EU is usually very pro consumer but not long ago there were (and there still are) some shit takes on piracy and stuff.

I don’t think they’ll ban VPNs though. It’s not pro consumer and it’s anti-privacy which EU is also very strong on.

Both. Sim card for my country’s provider. eSim when I’m abroad for cheaper rates.

Ah yes, I just noticed his instance. You’re probably correct!, great tip.

I’m not very into politics anyways, even more so when it’s US politics. (I’m assuming most people are from the US, that was usually the case on reddit, not sure if it still applies here though, I might be wrong)

Anyways, socialist memes or not I just down vote them.

I think a specific community for political memes should be fine if people are into that. But it’s getting tiring seeing the capitalist vs socialist debate over and over. It’s not even funny at this point anymore…

Can we stop posting political memes?.. It’s getting annoying.

Yeah I must say vulkan would’ve been sweet. But apple is big enough to mane metal work I guess… Time will tell, but I’ve never been closing to jumping aboard the apple train. Even though it kinda feels weird to me just thinking about it haha

I am a PC/Android user, always have been. I am a hard apple hater, I’ve tried to keep up with the new devices though, and I’ve also repaired them in the past. I hate apple mostly due to just not liking to be locked on my device (lack of customization but that has been getting better AFAIK), the fact that the phone feels boring, the overpricing, the not friendly right to repair, the stupid lightning ports (Thanks EU), the “elitist” feeling…

But god damn are these new SOCs making me reconsider… I was already very pleasantly surprised with the Mac computers recently. I think apple silicon is just waaaay ahead at the moment. If competition doesn’t catch up somehow soon, I think apple’s monopoly will only grow.

Also, AMD over Nvidia. Not saying it’s better, but I’ll always go team red. Just like Apple, I hate nvidia’s business practices.

Yeah, I’m honestly concerned since my parents’ political views changed radically the last 5~10 years or so. They were super loving and caring. Now they’re very “paranoid” about things that shouldn’t really leave them that stressed and xenophobic bordering full on racism. Overall gender related topics topics, random news on Facebook, immigrants…

I think that, if my parents that were so understanding and caring about everything and everyone, can somehow have their opinion change drastically in 5-10 years, what’s preventing that from happening to me, or my generation, down the road? I’m not trying to say that every gen X or boomer thinks that same way though. But a lot of them have grown more “resentful” I guess…

Yeah, computers and Internet aren’t their expertise so maybe they’re more likely to fall for fake news and clickbaity titles designed to infuriate them and generate views.

But who knows what’s coming? Maybe there’s something else coming up that my generation will be too “boomer” to understand. Maybe we’ll fuck up everything without even noticing we’re doing it until it’s too late. Maybe I’m just being too paranoid myself.

My parents are (early) Gen X. In general I don’t think you are transparent or ignored. I’m not saying this isn’t your case though.

I appreciate my parents and even though they are “outdated” on some stuff, I value them immensely. For instance, if it wasn’t for my dad I likely would never have gotten into omputers. And that would’ve led me not have my current job (probably). I owe everything to them.

In fact, in my country at least (not US), I’m pretty sure Boomers + Gen X make up the majority of the voting power due to declining birth/death rates. (These stats are 100% pulled out of my ass, so they can very well be wrong.)

So, if anything you’re the ones who hold more power (again, in my country at least).

What I’m trying to say is, things aren’t as black and white as this stupid memes make them seem. We’re all collectively messed up somehow. :)

I wonder if in the future, millennials and gen z will become the new boomers and gen X.

That will make me kinda sad. I just hope we don’t go down the same path…

Please don’t fuck toothbrushes :(

I’ve read an article that they were about to get a lot more common outside of the US. Apparently they can better “tune” emissions that way and since there are heavy fines and a lot of control going forward that’s the argument they are using.

Also apparently manual gears are more expensive to manufacture, I think. Again I read this on an article sometime ago so it could just be BS, I can’t seem to find which it was.

Imo, they just want to greenwash this change. In reality they can save money and improve scalability and just standardize everything.

Yeah, I’ve noticed I do feel more at ease on my living room now. But the only console I own is a Nintendo switch and I games that aren’t multiplayer bore me faster, and switch’s multiplayer games don’t really speak to me too much…

Well you could in theory, use XPadder or something like that to play with a remote controller on PC. It’s not ideal by any means though…

With that + steam streaming to the TV App (just add the game as non steam) you could play WoW. Not anything competitive though lol. Just questing simple stuff or easier dungeon content.

Same. I can’t even be in the same room anymore. Somehow made gaming there feel like a chore as well…

So bored of games, that I’ll go work on some other stuff (home servers) and just taking care of day to day life stuff. Maybe I’m just growing up, but I never thought I’d be bored of games… Ever…

I still prefer working remotely though!

This is what I’ve seen them used for! My FIL scares the crows away from his figs like that. But crows being smart as fuck, I think they know now and just ignore them. Other birds might still be scared though

My personal preference is DD-MM-AAAA, but as someone that works with lots of data from different formats and timezones… I have to agree with you…

YYYYMMDD and UTC should be the global default.

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He actually was on the 1337x comment section defending himself and at a point he said he downloaded it from [Russian website] and only repacked it. He said we could go download it from there if we didn’t trust him, but I also got a virus warning from that one…

Change dns provider and it’s no longer blocked. Going by you’re username we’re from the same country :)

Downloaded that torrent, thought it was weird that it triggered my AV. Usually I just assume it’s a crack file or something, and even Windows defender will say it’s a “game crack” file or something on the threat information.

However, BG3 being released on GoG I found it odd… And it wasn’t even detected as a game crack file or wtv it’s called. Ended up downloading one uploaded by InsaneRamZes which ALSO was detected by AV…

I’ve ended up downloading about 4~5 clients to finally find one that didn’t trigger it… The amount of trash that was going around is insane.

The one I finally found that doesn’t have a virus was from a private tracker. (which was the RUNE release)

Edit: Just checked on 1337x and this one that I had from InsaneRamZes has also been removed it seems. I can’t actually find a BG3 full game torrent on there atm… But I did manage to add the tracker to my private tracker’s RUNE download so I’ll be sharing with you all too 🤝