The site you've linked to literally uses Facebook and Google browser trackers. Pretty hypocritical of them if you ask me.

Thanks so much. Every bit helps. I noticed only 4 people dumped their 3DS data and 0 people dumped their Wii U data in the past couple of hours, so there's going to be a very small amount of extra dumps by Apr 8th at this rate. I'm gonna continue sharing as much as I can. I was gonna go share on r/technology on Reddit, but saw that one of their rules explicitly forbids posts that are a "call to action". What a stupid rule, why even stipulate that?

It's not good to ever keep random accounts abandoned. It's just good security and often privacy hygiene that most people don't practice. I already have over 100 accounts total across the internet, and am planning to skim that number down drastically. It's especially important security & privacy hygiene, because if you leave dozens of accounts abandoned and the services experience a data breach, the fact that your data is now out there is partially your own fault, and since we're on the english-speaking side of the internet, I doubt we're going to hear about a data breach for some random Japanese site.

This isn't correct, you're getting confused between StreetPass and SpotPass. Yes, SpotPass is a wireless tech, but it has nothing to do with connecting to other 3DS's or Wii U's (and the Wii U did not have StreetPass; only SpotPass). A StreetPass-like feature would be pointless on a Wii U because you couldn't take it out of the house without it losing range from the console. The 3DS on the other hand, had both features. So yes, the SpotPass did provide you with "DLC's", but it did not have the same features as StreetPass.

Also, the users' profile and their favourite game was shown in the friends list, which was not a part of SpotPass. I can't remember for sure if you needed a Nintendo Network account for adding friends, but I do know that you can add friends offline through the local network, but this does not use the SpotPass network, as the SpotPass network requires internet (and most games which had SpotPass warned you of this prior to activation).

The local wireless connection used in the friends list is the same connection used in local multiplayer games, the same as how it works on the Nintendo Switch.

I don't think I've used Google Chrome itself for over 3 years now (excluding on other people's devices). I don't plan to ever use it again either.

I don't think the article was trying to imply that they weren't already in use in electric cars, just that they would be better for them.

I'm going to be moving into a van in the next few years full-time, travelling around Australia and using gyms for showers and, well, exercise. I don't know if it's already an issue over here or not, but I sure hope it won't be by the time I can move out in the van full-time, cause this is one of the best ways of accessing showers without building one into the van.

You mustn't have looked at many games then. As someone who 95% only buys games from GOG, and has a wishlist of 190+ games, the vast majority of the games on the wishlist have DRM in their Steam versions.

I heard the name Linux from Minecraft being available on "Windows, Mac, & Linux" when I was maybe 12-13 (2014-15), but I never looked into it, and all I thought of it was it was some kind of really obscure operating system. I wondered why I'd never seen a Linux computer in tech stores. And Windows seemed perfectly fine, so why would I need to use it? "It probably has some crazy UI that nobody can understand"(except I didn't know what 'UI' was at that age)

That's back than... I've been using Linux as my daily driver now since mid 2021, and I've been on Manjaro for nearly 1 & a half years.

However, I've met barely anyone who even knows what "a Linux" is. I've met a guy who was only using Kali Linux because he wanted to hack or something; and a friend at my church who manages a lot of the technology and computers: him and his father tried using Ubuntu about 10 years ago when he was a late teen. Than there's another guy at my church who, despite never having used Linux in his life; surprisingly new a lot about it and was able to help me solve a display issue I was having earlier this year. I've nearly gotten my Mum onto Linux Mint for her laptop 😂, because she really only makes documents, browses websites, and checks emails, and really doesn't need to be paying for Windows & having updates forced on her regularly. As a matter of fact, I'm downloading it for her as I type.

No worries, glad I could reach you!

Why worry about the fact that there's lots of options that emulate the Mac look, when there are many options that don't? My favourite Desktop Environment currently is KDE Plasma, which I use on Manjaro. It's more like the Windows design but in my opinion way better, and of course ridiculously customisable (which is what KDE Plasma is known for, especially compared to Windows 10/11). Also the exit, minimize, and maximize buttons I for some reason absolutely love so much better than anything else I've seen (no, they look nothing like Mac). My other favourites are Budgie, Cinnamon, and Mate which are all great options. Budgie's great for the minimalistic design while still looking very modern and clean. And besides, which DE's are you talking about when you say they are emulating Mac? Most, if not all of them allow you change the "Red, Yellow, Green" buttons to the more traditional Windows look, and move them to the right side of the Window from the left.

Truly Truly, I say unto you, install Linux; it's what you really must do.

https://linuxmint.com/

How is the meme acknowledging that GOG installers are shared in groups? This doesn't say anything about sharing anything in a group, other than "My game has no DRM, and yours does"

Yeah, scrubbing it like that is usually a last resort, I generally try to delete the profile, and if I can't, I scrub it with unidentifiable information. If I already happen to know from the policy that they keep your data for a period of time after deletion, I scrub it before deleting.

Take my word with a grain of salt, but as far as I understand with my limited knowledge, you do not own the content stored on the disc; however, you do own the physical medium itself. That is how game stores are allowed to sell you second hand games. They aren't selling you the disc contents, they are selling you the disc. Regardless, readers, do your own research and don't take the word of random people on Lemmy including myself.

Thanks. This did technically stop the monsters from spawning, kind of. They still spawn, but teleport beneath the world within milliseconds, but long enough for me to see them appear and immediately disappear. So I tested this in a new creative world and set the time to midnight, and you can see dozens of monsters spawning on the screen and immediately flashing away. So the world is just full of flashing monsters everywhere and extremely distracting.

It actually works like this in the FreeTube app on PC or NewPipe on Android. It feels so much better having my own home page showing only videos who I'm subscribed to. Plus another added benefit is that you can put your subscriptions into categories, which is a great way of filtering down to the exact type of video's you feel like watching at the time. FreeTube personally stopped my unhealthy video-watching habits almost instantly, which were basically psychologically trained into me by YouTube's algorithm.

I'm 21 and it scares me how much I've already forgotten from when I was 14-17. I'm so glad I found an old USB of mine lately with hundreds of photo's on it that bring back all the memories. I didn't realise life memories go away so fast. You think you remember your past. But when you look at it, you realise that you really don't remember a very large amount of it.

Thankyou, that fixed it! Didn't realise I had done that. On the web client, there's a little note above the languages list that says "Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content." This confused me because I thought it was saying that "undetermined" needed to be selected in order to see most content. So after clicking another language, I re-selected "Undetermined" to make sure the language would remain as it was. So I think the wording of the little note mislead me and caused me to do the wrong thing. I clicked "Save" after that, not knowing that I'd disabled English posts.

I still don't fully understand that little note, because if I select English, then "Undetermined" is automatically deselected; but I still see most content (including what's on my profile). But if I specifically select "Undetermined" and save the changes, than the posts become invisible, even though that's what the note seemed to be trying to make sure I did.

The note seems to be saying "Keep Undetermined selected" in order to keep seeing most content, while in reality, selecting "Undetermined" makes most content disappear. Do you see what I'm trying to say?

Edit: Re-worded some of the second paragraph and split it into two, because I had an incomplete sentence that didn't make sense. Oops; ironic.

Thanks for asking. I asked on the Discord server, and I was told that the Pretendo Network devs are also asking for network dumps for games that have online multiplayer support, and that you can find out about it on their website. I haven't found where on the site he was talking about yet, but I'm going to look further into it tomorrow to see if I can get any of mine dumped.