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thanksforallthefish

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  • Asking for…umm…a friend. How long before Meta deletes your content after you request to delete your account?

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  • Asking for…umm…a friend. How long before Meta deletes your content after you request to delete your account?

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  • Asking for…umm…a friend. How long before Meta deletes your content after you request to delete your account?

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  • Actually GDPR fines can reach 3% of revenue if i recall my compulsory training correctly. That's a lot more than $20m for farcebook I would expect

  • Anyone had their signal app want to auto update from itself rather than an app store?

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  • Ok. So I found on announcements at https://community.signalusers.org/ that Signal added obtainium to the download options (due to google delays on releasing through play store). I also got another update notification from Signal app this morning, which went away once I upgraded to the latest version. Could be related ?

  • Anyone had their signal app want to auto update from itself rather than an app store?

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  • I had the same "that's weird" reaction too. So not just you, would be good to know if it was kosher or a malware. I might have a dig now

  • Anyone had their signal app want to auto update from itself rather than an app store?

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  • I had the same at the same time. I ignored the app request and updated from app store

  • Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?

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  • If timeshift is not already installed, please do. Do a snapshot before you update and set the settings to auto delete / keep only a certain number (or do it manually) so you don't fill your hard drive. I usually keep 1 monthly, 3 weekly and 3 dailies on a rolling basis

    If you do the snapshot religiously then when an update breaks it you can just boot a liveUSB and restore (mint iso is a live USB and has it already installed).

    You do of course then need to work out what broke and why once you've rolled back to the prior working state

  • Linux Mint - NOT "Usable Out of the Box" - Probably switching back to Windows

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  • Sorry, proof of concept, i was being lazy

  • Linux Mint - NOT "Usable Out of the Box" - Probably switching back to Windows

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  • Linux Mint - NOT "Usable Out of the Box" - Probably switching back to Windows

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  • While KDE plasma can be made to work on Mint (I've done it as a PoC) it is NOT something a beginner should be doing because a) it's an unsupported config and b) you need to pull in non mint repositories to get the plasma files, and then you'll be fiddling around to get it working again when an update breaks something.

    If Mint has been troublesome then popOS ubuntu and Fedora would be better choices.

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    VPS provider who ignores DMCA notices

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  • Yeah illegal stuff and Singapore should never be in the same sentence.

    Either move the VPS to being hosted somewhere with no interest in enforcing copyright law (Africa, South America, some parts of Asia like Cambodia, Kazakhstan etc) or put a VPN on the VPS so your IP shows as being somewhere less regulated than SGP

  • Is it easier to screen record Prime Video on Mac or Windows?

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  • Try using OBS for the screen capture, it should work with hardware acceleration on. Install on yr existing windows system.

    If not try downloading a linux mint iso and burning that to a usb (instructions on the mint homepage). It's a "live" boot you can just boot off it and try without installing. I'm fairly sure you can boot it, install OBS on it and then test a screen capture (ie open a browser, start prime, open obs and start a screen capture). Be aware you've made a bottleneck on the USB (slow throughput compared to ssd) so you won't go long before it chokes through not being able to write fast enough. Proof of concept.

    However if it works then look at installing a dual boot mint next to windows a full install will use the hard drive and not bottleneck

    Basically, it's free and it won't break anything to try the live disk. If it works it'll be a lot cheaper than buying a whole extra Mac

  • Sid Meier's Civilization VII minimum and recommended GNU/Linux specs

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  • I wouldnt buy it until after release given the Denuvo probability. I'd hold off until it's proven to work and doesn't break for Linux users. Civ6 currently works as both native linux and priton/windows version on my machine, but I know others have had troubles with the native version. If Denuvo prevents proton running the windows version then many linux gamers may have an issue.

    I definitely counsel a wait and see approach.

    I have bought civ3 through 6, I'm interested but def not committed to 7 and Denuvo and its personal datagathering is a redline no for me.

    YMMV

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  • I'd have to go back and find it, but no my recollection was that it was based on an official statement.

    Certainly the survey was an official firaxis one.

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  • Yeah previous ones ran fine, however there was a post on here maybe 4 months urging everyone to fill in a survey to convince firaxis not to cut off linux by using a particular anticheat that locks linux out in the new Civ7. I just assumed you were the same guy.

    I'd hold off pre-ordering and wait for release as while there are Steam specs like you posted I also found a blurb about a denuvo DRM.

    Having said that Steam are pretty good for refunds if stuff doesnt work

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  • Have they abandoned the anti- cheat kernel bollocks that was going to lock out linux users then ?

  • Think you need a VPN? Start here.

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  • Got the captcha endless wave yesterday using freetube on linux until I changed VPN nodes. I don't think it's proxying (not checked though)