https://mecha.so/comet

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer

Et il y a un module de téléphonie.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34586015

Curious on suggestions for airtags, or similar, for tracking important things on flights or other cases where losing the specific item would be too much of a financial / sentimental loss. Anyone doing this from Linux, or from graphene? How is it?

I know lots of you have grown with it so that's just the way it has always been for you and you are used to it, but older gamers, why do you need a launcher?

I've started PC gaming in the mid to late 90s but only when visiting cousins and friends. Got my first PC in 2001. I have some original games but I'm like 99% pirate, especially for "newer stuff" (read: anything that came out in the last 20 years lol). Modus was always the same: run the installer, click the shortcut, play.

I created a Steam account sometime in the late 2010s, I remember I did because I saw they were giving Metro games for free and I wanted to play them, and I started collecting free games that looked cool, but it really really bothered me that I needed to open their store to install and play the games. Even if I made desktop shortcuts their program would run in the background, and usually complain if I was offline... I just found everything so useless... run software to run the software I want to run, why not skip the middleman? Also I have always been on shitty hardware and I didn't like that extra RAM consumption going on in the background.

Eventually I stopped using Steam, deleted my account, and went back to piracy, but with the loss of some trusted trackers and stuff, and me starting running banking and other important shit on the same PC, I decided to start buying games, and then I found GOG, and what a godsend store! When I buy the game I get the installer so I can do whatever I want with it, and I don't need any third party application to install or run them.

I see a lot of people saying they don't buy games from other stores because their launchers are shit... but what do you even need a launcher for? Not having a launcher is my requirement to buy a game lol

‘Why let mere mortals decide CPU priorities when the cosmos can guide us?’ asks the developer.

To be clear, the point of this is to demonstrate the power and flexibility of a new Linux feature in a "haha only serious" way.

Zampieri is clear that this GPL-2.0 licensed project is a “scientifically dubious, cosmically hilarious” work. It definitely isn’t recommended for use in production systems - not because of bugs, but because it works as intended… The dev is still looking to add “more cosmic chaos” to scx_horoscope, so contributors are welcome.

I use Linux Mint and Lutris and i do own all these games, but lost the key or CD over the years. So i wanted to install them on my little Dell Optiplex with an 6th gen i5 and 32gb of ram with integrated intel graphics 730.

You can get any game you want through Archive.org or myabandonware. If you have the .ISO image, just mount it via Image Disk Mounter and use the "i have a windows executable i want to install" through lutris. Find the setup.exe or similarly named .exe file in the iso as the executable for lutris to open. It should install normally like on any windows computer, but create a windows style folder format in it's own folder on your /home folder.

DO NOT LAUNCH THE GAME BEFORE CONFIGURING. You will need to most likely change the game to 32 bit, change the runner options if it doesn't boot with the default Wine runner. You can try Proton, or the System 9, and usually one of them will work. You will also need to change the path of the executable to the correct autorun exe in the folder. Sometimes they can be hard to find, but look in the APPs folders and every folder and for instance Sim City 3000 unlimited was just SCU3.exe and that is the .exe i needed to launch the game correctly.

Some games require winetricks to be enabled, so you can click that box if the game doesn't launch. Same with DGvoodoo, some games like Carmageddon 2 and Sim City 4 only work well with DGvoodoo.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 needs a CD unless you use OpenRCT2, which is a fan made software that works amazing for rollercoaster tycoon and all the expansions. Thanks to the OpenRCT2 creators!

There is an option to make a game windowed and lutris says the option is not supported, but this option is the only way i was able to get Windows Space Cadet Pinball to work.

Game keys can be found many times in the comment sections of archive.org, or you can look up the game on ebay and many sellers will show the key/code on the back of the CD case that you can use.

I have 14 games installed so far and keep finding new games to add. Many of the games run better than they ever did on my old windows equipment.

Any questions, just let me know. But look up tutorials on youtube for step by step instructions and if you run into a problem, let me know.

Games i currently have working 100% Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed CnC Tiberian Sun Red Alert Red Alert 2 The Sims complete collection Sim City 3000 Unlimited Sim City 4 Deluxe Carmageddon Max Pack Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now Carmageddon TDR 2000 Rollercoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack Windows Space Cadet Pinball Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete

Sid Meier's Sim Golf does not work and has many rendering issues as the grass does not show.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/41122324

Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case, which accused the firm of "unlawful and intentional interception and recording of individuals’ confidential communications without their consent and subsequent unauthorized disclosure of those communications to third parties."

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a maker of electronics cables located in Japan.

Under the RFC2606—an official standard maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force—example.com isn’t obtainable by any party. Instead it resolves to IP addresses assigned to Internet Assiged Names Authority. The designation is intended to prevent third parties from being bombarded with traffic when developers, penetration testers, and others need a domain for testing or discussing technical issues. Instead of naming an Internet-routable domain, they are to choose example.com or two others, example.net and example.org.

Output from the terminal command cURL shows that devices inside Azure and other Microsoft networks have been routing some traffic to subdomains of sei.co.jp, a domain belonging to Sumitomo Electric. [...]

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34575435

It is kinda nuts that the alleged warnings of the past were just priming us into thinking it is all ok for them to do.

The UK has announced large-scale policing reforms, including new investments into artificial intelligence and increased Live Facial Recognition (LFR) deployments.

The Home Office has pledged to fund 40 new LFR vans as part of a national program to expand facial recognition capabilities in town centres across England and Wales, according to a white paper published on Monday.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34537889

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34494723

Detailed episode for pairing with the very light "A Great Day for Linux". Hope you enjoy it. Since Lemmy struggles with markdown from Castopod, here is a link to the notes.

noyb has scored another win in its proceedings against Microsoft 365 Education: The Austrian data protection authority (DSB) has decided that the company illegally installed cookies on the devices of a pupil without consent. According to Microsoft’s own documentation, these cookies analyse user behaviour, collect browser data and are used for advertising. Microsoft now has four weeks to comply and cease the use of tracking cookies.

Une liste de 72 noms de femmes scientifiques a été proposée lundi 26 janvier pour rejoindre la frise des savants de la tour Eiffel, aux côtés des 72 hommes déjà inscrits. Sophie Germain, Yvonne Bruhat, Marie Curie, Angélique du Coudray… Découvrez la sélection qui met en avant 250 ans d’avancées scientifiques.