This looks cool, but the dev seems pretty unavailable for updates for the past few years. Does the app still seem pretty solid in spite of that?

I like NetGuard, but think that TrackerControl is a bit more privacy focused. It had tracker detection, includes a traffic log as a free feature (NG requires purchase), and a few of the other NG Pro features are implemented in TC as well. In the end having either is better than neither.

So, he is to data brokers like Ray Bradbury is to fascism authoritarianism Cool!

Essentially, he wants all transactions to be online transactions, with something like Apple Pay or Google Pay on your device mediating the transaction and using your device PIN to prevent fraudulent transactions

Something tells me he wasn’t thinking we should hand over control of our payments to two of the largest advertising companies in the world.

*affect

I was wrong that it was water-themed. It was “Pacific Drive” which I guess made me think of underwater. I never got a chance to play it, and it’s no longer in my library. I think there was another one, but I can’t remember now. It was a while back that I discovered it.

EDIT: I agree with you 100% about ABZU. Boring after the first five minutes. Also, I don’t see Pacific Drive on the free games list. I need to try to remember the sequence of events. I know I never bought it, because I’ve never bought any games from EGS; all my titles were free ones.

Lol. 😂 I hear you. I feed at 10am and 10pm (with a 90 minute variance to keep them from getting to good at timekeeping). After almost a decade, I figured out a way to sleep in! Course, they still whine at night starting at 8pm sometimes, but my vet says my cats are unusually fit and a good weight, so I know I’m not starving them like they want me to believe. Their chirps and whines have gotten more and more elaborate and detailed on the last three years.

OP posts about windows EoL as a reason to switch to Linux. I reply that windows isn’t EoL as soon as OP thought. I’m fighting for windows? News to me. Switch to Linux, don’t switch. I don’t care, because it’s a personal preference, not a club with you gate keeping… Maybe some people who read your post will worry they only have months, when they have more than five years.

And yes, the world is round. Feel free to argue about the firmament over your head and that Antarctica doesn’t experience constant sunlight in summer. I won’t hear you. Have a great day. Laaaater.

That fourth thing is hunger. It only comes when the cat is fed on a schedule, as opposed to free-fed with multiple piles of food out all day. Feed in a schedule and you’ll suddenly see (healthy, right-weight) interested felines licking empty bowls.

I still have hundreds, but they do disappear like any purely digital asset.

I don’t even remember the name of the game, but it was one that was next to a title I do play often when sorted by “recent” which is based on purchase (or redemption) date. Might have been that underwater exploration title.

Presumptive argument you’re making. Most people worried about the expiration of windows 10 support aren’t in the market to buy windows 10. They already have it. Either way, massgrave.dev exists and makes that a moot point.

What’s closed about LTSC IoT? Download, install, activate for free and carry on.

Switching from Windows to Linux isn’t an easy move for most people. Most of then freak the fu$% out at the tiniest difference, and Linux is not a tiny difference.

I switched before Windows 10 was released. I switched my Mom six months ago. Now she uses her work computer (win11) rather than her own laptop because, “the start button looked strange.” If you think a support deadline will get windows users (since the nineties) to suddenly adopt Linux, you haven’t been paying attention.

You’re preaching to the choir about MS shenanigans. But… For those who feel they need win10, there is an option to continue chugging along until 2031.

As for Linux being “superior” to Windows, I think most Windows plebs would disagree. It “just works” is what they think.

I’ve claimed probably 70% of the free games for the past four or five years. I’ve noticed some of the titles disappear. So one catch is, you may not get to keep the free game(s) you grab.

Sure. About 10% as edge case as Windows users making the switch to Linux. Those who are scared to move away from Windows to Linux can continue to use Win 10 IoT LTSC for another 5+ years. I shared this as a reminder that the end of support “coming soon” can be staved off for another half decade if desired.

I’d have to settle with LineageOS

Why wouldn’t LOS be affected? On the Calyx post you link to, they say it affects all custom OS projects.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021

End of extended support date: 2032-01-13T22:59:59

Every year, around 245 million PCs are shipped globally. If even 20–25% of those are gaming-focused, that’s 49–61 million gaming PCs annually.

That seems like a too-charitable estimate. I would guess that 95%+ computers built and sold are for business uses. Of the remaining 12M, I would further guess that 90%+ of those aren’t for gaming, but for Grandma and Pop to use “The Facebook,” and for Mom or Uncle to file their taxes and buy airline tickets. By my guesstimate, that could be around 1M gaming computers sold.

As an example, the place I used to work from ’16 to '21 bought about 700 computers yearly. One big year had us replacing about 3k desktops and about 300 laptops (changed from Dell to HP). My family (about forty of us from Grandma to my son) bought four in the past four years. Of those four, one was for gaming. My last gaming rig purchase was in March, and replaced an Intel 8xxx from 2015, which was itself just a mobo/CPU/RAM upgrade

It seems to me that almost all computers sold are for business, and only a tiny sliver are sold for gaming.

I don’t have anything else determinative to add about it. I just wanted to opine about the question of percentages.

They’d probably claim liability as a reason not to hand out food. Solution: draft a form waiver for all recipients to sign.

It was about a fucked up situation and the fucked up police
It’s about comin’ up and stayin’ on top
And screamin’ 1-8-7 on a mother fuckin’ cop
It ain’t in the paper, it’s on the wall
National guard
Smoke from all around

https://lemmy.world/comment/17554647

This link says nothing. Has weirdly impossible statistics:

The most frequently used apps in our sample were Kickidler (49.8 per cent), Spyera (49.5 per cent), Flexispy (49.3 per cent), and Teramind (48.4 per cent).

Asks questions with no answers. I could have written a similar piece called, “The Path to Riches,” and then scribble out seven paragraphs on how money will be required to get rich. Might as well be AI swill.