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My parents have the biggest walnut tree I've ever seen in their yard. It's a similar situation as you described with the lemon tree. During fall we would get dumped with walnuts, filling multiple boxes; more than any of us care to eat in a year. So for many years, we've been sharing our walnuts with the neighbors, some of them I've only ever seen, when they ring to ask for the walnuts. In return they bring us some of their produce every now and then: cherries, onions, eggs, apples, apple cider, freshly baked cakes and jam. I would have loved to trade you some walnuts for those lemons.

It's a different historical setting, but the Anno games work kind of like that. The resulting towns look more like something you'd expect as a European with markets, churches, taverns, theaters and things like this in the town's center and agriculture + industry on the outskirts.

"I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding,"

It's been a meme for a while and I unironically agree.

Phillips (the company) basically killed people with malfunctioning CPAP machines (which are meant to help against sleep apnea) and no one went to jail. So that's a practical example.

*I meant "Steam Deck", autocorrect strikes again...

I'm not sure about mars, but at least for the moon it might be using helium-3 isotopes abundant in moon rocks as a fuel source for fusion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

I find these days the Steak Deck has become a great device for tinkering. I've seen people do some nice unexpected stuff with it, for example making an opening in the back to connect an dedicated GPU or using it to pilot drones in Ukraine.

I'd like to plug my own favorite here: https://queup.net (former dubtrack.fm) let's you create your own playlists from YouTube and soundcloud, then you can make your own channel, people can join and you take turns playing what you put in your music queue.

I also have a Steam Deck and still prefer buying games from GOG, when possible. Heroic Launcher is a nice GUI that let's you easily install GOG+Epic store games, sets up the proton stuff and gives you the option to add the games to Steam as non-Steam games.

As a recipient of such a letter, I can tell you that the amount you torrent isn't really the problem, it's about the specific content. It works like this: copyright lawyer company monitors torrent trackers, then goes to a copyright-friendly court/judge with a list of IP-addresses that were up/downloading the copyrighted content of the media company they represent, they get some kind of court order from the judge to pressure ISPs to give up information about users behind the IP-addresses.

The letter I got was from Universal's lawyers and amongst the various movies I downloaded, all they cared about was the new "Dune". The letter was detailed with lots of lecturing, legalese, timestamps, info hash of the content and at the end they ask for 400€ or else they might escalate in court. I didn't want to pay or risk it, so there is another lawyer who specializes in these letters who you can pay 200€ to take care of things.

I saw the whole thing as a lesson learned that yes, I am being surveilled and no, my ISP is not my friend, but an adversary who keeps logs and doesn't care much about protecting my privacy. From now on I do most of my browsing and all torrenting via Mullvad VPN, paid for with Monero.

Important stuff like chickens getting grilled, when you throw a Molotov cocktail on them.

The new water looks good too.

I backed up all the old files minutes before the update went through. Pretty sure it can be played on LAN wit some tinkering, so also online with hamachi/gameranger/zero tier/radmin VPN.

But yea, the old matchmaking is gone now. It does make some sense to scrap it, so the player base doesn't get split, but an option to play 'legacy csgo' would be nice.

I highly doubt it. Stadia shutdown, while the Switch and Steam Deck are both a huge success. The latency in cloud gaming and reliability on having a stable network connection are still issues for many people. Not just that, but I don't think most gamers want to pay for another subscription which will always be a thing for cloud gaming and even then you still need some kind of hardware to play on anyway, so why not a good handheld? Even PC manufacturers like Asus are making their own handheld (RoG Ally), Switch 2 and Steam Deck 2 are basically guaranteed. If anything handhelds will just keep getting better and seem to be increasing in market share.

Oatmeal + milk warmed in the microwave for a minute, then add fresh or dried fruit. That's the only cereal I will eat. Everything else is tastes like cardboard or candy for kids.

True, but the main game is similarly plagued by some of the worst cheats I've ever encountered in an online game and I'm almost certain there are some serious security vulnerabilities to be found there.

I stopped playing when some cheater impersonated me in the game chat and then crashed my game, after I insulted them (mostly out of curiosity to see what else their cheats can do). It's just so far beyond what happens with cheats in other online games. I've also heard of people being followed by cheaters across game sessions and being DDOSed.

The only thing that's similarly bad to the cheats in GTA Online is (the original) Modern Warfare 2 which has had RCEs.

I will try this, thanks.

If things are so frozen that you can't open System Monitor (task manager), try this: Hold down SysRq and Alt, let go of SysRq, keep holding down Alt, then press these buttons in order (don't need to hold them): REISUB - to remember it: "Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring", also known as "raising the elephant".

On some systems you need to enable this feature first, so try it out once to see if it works and look up how to enable it, if it doesn't.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

On most distros, you can also get into a command line, with the combination CTRL + ALT + F1 - F8 (try out which function keys do it for you and how to get back to the GUI). There you can use `ps`, `kill <pid>`, `reboot now` or restart the GUI. I'd keep a note of the exact commands on my phone just in case.

As a sidenote, I've had an issue on a good windows desktop PC where it freezes when watching YouTube or ither streaming services. I can still move the mouse for a bit, but clicking does nothing and I'm unable to even save it from a hard reset with Ctrl + Alt + Delete. Sometimes it won't happen for weeks, but if I'm unlucky multiple times in an hour. Look up "PC freezes while watching YouTube" and you will see I'm far from alone with this issue, Asus motherboards with new AMD processors seem to be the common factor. Haven't had this happen on Linux yet (dual boot) and I've tried everything to avoid these unusual freezes in windows, but nothing seems to help.

What's the context here?

I stupidly got into FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) in one of the games from a cellphone couple years ago. I mistakenly assumed that your team from one annual release of FIFA would carry over to the next release, but I was shocked to find out that this isn't the case. EA basically deletes players FUT progress every year! Thankfully I didn't spend any money on it, so it was just time spent which was at least kind of fun, but I know some friends who have sunk a couple hundred bucks into it and they continue to buy and play the next game. I'm baffled that people put up with this. I will never touch FIFA again, until this changes. At least Fanatics can't delete your trading cards and you can resell them. Until there are similar guarantees for digital items, I don't think they will have nearly the same appeal. Valve has been the only company I know of that has done this decently with TF2, CSGO and Dota 2 skins.

Your friend creates the hotspot, you connect to it like any other WiFi network and then for the address, they enter the IP of your phone which is shown on the lws app or it can be scanned as a qr code. (It doesn't work for some reason, if you create the hotspot. I don't know why. I edited my previous post to correct this detail)

I see at least one very good reason why this shoud be possible: old phones. Reusing old phones as a webserver seems like a good idea to me, since they were built for power efficiency (unlike old PCs) and would otherwise simply end up as e-waste in a landfill or discarded, forgotten in a drawer somewhere.

Maybe it's because I use LineageOS (and Cyanogen mod before that), but I never even knew that there were problems with being able to run a web server on android. Just recently, while I was bored on a train ride, I used the Fdroid app Lightweight Web Server (LWS) to send some files to a friend on iPhone for which I would otherwise have no easier way of doing (whatsapp upload is slower and filesize is limited). I move the files into the folder, prepare the HTML file a bit, then my friend sets up a wifi hotspot, I connect and tell my friend to enter the IP-Address or scan a QR code. Works nicely for me (although weirdly it doesn't work if I create the hotspot. I need to connect to theirs, I wonder why)

Even if this is something I only use rarely, using a phone that can't do something this simple is unacceptable to me. It's satisfying in itself that I don't want my phone manufacturer to arbitrarily limit what the hardware can and cannot do. Would I suggest running a business website off my phone? No. I doubt it's secure, performance is limited, ddos would be a possible issue. Do I still want to be able to do silly things with the devices I purchase? Absolutely.

Another point, if I remember correctly, a cellphone mesh network of some kind was useful for Hong Kong protestors at one point at least.

I tried submitting the link to Outline and it didn't work on Chrome or Edge from EU... the site might be having an issue of some kind or it's just this particular link. Recently I tried it for something else and it only worked on Edge, strangely enough. It's annoying that it doesn't "just work", like it did before.

You can probably download the videos with youtube-dl and reupload them to archive.org.

I did some further research and I'm stumped, but I thought I'd share my findings. It looks like your question doesn't have an easy answer and requires more research.

I couldn't find much new information on Ultrasound Cross-Device Tracking (uXDT). This could be good, meaning that it's not being widely used, or it could be bad and mean that simply not much is publicly known about the extent to which it is used. (or my google-fu is weak)

To clarify my post form earlier. The "list" only has the SDKs used for uXDT, not the apps that make use of them.

This is the list of SDKs possibly used for uXDT: acrcloud, actv8, alphonso, axwave, beatgridmedia, bitsound (soundlly), chirp, cifrasoft, copsonic, cueaudio, digimarc, dv (dov-e), fidzup, fluzo, gracenote, hotstar(zapr), hound, inscape, instreamatic (VIA), lisnr, moodmedia, mufin , prontoly (now sonarax), redbricklane(zapr), shopkick, signal360, silverpush, sonarax, soniccode, sonicnotify (now Signal360), soundpays, tonetag, trillbit, zapr

I got it from PilferShush's project page which is an experimental F-droid app researching uXDT. It's worth a look, but a bit messy:

https://www.cityfreqs.com.au/pilfer.php

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/cityfreqs.com.pilfershushjam...

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Wikipedia says there are 234 android apps that use ultrasound audio tracking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking#Applicat...

If you google around, you will find this number repeated in a lot of articles. It's an old number from a research paper from 2017:

http://christian.wressnegger.info/content/projects/sidechann...

Here's good summary of the research: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/234-android-a...

Only a few specific apps were mentioned in the research paper. It probably only scratches the tip of the ice berg. The researchers looked for SilverPush in an 8 TB dataset of 1,320,822 apps submitted to VirusTotal.

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These were the only apps that were mentioned:

(Apps with 1,000,000 – 5,000,000 downloads)

100000+ SMS Messages, developed by Moziberg

Pinoy Henyo, developed by Jayson Tamayo

(100,000 – 500,000 downloads)

McDo Philippines, developed by Golden Arches Dev. Corp.

Krispy Kreme Philippines, developed by Mobext

(50,000 – 100,000)

Civil Service Reviewer Free, developed by Jayson Tamayo

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Here's a List of Apps from 2015 (Mostly from India and Phillipines) that use SilverPush: https://public.addonsdetector.com/silverpush-android-apps/

And here a list from 2016 with Apps containing Signal360: https://public.addonsdetector.com/signal360-android-apps/

It looks like you can use this Addon Detector to find at least a couple of the uXDT apps: http://public.addonsdetector.com/

The Addon Detector only seems to be able to find three uXDT app SDKs from the whole bunch mentioned by PilferShush: lisnr, signal360 and silverpush

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SoniControl is also an interesting project worth looking at. It's goal is to detect acoustic tracking information. https://github.com/fhstp/SoniControl

Audio Tracker Demo - It's a link on PilferShush's project page: https://kaputnikgo.github.io/acr.html

Here is an incomplete list:

https://www.cityfreqs.com.au/pilfer.php

PilferShush is an experimental F-droid app that is supposed to prevent this kind of tracking by blocking your phone's microphone and jamming the Audio frequencies used for tracking. F-droid page:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/cityfreqs.com.pilfershushjam...

Edit: Wikipedia says there are 234 android apps that use ultrasound audio tracking, but the article it references is from 2017 and behind a paywall...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking#Applicat...

You are correct. Being on steam doesn't necessarily mean that a game has DRM. It's up to a game developer to implement steam's DRM or not. Check out the big list of DRM-free steam games:

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_DRM-Free_Games...

The bookmarks to dead links are still useful to have any chance of finding the content on the Internet Archive.

This annoyed me too, until recently. I found the solution to this on my phone. It's a moto G with a physical volume button on the side. It has Lineage OS on it and I found this: settings -> buttons -> Volume buttons -> Keyboard cursor control (Volume up/down moves cursor left/right). I can now easily control moving the cursor one char left/right and am slightly more comfortable typing on my phone.