Yeah I can see why. Thanks for the comment, always happy to populate my blocklist and improve the user experience on Lemmy!

Just sign up for their API and use chatboxai.app (free software), use the GPT4 API code, and you’ll use the model through an alternative front-end for pennies on the dollar.

I’m using it extensively and rarely spend more than 1,20 - 1,50 a month.

Aren’t they regulated in some way or other? I had problems with them in Europe (travel a lot for work, including some African and Central Asian countries) and they blocked me when I tried to buy something while in Nigeria. Fair play, common scam hotspot.

But no matter what I did to prove my identity after returning, they wouldn’t unblock my account. So instead I sent a complaint to the CSSF (the FED of Luxembourg, where they got their European banking license) and within days I had the head of compliance from their HQ in Ireland on the phone telling me that my account was open again and practically begging me to drop the complaint.

Yeah I’ll try eventually, but I got another Laptop running Xubuntu just fine, so I just don’t really use the Surface at all. It’s more of a last resort for the time being, and for that, any OS will do.

I have a Surface Notebook 2 and for the life of me can’t get Ubuntu (or Xubuntu in my case) to work with it. No matter which installation style I use, either it crashes during the installation or never boots into the bootloader. Eventually I installed some custom Arch, but I hate it.

They might give you the possibility to opt out thanks to living in the EU, the OP might not be as lucky.

The thing is that gen.xyz is the registrar itself, i.e. the highest authority for this tld. If they blacklist domains, you’re screwed.

I can automatically clean up space, or restrict space used, but then I don’t get to choose who’s data to keep or.

You can actually delete the data for good in both the android and windows software through the interface, and it works. But yeah the amount of data is staggering.

I’ve got a reminder in my calendar to delete the data on the first day of a new quarter, so this here is accumulated since April 1st:

Is the game older, that no active links remain? In that case any up to date antivirus should find whichever malware might be embedded in the game easily.

And you say that knowing my jurisdiction and its applicable laws?

You pay for traffic. There are some free versions out there, but they limit you to 10-25 GB or something. Might be an option for the 1% you can’t find on public trackers.

Right, but whatever I’m doing on there really isn’t.

As a matter of fact my current jurisdiction doesn’t even pursue copyright infringements, but I still don’t want to be linked to anything commonly seen as shady.

I’m mostly downloading fairly recently released stuff, so there’s no shortage of torrents on public trackers.

I also don’t want any payment details associated with anything not explicitly legal, so that’d be a further deterrent from Usenet. Sure, I could use crypto, but even that links me to a wallet that might someday be traced back to me, so I’ll pass.

Sounds perfectly normal, dogs do dream, and react physically to it. Heavy breathing, legs twitching, even some running motions, sometimes a snarl or bark (those sometimes wake them up), etc.

Unless he’s actually having a seizure (eyes rolling into the back of his skull, massively salivating/foaming), I don’t see a reason to worry.

Was iTunes popular outside of the US? Everyone I know hated they intrusive software and DRM that prevented you from playing the songs elsewhere. Don’t think I know a single person who actually purchased music there.

That really was a long time ago in Chinese tech terms. I happen to live there, and it’s astonishing how fast stuff evolves.

If you want to filter youtube links, you need to add youtube.com and youtu.be you the keyword filter. But then every post containing a link will be hidden.

I carry a small nail clipper on my key chain that has seen more of those than actual nails.

MIUI is sort of a homebrew OS broadly based on Android. Some things work, others don’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if Xiaomi and OPPO will eventually go the way of Huaweii and develop their own custom OS to lock users into their ecosystem. It’s a China thing.

And while I’m a big fan of Xiaomi products in general, I wouldn’t use any of their phones without flashing the EU ROM first to ensure compatibility with free market tech. If you’re willing to give that a try, the folks at xiaomi.eu are working hard to maintain compatibility.