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RealStickman··on Ask HN: What is the hottest OSS software I should contribute to
Should've started with "Hello Neo"
RealStickman··on YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month
This extension should allow you to set basically anything you want for YouTube. Preferred resolution, audio level, playback speed and much more.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-...

RealStickman··on Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
Maybe that person went to a place where they could get Internet, downloaded the game to a suitable storage medium and dragged it over from there into their steam folder at home.
RealStickman··on Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
I would not say that this will necessarily be hugely expensive. People who would have waited for a crack would not have paid anyways. The only impact is them getting to play the game at the same time as everybody else.
RealStickman··on Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
Based on how many games using only the in-built DRM in Steam are cracked I'd guess that "lock-in" is really not that big of an issue, if at all. Other DRMs are far more invasive than the Steam DRM.
RealStickman··on eBay bans sales of face masks and hand sanitizers to combat price gouging
Don't forget to use Blockchain
RealStickman··on Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering
The Steam DRM doesn't appear to be too terribly difficult to crack, considering there are so many cracks of steam games out there.
RealStickman··on GOG asks you to please not abuse its expansive new 30-day refund policy
> 2. They demand full support from game devs, despite only making up an absolutely tiny fraction of the customer base. They routinely make up less then 0.1% of sales (!), but cause 20%+ of support tickets[0]. No sane business in the world would sink 20% of their support budget into 0.1% of their revenue.

There's also the opposite story told by some indie devs, where linux user actually make up a significant portion of sales and also provide very technical support requests/bug fixes. I'll see if I can find the article where I read this somewhere.

RealStickman··on Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.
How many people would actually listen if they aren't at least mildly interested in technology?
RealStickman··on Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.
This is Gold, though I'm not sure if this is satire. Especially point 8 sounds like satire, but maybe that's just my Linux-infected brain and not what normal people think.
RealStickman··on France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones
> users should be warned of the issue so they can act accordingly, and not stay in the dark until someone discovers the hack.

What part of this sentence did you not understand?

It's about WARNING the user before they do the upgrade so they 1) know what will happen and 2) know how they could fix it.

RealStickman··on Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
That kinda defeats the purpose of airplane mode, doesn't it?
RealStickman··on “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
100% of what is in the link you sent is in the original link.
RealStickman··on Ending Support for macOS and Linux
They shouldn't be able to pull Rocket League from customers who already have it in their library. They couldn't do it with other games like Metro Exodus either.
RealStickman··on Ending Support for macOS and Linux
These two consoles may be pretty close to EOL. If the next consoles have vulkan it would absolutely make sense to use vulkan more.
RealStickman··on WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10
I recently started to change over to linux for gaming and I was pleasantly surprised by how many games work through lutris.
RealStickman··on Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
Please elaborate
RealStickman··on LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
Why one shouldn't use cloud-based services. I'm sticking to keepass. (I'm syncing the keepass file over a cloud, but I still have a local copy on all my devices against cases like these)
RealStickman··on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Leaked Specs: Up to 20GB GDDR6 RAM
The RX 480 was an affordable way to do VR.

Most people doing ML either use Nvidia for Cuda or GCN based gpus for their compute.

Crypto is pretty much over by this point Look at all the cheap 4/580s on ebay.

RealStickman··on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Leaked Specs: Up to 20GB GDDR6 RAM
Actually the RTX 2080 has only 256bit. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-2080.c3224

The 2080 ti has 352bit. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-2080-ti.c3...

Interestingly, Nvidia decided to use a bigger die (relative to other dies in the family) for the 3080 than for the 2080. TU104 (2080) vs GA103 (3080). Probably to prepare for big Navi.

RealStickman··on A dead PC game that can't come back
"...resort to illegally torrenting them."

I'd argue that pirating games that aren't available anywhere should not be illegal. I had the same problem with the original Metro Exodus. I couldn't find it anywhere, only the Redux version. It's sad to see older games neglected.

RealStickman··on Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
You wouldn't need a new charger with every phone then. Why not just let users buy that separately?
RealStickman··on EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces
Ah yes, who needs privacy anyways. Why not just abolish everything protecting consumers. Let's live pure capitalism. /s
RealStickman··on Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years
I actually quite liked that. Adds something more to the text imo.
RealStickman··on The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android phone runs well -- for a beta
I would suggest anyone interested in de-googlifying their phone and willong to do it themselves to check out https://lineage.microg.org/. It comes with less preinstalled apps (bloat sounded a bit harsh)

For maps I'm using OsmAnd+ (can be found on F-Droid). You'll have to download the map data though.

RealStickman··on Intel 2020s Process Technology Roadmap: 10nm+++, 3nm, 2nm, and 1.4nm for 2029
don't forget powerdraw.
RealStickman··on No to Chrome
Wasn't that something their search copied from ddg?
RealStickman··on No to Chrome
Starpage is now owned by an advertising company. I wouldn't rely on them not tracking me.
RealStickman··on No to Chrome
There's also OpenStreetmaps
RealStickman··on No to Chrome
I'm using OsmAnd+ found on f-droid. It works very well, you'll just have to download the maps you need before.
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