Is this true about Generation gap in Piracy?
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 2d ago 100%

    Yep, used Skygrabber, you could filter out files depending on extensions, filenames etc and could narrow out what you wanted. Still had no real way of knowing what you'd end up with as you were effectively just passively listening on the satellite traffic. It was wild as you could fill out a 40 gig drive overnight without issues in the era where people were downloading a MP3 album for hours.

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  • Is this true about Generation gap in Piracy?
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 2d ago 100%

    If you had real shitty internet back in the day (read 56k modem) and you liked to play russian roulette you would dump satellite traffic with a skystar2 DVB-S card. You never knew what you'd get realistically, found some true gems underneath mountains of coal in the day of (still) unfiltered internet.

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  • We're Watching Facebook Die
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 5mo ago 100%

    Those two are really the only good use cases today for facebook. Insane how Marketplace pretty much overnight almost killed local listing sites. Events I don't see good alternatives, don't have much hopes for that one, time will show

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    You think Linux is living a Renaissance with Gaming and New Non-Technical Users?
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 6mo ago 100%

    I just switched to Bazzite yesterday and it's insane how far linux has come. Next-next and everything works, even on a nightmare combination of hardware (Lenovo Legion half assed uefi, amd apu+ nvidia gpu).

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  • Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 6mo ago 90%

    To be frank I have used it since it started way back and it continues to have the best user experience among messengers. I myself don't use it for any crucial information but as a messenger with it's featureset it's second to none. When a better alternative pops up which will have a better UI and such an extensive featureset I will probably switch over

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  • Microsoft will now urge you to ditch local accounts on Windows 10
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 6mo ago 100%

    For the first time in a long time I might stick seeing the state of Linux today, especially Plasma 6. I'm eyeing Fedora 40 or Bazzite, tried Kinoite and pretty much everything I need works out of the box, the only thing I need to figure out is OneDrive.

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  • Thousands gather in Iran in show of support for attack on Israel
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 6mo ago 57%

    How down-puttingly assuming of you to know me or my country who in its entire long history never invaded someone and was mostly a vassal for others. We gained independence after a bloody civil war which tore the country apart and saw its fair share of genocide, during which the whole world stood by the sidelines. No, muslims are not the only victims of this cruel world.

    No, I generally don't comment on politics exactly because it breeds polarizing comments like this, but this open call for death for any side is horrific from my point of view, who saw what it does to a nation. This outlook of complete eradication of the other side is what is preventing any possible long lasting peace, and truthfully if the people don't recognize it there won't be anybody left to see it. As it currently stands there will be no peace until one side completely displaces the other, which is not what I or the vast majority of the world want.

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  • Thousands gather in Iran in show of support for attack on Israel
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 6mo ago 78%

    Who in their right mind celebrates kills on humans, in the end only regular people get harmed in any conflict, never the instigators from both sides

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  • Why I no longer use a VPN (most of the time) and nor should you - YouTube
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 6mo ago 100%

    Shout out for Smart Tube, the best YT app on smart boxes/android TVs, never had any issues

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  • Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 7mo ago 100%

    Now that you say it like that, why do purely singleplayer games need internet connectivity at all beside DRM and shovong DLCs down peoples throats

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  • Appreciation post for db0 admins in light of .world blocking /c/ piracy and similar /c/'s .
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 7mo ago 100%

    Care to ELI5 for us casuals who did not catch and are missing the obvious?

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  • Pulling video from services
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 7mo ago 100%

    Maybe yt-dlp might be for the job?
    Just a few days ago I downloaded some videos from Vimeo without issues which required sign in to even view

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  • Special Ubisoft announcement
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 9mo ago 100%

    Ubisoft won't own my money too!

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  • Feeling the lack of moderation now Reddit?
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 9mo ago 100%

    Right off the bat it sit right, thank you

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  • Feeling the lack of moderation now Reddit?
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 9mo ago 100%

    In the same boat, I miss it still, other ones have a worse UI for me and hate the ad slots in the app although I have DNS ad blocking but its still annoying. Do update me if you find a good replacement as we're looking for the same thing

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  • Hogwarts Legacy Just Broke A 14-Year Games Industry Streak – For the first time since 2008, something other than Call of Duty or a Rockstar game was the best-seller
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 9mo ago 100%

    You may hit the nail on the head, once you get the broom you just breeze past everyhring. The forbidden forest may be the most dense content wise on foot, everything after that does feel more sparse as it was designed with the broom in mind. All in all I still enjoyed the game and got my moneys worth out of it, I did pick it up rather cheap on a sale

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  • Authy Desktop client will be discontinued from August 2024
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 10mo ago 100%

    I'm (still) using the regular Keepass but that is indeed a nice feature, might consider switching to it for TOTP. Thank you!

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  • Telegram Android Notifications
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 10mo ago 100%

    Damn, didn't occur to me at all, I do use MicroG, but that still doesn't explain late notifications on the iPhone. This is going on for quite some time, friends also report the same issues regardless of plaform

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  • Battle.net update breaks Wine/Proton compatibility
  • potemkinhr potemkinhr 11mo ago 100%

    Thinking about it we may actually have less breakage now as Blizzard has started selling Diablo 4 on Steam provided they implement it well. Does that version come with battle.net launcher as mandatory or is that requirement foregone beside account linking?

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearAP
    Apple potemkinhr 12mo ago 87%
    New EarPods question

    Just a heads up, I'm not an apple user, it never clicked with me but this might be the best spot to get an answer for my specific use case. What I do like was their old 3.5 mm jack earphones, but the playback controls never worked right on my android phone, probably because of the wiring layout or some DRM screwery. I've been looking to buy a second pair of them as my primary one has been confiscated by my better half, and I saw that they put out a USB-C version of those. If any one has those headphones, can you test them out on an android device, or if you are sure can comment if the volume and playback controls work outside Apple's devices or are they locked to just their devices? I didn't see that info in any reviews and would know that bit of info before buying them blind.

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    I'm writing this post because I've gone through all the usual troubleshooting tips and I'm at an dead end. I was cleaning up my DS216j and checked if there were any new updates and stumbled by accident that the NAS didn't auto update to the newest version as per the [release notes](http://update7.synology.com/autoupdate/whatsnew.php?model=DS216j&update_version=69057-1) for that model. It was stuck on *7.1.1-42962 Update 6* so I manually updated it to *7.2.1-69057 Update 1* as suggested by the notes and here the issue began. I knew something was off as soon as I saw the app images corrupted ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ml%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F91d32d20-aba3-44cf-a72b-1fa00e19d0d9.png) Going to the package center it can't connect to it and is throwing the following error: >Connection failed. Please check your network and time settings, or refer to this article for further information. For pretty much any app it throws the following description: ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ml%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F5a9d5104-3e07-4541-afce-e42561fe67eb.png) DSM update can't do a version check and is failing as seen below ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ml%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fa236816d-ccd5-4a3d-a919-224b12a4e389.png) [Synology service status page](https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/synology_service) says everything's up. The device itself has access to the internet (NTP syncs time, Configuration backup is working) and I can curl webs sites from synology normally via SSH so I'm a bit puzzled. **EDIT:** Upon digging a bit further on the [Synology forums](https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/post/163326) it appears I'm not the only one affected as there are other reports for pretty much the same thing

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