DaddleDew

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Here you go: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

Warning: This will open your eyes and make you want to dump all your major apps for FOSS alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Here are the trackers contained in Yelp's app according to Exodus:

  • Adjust (analytics)
  • Braze (formerly Appboy) (analytics advertisement location)
  • Brightcove
  • Bugsnag (crash reporting)
  • ComScore (analytics advertisement)
  • Facebook Analytics (analytics)
  • Facebook Login (identification)
  • Google AdMob (advertisement)
  • Google Firebase Analytics (analytics)
  • Snowplow (analytics)

That's a lot. They make money off of people having their app running on their phone. That's why they push their app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It was exactly the reason I was thinking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the 2005 game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The 2005 game. I had paid full price for the game and enjoyed it for a while. Then they released the expansion pack BF2:SF. The players who owned that expansion pack had access to more powerful weapons which they could use online against players who didn't have that pack. Essentially turning a paid game into a "pay to win" format. I since then haven't given EA a penny.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I've stopped buying EA games when they turned Battlefield 2 into a pay-to-win game back in the mid-2000's. But I remember distinctly how bad EA was with those stupid unskippable splash screens. My guess is that they've never improved, from what I can see. What's the point of those anyway, other than annoy your players and make them hate your company?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This. This is how you tell that letting the job market "self-regulate" does NOT work.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Aptera is actually betting it all on efficiency. Not only it reduces the battery size required, but it also makes regarding faster and solar recharging more viable. If you only use it for short commuting, you don't even need to plug it in anymore. Just leave it parked outside in the sun.

Meanwhile the rest of the EV industry is sitting in the corner eating glue with their stupidly huge, heavy and inefficient SUVs and trucks that waste resources to make batteries. Elon being the worst with his moronic cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I never really cared for the planning myself but Vegas ruined it for my by introducing that stupid cover system to make it like Gears of War which was popular at the time. They completely removed the ability to lean. You couldn't properly peek around a corner to take a shot without almost fully exposing yourself anymore. This meant you couldn't avoid absorbing bullets all the time. This made the game unplayable so to counterbalance that, they've added regenerating health. But then it became too easy so they kept putting you in tactically completely unfair positions against hordes of extremely aggressive enemies that can see you and shoot you through walls. They also had a lot of visually busy environments where the enemies are difficult to spot even when they're shooting at you because the sound mixing was so botched up that often you couldn't even tell when you were being shot at.

They turned it into a mindless arcade shooter where you constantly absorb bullets like it's normal and fight a whole army on your own. I wouldn't be surprised if all of this is because some Corporate dipshit forced the inclusion of that cover system because Gears of War made money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

The old RainbowSix games (pre-Vegas) were absolutely brutal in difficulty. Enemies died in one or two shots, depending on what part you hit. Even a non-mortal wound would cripple them permanently. But the same rules applied to you.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What was it, not even two months ago when they said they "listened" to us and that they wouldn't go forward with Recall? And we all said they would still roll it in later when the dust had settled? Yup, we were right.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

NGL, I've spent a decade wondering why I couldn't sleep at night and couldn't concentrate all day, only to finally realize I was constantly low on electrolytes because of my intense exercise routine.

And if anyone is wondering, sports drinks are worthless sugary drinks shrouded in "sporty" marketing. Vitamin D, Calcium and Magnesium is what helped me (and are far more cost efficient than sports drinks). Consult a doctor.

 
 

With a +10 ring of Arcana, stepping on grass grants you 32.5 turns of invisibility.

Attacking with the blooming scythe spawns a ton of grass as well.

And as the assassin, spending 9 turns while invisible provides a guaranteed one shot kill.

Deadly combo.

 

Bobbing their heads at every step. How ridiculous must have that looked if it was the case.

 

How do you use the crossbow? Every attempt I've made to use it results in it being used as a melee weapon.

 

One of the most overpowered builds I've ever encountered without using a Ring of Wealth. You spend most of your time being invisible and surprise attack enemies before retreating to the forest you created by attacking them with your Blooming bow or your wand of Regrowth, making you invisible again. No vegetation around? Just use the blindweed-infused greaves of nature to disappear.

Seed: VGB-RKB-RJM. Contains an early +1 ring of haste, ring of sharpshooting and a +2 greataxe later on. Plenty more high level wands as well along the way.

 

I am running multiple screens from different brands. Because they are not the same, they must be set to different brightness values to look the same.

The problem is that whenever I boot up, the Plasma brightness setting is changed, or Night Light kicks in, Plasma sets all my screens to the same value. This results in one screen being too bright and the other too dark. Every time this happens I must change the value back manually in my screen's built-in menu, which is annoying.

In the Gamma settings panel there appears to be an upcoming feature where different screens can be set to different values but it is grayed out for the moment (running Plasma 6.0.4 on Tumbleweed).

How do I disable this feature while I'm waiting for the ability to set individual brightness values to individual screens to come around?

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