The movie idiocracy is turning from a comedy to a documentary!

Hi, Your dedicated local Secret Service agent here.

We don’t need your smartphone to access your data. We have surveillance equipment for that. That is why we can scan the qr code of your ID app and do the checks we need.

If you want us not to track you, you need a degoogled smartphone and use cash exclusively. Also you could use a vpn while you browse the interwebs, but we ll still be, eventually, able to see where you browse.

BTW we don’t stop randomly ppl on roadblocks. You or your car or your route or all of the above was of concern for us.

There is a possibility that the Russians could get rid of Putin with less than 2000 dead altogether

Video games always used to be an economic way of entertainment. With an amount equal to a restaurant dinner you could be entertained for hundreds of hours.

Nowadays, video games follow the trend of enshitification. Low quality, repeated material, bad gaming experience, data hoarding, the need to be always online even for a single player game and of course, the “you don’t own, we can take it away anytime we want” mentality.

According to the court rulling, if you essentially want to play retro games, you should find a way to access the original hardware and run the software in mostly proprietary mediums like cartridges that could be damaged or corrupted. And the reason you can’t do it is because you may actually have fun!

This ruling is so bongers it blows my mind.

So you should never, ever ever

1. Use emulators like Retroarch
2. Find the ROMs of various systems you like in various “archives” through the interwebs for research purposes ofcourse
3. Use a frontend like ES-DE or launchbox to make things look beautiful.
4. Scrape content through screenscraper or something similar to make your frontends even more beautiful. 5.Keep in mind that this combo ( Retroarch + frontend) works in mostly cross platform (windows, Linux, android etc.)

After all, as a researcher you have to be able to tinker a little bit.

Enjoy your research ;)

If you like automation and don’t want to rely on the cloud (aka the big data corpos) then you could try our lord and saviour Home Assistant.

That’s why you should be absent from reddit in the first place. Lp

The Shawshank Redemption

*cries at Greek

About fucking time

I’m sincerely envy. I wish I could do the same.

Visualy, I’m as average it gets. White straight male, average height, common composition. But

• I’ m Agnostic.

• Believe people are not defined by their occupation and how much they make.

• I m all for worker rights and fight for them

• Into politics and trying to have as an objective ipinion as possible. Also try to talk about politics

• My academic credentials are on the top 10% tier

• I care about my RL and digital privacy

• I use FOSS

• I look after my health as well as my weight

• Not a fan of Football

• I make efforts to own my data and software

• Travel a lot to other countries

• have my own Jellyfin server

• host a locally run smart home

• Run a separate Batocera machine with a lot of games from a lot of legacy systems

• Don’t really care about where other people come from, or what is their religion, or gender, or sexual preference, or politics

The end of hope of accumulation of wealth has driven liberated a lot of people from the need of a daily grind. Thats why we see the silent resignation, the negative responses to RTO and the “lack” of workforce. This is actually not a bad thing, if only the filthy-wealthy weren’t activelly working to destroy olthe only planet we can live on

The increase in energy consumption globally is still bigger than the increase of energy production from renewables. When this happens, hopefully soon, we will start seing reductions in fossil fuel, and especially oil, cosumption. The adoption of EVs will increase further as soon as bettery cosy falls further, wich is expected in the next few years due to increased supply of lithium and thecnologiasl breakthroughs in EV energy mangement

Lets cross our fingers

I can speak Greek and I’m still terrified when math speaks Greek

As everyone else here, I think piracy is illegal and immoral. We should accept that we don’t own our services and software and we should never doubt that corporations have our best interest in mind.

Therefore you should never have a Plex server, never use protonmail, never use AdGuard Home, never use AdGuard DNS for private DNS.

Also you should never use Firefox with UBlock origin sponsorblock and consent o magic.

Lastly you should never ever use re-vanced and x-manager, and God forbid don’t use a VPN

Edit: syntax

Probably yes but you’ll have to set min DPI :p

Thank you for the suggestion.

I’m planning on buying an AMD GPU later this year and then, I’m planning on installing Linux on my Desktop since Windows 10 will not be supported.

That won’t be necessary, because I completely uninstalled it and it’s not connected to the network anymore

• Ditched Reddit for Lemmy

• Twitter for Mastodon

• Netflix, Apple+, Prime for Plex

• Gmail for Protonmail

• Outlook for Thunderbird

• partly Degoogled my android Smartphone

• switched from Vanced to Re-vanced

• Chrome for Firefox with add-ons

• Alexa for Home Assistant

• Partly switched off telemetry on Windows 10

• Got my first all unlimited contract on my smartphone

• Upgraded my ADSL to 200 Mbps

• Used FOSS quite more frequently

• Used Calibre for the first time

• Learned a lot about emulators on PC

Tbh, didn’t realised about all these things until I wrote them down

edit: formating

Windows seems to be a severe infrastructure problem in modern Russia.