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Chais, to privacy in Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches
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The storage requirements might be ever so slightly prohibitive.

Chais, (edited ) to piracy in What is the upgrade path for Baldurs Gate3?
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It’s not about being helpful in the sense of just answering the question at hand. If OP just wanted the question answered they can just Google it. Instead I wanted to offer an alternative, low risk solution.
While Ubisoft, EA and consorts can easily stomach some piracy and still crank out “AAA” titles in a 6-months interval, it hurts small studios relatively more. Buying and returning, on the other hand, offers a way to give feedback to the studio via the return reason and costs just as little as piracy.

Chais, (edited ) to privacy in Targeted Ads are a Cybersecurity Risk
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I’m not saying it was always the case. Back when ads were just images hosted on the same machine as the rest of the page they were only annoying.
But nowadays even so-called acceptable ads are delivered by third-party servers. So suddenly you have to trust not only the operator of the page you’re visiting but also any advertising partners they use. And since all modern advertising uses a gazillion of metrics that necessitates JavaScript you end up executing code that neither you nor the page operator have any actual need for nor influence on, hoping that the ad network has some sort of vetting process so they don’t end up unwittingly delivering malware.
That’s a tall order in my opinion.

Chais, to piracy in What is the upgrade path for Baldurs Gate3?
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ProtonDB says it’s decent, the game is Steamdeck verified plus you can return it with under two hours playtime, so I’d just buy it.
Any upgrade path with a pirated version should be completely irrelevant.

Chais, to privacy in Targeted Ads are a Cybersecurity Risk
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All ads are a cybersecurity risk, not just the targeted ones. The targeted ones just offer new and exciting vectors.

Chais, (edited ) to piracy in What is the upgrade path for Baldurs Gate3?
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Buy it. Larian is a small studio that put a lot of effort and love into that game. If you like what they do, support them. You can get it DRM free on GOG, so you get to actually own it.

Chais, to piracy in Anyone using Lidarr?
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Yes, but consider ownership.

Chais, to memes in Not such a conspiracy theory now
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Oh, so it’s all about consent? Huh.

Chais, to linux in Linux Sound Device Manager
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pavucontrol probably the best option given your distro. Go with that.

Chais, (edited ) to memes in This needs to be a well-defined psychological principle. I do stuff like this all the time
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I never learned how that happened. We suspected that someone might have sneakily applied them during production or before delivery, as the trains were brand-new.
I doubt they were “official” stickers 😉

Chais, (edited ) to memes in This needs to be a well-defined psychological principle. I do stuff like this all the time
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When the Munich public transport introduced new trains around 20 years ago some of them had porn images stuck to the inside of legs of some of the benches. You can be sure that teenage boys find them.
The numbers quickly dwindled but it took the company years until they had them all removed.

Chais, to linux in Ricing Linux
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Ain’t that the truth. But I love the workflow they offer. You don’t have to go looking for new windows. You can easily pin applications to virtual desktops and I prefer the multihead model they use over the one used by gnome or KDE.

Chais, to privacy in NixOS
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So we have to piece information together from the manual and random blogs? Like cavemen? Or worse, like Windows users??

Chais, to science_memes in 🦃 happy turkey day 🦃
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Took me a sec.

Chais, to memes in Whatever, I'll use it and abuse it.
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Yea, but people don’t play the same game non-stop for 8 hours… actually, never mind.

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