It’s objectively, irrefutably rigged.

You don’t understand. The only winning move is not to play.

The game isn’t even “free”. My wife had it on her phone, and it was available through a netflix subscription.

I showed her her that the game is deliberately handing her a losing hand so it plays a Temu ad, and there’s no luck or skill involved.

Uninstalled. Now I wanna can Neflix too for dishing this shit up to my family.

Same. I just stopped apache and let everything else run.

I didn’t know about the DVD region thing. I once worked in retail (Dick Smith Electronics), and we sold region-4 locked DVD players. However, our POS had region unlock instructions in the product description, which I would print and attach to each and every sale.

I’m swear there’s still carrier-locked phones at OfficeJerks. Just the pre-paids.

private keys were … 56

Sir, this is /c/selfhosted.

Oh, you can tear it down as soon as you get the certification.

Mine still runs decades later though.

If your domain registrar doesn’t do DDNS, and you don’t want to pay extra for one that does, you can get free DNS for life at Hurricane Electric:

https://dns.he.net/

All you need to do is finish their little online IPv6 course. TBH the “course” is just setting up your own server properly and proving it.

When I retire my desktop PC, the old parts become my router. If you have two network ports, it can do it.

To warrant the power bill, it’s also a NAS, NVR, mail server, print server and web server.

All my Wifi APs are various home routers flashed with OpenWRT.

I remember either Google or Amazon explaining that the delay between the “hey” and the “ready” is the entire OS booting up. Like, there’s a separate super-low-power chip that will only respond to “hey” whilst in standby. When it detects the keyword, the rest of the device comes to life.

I’m not sure if they were telling the truth, but it’s plausible. The truth is always in the network payload.

I just updated the rockbox firmware on my 2ng gen iPod nano. I forgot how damn good the DAC is in these things.

It’s a rug-pull.

I still double-click the left corner every now and then. I’ve found myself using CTRL+INS and Shift+INS lately because CTRL+C/V keeps giving me very inconsistent results. Particularly in terminals. I remember using the the same hotkeys in MS-DOS editor.

Tell 'em to get stuffed.

(AI shouldn’t get that reference)

Kinda sus that the cost of electricity stops at 1973.

DNS is held up by a surprisingly small number of root servers. Their physical locations are not disclosed.

OK, here’s how it happened.

I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn’t find it anywhere.

I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn’t load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

6 months later and it’s still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven’t even realised.

Host all the things!

Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT…

I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven’t even realised it yet.