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  • Cosmic Beta on September 25th!

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  • I have an old laptop running it since a year ago. It's getting there. If you use it long enough, you will still regularly stumble on little things that are nicer to use on gnome or kde but it's getting there. I plan on switching my primary desktop to it for the 26.04 release

  • Sony’s Light of Motiram lawsuit demands an ‘impermissible monopoly on genre conventions,’ says Tencent

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  • Ya the game mimics Horizon, don't think that that shouldn't be allowed though. It's not even like a music remix. Making stuff from scratch

  • The dinner my now 5 year old requested for her birthday. Steak, bacon, grapes, and broccoli with cheese

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  • When I was 5 I also liked the leafy broccoli part. Tolerated just a bit of the stem

  • Signal needs a phone number. Why are we dismissing this as privacy versus anonymity when governments are blocking the registration SMS?

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  • it's been asked a lot and I've seen others respond about how the passcode and account username that were added in the last few years are steps in the process to make accounts not dependent on phone numbers. I've just given them the benefit of the doubt that someday we won't be tied to a phone number anymore

  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • I have comaps installed but overall I don't think it matters a great deal which open street maps app you use, they're all really similar. I try to contribute business info when I remember to do so but there doesn't seem to be any yelp/google business equivalent. Need something that hosts user reviews and pictures and some way to moderate that in a decentralized enough community way. Can't beat Google maps without the business pages and crowd sourced data

  • Signal introduces Remote backups

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  • This is easier to set and forget. I'm cool with subscribing and occasionally doing a one time donation when I'm feeling spirited

  • Signal introduces Remote backups

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  • The free is enough for me but I'm willing to pay that sub to support them

  • Kevin Barry, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts.

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  • Fossify launcher is buggy but at least it's always been open source to my knowledge. Actively developed. All the fossify application. I use them

  • Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Signal

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  • One of the reasons I prefer Matrix even though anyone I know in real life uses Signal so I use Signal practically everyday but Matrix sparingly. Federated matrix servers. I worry how resilient Signal can be if enough countries ban it, not really confident in the US or EU countries or any countries long term for encrypted chat for the Signal Foundation, and also signing up with phone numbers. Phone number providers being another point of regulation

  • Are private email providers worth it?

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  • I think Proton mail is worth it just to diversify off Google but I don't lend much faith in how effective privacy will be with email. The free service is enough for that. If I wanted more faith in encrypted communications, encrypted chat applications. I sub to proton for drive and VPN. ProtonPass has all the email aliases for throwaway websites

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    Think NSA surveillance is bad? Come to Denmark—their surveillance includes your DNA. Literally.

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  • The US just pulls headline. I remember a long time ago seeing the CCTV setup in the UK and being pretty WTF is going on here. Then I remember Czech Republic talking about internment camps citing US Japanese internment camps as a good example of justification. Then I remember Italian court cases over seismologist not warning people enough/not being predictive enough to prevent deaths in a major earthquake. Or the groping of a girl and being let off because it didn't last enough time for it to be considered bad by the judge. For all the headlines the US has. Then of course I feel like it's been at least 15 years of trying to pass anti-encryption/anti-privacy laws. US makes headlines, but something about European conservatism/traditionalism/paternalism makes the whole continent feel like a powder keg to me. Also the neo-Nazis

  • What will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?

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  • Their only chance there was the late 90s to early 2000s. MS is one company compared to the totality of mega corporations using Linux and MS also uses a lot of Linux. More money at play in the server market than the general desktop OS market. Linux is the server OS

    The US government increasingly uses Linux. Other countries pick up Linux at a faster rate than the US. A higher percentage of people use MacOS today than 20 years ago

  • Gaming handheld prices are out of control, except for the Steam Deck

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  • Valves the only one with a major digital store. Everyone else is making money off hardware margin and frequent hardware releases. I want a smaller one though. Pretty much a Switch 2 sized handheld. Maybe even smaller. Different levels of portability. Like I don't need to be on a device that can run at 15-30w like current Steam Deck competitors when I'm just trying to play Persona 5 on an airplane. You can play that set at lowest TDP on a Steam Deck and hit 30fps

  • Pokémon Legends: Z-A‘s Real-Time Combat Is Really Changing Things Up

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  • Monster Hunt Stories has some solid drama. You play as natives that try to live in harmony I'm with monsters but sometimes a monster prophecy happens and you got prevent the monster apocalypse with your monster friend and villagers while uncovering the human conspiracy behind it all. Simple common premise for children stories that's always good when the drama is executed well

    Doesn't bombard you with a ridiculous amount of talking cutscenes where people say nothing like modern Pokemon games. At least since Sun and Moon but maybe all the 3DS Pokemon games started over explaining everything

  • Pokémon Legends: Z-A‘s Real-Time Combat Is Really Changing Things Up

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  • We need to hype up more Digimon Stories and Monster Hunter stories. Their narratives have so much more effort and the designs at least for Digimon can encompass a lot of creativity like Pokemon. Dragon Quest Monsters hopefully grows too

  • Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active

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  • I saw occasional news about progress on a big update someday. Any indie multiplayer has to make it easy from day one for user created content. Maps, server hosting files that's has some easy to configure parameters for fun casual servers like servers that enable model swap outs, skins, etc.

    Just looked, still 8000 people playing original counter strike

  • Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active

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  • I hope Battlebit Remastered gets popular again. I suppose it's tough to make it as an indie multiplayer video game dev. Everyone expects regular frequent updates

  • How to get started with anonymous cryptocurrency payments?

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  • Your numbered list, yes that's the steps

    With the other person's answer, you have a choice when interacting with a block chain.

    You run a node that directly sends commands to the blockchain, this one uses up more storage as it downloads the blockchain but it's the one that requires least amount of layers of trust

    Or you use a wallet that uses a trusted 3rd party full node. That's why open source is important for these wallets. This is really easy and convenient and in most cases uses open source software and is built on years of community vendors operating in good faith. These lite wallets, they run on practically anything. You manage the keys to your wallet; it's the keys to authorize transactions.

    The "heavy lifting" is delegated to another computer. Heavy lifting in quotes because the idea of blockchains is to be decentralized so one pillar idea is that it should be pretty cheap to run a node

    Even having a full node, unless you want to mine, it's really just storage and download. If you want to support the network a bit, some upload so others can download block chain history from you too.

    It's like how in Linux most users now just trust that the package maintainers for the distributions package manager is delivering legit software when you apt/dnf/etc software from the default sources

    If you're not going to run a node yourself, you'll have to accept some level of trust. Also with an open source wallet, you can with certainty point your lite wallet to whatever full node you want, your own or one you trust

  • How to get started with anonymous cryptocurrency payments?

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  • Once you have Monero in your wallet, when you send it it'll be anonymous to the receiver and people won't be able to look at the block chain and see people's balances and transaction history. You can buy some monero on an exchange with your bank account and withdraw to get started with familiarizing yourself with crypto. Good enough in my opinion to at least learn. Exchange knows you bought Monero from them but after it's gone from them, they won't be able to trace around where you send stuff to

    If it's not available on any exchange you can easily move money into, you may just need to buy a different crypto and use another exchange/service to exchange again into Monero. There will be fees. Trocador is regularly mentioned from what I remember

    Actual anonymous acquisition, you're going to need to find a person in real life with monero to exchange something for it or you physical mail exchange and they send you Monero. Tough to find. Don't know how LocalMonero is doing these days in usage/existence

    Actually making payments, you got to find places that take it. Not a lot. You can pay for Mullvad VPN with Monero. Getting paid in Monero, 3 niches layered there. One is doing something people will pay you for, those same people being willing to pay in crypto, the people also having Monero. That's tough.

    Wallets, Monero website, you can probably trust Wikipedia Monero page to send you to the official website. On desktop you can download the software that downloads the whole block chain and it'll have a GUI to send Monero and a place to copy an address for people to send to. Mobile, Cake wallet is popular

    But really the hard part in my opinion is finding businesses and people that take and pay with Monero. You'll acquire Monero to use but struggle to find places to use it for

  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
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    Nintendo Switch 2 backwards compatibility FAQ – key questions answered

    www.nme.com /guides/gaming-guides/nintendo-switch-2-backwards-compatibility-faq-3831792
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    Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed

    wccftech.com /nintendo-switch-2-launches-june-5th-120fps-4k-support/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance

    www.phoronix.com /review/intel-arc-b580-graphics-linux
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Valve may be working on a new kind of Steam Machine

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2024/12/valve-may-be-working-on-a-new-kind-of-steam-machine/