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Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users
  • You don't need a lawyer in small claims. Can also go with a paralegal or just represent yourself.

    But that's not why the small claims is backlogged anyway. I have actually no idea why it's backlogged. I've been a defendant in a small claims court case since 2001 and nothing has progressed except for an arbitration hearing in 2002.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
  • Yes and no. Supposedly the resolution is not in 4K or even 1080p, but something much lower that is still enough to identify content, like shows, movies and ads, but not enough to make out minute detail.

  • How do I make my own internet?
  • I've read a creepy pasta somewhere from this guy's pov, that somehow discovered a computer at one of the businesses they took over as a contracted IT, think car wash or something, and they've ended up discovering a computer in a closet that was networked with other computers in the area to share CSAM and other smut. I forgot how the story ended as it was fairly long, but they were describing the technical non-sophistication of the whole network in great detail. The PCs were basically just networked windows xp workstations or something, without any sort of password protection on them or their shared folders.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
  • No, the point here is that if you use the "smart" features, which includes running apps from their appstore, like Netflix or Disney+, it will not send the data. But if you connect your laptop via HDMI and then play Netflix in your browser, it will, because it's not smart enough to recognize and differentiafe video and audio data coming in through that port. I don't think it matters if it's a DRM enabled browser or not. It should be acting as a second monitor only in those cases, nothing more.

  • Is Google Maps getting worse?
  • Just like their search engine, making you scroll down further and potentially not even wanting you to leave their page, maps is trying to send you into the vicinity of more <insert big brand name who paid the most for ad space> physically so you can go into their store and tell them that you found them along a route suggestion.

    I don't think the above is true. At this point I'm just trying to give them ideas on how to enshittify it more.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
  • Did you go beyond the headline?

    They found the smart TVs did not appear to upload any screenshots or audio data when streaming from Netflix or other third-party apps, mirroring YouTube content streamed on a separate phone or laptop or when sitting idle. But the smart TVs did upload snapshots when showing broadcasts from the TV antenna or content from an HDMI-connected device.

  • How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse
  • I think the mice and keyboard requiring "Chrome" is actually due to WebHID. WebHID is only supported in Chromium browsers. Now here's the fun part, this thread has VIA mentioned a couple times and even though VIA/QMK/ZMK are FOSS, the usevia.app website requires a, you guessed it, WebHID capable browser.

    That said, don't use Logitech keyboards. Sell it to a sucker on local and buy any of the above compatible keyboards instead. Drop CSTM, Luminkey, Keychron, Akko, QK NEO, CK Bakaneko, there's probably couple more that are affordable and quality. Just don't fall for GMMK, Ducky and other pseudo-gaming crap. Also visit !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml and ask questions.

    Not sure about your trackball problem.

  • What do you think about random encounters?
  • Wizardry 7 comes to my mind. My party has been resting for days, trying to recover hp and sp from the last random encounter. And now as I'm jumped and half obliterated again because not everyone in the party woke up immediately to being attacked, it's time to rest for another week.

  • Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party
  • (319,000 / 293,000,000) * 100 = ~0.11%

    Not 0.001%. Unless you were just overexaggerating their insignificance on purpose. However that's then potentially 319k less voters for the Dems.

  • What fruit is tasty on a pizza?
  • Plum with chicken and some bryndza (sheep's milk cottage cheese) was one of the best pizzas I've ever had.

    Also apple, tuna, bryndza.

    I'm just really longing for some bryndza right now.

  • MMKM

    Montreal Mechanical Keyboard Meetup memorabilia. The silhouette is the Olympic Tower.

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    I love KAT Napoleonic

    Top to bottom, left to right:

    • Keyboard Model Name/form factor/color, Switch type@Spring weight, Keycap set
    • Thera 75 v1 navy, UG blacks@60g, KAT Nap French mods + Canadian French/Intl alphas
    • FUNC-KB-460, MX blues, KAT Nap Austrian mods w/ US alphas
    • Vast v1 red, Boba U4s@68g, KAT Nap Austrian w/ Hungarian alphas
    • Neo65 green trimode, Vertex V1s, KAT Nap Russian w/ Cherokee alphas
    • MAMMOTH PAD white, KTT Grapefruit, KAT Nap French numpad
    • MechWild Murphpad w/ nice!nano, JWK Ice Jade, KAT Nap Russian numpad w/ Milo the KNØB
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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)DU
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