Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone?
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    1w ago 100%

    The Book of Unwritten Tales comes to mind. It's nowhere near as grandiose as any of your described games, but I fondly remember it being a very charming and wholesome experience. If that's the feeling you seek, you might enjoy it.

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  • Almost nine gigabytes in size: Windows update 24H2 creates an undeletable cache file
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    1w ago 100%

    It should fix system files that are not in expected state (I assume corruption, missing, wrong permissions etc.). Maybe it was more useful in the past, but after trying it couple times around 8 years ago and never seeing any benefit, I have never thought of using it since.

    My colleague said it fixed some random issue once or twice after he was out of ideas.

    If system is truly messed up, it's often faster and more reliable to just reinstall it, especially if you do not have much custom config.

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  • Karen who did not get leaving card loses UK employment claim
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    1w ago 100%

    Based on the article, she might have been hated not just disliked.

    She said another employee had asked her: “Are you taking the piss, Karen?” The tribunal heard that this was after Conaghan suggested she had “done all of the hard work” and it was his “turn to do some”.

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  • Open Source Everything has moved to GitLab
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    1w ago 100%

    Any reason why Firefox is not under Browser section?

    I would personally also add original KeePass, Notepad++ and ShareX (Maybe also Greenshot). These are Windows only, but great pieces of software.

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    'Kaos' Canceled After One Season at Netflix
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    OfficerBribe
    2w ago 100%

    Well said. After hearing stories similar to this, I have avoided Netflix originals due to fear of show being canceled and ending on cliffhanger leaving many unanswered questions. It would bother me too much, better to not have seen it at all if there has not been a conclusion.

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    'Kaos' Canceled After One Season at Netflix
    ‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening
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    2w ago 88%

    No need to pretend Marvel movies stopped being money generators. Newest Deadpool & Wolverine generated worldwide 1.3B USD, ranking it 21st top grossing movie of all time. Domestic 633M USD, China 60M USD. It's 7th highest grossing MCU movie.

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  • Microsoft officially recommends a new PC and OneDrive to update to Windows 11
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    OfficerBribe
    2w ago 100%

    While it sounds ridiculous, there is a reasoning for this even nowadays:

    Any periodic activity with a rate faster than one minute incurs the scrutiny of the Windows performance team, because periodic activity prevents the CPU from entering a low-power state. Updating the seconds in the taskbar clock is not essential to the user interface, unlike telling the user where their typing is going to go, or making sure a video plays smoothly. And the recommendation is that inessential periodic timers have a minimum period of one minute, and they should enable timer coalescing to minimize system wake-ups.

    Found 1 test that seems to confirm battery life is slightly worse (2%) with seconds enabled. But this is true only when nothing is going on on screen. If you would actually work on PC, I imagine difference would be practically nonexistent.

    All that said, I use seconds on my private and work PC. Was pissed when MS initially removed this as an option.

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  • Strands #218, 07.10.2024
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    2w ago 100%

    First time playing this. Was tougher than expected, no idea how you can get through this without any hints.

    💡🔵💡🔵
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  • Silent Hill 2 Remake Wikipedia page locked after salty fans try to rewrite its critically-acclaimed reception
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    2w ago 100%

    Some people think there is this magical thing called canon. If something is canon and you heavily dislike it, it messes up your enjoyment for whole franchise and you no longer can enjoy previous entries that you grew up with.

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  • Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions
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    2w ago 66%

    They think ads are just the normal price you pay for surfing the web.

    Which is great, offsets us who do use adblocks. It would be awful if majority of users would use adblocks.

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    I may be about to lose my current Lemmy account :( (Don't trust Cisco Duo 2FA app)
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    OfficerBribe
    2w ago 100%

    Pretty wild if there is only a single backup. Could not get an answer from Duo documentation, but I see it uses Google Drive for backup. Maybe you can get previous version from Gdrive?

    Aegis is great btw if you need an app for standard TOTP. Using it for quite some time and very pleased with it. It creates new backup of your tokens whenever you add a new one.

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  • Under Mao, life expectancy in China jumped from 40 to 62
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    OfficerBribe
    2w ago 100%

    How the fuck does India screw up more compare to China?

    Here is some random analysis if it bothers you that much.

    India’s less favorable health profile compared to China is largely attributable to its higher rates of mortality from communicable diseases and maternal and perinatal conditions. Further health gains can be achieved by reducing social inequality, greater investments in human development and health services, and by prevention and control of chronic-disease risks such as hypertension, smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity.

    Also, When did I say it was unparalleled?

    Reply where I said ″unparalleled″ was against original post and poster′s later comment, no idea how did you conclude I quoted you.

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  • Under Mao, life expectancy in China jumped from 40 to 62
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    OfficerBribe
    2w ago 80%

    My point was that life expectancy generally increased throughout the world while this post makes it seem Mao′s regime did a one of a kind miracle. Here are 3 countries with even more impressive change.

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  • theintercept.com

    The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is throwing $22 million in taxpayer money at developing clothing that records audio, video, and location data. The future of wearable technology, beyond now-standard accessories like smartwatches and fitness tracking rings, is ePANTS, according to the intelligence community.  The federal government has shelled out at least $22 million in an effort to develop “smart” clothing that spies on the wearer and its surroundings. Similar to previous moonshot projects funded by military and intelligence agencies, the inspiration may have come from science fiction and superpowers, but the basic applications are on brand for the government: surveillance and data collection. Billed as the “largest single investment to develop Active Smart Textiles,” the SMART ePANTS — Smart Electrically Powered and Networked Textile Systems — program aims to develop clothing capable of recording audio, video, and geolocation data, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced in an August 22 press release. Garments slated for production include shirts, pants, socks, and underwear, all of which are intended to be washable. The project is being undertaken by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the intelligence community’s secretive counterpart to the military’s better-known Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. IARPA’s website says it “invests federal funding into high-risk, high reward projects to address challenges facing the intelligence community.” Its tolerance for risk has led to both impressive achievements, like a Nobel Prize awarded to physicist David Wineland for his research on quantum computing funded by IARPA, as well as costly failures. “A lot of the IARPA and DARPA programs are like throwing spaghetti against the refrigerator,” Annie Jacobsen, author of a book about DARPA, “The Pentagon’s Brain,” told The Intercept. “It may or may not stick.” According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s press release, “This eTextile technology could also assist personnel and first responders in dangerous, high-stress environments, such as crime scenes and arms control inspections without impeding their ability to swiftly and safely operate.” IARPA contracts for the SMART ePANTS program have gone to five entities. As the Pentagon disclosed this month along with other contracts it routinely announces, IARPA has awarded $11.6 million and $10.6 million to defense contractors Nautilus Defense and Leidos, respectively. The Pentagon did not disclose the value of the contracts with the other three: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SRI International, and Areté. “IARPA does not publicly disclose our funding numbers,” IARPA spokesperson Nicole de Haay told The Intercept. Dawson Cagle, a former Booz Allen Hamilton associate, serves as the IARPA program manager leading SMART ePANTS. Cagle invoked his time serving as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq between 2002 and 2006 as important experience for his current role. “As a former weapons inspector myself, I know how much hand-carried electronics can interfere with my situational awareness at inspection sites,” Cagle recently told Homeland Security Today. “In unknown environments, I’d rather have my hands free to grab ladders and handrails more firmly and keep from hitting my head than holding some device.” SMART ePANTS is not the national security community’s first foray into high-tech wearables. In 2013, Adm. William McRaven, then-commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, presented the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit. Called TALOS for short, the proposal sought to develop a powered exoskeleton “supersuit” similar to that worn by Matt Damon’s character in “Elysium,” a sci-fi action movie released that year. The proposal also drew comparisons to the suit worn by Iron Man, played by Robert Downey Jr., in a string of blockbuster films released in the run-up to TALOS’s formation. “Science fiction has always played a role in DARPA,” Jacobsen said. The TALOS project ended in 2019 without a demonstrable prototype, but not before racking up $80 million in costs. As IARPA works to develop SMART ePANTS over the next three and a half years, Jacobsen stressed that the advent of smart wearables could usher in troubling new forms of government biometric surveillance. “They’re now in a position of serious authority over you. In TSA, they can swab your hands for explosives,” Jacobsen said. “Now suppose SMART ePANTS detects a chemical on your skin — imagine where that can lead.” With consumer wearables already capable of monitoring your heartbeat, further breakthroughs could give rise to more invasive biometrics. “IARPA programs are designed and executed in accordance with, and adhere to, strict civil liberties and privacy protection protocols. Further, IARPA performs civil liberties and privacy protection compliance reviews throughout our research efforts,” de Haay, the spokesperson, said. There is already evidence that private industry outside of the national security community are interested in smart clothing. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is looking to hire a researcher “with broad knowledge in smart textiles and garment construction, integration of electronics into soft and flexible systems, and who can work with a team of researchers working in haptics, sensing, tracking, and materials science.” The spy world is no stranger to lavish investments in moonshot technology. The CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, recently invested in Colossal Biosciences, a wooly mammoth resurrection startup, as The Intercept reported last year. If SMART ePANTS succeeds, it’s likely to become a tool in IARPA’s arsenal to “create the vast intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems of the future,” said Jacobsen. “They want to know more about you than you.”

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    https://decrypt.co/153124/nft-platform-recur-to-shut-down-despite-50-million-raise-and-big-name-backers

    Another one bites the dust. The NFT startup Recur said on Friday that its Web3 platform is winding down—unable to weather the chills of crypto winter despite hosting the IP of several big brands like Hello Kitty and Nickelodeon. Over the next several months, Recur’s platform will steadily lose its core features, the firm said in a blog post. That includes the ability for users to withdraw NFTs from Recur, cash out stablecoin balances, and trade collectibles on Recur-hosted marketplaces. “​​This decision has not been an easy one,” the company said on Twitter, citing “unforeseen challenges and shifts in the business landscape.” Recur’s announcement captures recent headwinds in the NFT space as companies navigate a downturn in the popularity of digital collectibles. Last July, Recur embarked on a “jet-setting NFT experience” with Hello Kitty and Friends, only for its ambitions to be grounded a little more than a year later.  That same July, Recur noted there was “unprecedented demand” for its TV Packs that contained profile-picture (PFP) NFTs of Nickelodeon characters like Tommy Pickles from “Rugrats.” Pack openings will be disabled in November, Recur said on Friday. Founded in 2021, Recur billed itself as a company that offers other businesses Web3 “building blocks.” Its platform could be used for creating in-game assets, loyalty programs, and digital collectibles that leverage NFTs, according to its website. Recur’s move comes not long after Nifty’s, a social network turned Web3 creators portal, also said it was shutting down. Nifty’s had secured big-name media titles as partners too, such as “The Matrix” and “Game of Thrones.” With over 380,000 NFTs minted through Recur, the firm said it has changes in store to ensure that various digital collectibles will live on. Recur said metadata and media for its NFTs will be migrated to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer file-sharing network built by Protocol Labs. Other assets will be hosted on Filecoin’s network, Recur added. In December 2021, Recur offered a Recur Pass during a limited, 24-hour sales window. Sold as an NFT for $300, the pass could be resold and offered holders early access to future NFT drops among other benefits.  Last February, a Recur Pass sold for $88,888, Recur said in a statement on Twitter. Today, the cheapest Recur Pass listed on OpenSea currently asks for 0.001 ETH (about $1.69). In late 2021, Recur said it was valued at $333 million after it announced a $50 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Digital, an investment fund backed by the family office of New York Mets majority owner and billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen. Other notable names had participated in a $5 million seed funding round earlier that year, such as investor and NFT creator Gary Vaynerchuk, Gemini’s Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys founder Joe Lubin. (Disclosure: ConsenSys funds an editorially-independent Decrypt.)

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    Ryanair will ship a physical gift card to your doorstep free of charge if it starts from 100 €, but ask 2 € for a virtual one that is sent via e-mail. From their [ToS](https://help.ryanair.com/hc/en-ie/articles/12891747863953): > A €2/£2 (or local currency equivalent) admin fee applies to Digital Gift Cards. A €5/£5 admin and delivery fee apply to Physical Gift Cards. This fee is waived for purchases exceeding €/£100. Additionally the classic "Same number for differently valued currencies" making these fees approximate and not made based on the actual cost. That statement is also written in a way that can be ambiguous whether fee is removed for only physical or both types. And another thing is that it seems they are processing these virtual cards manually. You have to wait around 40 minutes between payment and e-mail. Guess that's why there is a fee, someone has to paste a code in mail and send it out.

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