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It Happened again just logged in and it was under anothers username. I am sure I can't be the only one this has been happening to. Is this not a big security risk?
  • It’s important for the purpose of evidence.

    There’s no harm of dox towards the user you logged in as because that is publicly available and as long as you’re not sharing anything like their email, what is the harm? Just showing a screenshot of the page where it shows their username on your session is suffice. Blur anything private, if needed.

    But there’s nothing anyone can do with the information you’re giving here. There’s too much data to parse through to determine what was the invalid login.

  • Disney Plus apparently has zero account security at all
  • Many corporations do not take cybersecurity seriously at all. Speaking as someone who works the security at my job.

    They only care when shit hits the fan. Thankfully mine is a little better because we saw our competitor get hit and our CEO then started allocating major funds for security. Even then…it still isn’t quite what it should be.

  • Reddit Got Rid of Their World Buffs
  • No. Too many users were used to the trash official app because that’s how many of them came to find Reddit because of the app’s release.

    Can’t know what you’re missing if you never experienced it.

    But honestly that’s partly why Reddit was going down the tubes when all these Facebook folk started coming to “that new app Reddit” and treating it like Fb 2.0 so it was for the best for the rest of us to leave and find alternatives.

  • Anyone here do VR gaming in Linux and have any tips to share?
  • Thanks for the reply!

    So in the Vive’s case, was it just a matter of plug and play or is there a custom driver-like setup someone developed specifically for the Vive that you’re using from what you remember?

  • Anyone here do VR gaming in Linux and have any tips to share?

    I tried making the switch fully from Windows earlier this month but the fact that VR wasn’t working well was a big issue that caused me to have to go back to Windows.

    I contemplated just having a smaller partition for Windows for VR gaming, but I really want to make the switch fully if possible. I’ll keep Windows on a spare laptop, but that’s it. I want all my main computers to be on Linux.

    Are there any distros that work best for this or any tips to share?

    I have a Meta Quest 3 that I like using for VR gaming on PC. I’ve been really into Skyrim VR lately and modding in it too. So to find a way to both mod Skyrim VR and play VR would be my goal to accomplish. Wireless VR is not a must but it’s nice. If it has to be one way, whether USB or wireless, that’s fine with me. I’m not strictly needing one way or the other. All of my VR games are in Steam so far, so any tips would be great for this setup.

    I tried Bazzite and KDE Neon and both were giving me issues with VR. I had ALVR since Steam VR doesn’t work in Linux natively.

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    shit just works mods breaking their own community rules in the modlog is really setting a great example lol
  • In the other comment containing the link to the mod log, it shows the mod removing the comment containing the “r” word, the no longer politically correct term of referring to certain people with developmental disabilities while calling said person that word for using the word.

    Make it make sense lol

  • All the other brands went along
  • Out of the two, you’re more likely to have the dongle break first. Those cables have a limited life of bending before snapping or the internal wiring coming undone or a failed connection or just cheap hardware. My first dongle I bought about 2 years ago is getting to that point with me carrying it in my backpack.

    I still have my IBM ThinkPad running Windows 95 that has all of its ports still working to this day. The screen hinges are the only thing that has broken on it in all this time. Same for many other laptops I’ve had over the years. Even a gaming laptop I had had its plastic housing break along the sides of the ports due to a fall, but no ports were ever damaged or became inoperable in its life.

  • Using Windows for business is torture
  • Linux hasn’t been that way for a few decades now. You can definitely get that “terminal exclusive” experience if you want, but it has been made so much easier in the last 20 years with most distros being as easy to use as Windows with a mouse + keyboard UI experience being the way you can do just about anything. The only times I’ve absolutely needed to use a terminal were for very special circumstances like a specific setting I wanted or back in the day when I needed to update an app, but even that is now taken care of in the UI with various distros using app marketplaces.

    The true most complicated part has been the setup, but even that has been made more user friendly in the last 7 years. Though I have yet to see anyone make it as easy as Microsoft does to get a ISO of Windows onto a USB with one application, so I will give Microsoft that as the upper hand. Though this wouldn’t even be an issue if consumers had Linux ready machines in stores like you can for Windows and macOS.

    Guarantee, if you put a Windows theme on a Linux distro or just use something like Zorin OS and give it to someone with little to no tech savviness, they will think it is Windows and use it in the same way and may not ever truly notice. And with websites now (past 5-10 years) detecting your OS, even going to websites to download a specific app will sometimes default to the Linux option. Microsoft Windows having an app store is what macOS and Linux have been doing for even longer.

    The availability of apps/applications that users are used to using is the second biggest challenge most average users would face, but there are tons of alternatives to choose from in most cases, with some being better (better UI choices, little to no tracking, longer update support) and/or free.

  • Steam accused of 'normalizing hate and extremism in the gaming community' in new ADL report
  • I have never seen any of these things while browsing Steam. I feel like you have to go searching for it if you want to find it and you will find it on any platform if that is your intention.

    This report makes it feel like 4chan 2.0 which is a place that would fit their description.

    Instead this just feels like a lame attempt from Epic or some other competitor at pulling down Valve since they can’t/don’t want to directly compete fairly.

    I’m sure there are some disgusting racists and imagery on Steam, but not to the extent they’re making it out to be or that Valve approves of it. As a matter of fact, if you go check out controversial games like Dustborn or the newest Dragon Age, you’ll see that Valve has actually been suppressing negative reviews, regardless whether they contain offensive content or not.

  • How can you see an overview of all the replies you got on comments posted on YouTube videos?
  • I’m in the exact same situation. I noticed this months ago and never found a way to go back to look at an overview of my comments.

    YouTube used to be a legit social network back in the day where you could see your comments and people could comment directly to your channel profile. But with all the changes they’ve made, all of that doesn’t seem to exist anymore.

    You’d just have to go back to some of the videos you remember. Thankfully they do push your comments to the top of the list for easy access, but that’s only if your comment was a direct reply to the video. If it was to a comment under an existing comment, good luck.

    Even with me changing my settings, I still don’t get notified most of the time when someone replies to me, only if someone upvotes my comment. Every once in a while, it feels like 9 times out of 10, does that happen and only 1 time out of 10 do I get the notification someone replied.

  • POV: it's black Friday soon - elecronics shoul be repairable!
  • The absolute irony of tech companies claiming to be for the environment while making plastic crap that is easier and cheaper to throw away than repair.

    But sure, please do tell us Microsoft/Google/Apple how environmentally friendly you are because you no longer include a charger with the $1k hunk of plastic!

    Compare that to bicycles. You’ll find a lot more people able to and actually taking a bicycle frame out of the garbage and repurposing it for a new bike or an exercise bike.

  • Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage
  • “Wow, this is worthless!” And expensive.

    Can currently buy a $150 laptop that can actually do things offline. Fucking $349 for a piece of junk that can only do something when connected to the internet and with a paid subscription is utterly pointless besides fixing the artificial problem of new version updates, i.e. Windows 11 > Windows 12.

  • No reason at all to post this here today. No, no reason at all ;)

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    Put it in my _____ now!

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    You sneeze every time someone has sex.

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    Who are Canadian politicians arguing to?

    I sometimes see clips pop up on YouTube shorts of Trudeau and Poilievre arguing back and forth but their focus doesn’t seem to be on each other but looking in the same direction, occasionally looking at the other when taking a shot.

    Me as a non-Canadian, I’m not familiar with this. What exactly are they doing and who are they directing these to? Is it one person or many others or is it to be in general to the Canadian population?

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    I prefer not knowing anything beyond the title, poster, and rating of a movie before going to see it

    I went and saw The Wild Robot over the weekend without knowing a single thing about it and ended up enjoying the movie a lot. I truly think part of that was not knowing anything about the movie except seeing the poster, knowing the title, seeing the rating, and knowing it was for kids and was animated (which was evident by the poster and rating). Beyond that, I was clueless. I didn’t even know if the robot would talk or not. The story unfolding out for me entirely was nice to experience.

    I won’t ruin any parts of the movie for anyone who may be in my position too, but if you’re into animated kids movies with a hint of sci-fi, you’ll probably like this movie.

    I only became aware of this movie as I was checking on times for Alien Romulus and saw this instead. My girlfriend’s son is obsessed with robots so I knew this was likely a movie he’d like to see.

    The only place where I’m bombarded with ads anymore is on YouTube on my phone and TV where my adblockers don’t work. So I had never had this movie advertised to me in the usual way others have been.

    With the way YouTube ads work, I usually get bombarded with the same repetitive trailers that make the movie obnoxious to me after seeing the same trailer for the 100th time. And it seems that the theme over the past few decades is to spoil parts of the movie in the trailer. Like one of the trailers for Dogman that was shown before The Wild Robot in the theaters tells us how Dogman becomes Dogman… Being for kids, I’m sure it doesn’t matter and it’s not the focal point of the movie, but like, I would have preferred to find that out when watching the movie, not beforehand.

    Speaking of Alien Romulus, I’m a fan of the Alien movies but the trailer before Deadpool 3 showed soooo many of the crew’s deaths that it really spoiled the movie. Part of my thrill of the Alien movies for me is finding out who survives from the crew of each movie. But not this one… which is why I still haven’t seen it. I just felt really unmotivated to go see it when it released last month and I didn’t see it this weekend because I’m okay with waiting for it to release for home and maybe I’ll forget what I saw in the trailer by then.

    But The Wild Robot was exciting and very enjoyable and I think a lot of that had to do with the fact I knew very little.

    I know that a lot of people share the same sentiment about trailers spoiling the movie, but my unpopular opinion is that I don’t want to see anything about it beforehand, in most cases. Give me a poster, title, rating, and I can figure out the rest as to whether I’d like to watch it or not.

    This is not to say that movies should never have a trailer of any kind. No, far from it. Just don’t advertise the trailer so repetitively and even more than that, make the trailer available for watching on demand. If I am interested but still on the fence because your poster or title didn’t convey enough, then I can go searching for the trailer on a site like YouTube and watch it for myself.

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    Where do most of the famous musicians keep their musical instruments?

    Talking about those artists who are world famous and always have their treasured instrument(s) like Willie Nelson and his “Trigger” guitar.

    Where do these artists typically store their instruments when not performing? If on tour, do they keep it on the bus or in their room?

    I know everyone is different, but just wondering about some examples and/or the general places they’d keep them.

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    Voyager now refreshes when leaving the app

    Hey all,

    I upgraded to iOS 18 yesterday, so wondering if this is possibly due to that or something on the Voyager app’s side.

    I’ve noticed today that if I’m on my profile’s page, or viewing a specific post, or browsing a specific community, and then I leave the Voyager app for a time to go to another app or the iPhone’s “desktop” and then come back to Voyager, Voyager will do a refresh and then go to the main page, which I have set to show All. It also refreshes the All feed whereas before it would stay where I left it when browsing All.

    Is this a new update or did iOS 18 implement something that is causing this? Anything that can be done to not allow this to happen?

    Thank you!

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