Grangle1

joined 1 year ago
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The newest updates for LibreWolf just implemented stricter/more secure DNS settings by default. You may want to check those to see if that's the issue.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Most people don't, or only throw something like 5 bucks at games like that here or there. But some F2P games are pushing 10 years or more in existence, so somebody's paying to keep the servers running. The backbone of that industry is the small population of "whales" who spend their life's savings to get the superior rare new cosmetic or in-game currency to gamble their life away to maybe pull enough copies to max out their waifu. Then they'll use said cosmetic or waifu for about a month before the next super-ultra rare amazing once-in-a-lifetime hat or weapon comes along, or another waifu who totally eclipses their original one is released, then it's rinse, repeat ad infinitum until the whale is flat broke and their life is ruined. But at least they maxed out their waifu and got to the top of the rankings in the leaderboard.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, at least some in-game currency is really the least they could have done if you're gonna pay money to just get the base game to begin with since it's F2P (pay-to-win) otherwise. Complete waste of money even for people who play and regularly spend money on these types of games.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've been a part of two different friends' attempts to quit addiction to MMOs. A high school friend had a problem with Everquest back before WoW. His brother recruited us friends to help give him alternative stuff to do like movie and other game nights. We succeeded, and he was able to put the game down. Some college friends and I were not so successful in pulling one of my roommates away from WoW. Activision Blizzard have it literally down to the science of addiction.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lightly half works for me on Plasma 6 following instructions on the qt6 version on GitHub. The window decorations and Lightly-related aspects of the plasma theme work, but I can't apply the application style.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I dunno, the N64 had just as long a lifespan as the other consoles at the time. That said, the Game Boy was still selling like crazy (one word: Pokemon), especially with the Pocket and Color out in the N64 era, and the Game Gear was already effectively dead by then. I don't know what Nintendo would've been so afraid of there.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

It just wasn't a problem to them and it was a problem for people they didn't like (whom they call Nazis, various "-ists" and so on if they dare think differently from them). Now it's flipped and it's a problem for them but not the people they don't like. Every platform needs some form of moderation, but that moderation can run the risk of being too harsh on certain groups depending on the opinions of the moderators. Dorsey himself admitted this was happening at Twitter (being too harsh on legitimate conservative views (not just real Nazis) because the mods didn't like them) to Congress before it was sold, and he did little to nothing about it. Now the moderation seems to be at the whims of however Elon is feeling on any given day, and due to his own stances, liberals are now getting the brunt of it. It really would be nice to just have somewhere where only the very extremes of left and right, and any actual illegal content, would be moderated out and the mods could keep to that no matter what "side" they or ownership is on. But I know that's just a pipe dream.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I have noticed a similar icon issue, where instead of the question mark the lock to show a secure/VPN network just does not appear sometimes. I check and see that apparently I am connected to the VPN, but for my own peace of mind I end up reconnecting over and over again, sometimes switching servers up, just to make the icon appear correctly.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Not at all saying the injury was "good". And to me, Darnold seems like an ideal bridge QB: someone they could get for a short contract on a budget while they get JJ ready. It may not necessarily be pleasant to suggest the team is basically writing off a year before Week 1, but they're clearly looking at the long term rather than the short term. It's a pain that we Vikings fans will just have to live with this season, but we're quite used to pain, lol.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I still have one of those. It was Logitech. I thought it was good unless I wanted to use the thumbsticks or triggers. I always thought the Sony design of putting the thumbsticks down in the lower-middle was really awkward, and for some reason, using the triggers on the Logitech controller sometimes felt a bit painful.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Aside from Microsoft selling it as one, there's a reason the 360's contoller design is basically the de facto basis for most PC controllers. It's the most comfortable one I've used for 3D games by far. Everything you need is easy to access. Nintendo lifted essentially the same design for their Wii U and Switch Pro controllers.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Grangle1@lemm.ee to c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world
 

Since I started using Proton VPN, I've been using it to watch my favorite baseball team in my area and get around cable blackouts. However, today it appears MLB.TV has been able to find my location and black me out. I tried using 3 different servers and checked the geolocation on Browserleaks to verify that my IP was not leaking. One note: despite being listed as in the US state of Georgia, one server showed on Browserleaks as being in the UK, so you may want to double-check location anyway. I'm trying a reboot and if that fails I'll also try again tomorrow to see if somehow it's a strange anomaly. I've found that to happen with another VPN I used in the past.

EDIT: a reboot worked and it works now at least on the Colorado server I'm on. I do remember when looking at Browserleaks before rebooting that even when the location was picked up as in the US, it mentioned something about Europe in the company, so maybe the site still picked it up as in Europe?

 

I've been wanting to use the Falkon browser as my daily driver because I like the integration with the Plasma desktop and it works quite well for most things, but I've been hesitant to do so because there are so few extensions and the only privacy-focused one is the AdBlock. I've tried using GreaseMonkey scripts, but half of the few privacy-focused scripts I've found just don't work and I'm not good enough with scripting to really figure out why. I've set what I could in the Preferences menu for privacy, but I'm wondering if there is any way to access other settings to do things like disable WebGL and/or otherwise block trackers and prevent fingerprinting? If I can set it up to be reasonably close to Brave or LibreWolf privacy-wise, I'd be happy to use it more.

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