I mean what did they expect? With all those free games on a set frequency they basically trained their users that this is what Epic is for. That was their entire marketing. I don’t know a single person IRL who has an Epic account and has actually bought a game there.
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Technology@lemmy.zip•Solid-state nuclear battery claims 100-year power for ultra-low energy devicesEnglish
14·1 day agoThe device operates within a voltage range of 1.0 V to 20.0 V and a nominal current between 7.5 nA and 33 nA, all within a compact 20 mm by 20 mm by 12 mm form factor.
Yeah, can’t even power an ESP32. Wake me up when this thing can do between 7.5 mA and 33 mA, not nA.
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Global News@lemmy.zip•Greece to ban social media for under-15s from 2027, calls on EU actionEnglish
1·3 days agoThis one actually works a bit differently. Parents will need to install an app called Kids Wallet which will provide some kind of an API to the digital services to verify their age without revealing any other credentials to the platform. And the birth data will come directly from the Greek civil registry.
According to Euractiv, the wallet app will use the Greek digital ID of a parent or guardian, validated by TaxisNet, the country’s national authorization service. In this way, parents can use their digital ID app to request age assurance to validate the child’s identity using date of birth data from the Greek civil registry. The government says third-party applications could retrieve the child’s age via API with parental consent.
I am not an advocate for age verification laws. Quite the contrary as I believe they create a slippery slope, as at the end of the day someone has to decide that is considered “inappropriate” for children and the definition of that keeps shifting based on how is on power.
Still though, it is a lot less worse than what many US states are doing, where everyone is supposed to upload a government ID and go through KYC.
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DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
5·4 days agoYou give it too much credit. In order to be able to lie it would first need do be actually capable of understanding what it writes. LLMs are text prediction algorithms. They cannot think.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•how can mobile phones possibly get hacked ?? I mean we use Android or iOS phones, which are pretty much secure, right ??🤔🤔🤔
22·4 days agoThe only way to make a digital device 100% secure is by using a hammer.
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Game Deals@lemmy.zip•Steam Deal: Save 90% on Mahjong (0,99€)English
3·6 days agoFor anyone who wants an open source alternative GNOME Mahjongg is actually pretty good.
The council of The Three Meows will decide your fate.
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Raspberry Pi prices rise again, along with a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 announcedEnglish
4·11 days agoThere is a 16GB one too. It sells for like $300 right now though. As for what you can do with it, one use case would be running something like Proxmox with a few VMs. Myself though I’d rather stick with my N100 system which is also x86.
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•What's the best way to detect when I'm taking a shower?English
2·11 days agoI would go for a simple humidity sensor. You just need to do a bit of data collection first to get a baseline of “what taking a shower usually looks like” and then based on that create the automation.
The only problem with that is that depending on how accurate you want it to be, you may have to wait a while to take a few measurements until it triggers the automation.
For something like mood lights I would just use a ZigBee switch if I’m being honest though.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you document your setup?English
461·11 days ago“I don’t need to, I have it stored all in my head.”
Famous last words.
If you want to have a look at the video that converted me here you go, https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8K4NA5a0D8c.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Privacy centric devices stateside for low cost?
8·13 days agoThe answer is to get a used Pixel. With a bit of looking around you may be able to find some pretty good deals. The Pixel 8a is the sweetspot is my opinion. OEM minimum support until May 2031 and old enough to find at a very good price. But not that old for its battery to very likely be busted.
Same here, Debian since Squeeze. A couple of years ago I just decided to go a step further and go with Kicksecure. Which is basically just hardened Debian.
You mean create a new user profile? Just follow the instructions here, that is how it works on AOSP and all ROMs that don’t diverge too much from it. Then just keep TikTok and only TikTok there, so it doesn’t have access to the rest of your data.
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Technology@lemmy.zip•New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape CartridgesEnglish
10·13 days agoIke’s solution is to leverage blockchain technology in the chip on the e-cig cartridge. It would use a camera to scan some form of ID and then also take a video of the user’s face. Once it verifies your identity and determines you’re old enough to vape, it translates that information into anonymized tokens. That info goes to an identity service like ID.me or Clear. If approved, it bounces back to the app, which then uses a Bluetooth signal to give the vape the OK to turn on.
I just cannot begin to describe how stupid this is. You know what? I’m not going to even try.
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collapse@lemmy.zip•Scientists have discovered that the ocean’s “missing” plastic hasn’t vanished—it has broken down into trillions of invisible nanoplastics now spread through water, air, and living organisms
5·14 days agoWe all have a little bit of dinosaur inside us now! 🦕
undefinedTruth@lemmy.ziptoPolitical Cartoons@lemmy.zip•I’m not in the meth business. I’m in the empire business.English
2·14 days agoHey, do you have one of those VR ones? What do you mean they’ve been retired?
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Plague Inc: Evolved is getting a big new Aliens & Anti-Vaxxers DLC and free updateEnglish
4·14 days agoThe DLC will introduce the new Xenolith: The Alien Crystal plague
Green glowing alien crystals that kill you. Hmm, where have I heard this before?
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•How many of you have an HA solution, which is open to the internet?English
3·14 days agoIf you don’t want to use a VPN like Tailscale (or ZeroTier) then this is exactly what the Home Assistant Cloud is for. And it even has an 1-month trial.



Standard Notes no longer has a business model. Since they were bought by Proton they have been on life support.
Joplin is great, that’s what I use as well. I just wish syncing was a bit more seemless.