Rikj000

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What search engine should I use? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

SearXNG: https://github.com/searxng/searxng

It enhances and respects privacy,
is open source and self hostable,
and queries multiple configurable search engines (google, bing, brave, duckduckgo, ...)

You can find a list of public hosted instances here:
https://searx.space/

However I prefer to slap an instance randomizer on top, so each of my queries goes through another public SearXNG instance, for more privacy, and mostly, to bypass rate-limiting after frequent queries.

For this I use:

I enjoy creating conflict in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 43 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

That behavior fucking sucks actually

Anyone know how to filter my online experience? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I posted a guide last year on how to do it on Eternity for Lemmy:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

Easiest way to get old Windows games to run? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Look it up on PCGamingWiki,
they usually list all configuration + compatibility changes that need to be tweaked:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home

Android 16 to release in Q2 of 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Pro or anti consumer features? x')

How to improve your Lemmy experience in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

That's true,
but hey, filtering and blocking out 90% of the unwanted/negative content is already way better then getting blasted by the full 100%! :D

How to improve your Lemmy experience in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Bliss for mental health indeed,
been doing this for a while now,
zero regrets.

"Your money's no good here." in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Khajiit has wares if you have coin.

Yo, I found this for 380$ should I buy it and how well does Linux run on it, if you have one of this is it a good in term of build quality in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have an MSI Bravo 17 for work since this month,
quite happy about it so far.

My experience with MSI is best price/value for hardware specs, but with shitty build quality.

However this one feels quite sturdy compared to earlier MSI laptops.

It can get loud under heavy duty,
but it goes quiet again under low workload,
for now at least, my previous MSI laptop sounded like a jet engine whenever it was powered on.

The one you posted seems particularly suited to run Linux upon, since it's an all AMD machine, and their Linux support is great.

I'm sick and tied of cameras in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I feel the same,
to battle it I drive with my sun visors down,
all the time, even when it's dark.

I never voted for these camera's,
and driving with them down is not illegal,
but they successfully block the sight of most camera's.

Has anyone regretted buying a fully electric car? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 109 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

I like the electric part.

What I don't like is that it's a steaming heap of spy-ware on wheels with no opt-out ability.

Which may lead to more expensive insurance depending on your driving style, or could be abused for even more nefarious reasons.

(Mc)Donald in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Unsure,
however it's refreshing to see posts of this clown which actually make me smile instead of concerned.

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[Release] Belfius Root (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18470641

Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

Source
https://github.com/Rikj000/Belfius-Root#belfius-root

License GPLv3

Motivation
Belfius bank was pretty cool about having a rooted device in the past,
they just threw a dismissible warning about security risks of using a rooted device,
and then allowed you to keep using their app.

However on 2024-07-01 this changed.
Nowadays they assume that you're an idiot that will not be able to keep your own device safe if you have root.

I do not agree with that assumption, and likely neither do you.
Only power users that have a good idea of what they're doing tend to root their own devices.

After only a hand full of transactions, done through the tedious browser process,
I grew agitated enough to do the research to write this module.

Hope you'll enjoy this module and the ability to stay rooted!

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[Release] Belfius Root (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18470641

Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

Source
https://github.com/Rikj000/Belfius-Root#belfius-root

License GPLv3

Motivation
Belfius bank was pretty cool about having a rooted device in the past,
they just threw a dismissible warning about security risks of using a rooted device,
and then allowed you to keep using their app.

However on 2024-07-01 this changed.
Nowadays they assume that you're an idiot that will not be able to keep your own device safe if you have root.

I do not agree with that assumption, and likely neither do you.
Only power users that have a good idea of what they're doing tend to root their own devices.

After only a hand full of transactions, done through the tedious browser process,
I grew agitated enough to do the research to write this module.

Hope you'll enjoy this module and the ability to stay rooted!

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Forgejo or Radicle - Which do you prefer? (github.com)
 

Just finished writing out a lengthy comment,
with the up/downsides I can see
on each of the code forges I currently deem promising,
on the Github Discussion "Alternatives to GitHub"

And I was wondering, out of following 2,
which code forge would you guys prefer and why?

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Help preserve Yuzu's code base (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

As you all know or may not know,
Nintendo has taken down Yuzu,
see following post for more info on that:
https://lemmy.world/post/12728163

Now it's important to preserve the code base of Yuzu,
so hopefully someday, once things cooled down a little,
an active fork can stick it's head up.

After looking at the Azure DevOps Pipelines
of yuzu-emu/yuzu,
I noticed the latest pipeline ran 8 hours ago
as of writing this post:

Which tells us that the latest commit,
was a merge of PR #13198 from
zhaobot/tx-update-20240301020652

This fork,
is the most up-to-date one / contains the latest commit
done to Yuzu before the take down:
https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu/tree/tx-update-20240301020652

I encourage you all to pull, star and fork this fork,
not only the master branch, but all branches!
The more copies floating out there,
the better the project will be preserved.

You can pull the code base to your local machine, with:

git clone https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu.git

(Requires https://git-scm.com/)

And you can pull in all the branches,
as described in this Github Gist:
https://gist.github.com/grimzy/a1d3aae40412634df29cf86bb74a6f72

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[OC] She looks damn fine compared to everything else (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[OC] She looks damn fine compared to everything else (discuss.tchncs.de)
 
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PSMD in Citra looking neat! (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Playing some Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon,
through Citra Canary v2798 with:

And I gotta say,
I'm happily impressed by how good it looks!
Apart from the low resolution font/texts,
I'd forget that I'm playing a mobile title from 2015 😄

Edit:
I disabled the High Resolution Textures,
because they cause:

  • Random game freezes in connection orb screens
  • Slowdowns while in villages / dungeons / connection orb screens
  • Incorrect black / white rendering of clouds / earth during cut scenes
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Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI (Artificial Intelligence)?

Real AI does not exist yet,
atm we only have LLMs (Large Language Models),
which do not think on their own,
but pass turing tests
(fool humans into thinking that they can think).

Imo AI is just a marketing buzzword,
created by rich capitalistic a-holes,
who already invested in LLM stocks,
and now are looking for a profit.

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[Guide] Introduction to fair Monero mining (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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⛏️ Fair CPU pool mining introduction
Monero (XMR) is one of the only projects
which offer a way of mining in a pool as it should be implemented,
with P2Pool:

  • Fair - Instant payouts according to your share.
  • Decentralized - No pool owners - No centralized party handling the P2Pool.
  • Decentralized - Pool participants - Due to the RandomX algorithm being used, no specialized Antic miners can be built for XMR. Meaning that an average Joe can still participate and earn shares with their CPU.
  • Private - XMR itself continuously aims for the best possible privacy cryptography can offer.

Source Code / Links:

⛏️ Fair CPU pool mining guide
This guide will help you setting up a fair Monero miner,
please note, that you still will have to create your own config files for:
Gupax, P2Pool and XMRig

  1. Use Monero GUI to create a wallet
  2. Use Monero GUI to run your own monerod instance (Monero Node daemon),
    configure following startup flags under:
    Monero GUI => Settings => Node => Daemon startup flags: 
    --zmq-pub=tcp://127.0.0.1:18083 
--out-peers 32 
--in-peers 64 
--add-priority-node=uwillrunanodesoon.moneroworld.com:18089 
--add-priority-node=nodes.hashvault.pro:18081 
--disable-dns-checkpoints 
--enable-dns-blocklist 
--prune-blockchain 
--sync-pruned-blocks 
--db-sync-mode=safe
--log-level 1

These startup flags will help with:

  • Blocking malicious nodes
  • Keeping your copy of the blockchain as small as possible
  • Provide logging incase a priority-node goes down
    (Use Monero Fail for replacements)
  1. Configure the P2Pool + XMRig binary paths in Gupax under:
    Gupax => Gupax => P2Pool/XMRig PATHs
  2. Use Gupax to run P2Pool,
    connect to your local monerod instance by configuring P2Pool as following:
    Gupax => P2Pool => P2Pool Mini => Fill in the following: 
    Name = Local Monero Node
IP = 127.0.0.1
RPC = 18081
ZMQ = 18083
Out-peers = 32
In-peers = 64
  3. Use Gupax to run XMRig,
    connect to your local P2Pool as following:
    Gupax => XMRig => Command arguments (configure --threads as desired): 
    -c config.json 
-o 127.0.0.1:3333 
--http-host 127.0.0.1 
--http-port 18088 
--threads 30

This will make it possible to load a config.json file from the same directory as the XMRig binary

Notes

  • If you're gonna run on normal end-user hardware (e.g. Desktop/Laptop/Smartphone), then I'd recommend to mine on P2Pool Mini instead of the main P2Pool
  • Your P2Pool wallet adress is public, periodically move mined funds to a new, truly private XMR wallet
  • My use-case? I mine to support the cause and to earn a little back from heating my room during winter times 😄
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