despoticruin

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[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Because this city was built on the foundations of Our Thing.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Reddragon, and just pull parts from goodwill mice, they send you extra Teflon pads with the mouse so you can open it and keep the pads nice. Switches are just switches, they are standard sizes, and the cords usually use standard plugs, worst case you swap some pins around to match. Insanely easy to take apart, and cheap enough to not worry about breaking.

They are cheap as hell, but they have good tracking sensors and are really comfortable to use.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Second best. The best is actually the reddragon one that's $20 on Amazon.

I have used every mmo mouse on the market (currently on a scimitar elite, it's the one op has but silver not yellow) and they are all decent mice, but each has a fatal flaw except the reddragon.

G600 click switches are awful and double click after weeks of use, I had to replace them twice, the final time with the switches out of the red dragon. That was fine for close to 10 years, but the side key caps fall off, they are barely glued on.

The scimitar has an awful encoder on the scroll wheel, I had to open the mouse to pack it with Vaseline to get it working properly, and disassembling the scimitar is a nightmare.

The reddragon has bad software, but it's also supported by open source options for remapping and RGB, so it's one flaw was by far the easiest to fix.

The g600 was the most comfortable to palm, but the side keys are in an awkward spot to palm the mouse, the scimitar is nice for the adjustable keypad, but it moves with time and tightening it too much will break the mouse. The red dragon has an odd texture on the far side, very rough, but otherwise the best for a claw grip.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago

That and they turned off bot detection in osrs. Dude headed gambling corporations, I don't trust him.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not even bad credit, some banks will debank you for a variety of arbitrary reasons. You need an address, usually have to have regular income, and have to have all of your documents at a minimum, but if you end up in CHEX for any reason (like telling a bank to fuck themselves for almost $400 in overdraft fees that were their fault in the first place) you get denied outright.

If that sounds easy and simple then congrats on your incredibly privileged and sheltered upbringing.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sort of. We did, it was just never mandatory and could almost always be charged on just a swipe. We got chip and pin about 15 years ago now, but they again didn't make it mandatory, so they kept the stripe. Honestly if they just got rid of the swipe we would be fine, but not every retailer has tap to pay and not every bank does chips yet.

It's a mess. The tech is there, fucking old people and idiots keep the stripe on the cards and because of that skimmers run rampant.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, because that's not how the matching works. Stuff in your data partition, as well as app data, is signed with those keys and hashed to the device. All of those bits do that hash on their own, and they all have to match up. When you change the main system partition then it's signature has to match with the one generated when you set up your phone initially in the data partition.

Basically you have to have access to the data partition to disable the checks or change the signature, which needs your pin/passcode/fingerprint, and if you have that you don't even need the phone, you dump the data partition and unlock it in an emulated android environment and exfiltrate data from there as if it was the original phone.

I also want to reiterate: A locked bootloader does not stop anyone from dumping your phone, emulating it, and brute forcing it, completely bypassing any rate-limiting on password attempts. By the time a bootloader lock even comes into play you can consider your phone completely compromised.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

People here are also missing one part of the android security model. Yes, you can overwrite the system partition arbitrarily while leaving the data partition intact with an unlocked bootloader, that's how updates work.

However, the moment you make any changes to that system partition it won't match the developers signature and the apps on the system will throw an absolute fit. Look into building your own lineage ROM and flashing it over an official build, it's an entire process that requires your data partition to be unlocked (ie. phone booted and pin entered) to keep your data, even without making changes.

Realistically it isn't insecure, if you set a passcode your data is encrypted and if someone mitm attacks your rom you will immediately notice stuff breaking all over the place.

The whole bootloader locking is purely vendors trying to force you to buy new phones every few years instead of the user backporting security patches indefinitely, not any practical security for the end user.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Honestly you can just remove the ambiguity and put the number right at 1 billion dollars of net worth. Up to that point is obscenely wealthy, but a billion is the line that guarantees the majority of your wealth came directly from the exploitation of the masses.

You can't ethically make a billion dollars as an individual when the working class sees 1/10,000th of that in a year as doing fairly well in most areas.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I have long hair and just use bar soap. I have found that it's the conditioner that makes any difference to how my hair feels when it dries out.

Before anyone goes in with a "buhhh muhh products" just fucking don't. My hair is nice.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Patents and the fact that these chips are massively complex designs. We are talking architecture on the complexity level of the empire state building, most of which is a blend of proprietary designs developed over decades.

Nobody is saying you can't do it in your garage, in fact it's easier than ever to start. Let me know how it goes, look into some of the recent tapeout challenges to get an idea of what you are proposing people just make in a garage.

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