Moonrise2473

joined 3 years ago
[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Easier said than done, in my country there isn't a single bank that hasn't reinvented the wheel, all of them have a dedicated app to show the otp for the login

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Can we install a stub package called com.google.android.verifier so the silent installation of malware will fail? It's technically feasible?

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems awesome!

I felt dirty every time I had to use tinkercad, fucking Autodesk

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol and what happens if there's a goal during the ad break? Or they stop playing for an ad break using some BS excuse??

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml -4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Not a soccer fan, but I was under the assumption that during the middle of each half they always had ads since decades? Otherwise they show the empty field for 10 minutes?

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

That is the price if you ship million of units. Realistically, how many units can ship this? 10k? 20k?

Once you consider the price of the plastic shell molds (custom), the custom keypad, the custom motherboard, the custom assembly line, this price is almost cheap.

I wouldn't even consider a purchase even at a third of the price, but it was a scam if they simply put a sticker on some Alibaba clamshell with stock android, instead here they even partnered with Jolla to have sailfish is as base with the android emulator. That's much more expensive than just slapping android aosp with a minimal launcher and calling it a day

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Browser and email is the bare minimum, though.

Even the cheapest clamshells in the 2000s had those two.

Don't preinstall it by default if you want to look minimal but being forced to sideload (their app store blocks this essential category?????) an Android APK in the emulator instead of using native Linux apps for that, is ridiculous

I understand that for a small company like them (it's being owned by a YouTuber now) creating hardware is extremely expensive and 499 can even considered cheap with all the custom stuff in this device, plastic molds, dedicated assembly lines and so on, but my mind can't accept paying more than 149 for something like this

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 130 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

Disclaimer: I wrote "idiot" to describe someone who paid for the product not because they're actually idiots, but it's because Microsoft is treating them like that: their official solution on the website is "simply subscribe to the latest and greatest or buy a new "perpetual" license to office 2024 to continue using what you paid for"

 

A license verification certificate expires and when it expires, Microsoft Office for Mac assumes it's unlicensed even if it has been fully paid for.

So, any idiot who paid for Office 2019 for Mac "perpetual" will lose access to it next month.

The same will happen with Office 2021 and Office 2024 in the future.

Pirates are unaffected, only who paid for the product gets punished

Good job 👍🏻

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • AntennaPod - podcast player
  • Aves - great gallery app
  • Catima - stores loyalty cards
  • DAVx5 - syncing calendars and contacts via CalDAV.
  • FairEmail - very secure and feature-rich email client
  • OSS Document Scanner - clean and private document scanner.
  • SD Maid 2/SE - good for system cleaning and clearing cache.
  • Tasks.org to-do list with good sync options.
  • Breakout 71 - a roguelike brick-breaker game
[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I had to disable bitlocker

The permanent "fix" that i done a few weeks later was to do single boot with fedora and move windows in a VM under KVM

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

a nation state can probably find a way

There's no "probably", they can surely find the way, because the decryption key is saved on Microsoft servers, they just need a subpoena for getting it

 

TL;DR: bitlocker does not like grub

Full story:

Months ago I installed fedora on my desktop, dual booting Windows 11.

In all this time I never had the need to boot into windows. I remembered that it worked fine after install, good, and then I forgot about that.

Today I needed a specific windows only software, so at grub I chose the microsoft bootloader and... BITLOCKER.

Huh? Bitlocker? Me? What? Searched frantically for that decryption password in my keepass, did not find. What?? How???

After a few minutes staring at that screen I thought, ok let's just wipe that shit and reclaim the space. I went back to linux, opened the partition manager, then remembered that i had something important in single copy over there. Noooooo

Went back to the boot screen to try again, still failed password.

Then I notice the error:

e_fve_pcr_mismatch

that mismatch lets me think that maybe I had something wrong in my booting.

I try to put windows first in the bios and it works! WHAT THE...?!??

So, if i put linux first, then launch windows from grub, bitlocker takes the windows partition under ransom, i can only access if windows is first. And of course in windows 11 x64 is no longer possible add linux partitions in their boot manager (previously it was possible)

Incompetence or maliciousness?

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 59 points 7 months ago (5 children)

i think it was already dead and replaced by the esp32s - the original arduinos are too expensive for what actually offered: get the performance of a 8-bit cpu with 2k RAM but at raspberry pi prices

 

I downloaded a cracked install from tpb (haxnode). It was a loader exe that loaded the original exe and supposedly removed the drm in RAM. It required admin permissions, I didn't trust it, but i ran in a vm and nothing happened.

Then i told myself "i have microsoft defender and windows firewall control, they will warn me" and I ran it in my main laptop, and still nothing happened. Like, literally nothing happened. The original program would not start. It would simply exit. Nothing. The other 6 almost identical torrents from the same uploader but with a different program version had a similar result. I gave up.

Then i reboot, and firstly i notice a couple DOS prompts flashing on the screen, and windows firewall control asking me if "aspnet_compiler.exe" is allowed to access the internet or not.

Suspicious, i go to check that "aspnet_compiler.exe" and it's located in the .net system folder, i scan it with microsoft defender and it doesn't report as a virus. I do not pay attention to the fact that it doesn't have a valid Microsoft signature, and i tell myself "probably just a windows update" and i whitelist it on the firewall.

After a few hours I realize "wait a minute: it's impossible that an official windows exe isn't signed by microsoft!" I go back to scan it, not infected... or it looks like, defender says "ignored because in whitelist". What? The "loader" put c:* in the whitelist!

The "crack loader" wasn't a virus per se. It dropped an obfuscated batch in startup, which had a base64 encoded attachment of the actual malware, that was copied in the .net framework directory with unassuming names...

And this for a $60 perpetual license program that i should buy anyway because it's for work

 

Somehow the EFI partition doesn't mount and it's impossible to troubleshoot via phone, she asked me to put back the old system 😞

 

By surprise and without any announcement (maybe I missed it?) Ryochan7 archived their ds4windows project with a final EOL release

Vigembus (the driver) is also discontinued due to a trademark issue by an unrelated company that has nothing to do with gaming

What will be the path forward to easily use non-xbox pads on windows?

 

I use a dual shock 4 via Bluetooth on my PC (Windows) and I'm tired about the workarounds required to have it working all the time. Sometimes it needs steam open, sometimes instead having steam open will confuse the game, and so on. And by default the light is off when connected so I never know if it's o, off, low battery. I have a limited amount of time to play and I don't want to waste 1/4 of it troubleshooting the controller.

I saw an e-waste recycler selling brand new stadia controllers for $15. Some of them in a nice mint green tint that I never seen before. Once flashed with the new Bluetooth mode firmware are they good to play on PC (Windows)? Or I should just use Xbox controllers if I want something that "just works"?

 

Name and shame? hxxps://www.diy-laptoprepair .com/forum/Supermicro-X11SCA-F-repair-guide-schematics.html (link edited in this way they won't get the SEO)

It seems legit at a glance, but then, the link is super generic (technozblog .com/motherboard.html) and all the comments don't make sense as they are disconnected from each other and linking to completely unrelated stuff

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