MrSilkworm

Hi, Your dedicated local Secret Service agent here.

We don’t need your smartphone to access your data. We have surveillance equipment for that. That is why we can scan the qr code of your ID app and do the checks we need.

If you want us not to track you, you need a degoogled smartphone and use cash exclusively. Also you could use a vpn while you browse the interwebs, but we ll still be, eventually, able to see where you browse.

BTW we don’t stop randomly ppl on roadblocks. You or your car or your route or all of the above was of concern for us.

Video games always used to be an economic way of entertainment. With an amount equal to a restaurant dinner you could be entertained for hundreds of hours.

Nowadays, video games follow the trend of enshitification. Low quality, repeated material, bad gaming experience, data hoarding, the need to be always online even for a single player game and of course, the “you don’t own, we can take it away anytime we want” mentality.

According to the court rulling, if you essentially want to play retro games, you should find a way to access the original hardware and run the software in mostly proprietary mediums like cartridges that could be damaged or corrupted. And the reason you can’t do it is because you may actually have fun!

This ruling is so bongers it blows my mind.

So you should never, ever ever

1. Use emulators like Retroarch
2. Find the ROMs of various systems you like in various “archives” through the interwebs for research purposes ofcourse
3. Use a frontend like ES-DE or launchbox to make things look beautiful.
4. Scrape content through screenscraper or something similar to make your frontends even more beautiful. 5.Keep in mind that this combo ( Retroarch + frontend) works in mostly cross platform (windows, Linux, android etc.)

After all, as a researcher you have to be able to tinker a little bit.

Enjoy your research ;)

I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee…

*cries at Greek

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I’m sincerely envy. I wish I could do the same.

I inderstand fully. I used ti go through the same. At the same time I noticed a big difference when i got married. And a huge one when i had kids. Having a child and being responsible for it is a life changing situation. I tell my self that i became an adult not when i turned 18 but when i became a parent. When this happened to me, my perspective about work stoped revolving about being the best, and turbed to be just and help others be better. That made me soon to realize that those 2 cannot get always together.

Tldr: work 2 live > live 2 work

The end of hope of accumulation of wealth has driven liberated a lot of people from the need of a daily grind. Thats why we see the silent resignation, the negative responses to RTO and the “lack” of workforce. This is actually not a bad thing, if only the filthy-wealthy weren’t activelly working to destroy olthe only planet we can live on

I can speak Greek and I’m still terrified when math speaks Greek

As everyone else here, I think piracy is illegal and immoral. We should accept that we don’t own our services and software and we should never doubt that corporations have our best interest in mind.

Therefore you should never have a Plex server, never use protonmail, never use AdGuard Home, never use AdGuard DNS for private DNS.

Also you should never use Firefox with UBlock origin sponsorblock and consent o magic.

Lastly you should never ever use re-vanced and x-manager, and God forbid don’t use a VPN

Edit: syntax

If I may ask, how did you do the automations with Home assistant?

Firefox with add-ons. Especially, but not only, Ublock Origin.

You’re finally awake in death row and then spend the whole adventure, shouting to others, trying to avoid knee injury

☝️this /s