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altstore

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that's just dns tho
but yeah, obviously your dns provider can see the dns requests (aka domain names) you're making, that's the whole point of dns server

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there's no alternative tho, and by definition alternatives will have the same level of access...

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they don't offer reasonable free tiers (I don't have a reliable source of income and i just need it for hobby stuff) and I'm unable to sign up with either of those with my ukrainian credit card anyway (they all reject both my credit and debit cards)
well i haven't tried signing up for azure yet but I don't have much hope

also I don't care about it's cdn features, i need a dns server and a way to proxy ipv4 traffic over ipv6 (and cloudflare tunnels for ssh)

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yeah, factory reset protection, it wipes the user data, but will refuse to fully finish setting up the the os after the reset until the google acct is verified..

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you can just use group policy for most windows deshittification needs

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https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/8c4fe044-569f-4a3a-aede-c3da64e61cf1.webp

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that's why I've been doing most of my gamedev stuff on an old craptop from 2016.
performance issues become apparent immediately

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fuck stonetoss.

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until it violently shits itself

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or fiddle with the vm/swappiness value

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it literally just proxies/aggregates google/bing search results tho?

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yeah but that invalidates the "better/cleaner search results" point since it's well basically the same stuff, just without the tracking

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it's on-device

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because you saved it into onedrive?
which is the default save location in ms office unless you switch it to local (it's not like it uploads stuff automatically tho, it's just the default folder it shows you)

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"it's local, for now"
running locally is kinda the whole point of the thing

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running locally using dedicated hardware in snapdragon cpu is kinda the whole point of the thing though.

also it's not really going to work otherwise, think about it for a second. How useful is a "recall" feature that only remembers moments where you were connected to the internet? also processing such a huge amount of data online is not a feasible task.

also the whole point of the locked down "ai" features (and windows 11 itself lol) is to boost hardware sales. they're not going to make it work on other devices through the "cloud" at least for that reason alone.

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or...

Upgrade to Enterprise
(upgrading to enterprise will also remove ads in settings)

in gpo editor:

  • Set updates to Manual
  • set the telemetry level to "Security" in group policy (iirc can also be called "Compliance"). This only works on Enterprise.
  • opt out of Microsoft accounts. This will force account creation to skip right to local accounts as if MS accounts were never a thing. This only works on Enterprise/Pro.
  • disable copilot and integrated bing search

do a full reboot

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privatbank has a similar feature in Ukraine, noone uses it lol
don't get why anyone would ever want this, when you can just tap your phone w google pay

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    estrogen's not a controlled substance tho

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    estrogen is not a controlled substance tho, so not really "illegal", it's more of a legal gray area thing

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    it's more of a "legal gray area" market

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    now we need some sort of hw-accelerated x86_64 layer but for linux

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    Battery life and thermals. really neat for laptops

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    tbh it has been nearly flawless on win11 for me with an amd cpu

    (just make sure to disable automatic windows/defender updates unless you want to get woken up by jet turbine sounds in the middle of the night)

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    not hw accelerated

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    not hw accelerated either

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    both apple m cpus and snapdragon have hardware magic to make translation viable when paired with usermode tools like Rozetta or Prism
    otherwise it's painfully slow, as demonstrated by both box64 and fex.

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    yes, but you'll be missing out on ALL games, none of which are compiled for arm64.
    also no, box64 is not hardware accelerated.
    both snapdragon and apple m series cpus have hardware magic that makes translation viable at all (as demonstrated by box64's (and even fex) piss poor performance)

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    well apple cpus have a hardware flag which slightly changes side effects of some existing arm instructions AND completely changes the memory model to one that imitates Intel x86 for the current thread. (TSO)

    with this flag enabled, the code can be almost fully recompiled ahead-of-time (from x86_64 to arm64) with minimal overhead (no need to remap memory addresses etc), with no reason to resort to e.g. jit recompilation on the fly (which is exactly what box64 does all the time)

    i assume snapdragon and microsoft are doing a similar thing (it definitely involves some hw magic too, maybe not exactly the same as in apple) since it's seemingly the only way to achieve parity with apple in terms of performance

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    ...c can i have one too?

    Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

    Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

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    wdym even a shitty 50mbps connection is enough to watch stuff at 1080p
    heck, even 3g/4g with it's unusable 10-15mbps is still good enough yo stream video at a decent quality

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    but it's not 90s anymore. it's hard to even find a slower connection than 100-300mbps nowadays.
    even in a remote village with nothing but fields in kilometers i got an offer with 100mbps as minimum speed

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    10mbps is not even an option anymore tho for most isps.
    50 is the lowest that's still exists, with most isps offering 100 or 300 as the cheapest option

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    try Poweramp, it's paid but it costs like 10 cents and comes with a 3 day trial (no subscriptions or other bs)
    definitely the most feature packed player with no competition

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    you have to sign out of your account before resetting the phone in order to prevent tripping the protection.
    in case you trip it, you need to enter your credentials, your phone will reboot and do another wipe stage and then will jump right back to the OOBE, fully unlocked.
    iirc the account is not actually saved, just verified

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    also don't see how you could trigger it assuming it expects a very specific movement pattern that includes a sudden movement.
    maybe by dropping your phone but that doesn't happen that often and having to unlock your phone again is the least of your concerns in that case

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    well the whole point of android is to isolate data between apps. that includes your file explorer app.
    still crazy how there's no way to do unencrypted backups from data partition anymore though. the adb backups are deprecated and even though the command still exists it seems broken on android 13 and 14

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    the only reason I'm still using Privacy Badger is the feature that hides embeeded iframe widgets until a "view" button is clicked (for example, embeeded tweets etc)

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    idk if it's optional why bother typing it

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    most likely they don't want to get into any legal trouble and it's like a thing they're rolling out on per country basis rather than creating a blocklist of countries where it's illegal

    Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

    Microsoft's announcement: "We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 and...

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    entire home tab is just ad space and can be disabled
    or just upgrade to enterprise, comes with no ms 365 ads and the home tab is disabled out of the box.
    you'll get literally zero ads or bs like onedrive in built-in apps, and even anti features like ms account login can be disabled (os will just skip right to local account creation)

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    massgrave can activate enterprise by hwid

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    it got patched but they fixed/worked around it.
    successfully activated my enterprise install by hwid in 2023

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    never had issues with gnome on my laptop with 4 gbs of ddr3, actually it's pretty smooth even while running from an 8 year old 5200rpm hdd, even with all the animations and stuff enabled.
    freezes a bit while loading icons in the app menu for the first time after boot but it's really usable once everything gets cached to ram.

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    yeah you need to mess around with snappiness to avoid that
    (so either increase it to make it unload stuff to hdd earlier, leaving more ram for critical stuff, or decrease it to like 5 in order to make it only use swap when absolutely needed)
    basically just mess around with it and see what value works best. i my case 10-15 works more or less okay-ish under full ram load

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    8 is enough if you're not multitasking too much
    wanna play a game? close absolutely everything except maybe discord (if you need it), but keep it in the tray
    wanna look sth up while playing? don't forget to close the browser afterwards

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    interacting with a pump sounds kinda awkward tho, i totally see why some people would prefer some sort of remote control, e.g. an app

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