Ads = revenue that keep sites and services running. What can you do about it? Pay.

Didn’t one of the NYPD officers get shot by another office while trying to intercept someone who was unarmed but had skipped paying the fare? Seems like New Yorkers might have a good reason.

I don’t know that you can. The way a Chromecast configures is it broadcasts its own network that you connect a device with an account to. Once connected it does the configuration on Google’s end, and allows you to connect that device to your home network for the purposes of streaming or casting. The thing is though, it doesn’t have ports that would allow you to run custom firmware so you’re stuck with a puck that you can’t configure without a Google account as far as I’m aware. It relies entirely on you connecting to it as a host device to share data, updates,firmware etc.

Edit from Reddit: "You don’t need a Google account but it’s relatively complicated if you’re not familiar with quite a few things. First you’ll need to sideload another launcher like ATV. Then you need to disable the setup wizard and Google TV. All of this can be done with a simple app called App Manager which is an open source app you can get from GitHub. You’ll need to go into settings then go to about phone and click build number seven times to enable developer options and then turn on USB debugging. The Chromecast is already set up to connect on Port 5555 depending on your IP address so after installing app manager it will detect that debugging is enabled and will connect to that port. You can disable any app very easily with it as well as many many other features that are very useful. As far as the Play store, you can also sideload the Aurora store which is the same as the Play store but you can login anonymously. Since the package installer doesn’t work you’ll need to install apps downloaded from Aurora with it. You can choose to do so in Aurora store settings. Also with app manager you can go into its settings and set the installer app as the Google Play store because some apps won’t function unless they’re installed or at least marked as installed from the Play store. "

I joined reddit maybe a couple of years before violentacrez was outed by gawker media. I fully remember what it was like back then, and I wouldn’t say it got worse over time. I’d say that as time went on some things got better and others got worse so that on balance not much changed. I don’t really understand the people who have the rose tinted goggles about reddit. I didn’t leave because reddit users got actively worse so much as I left because the policies that the company were making and the things they were changing made the platform untenable.

I agree with what you’re saying. This is the curse of the anonymity of the internet at large and it happens everywhere. People just like to pretend that it doesn’t.

This. There are just certain ideologies that are so anti-human that the only way to deal with them is violence because they can’t be tolerated or reasoned with. Nazis know exactly what history says about them and they actively choose these hateful ideologies to believe in and follow. I wouldn’t punch a random person on the street unless they were a threat. Nazis by their very existence are a threat. That threat is not existential.

I have 4 maybe 5 games that I can’t run on Linux to my satisfaction ATM. We’ll see how that plays out as things develop more, but so far I’m very happy with my decision to run Bazzite.

Nah, as someone who came from reddit, we were generally a pretty terrible bunch even before bots basically took over. I don’t feel that Lemmy is much better but the platform’s overall practices seem to be better. My mileage with the community varies greatly from day to day.

Twitter is still influencing the rest of the web (look at its influence on reddit since Musk bought Twitter, and Spez started wanting to live in his skin). I don’t think we can just take the good without the bad and assume a net positive.

There’s lots of technology channels on YouTube and it’s competition that do tech news that I feel are pretty relevant (gamerz nexus for sure). I wouldn’t want people to lose that just because some of us (myself included) prefer written formats to videos.

The crazy thing for me is that I have a little handheld specific for dos games. The problem I run into every time is having to setup computer keyboard bindings for each game to play them using the built-in controller. I really want retroarch or another dos emulator to do profiles for different games and I haven’t seen that yet.

Nobody wants to believe me (a random person on the internet who has provided no proof whatsoever of their own that can be replicated in any way by a credible source, over actual investigative journalists and security experts who have been actively looking for such a thing to validate it and have found nothing after years of these allegations). Hmm. I wonder why that is.

I wouldn’t say I got it figured out, but I shut down and restarted and it started working as it should. So no harm no foul.

I actually did a restart and it’s fixed now. No idea what changed but it’s working great.

Actually really good. Deckyloader took care of a lot of the stuff I needed for the legion go’s native controller and so on. Only thing that’s bugging me at the moment is for some reason I can’t control or change the RGB for the thumb sticks or power button. The setting isn’t in the controller settings where it should be. But everything else just works, and it’s been great so far.

There was an article not too long ago about how windows 11 was gaining in market share for gamers. But my guess is a lot of them are like me and bought a handheld that can dual boot Bazzite and Windows (because they have games that only windows can play). Most of the games I have are older so no incorporating anti-cheat anything at the kernel level. But I still had to turn off secure boot in order to get Bazzite up and running.

I wonder how long this will continue to be the case once they end support for windows 10 next year.

It turns out that steam os (Bazzite) has this already enabled. I just didn’t understand what I was looking at because windows displays battery level and setting differently and the battery always read at 80% on windows when plugged in vs not. On Bazzite it reads as “full” but the bar only shows at 80% which is hard to see on a small screen but easier to see when docked to the TV. Thanks for the pointers though.

Because the amount of data use alone would be so astronomical as to be very obvious. Unless it’s specifically recording you locally and then uploading that information when you’re on wifi (which would be obvious too because of the slow down it would cause, the amount of bandwidth it would take up (making you hit data caps with your provider and throttling your service), and the fact that most phones just do not have that much storage and don’t have a slot for added sd cards anymore. Feasibly it doesn’t make sense for a handheld device to be recording everything you say passively. Your battery alone would have to last several weeks of normal use.

I’m having trouble using my sn30 pro on steam os. Really a little sad about that but I don’t think it’s the controller I think it’s my Bluetooth settings being weird.

Do you know if there is a way to have the battery only charge to 80%. I use it mostly docked to the TV and windows has this setting but I haven’t found it in Bazzite yet (only had Bazzite for like 10 hours).

I’m installing Bazzite on my Legion Go today, just curious how you like it, and if you ran into any problems.