[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Dad, why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

You didn't even need to do that. You could hold down the shift key to bypass some passwords, and just click cancel on others.

Early Windows had awful security.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

I accidentally dropped the red pill. And took 17 blue pills...

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

As I understand it, which I'm not sure I do, the -arrs will automatically grab torrents. In my mind, this would eat up a TB pretty quickly.

You seem to be partly misunderstanding. They only grab what you tell them to, so they won't automatically fill your disks with random videos.

What they do is grab any movies or TV series that you specify, and give you the option to upgrade them to a file size and quality limit that you set. For example, you could tell them that movies can be a maximum of 10GB per file, and TV can be a maximum of 3GB, and that you'd prefer 4k.

There are profile options that let you grab any available copy of a video, and upgrade it as better versions come along.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The Steam Deck works so well because the screen is only 720p, and even then people have complained about low framerates on some games. Scaling it up to 4k for a modern TV would drop the performance even more.

It looks like a great handheld, but I think trying to use it as a console wouldn't work.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

I don't think it would ever fly in Europe.

It does, or at least did. I'm in the UK, and it used to be fairly common. Over the last few years, maybe the last decade, more and more providers used the lack of tethering restrictions as an advertised feature to show that they were better than the competition.

Now that we've left the EU though, I wouldn't be surprised to see the restrictions come back. We've already lost free EU roaming on a lot of tariffs.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The fact that it might stop some immigration is a small bonus to the tories. Their goal for a while now has been to strip our rights so they can grab more power and money.

The sad part is, all the brain dead little bigots will be cheering them on, and not even noticing that they're losing out.

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I'm so proud :D (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Tippon@lemmy.world to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world

I was pottering around in the kitchen today, kind of distracted, doing Dad things* when my seven year old taps me and says 'Dad, is the fridge running?' Confused, I said yes, of course it is.

The little sod says 'Well you'd better go and catch it then' and gives me the look. Amazing :D

*you know, poking things to see if they still work, so that my wife doesn't give me a real job to do...

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Tippon@lemmy.world to c/minecraft@lemmy.world

I've been playing on Linux using Sklauncher for a while now, but it's feeling more and more like a scam. Every time there's an update to the launcher, the old one is immediately disabled. You can only get the new one from their ad riddled site, often with inappropriate ads, and it 'can't' handle the traffic. The download buttons are linked to the ads, so ads can't be blocked either.

It feels like the launcher is being disabled in order to force traffic to their site, making people watch the ads for over an hour in some cases.

Because of this, I want to find another launcher that allows mods, preferably easily. Does anyone know of a decent one please?

Update: For anyone who comes across this thread in the future, I ended up going with Prism Launcher. A few of the options threw me at first, but it's turned out to be exactly what I was looking for :)

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks for replying :)

This works because applications truly aren’t fully uninstalled from your device. They are just being uninstalled for the current user

This is what I mean by hiding them. It's essentially just removing the shortcuts. Can't they still be restored by an update this way?

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Can I undo root? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Tippon@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

Hi all :)

It's been a while since I modded a phone, so I'm a bit out of touch. If I root my phone and uninstall some apps, can I remove root afterwards so that I can use things like banking apps without workarounds?

I've got a Xiaomi Mi 10t Lite 5g, and it keeps automatically reinstalling its own apps, which then screw up my apps because they take over functions.

If I can completely remove apps rather than just hiding them, that would be a bonus.

Thanks for your help :)

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I vaguely remember reading about that when I was younger. I don't know if it's true, but this is what I read.

The peasants and farmers were made to stand in the fields throwing stones at the sparrows, preventing them from landing. The thinking was that the sparrows would die from exhaustion, if they weren't killed by the stones.

What actually happened was that the existing crops were either trampled or broken by the stones, and as the farmers weren't working the fields, nothing grew the following year either.

Like I say, I have no idea whether it's true, or if it was just 80's anti communist propaganda, but it's stuck in my head ever since.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

You do realise that you're saying that piracy didn't work for you, so you went out and spent your money instead, yeah?

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submitted 1 year ago by Tippon@lemmy.world to c/psp@lemmy.world

Hi all :)

I've got my original PSP from the UK launch, and I revived it last year. I modded it, I think with CFW, and put copies of my existing games onto the memory card.

I'm guessing that it's not going to be ok to talk about downloads, but what's the score with talking about my own ripped games?

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Hi all :)

I'm putting together a web app for a small music festival, and part of what I want to do is add photos from the various events that we hold. At the moment, they're being posted to Facebook, but I'd prefer to have something separate from that.

My thinking is to make a slideshow of lower resolution photos for the web app, and keep the full sized versions on Facebook so that people can download or share them. Even doing this is going to eventually bloat the app though.

The other problem we have is that there's no budget for storage, so I need to make it for free if that's possible.

Does anyone have any better idea than a lower resolution slideshow please?

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

While the person you're replying to seems to be trolling, there is a legitimate argument that the BBC is influenced by the current government. The argument is that the current government has had a hand in appointing the current BBC director, and he's a member of the Conservative party or a donor.

I haven't looked into it for a while, so am not up to speed on the details, but if the detractors are correct, it's not a good look for the BBC.

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I blocked a community recently, but found out that the main problem with it was apparently due to one user. I want to unblock the community and block the user instead, but I can't see how.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Another reason on top of what's been mentioned already (although probably minor), is that out of the box, Firefox doesn't let you run multiple instances.

I've been learning to write a web app and updating websites, so have been using PortableApps to launch a second instance of Chrome to double check how everything looks when I'm not logged in. I tried switching to Firefox, but it wouldn't let me open the second instance, meaning that every time I wanted to check the site, I'd have to log out. I check them in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.

I might be a niche case, but I'm already finding it really annoying. I can't imagine how much more frustrating it would be to try to write a browser that can't run at the same time as your preferred browser.

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