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ward2k

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  • Meta Threads is going to be Fediverse compatible. Meta taking a shot at Reddit?

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  • EEE famously doesnt work very well, Microsoft who coined the phrase even gave up on it after a number of unsuccessful attempts

    I wish people would stop spamming EEE

  • Halo Infinite lost 98% of its players on Steam since release

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  • Sure but Online dropped first for free so people were happy to pick it up on Steam

    The campaign release was later and was included within GamePass so people made the switch then, in fact there was a large drop in Steam numbers the month after the release of Campaign likely due to people swapping over to GamePass

    I'm not denying a loss in player count across all services, that absolutely has happened (and to a degree is expected to happen no game maintains the peak players) i'm saying that Steam metrics are very poor for tracking Microsoft releases

    Sea of thieves has lost around 66% of average players compared to 2020 on Steam despite the fact it actually has a much larger active player count now (Though of course less than the 2021 peak)

  • Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others?

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  • Few critiques, not personally towards you at all but I really don't think people should follow this approach

    People can have hundreds of different passwords across various sites this really isn't achievable

    Human memory is terrible as well, it's not a matter of if you forget it's when

    Storing in a standard notes file is absolutely terrible security, it's also extremely unusable once you have more than a couple passwords

    I really suggest to people using a password manager, most of them have apps for your phone and plugins for your web browser to allow you to autofill. They also allow you to randomly generate passphrases/codes for different sites and the autofill means you never have to remember a single one whilst having extremely strong passwords

    I'd recommend looking into either Bitwarden or 1Password

  • Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others?

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  • You absolutely should look about moving away from LastPass and to something such as Bitwarden/1Password

    LastPass has had major security breach a while back and plays very fast and loose with it's security. It is not recommended

  • Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others?

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  • It absolutely shouldn't be possible compromised or not for someone who has gained unlawful access to start pushing malicious code to production as long as proper security is in place

  • Halo Infinite lost 98% of its players on Steam since release

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  • I think it's worth mentioning the most of players of Infinite don't play it through steam but rather through gamepass on PC

    The vast majority of players are also on Xbox, Steam metrics are a pretty terrible view in this instance

  • Which Megathread should we use

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  • It seem the pinned thread has been removed discussing the change of megathread on r/Piracy (as far as I can see), it had a link to a new megathread, stating that a mod had write access to the previous one and had started writing comments about the new mod team (though personally I could not see any such comments in the megathread)

    It might have been some kind of mistake or misunderstanding then?

  • r/Piracy probably needs a rethink

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  • I do kind of think Reddit will be very hesitant about assigning mods to piracy subreddits since it might look like them encouraging piracy

    In all honesty in surprised Reddit hasn't been more heavy handed removing subs like these

  • r/Piracy probably needs a rethink

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  • The wiki on r/piracy is just the megathread, as far as I know they're one and the same

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    Google is preparing to kill Waze

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  • But you can also report police speed traps on Google Maps too? (At least in the UK not sure if it differs by country)

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    Google is preparing to kill Waze

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  • In fairness this has been built into Google maps now as well

    I did previously use Waze but honestly lately Google Maps seems to have overtaken it in functionality

  • Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts

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  • An error log for some Scala code, tried the usual thing of Googling full error log, key words etc and nothing really returned any actual useful results (or none at all)

    Put the full log into Bing and the first few results were straight from stack overflow and a raised GitHub issue describing the errors cause

  • repost: Should r/Piracy continue protesting?

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  • I think people on r/piracy need to see the writing on the wall. Reddit is getting rid of 3rd party clients, is obviously not happy with large subs swapping to NSFW content and is trying to push for things to be as advertiser friendly as possible

    At some point they're going to go after piracy subs more aggressively which is probably why it's better to make the switch earlier rather than later

    I see a lot of comments there saying when that happens "they'll just make a new sub" missing the fact once Reddit starts banning piracy users/subs the new ones that spring up in its place will only last a week or two before being banned again

  • repost: Should r/Piracy continue protesting?

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  • I feel like 90% of the questions on there anyway are just pointless if people actually read the megathread

    "What is a good site for movies", "how do I torrent", "should I use a VPN" "help I've got a virus"

    All questions that get repeated daily

  • Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts

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  • Honestly Google Search in general seems to get worse every year, for work any kind of niche issue involving errors returns no results on Google (literally no results), tried plugging the same search into Bing and the first 5 results were actual answers on solving the error

    It amazes me how a search engine once considered a massive joke is able to outperform Google

  • People don't seem to realize how much power users have over their platform (Reddit)

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  • I think the most annoying part was users flip flopping about the protest in the anti-protest camp

    First it was that the blackout would be pointless and for the protest to succeed it would need to be more disruptive

    Once subs tried to remain indefinitely closed, allow no new posts, allow NSFW content or only allow posts of a joke nature. Suddenly the anti-protest group said it was too far, ruining the site for regular users etc

  • FIRESTICK

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  • Think addons4kodi is the better place but i'm happy to help

    You'll want to use the built in browser on downloader to search for Kodi. Go to https://kodi.tv/ click on download and select android ARMV7A

    Once downloaded youll want to open Kodi and enable allow unknown sources in settings (this will let you use Piracy addons)

    Take a pick of your addons, most people recommend using Fen and paying for real debrid (non debrid Kodi Is pretty terrible) it's cheap and allows you access to 4k content and far more availability of sources to choose from

    I'd recommend Googling "how to install Fen" and it'll walk you through the steps (though ignore when it tries to recommend VPN's you don't need them when using a Debrid service)

    Edit: Other than that the thing would be to use a Skin, however since you've mentioned that it's an older Firestick I'd just avoid using one since it'll be extremely slow and probably crash a lot

    There's also Trakt that you can link with most addons, it'll allow you to keep track of Episode/movie progress

  • Fedidb.org recommends to use active users stats instead of total users stats.

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  • Out of curiosity how has Kbin got more active users, it seems like the majority of subs jumped ship to Lemmy instances

    Similarly the majority of current/planned apps for iOS/android are all targeted towards Lemmy

    Edit: I guess a question about how active users are calculated, something like 90% of Reddit users don't comment/post and I'd assume it would be similar here so would feel weird to exclude them though I guess the stats are going to be a bit wacky for a while regardless

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  • From experience windows only seems to screw grub If they're installed on the same drive, I use seperate drives for windows/Linux and haven't noticed any issues