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Hyundai Is Bringing Back Buttons Because Touchscreens Are ‘Annoying’ in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Pretty much. Give me a screen for Android Auto so I can interact with my preferred navigation and media apps, and then just let me control the car.

Like, if you want to add a menu for low-level tweaking of stuff I don't need(or shouldn't change) while driving, sure(like suspension settings). But for everything else, AC, seat warmers, forward/reverse, windshield wipers, headlights, etc, I want a button or knob.

Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

TV that doesn't require 'on-line activation' to set up. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

So far all the Roku TVs I've tried will let you skip setting up Internet on them and then default to a dumbed down mode where the Homescreen is just TV inputs, and you can access the settings menu. Haven't had a chance to test a recent Android/Google TV.

Update: Seems Sony, TCL, and maybe some other Android/Google TV makers allow using the TV without linking a Google Account.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00115361

https://support.tcl.com/us-androidtv-common-questions/do-i-need-to-have-a-google-account-to-enjoy-android-tv-58

https://support.tcl.com/can-i-just-use-basic-tv-on-a-tcl-google-tv

Update 2: Samsung seems to let you skip logging into their TVs during setup via a Skip button in the top-right corner, but it's unclear if you can skip connecting to the Internet at all.

AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That tip of a handle bar that makes you wonder if that square counts or not.

Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, had basically a throw away account for the occasional thing that basically required a Facebook account, and then I guess because I never posted anything they locked my account and demanded ID. Hell no.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

MSF2020 runs offline too, it's even sold on discs in certain regions. You just don't get any of the satellite imagery or live weather. Obviously that means a degraded experience, but it still works.

Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

At least, not this case. AI music is its own can of worms that hasn't been decided on in court or law yet.

But the main issue in this case is that he was scamming listens from the music services. So if he'd just let people naturally discover the AI songs somehow, and he earned money just like other Music publishers, then he would've been fine.

Now you'll be able to purchase sunlight at night! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Mustard actually just did a video on the first attempts of this by the Soviets/Russians.

https://nebula.tv/videos/mustard-the-man-who-built-a-spotlight-in-space/

Android malware steals payment card data using previously unseen technique in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In the US at least it's still fairly common for the card to be taken by the employee of the Drive-Thru/Restaurant to be run through their POS.

Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

There needs to be a ban on any judge presiding over something within at least one or two degrees of separation of relationships with said judge. Any direct relationships, either direct relatives or friends or direct investment, and possibly second degree relationships like a relative or friend being invested, or a relative/friend of a relative/friend.

How to rip copy-protected DVDs on Linux in 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, I missed that since it's an unofficial flatpak so it wasn't listed on their site or forums.

How to rip copy-protected DVDs on Linux in 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Haven't tried it on Linux recently, but MakeMKV still supports Linux apparently. You have to build it yourself though.

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224&sid=1674d5df36b036b50d6fabdfb380e72c

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OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board (ground.news)

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Free In-flight WiFi and Internet (Tested: Southwest Airlines US) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not your normal kind of piracy, I know, but thought some would be interested.

On a recent flight I was screwing around on my phone while connected to Southwest's WiFi. Southwest doesn't have traditional In-flight entertainment, instead offering movies and shows through a local LAN server on their WiFi for free. To get Internet access you load the site and pay $8usd using a CC, and then they'll unblock your device from the WAN.

Here's the fun part, for the LOLs I tried accessing my various VPNs and Proxies, including Google's, not expecting much. I've known of various tricks involving setting up a VPN or SSH on a DNS port or similar to try and get past web filters, but I've never been bothered enough to go through the trouble. But thinking of that, I decided to give Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS app a try, since while its kinda a VPN, it does some things differently since their goal isn't to give you a full VPN on their free plan, just improve your DNS and routing performance. But after waiting a long few seconds it amazingly said connected. At first I thought it was a fluke, thinking its connected but not actually working, but after doing a random Google search I realized it was actually somehow forwarding my packets to the WAN proper. I was FREE!

Though I should dampen expectations a bit. While it's definitely full net access, it's slower than molasses. Whatever route Cf is maneuvering packets through, it's not a fast one. Random access would be at best in the three digit Kbps range, with sustained sometimes spiking into the 1-2Mbps, and latency was measured in Seconds, not Milliseconds. Netflix refused to load the detail pages for movies and shows, and YouTube failed to load videos whether streamed or trying to download. I was able to get a 240p YT video to download with Youtube-DL/yt-dlp though.

And just to make sure it wasn't just the plane's connection that was slow, I checked with a seatmate that had paid the $8 for Internet access, and their experience was definitely faster than mine, loading videos with ease.

So while you can browse the net, read some articles, and chat on Mastodon and Lemmy, patience is a virtue. But it's way better than nothing, and great way to just check a few things in the air without dropping the $8.

YMMV with other airlines, but it's worth a shot.

Update: Just did another flight and this time didn't have success. The in-flight Wifi system on this flight was older though, with the old 2D flight tracker, and all the VOD content was broken too, so the Internet was probably just busted.