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Joined 11 months ago
Cake day: August 5th, 2024
  • Auster@lemm.eetoAndroid@lemmy.world•Rant about Google Play "Protect"English
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    2 months ago

    I’d imagine it’s a way to sift normal users that might turn into power users, so they stay in Google’s controlled environment. Or, since apparently Google can modify programs in the Play Store if they so desire, maybe it’s a way to increase the chance the user will keep using approved backdoors/tojans/spywares. Either way, I can’t recommend enough for people to use vanilla phones, and have some cheap, second hand one just for stuff you can’t use without Google Play.

  • Auster@lemm.eeto[Locked] YUROP@lemm.ee•EU stickerpack?
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    4 months ago

    Not familiar with any, but in case the sticker creation system from Signal behaves like Telegram or Whatsapp, it is fairly simple to do it, specially stactic ones. Just convert the image to be within the expected canvas size (up to 512px on Telegram; don`t remember on Whatsapp) and in a format it accepts (png and webp usually do the trick). For animated stickers, it usually is a bit more cumbersome / complicated.

  • Auster@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.world•How active is Lemmy now?English
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    6 months ago

    Can’t give precise numbers, but at least that I can notice, despite greatly filtering what I check, there’s enough stuff to make running out of stuff to check rather unlikely. Besides, as I started using RSS feeds a lot recently, mainly for federated platforms (not just Lemmy ones), and the reader I use can hide posts marked as read, it’s being a struggle to lower the number of posts to read in comparison to the sum of posts automatically pulled during the set up of each link.

  • Auster@lemm.eetoFree Video Game Giveaways@feddit.uk•What's this? Free games?English
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    7 months ago

    Just checked it.

    For the empty spaces in the carousel, you could use this:

    spoiler

    gaming.amazon.com##a[href*="platform_specific_tag/"]:upward(li[class="grid-carousel__slide"])

    And the platform_specific_tag is what appears in their links when you open their pages and that, from what I can observe, is specific to where they activate in.

    For example, in Jurassic World Evolution and Electrician Simulator, the tag is the epic/ part of the link.

    For Overcooked 2 and The Outer Worlds, it’s gog/.

    And though it should work without the /, maybe better keep it, as the lack thereof may trigger false positives, like if Legacy of Kain for GOG is available, but you block legacy results in case you want nothing from Legacy Games, you won’t see Legacy of Kain due to its name appearing in the link.

  • Auster@lemm.eetoFree Video Game Giveaways@feddit.uk•What's this? Free games?English
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    7 months ago

    Maybe this?

    code

    gaming.amazon.com##a[href*="platform_specific_tag/"]:upward(div[class="tw-block"])

    It’s the filter that is the least dependent on div blocks’ structure that I can think, and unless Amazon changes either (or both) their links format and how they list stuff, at most I think you’d need to change the tw-block part every once in a while, as such bigger sites seem to change the divs’ names some times.

  • Auster@lemm.eetoFunhole@lemmy.sdf.org•I s i T
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    7 months ago

    Iirc, it’s a quote from iCarly, but I remember a character that is the archetype of being dumb and brute saying in awe, after reading a book, that “it’s like a TV in your head”, or something of the sort.

    But worth noting places like Lemmy and Mbin support images too.

  • Auster@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.world•Question about Linux culture.English
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    7 months ago

    I think that, while, yes, fragmentation hinders a system, it is also its saving grace, as it also stops a given family of systems from growing into what made the competition problematic.

    Taking the Program Files folders as example, they have limited read/write permissions on Windows, so whenever possible, I try to install them onto a folder I make in the root of C:. But more and more, since at the very least Windows XP from what I could observe, Microsoft is training users into using only the users folder, and less and less programs give an option to install elsewhere, installing only on the Program Files folder instead. Meanwhile, on Linux Mint (my distro of choice), if AppImage (my to go medium of programs) isn’t working well, I can always fallback to other means, such APT directly or downloading its .deb files then extracting them, getting from flatpak, compiling it myself, building a custom AppImage, running on a VM or emulator, or in the worst possibility, I make a dual boot between Mint and some other distro.

    Also, although there are many package managers, from my experience, they usually work similarly. Some changes in syntax, options and names, but nothing outlandish. It would be, I think, like someone learning a close language to his/her mother tongue. And from experience, you can even organize installations in a more standardized way, although it will take some effort from your part to figure out how, since some adaptations may be needed (java 8 and sdl ptsd intensify).

    And lastly, from what I can observe, stuff in Linux more often than not share logic or even methods with a lot other stuff in the system. Dunno if it’s a bit of a bias of someone that’s using Linux for a few years already, but the fragmentation usually feels superficial to me, with distros being more tweaks of the ones they stem from, and major changes being better observable when distros are sufficiently far apart.