[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago

I also wouldn't consider this a secret....

I found years ago that if you block ubi.com and ubisoft.com (if you have a self hosted DNS or a way to block domains on a network), and any other sub domains you might spot, the games work fine. They just take like a full minute to load while they try their best to hit the servers. So yeah I've never agreed to the TOS for a few games as a result.

Needles to say, you'll need these domains unblocked to play multiplayer.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

As a Gentoo user, I can confirm I started from sticks and rocks. I'm now in the space age though because of the customizability and performance boosts, so image is a little dated.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

What is that weird >>=== symbol? Looks like a cross breed between C and JavaScript here.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Remember, you can always opt out of sending any technical or usage data to Firefox.

How about you show you respect user privacy by making it an opt-in...?

Feels like no matter where I turn, even the "privacy friendly" options turn away from privacy eventually.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

I hate short variable names in general too, but am okay with them for iterators where i and j represent only indices, and when x/y/z represent coordinates (like a for loop going over x coordinates). In most cases I actually prefer this since it keeps me from having to think about whether I'm looking at an integer iterator or object/dictionary iterator loop, as long as the loop remains short. When it gets to be ridiculous in size, even i and j are annoying. Any other short names are a no go for me though. And my god, the abbreviations... Those are the worst.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Even if a game doesn't look like it'll work based on protondb, try it anyway. Many times I've had games that were marked as low ratings start up without any changes lol. I remember even when d4 beta came out, I saw people struggling to install and play it on the first weekend... Worked out of the box for me.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

I'd do my part in buying games from them more if they didn't block my home network from their website lol. Yes it's behind a VPN, and no I'm not turning it off to give up my privacy just to buy something I can get from stores that won't block me.

I honestly used to buy games from them a lot, but once their website became inaccessible, I sorta forgot about them. Surely I'm not the only one right...?

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

How did I not know websites did this. Here I was always trying to guess the urls a few times before giving up lol. Today I learned...

Thanks for the extension suggestion too!

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

I wish there were some descriptions per provider with the ratings. Mullvad gets constant tests by third party against their network and has proven many times they have a no log policy that's working, yet they got a 4 out of 5...

With only numbers and generic descriptions that don't quite match the truth, feels like this sheet is a little misleading. Also, I find it ironic that it's on Google sheets.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Only 2 problems I have with Graphene personally is the need to give Google money, which the irony is just too much, and no option for rooting. Otherwise it seems like a pretty good OS overall. In the meantime, while I wait for those options to be more flexible so I can have full control, I just use a rooted lineage os with all the extra Google stuff (ntp, DNS, etc) stripped and replaced with my own self hosted systems.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

I personally prefer NoScript not for just the privacy stuff, but for the security of knowing that an accidental click to a malicious site using some zeroday JavaScript exploit won't kick in like it would, had it not been default blocked.

My NoScript profile is also fairly populated with things I've trusted over the years, so it's really only new websites that require JavaScript that I have to worry about.

Maybe just me being over cautious, but just keeps me at ease, personally.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Facebook??? Think I remember MySpace having most of the 2000s. Even then, I used Yahoo!, AIM, and MSN way more lol.

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