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hornedfiend ,

Going to terminate account now. Good luck with that shit Paypal

hornedfiend ,

i went Pixel and never looked back. Samsung was the worst for me,not even considering that Knox crap.

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...

hornedfiend ,

I'm really struggling to remember when 's the last time I played an EA game. I can't really...

Let them monetize everything until oblivion,no one's gonna stop them anyway,so they might as well slowly die.

hornedfiend ,

or 0.99/post.each retweet would cost you an additional 0.49. you pay less,you get less.

hornedfiend ,

Today I installed arch on my dad's computer. he can't use one,but it's a win nonetheless.

hornedfiend ,

This comment is simply wrong. Linux doesn't compete with Windows desktop because it's already ahead of it.

hornedfiend ,

or you can use cachyos. running V3 packages on vanilla arch makes it more prone to breakage.

hornedfiend , (edited )

Does it beat Bitwarden though? Bitwardan has supported at least 2 services for me using passkeys ,one of which is google.

I might be misunderstanding this,but it doesn't seem like proton beat anyone to anything.

Edit for info: https://bitwarden.com/passwordless-passkeys/

hornedfiend ,

Right,yeah,that's true for mobile indeed.

Sad that these sort of features are paywalled.

hornedfiend ,

Sounds like BBS from back in the day.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

hornedfiend ,

I have it on my contract free pixel 6 bought from Google store.

hornedfiend ,

You have no idea how much I regret buying a Canon Pixmass printer on offer for 50€. I should have just sucked it up and coughed up 100 more to get a damn Brother laser printer.

Well,at least now I get to replace ink cartridges every week or so and I get to print my ass on photographic paper.

Live and learn I guess.

hornedfiend ,

I hope this also means not showing the thousand "setup" screen needed to install the os,post install.

That is single-handedly the worst thing ever and only Apple manages to compete with such tactics.

hornedfiend ,

For some people Windows is the PC,like Chrome is the internet and they only "google" things. What a world...

hornedfiend ,

Or... And hear me out, Molly FOSS with Unified Push notifications. Problem solved!

hornedfiend ,

After being on Graphene for the past 2 years,I decided to reinstall with no google at all,since my bank app now works without any google services dependencies.

hooray for me,I'm finally free and can profit from multiuser installed sandboxed services in another user profile if needed.

Glad to be out of this downward spiral.

hornedfiend ,

sorry,I realized now I didn't mention what I reinstalled and it's still Graphene,but with no Google services framework installed. Pure stock Graphene with only their apps.

hornedfiend ,

I can. They have their own payment app.

hornedfiend ,

It does. It's not without flaws,but 80% of the time it works fine (it has a bug where it loses configured card when switching between multi users - so that's painful,but it's a tinfoil level choice on my part).

Most banks provide their own payment apps to use with NFC payments,but I agree Google Pay is by far better and works perfectly out of the box.
But it's google. Next ad would be related to some of your purchase history,so your data is shamelessly farmed.

hornedfiend ,

That's some profitable irony right there. I don't disagree with people using stuff the way the want to,but I do prefer choice. Luckily for me I live in EU ,so privacy and choice is more or less still a thing, allegedly.

If that works for you,great. It's a good tip for others as well. I do spend around 70€/2 years of PIA,but I think that's reasonable.

hornedfiend ,

Netscape Navigator has the same issue!

hornedfiend ,

why the fuck would I need an AI in a browser? 0 fucks given for this "feature". firefox is devolving into an edge.

hornedfiend ,

Nothing to see here. just shows how different gaming companies are,with Ubisoft being a greedy sack of shit, barely being able to innovate anymore.

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