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  • I wouldn't be the faithful Final Fantasy patron I am today had it not been for a ROM of FF VI my old room mate put on my computer back in college. Now I own nearly ALLLLL of them (the ones available on modern platforms). I've also started investing in the Trails series for a similar reason and I don't regret it.

  • I don’t think there’s anything scary about LLMs. They’re just fancy computer algorithms that print out the most likely response to any given query based on the data it was trained on. The actual scary part are the idiots who somehow confuse it with real intelligence, who then choose to rely on it for important stuff like policy making.

    LLMs would have told you the sun revolved around the earth back when that was standard thinking.

  • I suddenly started to get a bunch of connection attempts from the FBI.

    How can I observe connection attempts like this?

  • Thank you for the detailed answer. I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about using tor browser, considering how privacy-minded the community tends to be.

  • What effect would using Tor browser to access a non onion site have over using a different, privacy-focused browser? Honest question. I assumed Tor browser was no different than other browsers in that aspect.

  • Is there an ELI5 for what NextDNS is/does? I downloaded and enabled it because I see it recommended often enough, but I have no idea what it does for me or if there's anything else I need to be doing with it.

  • It's really worth reading the article.

    Tor can be used for any internet browsing you usually do. The key difference with Tor is that the network hides your IP address and other system information for full anonymity.

    The company behind a VPN can still access your information, sell it or pass it along to law enforcement. With Tor, there’s no link between you and your traffic, according to Jed Crandall, an associate professor at Arizona State University.

    I don't know if it's even possible, but it would be cool if I could use the fediverse over TOR just for the sake of supporting TOR. Not sure if there would have to be specific .onion instances, if normal instances could just be mirrored with a .onion address, or if a .onion instance would even be able to federated in the first place. I just don't know how it works.

    Other use cases may include keeping the identities of sensitive populations like undocumented immigrants anonymous, trying to unionize a workplace without the company shutting it down, victims of domestic violence looking for resources without their abuser finding out or, as Crandall said, wanting to make embarrassing Google searches without related targeted ads following you around forever.

    I'm certain an all-out legislative war would be waged against TOR if it were to become popularized for most of those reasons, under the more convenient guise of "criminals and children!"

  • They still haven’t? I bought the game on Mac years ago. I had the latest MBP at the time, the last intel machine before they announced the M class chips, and the game just couldn’t run. I contacted squeenix and they refused to refund me. Basically said it was wine’s fault my computer wasn’t supported despite advertising Mac on their website.

    I ended up playing through the game in PlayStation, but I had assumed they would have got it working on the m class chips by now.

  • Are xbox games typically available on steam deck, or would you specifically need a windows system?

  • Also, the PS2/3/4 all had hardware revisions, then the 4 had a Pro model. The PS5 will inevitably do the same eventually, and get a boost in sales numbers for it.

  • If anyone is interested, I have a magazine on kbin dedicated to retroid devices.

  • You know what will make kids immediately and tangibly safer? A complete ban on firearms. You know what would make their lives immediately and tangibly better? More school funding, less book banning, better paid teachers, better paid parents, affordable healthcare, parental leave…

    This bill “protects children” in name only.

  • Thank you for announcing the rhetorical question. I don’t think I would have been prepared for that.

  • I expect it to be worse next year, and even worse the year after that.

  • It would be pretty nifty if you could at least install PS classics on this thing and play them natively with trophy support. I’m not expecting that to be the case, though.

  • You want to block users from visiting your site, go for it. But you should quit "virtue signaling" yourself that people need to just volunteer their privacy for the internet to even exist. Tracking is only necessary for rich corporations to get get richer by brokering surveillance data, and all we really get in turn is an ad for diapers on a tech blog instead of what might have been flash storage or something. It's dumb.

  • I had like 2 posts that I considered useful. They were guides on how to get twin stick controls on goldeneye 007 emulation for android and how to make CHD compression work on apple silicon. Rather than delete them, I copied them over to kbin then replaced the Reddit posts with links to those. That way Redditors can still access the guides, but they’ll have to leave Reddit and see a little fediverse to do it.

  • Hell yeah! You rock and don’t you forget it.