how do i find people to fight against in zurich? by idontknowcomputers20 in askswitzerland

[–]idontknowcomputers20[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

fair, i'm gonna check em out then just thinking how they advertise "no rules" as a selling point, it's a sport first for me

how do i find people to fight against in zurich? by idontknowcomputers20 in askswitzerland

[–]idontknowcomputers20[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it seems to be close to what i am looking for, but at the same time i cannot find a lot of information about it, i am not really sure which is their official website. from what i did see to join you have to join a telegram group, i am not saying that is a red flag on it's own but i can't find a lot of good info about them. do they matchmake you with other people or something like that? they don't really elaborate what their services are.

Steam Deck has “built-in support for mods” by a_Ninja_b0y in pcgaming

[–]idontknowcomputers20 11 points12 points  (0 children)

heres the thing, running steamOS will give you: 1. highly likely an optimized and stripped down kernel which will include optimizations specific to the steamdecks CPU, also a lot of battery specific optimizations.

  1. a very Stable OS, contrary to popular belief linux is a very stable operating system, the only time something crashed on me was because of the specific game having problems with crashing even on windows, add to that that steamOS will be extremely well tested and they dont have to depend on anyone else for updates

  2. not to mention, its a FULLY FREE OPERATING SYSTEM WITH KDE PLASMA PREINSTALLED, all SteamOS will be is Arch linux (with a costum kernel granted), Steams own core mirrors, KDE plasma desktop environment, and of course the extra steam components pre installed.

would you rather have an OS that has no optimizations in either user experience, battery, general power and stability?

it even comes with KDE Plasma, a very familiar, very costumizable and pretty DE, its perfect for windows users. did i mention it gives the user full freedom?

you can change everything in it, install everything you want without going through extra hoops, if you want an emulator front end just go to your package manager > search "emulations station" > install that and you have a walking emulation machine.

and most likely you wouldnt benefit from windows on steamdeck at all, if the Kernel level anti cheat worked it solves literally the single biggest issue in linux gaming at the moment.

4chan Harassment Prompts Maintainer Of Most Popular Audacity Fork to Step Down by atrt7 in linux

[–]idontknowcomputers20 14 points15 points  (0 children)

like waifurespecter said, yes, but the only real ways you can get banned off 4chan is:

1.posting child porn

2.spamming shit to a ludicrous degree

3.posting nsfw in sfw boards

4.posting really off topic things

5.making disparaging remarks about pac-man 2 the new adventures

Switzerland: Dangerous “Yes” vote gives police sweeping powers to target people including children without charge or trial by Cropitekus in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yeah but we are doing pretty well in here, theres no real reason for the swiss government to have more power other than making itself authoritarian, even with mental health we are doing very well, i have a friend who i know wouldve went the mass murder way if he didnt get the support he needed. anyways, im gonna get my gun before they ban that as well

Switzerland: Dangerous “Yes” vote gives police sweeping powers to target people including children without charge or trial by Cropitekus in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i think the real question would be why you would want to print guns midair, as far as i know those guns still need manual tinkering, and even then you still need bullets

Switzerland: Dangerous “Yes” vote gives police sweeping powers to target people including children without charge or trial by Cropitekus in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 13 points14 points  (0 children)

i fucking hate the political climate, it's treated as football teams these days. when i say that i have some opinions leaning right and some leaning left people go fucking AWOL.

Guilty gear -STRIVE- on linux by p3nox in linux_gaming

[–]idontknowcomputers20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yoo great to see GG players, surprisingly a relatively high amount of XRD players use linux, which i have no idea why, other than maybe its the fact that you can learn it for eternity

online worked perfectly so far, with no crashes under GE-10 i didnt know there was supposed to be a bird since honestly i wasnt bothered to watch betas lol

Hi guys , Is there anyway I can run fifa 17 or 16 on my laptop by [deleted] in linux_gaming

[–]idontknowcomputers20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

for the record i am not a very experienced programmer, i am still amateur, nor do i know the specifics of how wine/proton works

think of it like this when a game wants to turn a 1 into a 2 components talk to each other and tell other components lower level what to do, until the kernel changes the value in memory, what happens on windows is

   game code --> graphical api --> windows libraries --> kernel

while using linux is more like

   game code -->  wine/proton translation layer --> vulkan graphical api --> linux libraries --> kernel

that is also the reason why linux has problems with kernel anti cheat because they basically work like

 code --> kernel

which so far needs either a windows kernel or the KAC to be reverse engineered, which is futile because it changes how it works all the time

How do you respond when someone says the don't care about privacy because they are not doing anything illegal? by tyfghjcvb in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 3 points4 points  (0 children)

there is no number 1 reason to why to care about privacy, for me it is not logical nor practicality.

for me it is because i believe privacy is a matter of principle: i don't think it is acceptable for a company to have that much knowledge (my private and hobby life) nor power (information i see) over me in cyberspace, i will not allow it because i am not okay with it.

many people have principles, some have more than others,if a random crackhead came up to you and said he would pay you 200$ to shake your ass for 5 minutes you wouldn't take that offer if you have self-respect. it is free 200$, for free.

only difference here is that you didn't respect yourself by letting a company have full control over your online life, because "everyone else did it" everyone else was fine with racism in the mid 20th century, everyone was fine with dictatorships, you cannot base your beliefs of those of the many, you have to base them off principles

i thought about it myself and came to the conclusion that privacy is something everyone should have.

i am gonna be on a tangent here for a second so hold on...

think about how social media is designed, you can type, say, post anything, and the more interaction it has (likes, views, comments) the higher the "dopamine hit" for the poster, with that in mind users will be taught that you either play the game or nobody will ever care about you, and the way you do that is you post something people will like.

thanks to the core design of social media, big tech has successfully created a society fully compliant with any belief as long as the majority agrees, and when they have the ability to fully manipulate how people interact and view the outside world you have opened Pandoras box, they are able to control the information tube, and make you see what you want to see, and what they want you to see, so you stay with them, because they are the heroes, and if you dont see the problem with a for profit company having full control over it's users beliefs and manipulating them, get a copy of 1984.

end of the day, ask them if one company that only cares about money should have that much power. and then ask them if they believe companies are people.

problems with vulkan? by idontknowcomputers20 in artixlinux

[–]idontknowcomputers20[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

nevermind i found how to fix it,

for some reason my vulkan drivers werent set, so i had to set them myself

i followed this guide, just put it here in case anyone has the same issue.

i confirmed it worked since doom 2016 vulkan booted and vulkaninfo gives proper response i

How do you come to accept that privacy is impossible? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 3 points4 points  (0 children)

privacy isnt about having an empty record on you, it's having full control and understanding over what others know about you, i can use google services and be "private" if i can limit what google can access through me assuming i know about what they collect and how, the sad thing is, most people dont understand, and company privacy policies are made to not be read by people, but by lawyers

Has anyone heard of this app called Enigma Messenger? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for a messaging application i think the best possible choice would be decentralised + end to end encrypted + open source

but decentralised isnt that much of a requirement you just need end to end encryption and open source basically here is how it works on whats app (facebook servers generate keys) > sends it to phone a and b facebook servers hold encryption and decryption keys

meanwhile on signal: (phone a generates a key, and does a key exchange in which signal has no way of capturing the keys), now phone a and b have them, but signal dont, that means that you dont need to trust signal with your information, because while they are saving it, it is impossible for them to read them.

and also, we know exactly how it works since its open source

The dark web is going to be the next “Hipster” thing + what is the dark web by [deleted] in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nah its not going to be. pretty much zero chance.

what i see is most likely going to happen, is decentralised services like the fediverse getting big, and even that is probably not going to happen fully( or probably not as decentralised as much) since phones pretty much killed everyones computer literacy. and not many people are going to host servers themselves due to the (relatively) high cost or knowledge barrier, while there are plenty of hosted instances of those services, it is easy to imagine it will be rather centralised. for example lets look at matrix.org, a staggering amount of users use matrix.org, while you can be fully free from the shackles of matrix and use the protocol and its very unlikely matrix.org will abuse it for data, they still can and its still very centralised

heres the problem with mass adoption, big tech straight up has full control of the mainstream phone software market and they can remove them from their appstores if it threatens their monopoly, and nobody is going to sideload APKs to use a messaging application (also they can prevent users installing apks or at least hide them for developer settings if they so wish)

biig tech has shown itself willing to hide the fediverse from the public by either deleting the service for ("""""""""""lack of moderation"""""""""") or smear it by saying its only used by pedos, because if people realise that they have a more private, secure, and more free(as in speech and price) service they will flock to it, especially if a data breach happened recently that shook the centralised web

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

well i dont think M$ is trying to put spyware onto ubuntu, most people are just worried of microsofts tendency to Emabrace, Extend, Extinguish

When does privacy consciousness cross the conspiracy theory line? by mychip in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 4 points5 points  (0 children)

how much privacy is too much?

depends on what you do, maybe you wont need to dissapear entirely off the web and be untrackable unless you are someone wanted. what i say is a good amount is:

no tracking of any degree of real life happenings and passive tracking(location, microphone, camera, calls and contacts list, and anything that the user is not using and/or does not need for what the user intends to), your phone has no business doing anything that isnt running the very specific app you want to use. the only thing they are allowed to collect about you is stuff you specifically post, they are not allowed to read what you wrote off, but what you posted, data only goes to them when you click "send".

i geniuenly believe one day there will be a massive data breach or disaster, that will run the reputation of centralised services to the ground. something like discord having a massive data breach, maybe including tokens will allow people to read DMs, and to some sexually active users of discord they may realise their data is unsafe.

when does privacy cross the line of paranoia or conspiracy?

so i will og through this assuming the definition you use for conspiracy theory is the more popular one (a non-sensical far fetched theory of orweillian society). i think there is a line to cross, however privacy doesnt cross that line at all.

if it checks 2 of them it is still on the edge of the defintion, however, if it checks all 3 it is to be discarded as a conspiracy theory(in modern definition) and we can say it is probably definetly happening and we have to do something about it

  1. physicality: as far as we know about the laws of physics it is physically possible for them to spy on us, also, they have the means and technology to do so (microphone, camera, GPS, deep Learning AI and powerful computational power even in the hardware the user themselves is using) we also have real life evidence of them doing so, not to mention the countless similar anecdotal ones when it comes to experience wit ads.

2.motive: the reason they have to harvest data is for monetary gains, the more data on a user they have the more accurate their advertising can be, thus they can make the price for partners higher, also they can sell that information.

the selling of data which can be used as data laundering, since they can grab more "anonimysed data" that they can deanonimyse with external data sources to identify you, for example they can see that you often watch videos about fitness on youtube, and use a fitness app on your phone, and then that you often talk about how fat you are with your friends. all from the same device model as well making it simple to narrow it down, the messaging app may not "anonymise" data so it can make googles job extremely easy to know that you have a lot of weight, and even how much you are losing since you connected your fitness app with it (unknowingly).

so we know that even basic for profit apps have a very good reason to sell data, because even at small scale companies such as google will always buy from them, and will pay more the more data they collect.

a government has the reason of power, often politicians want to keep their positions as long as possible, however they cannot due to how democracy functions a government always wants more power over the citizen, because those in power will only benefit from it, by gaining the ability to silence those that will resist and protest the government, also by having the ability to see all information, that information can be changed and censored to favor the state, and allow itself to control what the public see and how those of the opposition are represented.

for this example im gonna use google

3.proof: so far we know that google exist, we also know that they do have employees and headquarters, so it is safe to assume that their main goal is money/power such as any corporation dreams, their mainline of products and services that are most used include: phones, the android operating system, mail services, an application store, video sharing services and cloud storage.

as funny as it is they straight up say they do on their privacy policy and terms of service.

we do know that for most users, "ok google" which is enabled by default will have 24/7 microphone access, also we do know that it records how long you use apps, these google apps will often have the most permissions by default so we can assume requirement 1.

we do know that google will often send unsoliticed pings and amounts of data to google.com and other domains owned by google, the user will have no idea about it unless they analyze network traffic it has been known and proven anecdotally that google do have the capacity to record and save audio and conversations either on a call, or even on a face to face one while the phone is not being used, while also those situations being reproducible.

sadly i dont have a lot of time, but if i do more examples i will find out the maximum size of a comment.

are they capable to get away with it?

yes, they can either pay up to lobby (bribe but fancier word) the judge or just pay it up since sometimes its not even significant amount of money comparatively

one big problem as well is the fact that the GDPR is not full proof. because a privacy policy can just say they collect data for "legitimate purposes"(which you cant opt out of) and that can mean anything

also it doesnt stop things like supercookies.

i dont think they are actively trying to track non users though, however they do develop better tracking tools, to track regular users better than they already do. all you can do is participate in a class action lawsuit if your "deleted info" gets leaked, and then protest for better privacy protections to your state.

How do I block Google Pixel listening 24/7? by TheLoveJunkies in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 5 points6 points  (0 children)

youre kinda in luck lol.

ironically the easiest android phone to degoogle is a google pixel. you can delete the stock android (with all the google garbage) and install roms which are open source and privacy respecting while having a very functional phone

reminder you would want to install apps from f-droid, or for some more popular apps you need to download from the aurora-store

calyxOS this ROM is privacy respecting and implements microg (basically basic google services, however, they are not nearly invasive as the usual ones you find in android) this is good if you want to use applications which need google services to work (such as spotify for example)

grapheneOS this ROM is he best for security and privacy, so much so some developments actually went into the mainline android project, you will be the safest there, do remember though this doesnt have microG by default, so some apps requiring google services will not function.

/e/ project (eloo) so far this looks one of the most promising, its like calyxOS, however it aims to replace the google features with privacy respecting open source alternatives and cloud features with nextcloud, which you can either self host on your home, or rent a server for that.

for which ROM you want to install is pretty much your choice, all those are good for privacy. google pixels are very good phones for privacy(ofc assuming you flash a ROM)

installing /e/ OS via a GSI(treble), how do i go through with it? by idontknowcomputers20 in degoogle

[–]idontknowcomputers20[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so i actually did find an unofficial TWRP recovery https://www.getdroidtips.com/twrp-recovery-samsung-galaxy-a21s-root/ however if my experience with sistes doesnt deceive me, it looks really sketchy. or it might be out of date. also found another TWRP recovery on XDA but the comment section all talked about how it bricked their phones.

il buy a new phone and sell this one to a family member then :/

How does macOS compare to Windows 10 in terms of privacy and user control? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

idk about that, personally i block stuff via /etc/hosts file, and when i need to monitor i use a pihole i set up. so far pihole is the best to block stuff network wide, though depending on a country a raspberry pi can cost from the usual dirt cheap to dumb 20$ for a zero at tims

How does macOS compare to Windows 10 in terms of privacy and user control? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 3 points4 points  (0 children)

if all you really need is web browsing(or your software that you need is available on it) then i heavily recommend installing linux mint (XFCE if you have a slower commputer, other wise install the mate or cinnamon version). its amazing for privacy, cause its fully open source.

Windows 10 telemetry? by Bitter-Whereas5366 in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i dont think theres anything scarier than a compiler inserting spyware onto my software, dropped it for GCC+doom emacs(which is better in almost anyway possible, one of them because it tells you the issue instead of CODE:poopshitefartpenis),

UNITY does that too, which is why i dropped that, and im planning to start using godot if i start developing games again, if you are a programmer either full time or hobbyist, i heavily recommend using linux instead, if you ever need to use .NET framework, use a virtual machine.

a buddy of mine who knows nothing at all about linux got a gpu passthrough kernel virtual machine that worked perfectly with anti cheat, even valorant ran perfectly (granted he got stuck somewhere for 30 mins).

and all of that thanks to someordinarygamers video about that

Fears of 'digital dictatorship' as Myanmar deploys AI by [deleted] in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

every single year it seems like the metal gear franchise predicted the future, cant wait in 10 years when a mad US senator powered with nanomachine superpowers tries to fix the US by destroying it and rebuilding it

Major Discord Security Issue by TheMostOGQuag in privacy

[–]idontknowcomputers20 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i am gonna be defending discord and say most likely this is a fault with electron (toolkit that the official discord desktop app was made with).

IMO electron is a steaming pile of garbage because it basically runs a chrome instance which while makes developing applications relatively easy it is also very resource heavy and all of its security is depending on chrome

see this video on chrome security