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Andrew just wants to open his files on Windows 10
  • It’s quite common to login as admin on windows though (in home setups), you’ll still have to authenticate for administrative tasks (the UAC popups).

    The issue here is mostly that the user has probably upgraded and windows changed their account, resulting in the files being owned by their old account.

    In linux, that’s fixable with ‘sudo chmod -R’

    In Windows, there’s no built-in way, you need the take ownership script.

  • ‘Hard to argue against’: mandatory speed limiters come to the EU and NI
  • Worse is the other way around, but if you then speed because the system doesn’t work, it’s of course still your own fault.

    I know why they want it and I mostly agree, but they’re massively downplaying the reliability concerns, saying it is “usually correct” (It’s not) and “data will improve”, conveniently ignoring that these underlying systems aren’t new and the data has consistently sucked over its entire lifetime. They don’t provide a target date by which they want this data to be available, so it will never be.

    Anecdotally, on a 30km drive, my car (which receives updates to nav data over cellular) is wrong 5-10 times, in both directions.

  • Europe and Australia both back down on CSAM scanning
  • I mean that’s the thing - it does happen, but those people are already being caught

    And once they catch one, they catch a bunch of others that were part of the whatsapp/telegram/whatever group.

    They don’t need these backdoors to catch them, because the ones caught like this are the stupid ones they will catch regardless.

  • Protect your PC
  • Pretty sure the gpu BIOS is limited by default, nothing the OS can do about that.

    Same for other parts like the cpu - core voltage is determined by the motherboard.

    I doubt the os can just go “2V vcore” and blow up hardware.

  • Nationalist parties, far-left on the rise ahead of Sunday’s federal elections in Belgium
  • It sounds like you're looking for a hard link, like the one between the far right and china/russia. There is none, as far as I am aware.

    The fact they aligned their views about NATO and the Ukraine invasion with Russia (the "NATO threatened Russia, so they had no choice" narrative you also mentioned), and their general affection towards the USSR is more what I was getting at. To me, that's sufficient to be considered pro-russian.

    As to why I called them "more dangerous" (not "worse", I agree that the far rights ideas are considerably worse) - It's a couple of things. I feel they are more competent in general than the right. They're also more idealistic and consistent.

    Those by themselves are not dangerous traits, but I also question how far that affection towards the USSR and China goes.

    While I actually agree with much of their points, I'm just not that sure how much of the USSR/China they'd actually like to replicate. Regardless of that, I believe they would be fairly successful in implementing much of it - hence why I think they are more dangerous.

  • Nationalist parties, far-left on the rise ahead of Sunday’s federal elections in Belgium
  • They oppose NATO membership, and are parroting the Russian talking point that the Ukraine invasion was the west’s fault.

    While they might not be explicitly supporting Russia (which would be political suicide tbh), some of their talking points sure do align quite nicely with Russia.

    I personally find them more dangerous than alt right at this point in time.

  • Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK?
  • Because my pc uses 4-5 times the power to run the same ps4-era game. (Especially nice when it’s hot in summer)

    So I play it on my ps5, which offers me quick resume as well.

    I love pc gaming, been building pc’s for over a decade at this point, but I do also see the advantages my ps5 has over my pc.

    Could I build a more efficient and quiet pc, attach it to my tv and use that? Probably, and it’d be quite good with steamOS on it, but it’d be finicky to get sleep/resume working on it, and it’d probably cost me more.

  • Why VPN tunnels are safer than opening a port on my router?
  • Wireguard (which is what tailscale is built on) doesn’t even require you to open ports on both sides.

    Set up wireguard on a vps first, where it is accessible, then set it up from within your network. It’ll traverse NAT and everything, and you don’t have to open a port on your network.

    Tailscale is the exact same thing, just easier because it does everything for you (key generation, routing, …). Their service replaces your vps, up to you if you think that’s acceptable or not. IMHO, wireguard is worth learning at least. I eventually (partially) switched to tailscale because I’m lazy, and all services I host have authentication anyway, with vpn just being a second layer.

  • Joost Klein from the Netherlands disqualified from Eurovision 2024
  • According to the dutch news orgs, he made a “threatening gesture” towards a (female) camera operator, after he asked not to be filmed, repeatedly (there were not supposed to be cameras at that point, so the request was not unjustified). There was no physical contact.

    Here’s the source (in dutch)

  • iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules
  • Maybe technically, but in reality there's just very few "good" tablets when it comes to hardware. Samsung has a few, but the rest's just plastic trash.

    No proper hardware, no sales, no tablet android users, no android apps for tablets.

    I don't see how this would fix that.

  • Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today
  • Epic's at a 25% cut now? I thought they still were at 12.

    I remember Sweeney trying to convince users games would be cheaper because of the lower cut. Of course every publisher just pockets the difference and gamers are stuck with the garbage launcher.

    Not to mention them paying for exclusivity to indie studios, only for the indie studio to make way more money once the game released on steam, despite the cut.