing stuff on their end, packages are being repaired in Package manager and version check is working normally

    On the safe side better to wait out for a few days for things to stabilize but it appears everything's getting back up

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    Synology potemkinhr 11 months ago 100%
    Synology issues after manual DSM update

    I'm writing this post because I've gone through all the usual troubleshooting tips and I'm at an dead end. I was cleaning up my DS216j and checked if there were any new updates and stumbled by accident that the NAS didn't auto update to the newest version as per the [release notes](http://update7.synology.com/autoupdate/whatsnew.php?model=DS216j&update_version=69057-1) for that model. It was stuck on *7.1.1-42962 Update 6* so I manually updated it to *7.2.1-69057 Update 1* as suggested by the notes and here the issue began. I knew something was off as soon as I saw the app images corrupted ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/91d32d20-aba3-44cf-a72b-1fa00e19d0d9.png) Going to the package center it can't connect to it and is throwing the following error: >Connection failed. Please check your network and time settings, or refer to this article for further information. For pretty much any app it throws the following description: ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/5a9d5104-3e07-4541-afce-e42561fe67eb.png) DSM update can't do a version check and is failing as seen below ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a236816d-ccd5-4a3d-a919-224b12a4e389.png) [Synology service status page](https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/synology_service) says everything's up. The device itself has access to the internet (NTP syncs time, Configuration backup is working) and I can curl webs sites from synology normally via SSH so I'm a bit puzzled. **EDIT:** Upon digging a bit further on the [Synology forums](https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/post/163326) it appears I'm not the only one affected as there are other reports for pretty much the same thing

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    piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11 months ago 93%

    This one's hilarious, but that one's not gonna work for long as they will axe almost all non-government approved VPNs

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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 12 months ago 100%

    Thank you very much for this, finally managed to disable and rebind some remote buttons for apps that Ive already nuked off the TV. Works great with some workarounds.

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  • linux Linux Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 1 year ago 100%

    Thanks for the heads up, I'm distro hopping these days and looking for options on where to settle

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  • linux Linux Fuck it, give me your most OVERRATED Distros
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 1 year ago 33%

    Seeing a lot of Manjaro here, what's the deal? I installed it just yesterday on a test machine to check it out as I plan on steering over from windows long-term so just browsing what's out there. Don't really have issues and it ticks the boxes of a more user-friendly installation and comes out of the box with Plasma. I may try out pure Arch or the GUI fork just not to have the hassle of setting up the DE

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  • privacy Privacy Firefox is not as privacy-friendly as everyone says
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  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 1 year ago 100%

    I blame people's shorter attention spans for it, to a degree I'm also guilty of it. Can't read a book nowadays before my focus shifts somewhere else.

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