technology Technology Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included)
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    Only reason to choose Authy over anything else tbh. This just basically killed the product.

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  • technology Technology The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI
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    Personally I down voted once I read that somehow one of these laptops are on par with a high end gaming PC which is simply not true at all.

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  • news News Trump’s alleged ‘sexual proclivities’ graphically detailed in new Epstein documents
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    Err with his daughter or did his daughter go to the island too? Both are fucked up though.

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  • funny Funny Cleatus now lives with you
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    Exactly this, it's basically GTA5 private servers with fully customised game mechanics and strict rules around conduct where you're playing a character in a realistic setting, like an actor of sorts. It's big money for the people who run these servers too, especially NoPixel which is the most popular streamer server and difficult to get whitelisted on.

    Rule breaks, for example not fearing for your life and acting appropriately when in a dangerous situation are potentially risking a ban. There is a full set of laws and police, judges, lawyers and a whole court and prison system modded into to deal with criminals with players roleplaying all of these roles. There's a hospital, ambulances, doctors and you have to get someone else to call 911 to have a paramedic drive out and rescue you if you die.

    It's honestly impressive how much and well modders have modded GTA5 over the years. If you wanna try it yourself download the FiveM client and there are hundreds of servers you can join and play on.

    Be warned though, just like older games with private servers (like old Battlefield/CS ect games) you are ultimately at the mercy of whoever the admins who run them are and sometimes these can be interesting individuals. Rockstar recently bought out the FiveM platform but they have no real control over what these private individuals do short of banning the whole server from the platform which rarely happens.

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    IT support work be like
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    autism Autism Having Autism and feeling like I'm a complete loser
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    Most people have to try really hard it fit into the world, even those who don't have Autism. What you see especially online is their highlight reel, what they don't show you is all the stress and effort it takes them to fit in and keep up with everybody else.

    The good part is that once you're aware of the above it's easier to just do your own thing instead of trying to fit whatever you perceive as supposedly normal.

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  • gaming Gaming I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?
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    That kid is now known as the kid who got Roblox banned among their group of friends, not a nice thing to known for. This will be seen as a punishment by them regardless of how you frame it especially once the other kids at their school become aware of it.

    Ouch. Good luck navigating this one as your kids get older.

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    Seems inefficient, one should just integrate ChatGPT into Bash to automatically check these things.

    You said 'ls' but did you really mean 'ls -la'? Imma go ahead and just give you the output from 'cat /dev/urandom' anyway.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What companies have made your blacklist?
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    Several local (but national chain brand) furniture stores.

    So many reasons. One had better quality furniture on display than what they sold by a long way. Another tried to give me not one but two firm mattresses instead of medium and lie to me about them. Yet another got caught out blatantly lieing to my face about delivery times and procedures.

    All of them had great customer service right until the point that they had our money and then completely treated us like garbage afterwards.

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  • memes Memes They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are
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    Exactly what's about to happen to employment services in Australia too. They spend more money chasing a hand full of people who don't want to work than just continuing to pay them the pittance they exist on and have people apply to be the CEO of huge corporations who dropped out of high school in order to make their quotas. Government just announced an inquiry with the aim to reinstate control over it.

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  • memes Memes They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are
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    Australia is a live example of the fact that they're not. The state and federal governments have privatised a crap load of services and all they do is continue to hike our bills while providing less and less service. Electricity, water supply, employment services and more are now an absolute joke here.

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  • programmer_humor Programmer Humor Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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    I fast forward half way and pray she still isn't slobbering on some knob at that point and they've gotten down to businesses already.

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  • world World News Putin is urging women to have as many as 8 children after so many Russians died in his war with Ukraine
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    technology Technology Fake HDMI cable crackdown - Taiwanese police raid suppliers of counterfeit HDMI cables, seize $2.6 million in knockoffs in a single day
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    Sounds like the Taiwanese police were under some pressure to make a big bust so they pulled out a box of cheap cables they acquired from the local markets and made up some public service maths to look good.

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  • memes Memes do you guys have this movie?
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    It took some umm training to get to this point though and I think the film industry is just making the same mistakes.

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    If you're that qualified you should look at immigration as an option. Where I live, the base salary is $78k for a bachelor degree qualified teacher and goes up to $140k if you take on head of department roles. If you don't it caps out at a few grand less. We're currently in a teacher shortage too.

    Be warned though, this is in Australia so the cost of living does suck a bit. You still are probably not affording buying a house on this.

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    I think it's shit that it's like this however not being tied down to a job you hate is nice.

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    I am not sure about the Netherlands but where I am you have superannuation which is completely independent from your job and you control who it's with yourself. When you change jobs you just let your new employer know where to send your contributions to.

    We don't rely on super/pensions for benefits before retirement age and have universal health care too.

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    W L comes from the W community on Twitch who watch streamers like Kai Cenat. They spam it into the chat.

    More info.

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    You can actually by making the families cost of living and housing needs affordable on one parents income. One off baby bonus bribes and stuff that governments do will never actually work when both parents have to work themselves Into dust just to make ends meet.

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  • technology Technology Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
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    This is much more hassle. Apart from having to actually set up and configure such a device, every time you want to use it you've got to switch it on, switch your TV input and use a different remote to control it. This is far inferior to just using the TV remote to open Plex and navigate with the same remote. That's without considering that Plex is more polished and has an overall better UI as well.

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    These are a lot of the core reasons why Plex is better. Setting up a media server is a lot more complicated than just installing the package in your favourite distro.

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    Plex is easier to set up and has more features that are more polished than what Jellyfin has. It's also a more well known name and been available a lot longer and it's app is available on a lot more devices including TVs themselves.

    Jellyfin will one day be the superior option though once it's more polished and caught up in these areas.

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  • world World News Vaping: Australia to ban disposable vape imports from January
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    It's the tobacco industry that screwed themselves over with these. They opened so many stores near high schools you'd swear it was a drug cartel front of it wasn't for all the kids coming and going from them. Irresponsible greed backfired on the tobacco industry spectacularly here.

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    In Australia, most of the tobacco store chains were grey market importing vapes from Asia that had nicotine in them even if they were labelled nicotine-free. They also weren't up to our mandated standards, often containing many nasty chemicals that people shouldn't vape.

    The industry also shot itself in the foot with these vapes by opening countless amounts of stores right up the road from every high school in the country. The one near mine has 8 within quick walking distance. They were selling these dodgy vapes to kids, often still in uniform like candy. It wasn't unusual to see kids come and go from these shops in their school uniforms all the time. A few kids ended up in hospital because of these vapes too.

    Personally, I'm glad to see these go and the health of our people will be a lot better for it. This article is also incorrect about the timing, it was announced some months ago that this ban on vapes was coming.

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  • technology Technology Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare"
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    Wish I had the money to even be able to drive one of these nightmare cars in the first place. Yay for being poor I guess!

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  • games Games [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!
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    Watch out that you don't invoke the wrath of that one weirdo and his alt accounts that can't handle more than 1 image, especially a comic in his memes. Man that freak gave me a good laugh yesterday.

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    games Games Sea of Stars sold 100,000 copies on day one
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    Some of these games, like Starfield, cost an absolute fortune ($120 AUD where I live on Steam). I'm simply not going to pay that much for a game but will happily pick up something like Sea of Stars for less than half the price.

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    firefox Firefox Stop using Brave Browser
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    You shouldn't use Brave simply because it's heavily infected with crypto shit and tries to monitorize your web browsing time by default. Not everything you do has to be a side hustle.

    Sure you can "switch it off" but then why not use something else in the first place that's focus isn't trying to make money out of you. If Brave ever gained any decent market share the web would be an even shitter place than what Google is suggesting at the moment.

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    Yeah woah, these questions were supposed to narrow it down but instead gave me way to many options most of which weren't all that suitable at all.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?
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    Just visit the specific subreddits with content that your after using bookmarks while you also use Lemmy. There's no sides to this stuff that you have to choose between.

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    A Big Mac where I am is basically just a cheeseburger with lettuce, more bread and different sauce. The circumference is exactly the same and it's using the same patties too.

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    Kentucky crowd heckle Mitch McConnell to retire at event https://i.imgur.com/G6DXn0t.mp4

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12379537/Mitch-McConnell-HUMILIATED-chants-retire.html

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    MP4 or Imgur videos not supported?

    Posts to videos on Imgur just show up as weird sweaty soccer balls in the app, rather than showing a preview of the video itself. [For example.](https://lemmy.world/post/2672688)

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    Kai Cenat arrested, possibly charged after console giveaway in Union Square turns into a riot https://clips.twitch.tv/EvilCrispyBulgogiGingerPower-sq39VlIcOpJH1B3p

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/04/kai-cenat-influencer-twitch-youtube-arrested Kai Cenat, who is known as an influencer on Twitch and YouTube platforms, was taken into custody, New York police said. Police were mulling possible criminal charges such as inciting a riot, Jeffrey Maddrey, the NYPD chief of department, said in the evening.

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    You can do it

    No you can't

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    Express Bacon Delivery https://i.imgur.com/DOngoq6.mp4

    He got hurt but mostly his pride was damaged. Context: https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/boston-police-officer-hurt-tumbling-down-childrens-slide-video-incident-goes-viral/OLD3ZMRC7FHEJBLWZBRLMKJVP4/

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    My ancestry.com experience in a nutshell

    I don't know if I'm just doing something wrong but I built my family tree and the website seems to have barely any information about my family at all. I found out more just checking out our national archives then what I found on this website. It's maybe worth noting that I'm not in the US and it does appear to be somewhat US-centric. The best it could find was a couple of enrollment records for voting and a single immigrant notification in an old newspaper. It didn't find these either by itself, I had to manually go though the search system to find it. The OCR didn't even get the spelling of the name correct. I'm not sure what I expected but it was definitely better than this, especially for all the pay walls they throw up.

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    Australia just took opioid addiction treatments off the Medicare covered treatments list

    I have a loved one recovering from opioid addiction currently and they went to their appointment today only to be informed going forward it'll be $380 per session (used to be free). This applies to everyone except health care card holders. It appears that they've privatised the pharmacy system behind it. Before, the medications for the treatment were dispensed by the hospital. Now they are dispensed by the nearby chemist to whom you directly pay your money. Some people need this treatment as frequently as weekly. I guess it's back to the drugs again for most of them or more likely even more people choking up the emergency rooms and mental health system when they can't afford to be treated. Absolutely shocked that this has flown so far under the radar. Edit: Did some more digging, looks like it might be the federal government cutting funding. Rip NSW too. Up to 17 addiction treatment centers are at risk of closing their doors too. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/opioid-treatment-funding-budget/102426466

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    Recommend me an RSS feed reader

    You might not be aware but Lemmy has RSS built into it. I just noticed myself so I wanted to check out the current state of RSS clients and well, nothing seems to be quite what I'm after. What RSS clients out there are worth looking at? I notice several have self-hosted server solutions which is interesting. I don't care if it's free, open source, paid or whatever though, I just want a good experience.

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    The circle of unlife
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    7 Days to Die hit its all time high concurrent user count today https://i.imgur.io/rEmBWLM_d.webp

    Just over 82k today since the latest alpha 21 stable launch came out. Who said farming pogs on Twitch doesn't pay?

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    Brand-new Reddit Detox Method Discovered - Probably

    Good news, medical science has discovered this great ~~hack~~ technique to ween yourself off Reddit successfully! So far it's had 100% success rate in all patients (me) who've had the treatment and you can do it easily in your own home too. The treatment is based on the Ludovico Technique where if you try to interact with Reddit in any way your body and mind will completely reject it. The steps are as follows: 1. Uninstall Reddit Enhancement Suite from your browser 2. Set Reddit to Light mode if it isn't already That's it! The blinding white interface will readily induce extreme nausea and quickly train your eyes and brain to reject Reddit from your life. Furthermore, the lack of decent functionality and the tags you've given to obvious trolls and shills will make you want to jump out of the nearest window. It's fantastic. Also, if you decide after a few days you can push though the pain: don't worry. After the detox period, the post quality between Lemmy and Reddit becomes self-evident. The click bait "engagement" content you were slowly introduced to will smack you over the head like a moist trout. Your eyes will assuredly be ready to explode from the light by that stage too and the pain of it all can only be relieved by deleting the Reddit bookmark from your browser. All in all it's a great technique and I wish you luck in your journey of staying sober too. ::: spoiler spoiler Thanks for reading my shitpost. :::

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    Is the out-of-the-box quality of desktop-focused Linux distros declining recently?

    I seem to be noticing a little bit of a trend lately that the out-of-box experience and overall quality of "mostly should just work" desktop-focused Linux distributions has declined. Usually, you could grab an .iso of distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro etc, install it and have a decent enough platform out of the box to tweak how you liked it. There might be some hardware you need to mess with to get working, or some small configuration changes to do, but these were mostly about personal preference as opposed to having to do them just to have a basically functioning system. I recently built a new computer for work and naturally wanted to install a Linux distribution on it. I thought I'd try out a few desktop-focused ones to reduce the need to manually configure stuff like you'd do with an Arch install. The more curated and heavily moderated package systems are exactly what I wanted on this PC as stability/reliability was more important than bleeding edge for me. However, instead of just getting something usable and smooth like I was expecting, each distro I tried out had a bunch of basic issues: - Fedora: issues with Flatpak (that somehow got missed by 2 separate maintainers and released), the fonts look like crap again without a lot of tweaking (AA used to just work properly out of the box) and the XFCE spin is completely broken. To even get XFCE I had to install the Gnome version then manually install the XFCE desktop and LightDM the latter of which didn't even pull in all its dependencies to function. - Manjaro: I can't even update this out of the box without manual intervention because of a conflict between packages on a fresh installation. The problem has existed for a while apparently. Such a basic problem in the core package management of a distribution out of the box is unacceptable. - Ubuntu: I tried Kubuntu (used to be my favorite) and the KDE desktop experience by default completely sucks now. Even with graphics drivers installed and tweaking the settings a bit it screen tears on my Nvidia 3080 and performs like trash. I don't know how we even got to this point when Linux desktop environments used to be the slickest thing since butter was invented. I'm a long time Linux user (since the 90s), former Linux sysadmin and a programmer so I know my way around a Linux system. All of the above problems can mostly be fixed. However, by now in 2023 I'm expecting all of these major distributions to at least nail down the basics and I'm finding it's just not the case, in fact it feels like things have sadly gone backwards. Update: I ended up giving Mint Cinnamon a shot after a few people mentioned it here and it ended up being good enough out of the box for me to run with it. I needed a Linux desktop that just basically worked so that I didn't have to spend hours messing with it that I could be billing for work instead and Mint gave me that, so thank you for the suggestion. It's been a real shame that other distributions are not as slick as Mint is from the start.

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