Wilmo

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[–] Wilmo 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Former maintainer of the .xz project for about a year or two. Hid a backdoor into the code that almost made it into many bigger distros if it wasn't found by a Microsoft employee.

[–] Wilmo 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Idk about layouts but swipe is available if you look into it, you just need to download a file to load the it into the keyboard and yes on clipboard history

[–] Wilmo 2 points 8 months ago

Go for EndeavourOS if you want to use Arch with a lot of legwork done.

[–] Wilmo 3 points 8 months ago

This is really cool man, its wild how much things have changed but those are super endearing.

[–] Wilmo 16 points 9 months ago

I mean you can add non steam games to steam. And you can then run them with compatibility tools such as Proton. Just right click the game and I think in preferences it'll have an option to force the use of compatibility tools.

[–] Wilmo 8 points 1 year ago

I own quite a lot of mp3s legally. Host them on a 50 dollar raspberry pi with something called Navidrome which uses a protocol called subsonic.

I can stream my own music from my home to my phone etc or anywhere. Otherwise yeah just having them locally is the other best option.

[–] Wilmo 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an Ohioan myself. Fuck Gym Jordan. He shouldn't be allowed to hold a government position.

[–] Wilmo 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While it undoubtedly saves Sony money to produce and ship a smaller console none of those savings are being passed on and the new model costs the same as the current “fat” model.

I think that may have been the case years ago, I don't know that it's necessarily true here.

[–] Wilmo 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would this allow you to get achievements/trophies then?

[–] Wilmo 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a programmer: “your data is boring. I am not interested in leveraging this for anything besides getting the service you are using to work as well as possible”

Also me as a programmer: “yo, you don’t need that data, stop asking for it. Ohh, your app is broken because it can’t access permissions? Yeet.”

It's not about the programmers. It's about the company and the ability to make money off of data they get from you. You should be the one who gets money for your data. Not Microsoft, not Google etc.

Is Microsoft making money off of this particular telemetry data? Maybe not. It should always be opt-in

[–] Wilmo 17 points 1 year ago

This just simply isn't accurate. There are often extra features that require an internet connection. And there are also some blu-ray movies that might require some form of internet connection to watch but the vast majority of consumer blu ray movies require no internet connection to watch them.

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