[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 9 months ago

I once got a refund after 5 hours. I opened the game, left it running at the main menu, then went to make lunch and completely forgot about it. Wasted probably about 3.5 hours in the menu. When I asked for a refund, I didn't even explain that I'd left it open in the main menu; I just pointed out why I didn't like it and why I wanted a refund. The game in question was Mount and Blade, store country was Germany, and I submitted the refund request on the same day I bought it.

[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not India, but somewhat relevant:

It's been confirmed that the Egyptian government recently carried out a targeted attack taking advantage of a 0-day on a presidential candidate's phone: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/how-the-iphone-of-a-presidential-candidate-in-egypt-got-hacked-for-the-2nd-time (Edit: Link was pointing to second page of the article; changed to first page)

Related discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614816

Also this report from Google's TAG: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/0-days-exploited-by-commercial-surveillance-vendor-in-egypt/

[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes. It's even extreme in some places. For example, more than half of Australian households reported in a 2022 survey that they never accessed the internet from a desktop PC that year (source; also, paywall warning). In Hungary, desktop ownership dropped from 47.5% in 2014 to 39.2% 2019. It's safe to assume the downwards trend has continued into 2023.

Japan dropped from 81.7% in 2013 to 69% in 2022 (this is for PC ownership in general and doesn't differentiate between desktops and laptops) and Germany dropped from 64.5% (desktops) in 2006 to 42.9% in 2022.

Even African countries, which had depressingly low computer ownership to begin with, have seen a stagnation at around 7.5% (yes, it's that low) between 2015 and 2019.

These are just a few examples, but you'll see a similar trend everywhere you look. Looking at these statistics reminds me of this Apple ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfR_Jj4grZE

Edit: WTH, Spain?

[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

Something like the Gvido E-Ink tablet for working with sheet music, but without all the proprietary bullshit and closed software.

[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

SWAG is great for overwhelmed Nginx beginners. It comes preconfigured with reasonable defaults and also provides configs for a bunch of popular services: https://github.com/linuxserver/reverse-proxy-confs. Both Bitwarden and Vaultwarden are on there.

Note that this setup assumes that you will run your service (Bitwarden/Vaultwarden) in a Docker container. You can make SWAG work with something that's running directly on the host, but I'd recommend not starting with that until you've fooled around with this container setup a bit and gained a better understanding of how Nginx and reverse proxies in general work.

[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Those were last year's prices during the height of the energy crisis. I was paying 0.60€/kWh last year (new contract). I renegotiated this year and got it lowered to about 0.27€/kWh.

[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One thing I like about this particular layer of defense is that it gives you more insight into the activities of the software and operating systems you're using. The statistics they provide (I use Adguard Home) have proven very useful to me on several occasions .

[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Fairphone allows you to unlock the bootloader and install an OS of your choice.

See https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/9979154556817-Google-free-Android

[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Came here to say this; just wanted to add that it was simultaneously the saddest game I'd ever played.

[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Proton as well and it's been great, but setting up their bridge for IMAP access in a way that worked for my setup was needlessly annoying (run on a headless server and access it from other devices within the network and docker containers on said server).

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