Luminous5481
@Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus
fledgling anarchist, avid sci-fi and fantast fan, and enjoyer of locally hosted genAI.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand” 3 days ago:
why would a billionaire or the politicians they pay for be concerned with what’s best for everyone?
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
Yes, which is how they know.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
rooting my phone would render the security features of GrapheneOS entirely pointless.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
I didn’t say anybody who played Minecraft had to use it. You’re just bad at reading. Do I need to walk you through the sentence like you’re five, or are you done beating your chest like a teenager?
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
Any app can tell if it has root privileges.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
Great, what does that have to do with the authenticator supposedly only being for work?
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
sure, but you shouldn’t be rooting Android any more than you should be running Linux on a root user.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
you don’t just use authenticator for work. anybody who plays Minecraft uses it.
- Comment on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis studio have used "AI-assisted tools" during development, but swear "any AI-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans" 5 weeks ago:
as long as whatever is in the game looks good, I don’t care where it came from.
- Comment on New York's case that Steam lootboxes are "gambling" is a free speech violation that "will have an impermissible chilling effect on protected videogame design", argue Valve 1 month ago:
a reminder that no corporation is your friend, and even valve will do scummy things if that’s where the profit is.
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 2 months ago:
well at the very least you can still use it, just get that battery out.
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 2 months ago:
ah, well it was charged up with a full battery and working and then it was just dead. won’t come on again and the charging LED does not light up anymore despite different cords and adapters being tried. pretty sure it’s a dead motherboard.
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 2 months ago:
mine sadly died recently so I’ve not been using it at all 😭
- Comment on Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance 3 months ago:
FYI everyone should be running the Snowflake extension for their browser to help other people bypass government blocks on Tor. people in excessively oppressive countries like China depend on it!
- Comment on What game recently hooked you on the Deck, more than on PC ? 6 months ago:
It’s really fun. I grew up playing games like Arkanoid on the Apple IIGS, so I’ve always had a love of the genre. And Ball X Pit reinvents it with another genre I like, rogue-lites.
- Comment on What game recently hooked you on the Deck, more than on PC ? 6 months ago:
well, there’s a couple I’ve only ever played on the Deck. Dave the Diver, and Ball X Pit are two I would recommend.