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The original was posted on /r/funny by /u/Mooseylips on 2025-04-23 12:57:42+00:00.

So, I've spent over 2 hours on Steam searching for a nice game to play. But it's all junk, as far as I'm fed with Steam recommendations. I liked ksp~~2~~ 1, cities skylines 1, age of empires 2, baldurs gate 3 a lot, I just finished Divinity original sin 2. I like rpgs and management / factory games like workers and resources, satisfactory etc. I'm having a lot of fun with split fiction when I play with a friend, but I need a proper singplayer game. Anything I could get which isn't a total ripoff due to lack of gameplay or it being a bug simulator or dlc purchase mania?

... people today are less concerned about the type of vehicle they travel in, and more about how useful it is. To many of us, what matters most is simply getting where we’re going rather than how we look while doing it.

More than technology, mobility has always been governed by social trends and cultural norms that evolve over time. The currently transport revolution therefore no longer depends solely on a group of engineers, but on understanding users’ true needs.

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The way we move around in Europe is not just changing because of technology, but also because of how we think. For future transport systems to work, we need to understand how different people view, use, and adapt to these new ways of moving.

This means that governments, companies, and innovators need to work together. It’s not enough for transport to be fast or eco-friendly, it must also be accessible and affordable for everyone, taking into account the unique needs of each section of society. This means technology cannot be disconnected from real life. We need to teach people how to use digital tools, make sure everyone has access to new services, and design systems that fit the way people actually live.

I went ahead and finished up Arkham City today. Initially i was on the fence about doing the riddler trophies, and while i was deciding i started doing a few, and then before i knew it i had literally all of theme except like 8 catwoman trophies and the combat ones done. Since i'm already so close, im just going to try and 100% it because as far as i know it's just Harley Quinn's and Riddler DLCs left after the campaign, and i imagine they can't take that long.

Yesterday i listed a bunch of things that scared me (in a good way), but one thing that scared the shit out of me when i was little was the Mad Hatter quest Batman. There was nothing psychological about it, the Rabbit Batman mask just freaked the fuck out of little me. Still does to an extent. It's just very unsettling. The quest is a lot of fun though.

After completing the story and going back through for the riddler trophies i found these two, which are one of the Riddles, just chilling together and having a heartwarming talk about how they've been apart for so long that they'd like to be rejoined. Granted, they're conjoined twins who as far as i know have only recently been separated by the Joker and i can't tell if they mean literally or metaphorically rejoined.

I got to climb Wonder Tower again for some of the trophies i didn't grab, and i noticed there were Police Cars down in the main area which afaik weren't there during the first climb. It was a cool detail i noticed about the game.

Finally, backtracking a bit, i wanted to talk about the Clayface fight. I like how they used him in the Story. And any exposure for the Batman villians beyond the surface level ones i love (though, i guess Clayface himself could be considered surface level). Regardless though, i like the fight and how you have to use the freeze blast to fight him, with him summoning little clay figures that is offset by how much damage you've done. Not to mention tricking him into rolling into the Explosives is fun like the Bane fight in Asylum. One thing i will add though is that it slowed the fuck out of my PC for like a good 10 seconds whenever he exploded. That's the only time i've had this happen which is interesting

China’s vast security apparatus shrouds itself in shadows, but the outside world has caught periodic glimpses of it behind the faded gray walls of Shijiazhuang prison in the northern province of Hebei.

Chinese media reports have shown inmates hunched over sewing machines in a garment workshop in the sprawling facility. Business leaders and Chinese Communist Party dignitaries have praised the penitentiary for exemplifying President Xi Jinping’s views on the rule of law.

But the prison has an alarming secret, U.S. congressional investigators disclosed last year. They revealed evidence showing that it is a Chinese government outpost in the trafficking pipeline that inundates the United States with fentanyl.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/29085701

• Identity Check was spotted on a OnePlus 13 running the Android 16 beta.
• The feature is expected to arrive on more Android phones with the Android 16 update coming later this year.
• It requires a change to Android's biometric prompt code, which can't be completed without a full update.

When enabled, Identity Check requires biometric authentication to view or modify certain sensitive parts on your Android smartphone. A fingerprint or face unlock is required for the following actions when your device is outside of a trusted location:

• Accessing saved passkeys and app passwords
• Changing PIN, pattern, or password, and turning off Find My

For these actions, biometric authentication is mandatory outside of trusted locations with Identity Check enabled — a password, PIN, or pattern won't work as an alternative. This is intended to prevent people from hijacking your Google account or other online accounts in the event your phone is lost or stolen, even if the bad actor knows your password.

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On the verge of a landmark speech, you've been summoned to make a last minute amendment to her Will - aboard her flagship luxury train, The Reuss Express.

Little does Arthur know, he's about to become embroiled in a murder, a mystery and worst of all... an adventure!

The repacking is getting kind of annoying. I don't think it serves much of a purpose these days other than for the repackers to jerk themselves off over how efficient their compression is.

I'd like to download torrents that don't require unpacking, and preferably without an 'installer' at all.

Does anyone know if there are sources for this? Thank you.

hey everyone, i present to you !notinteresting@sh.itjust.works, an attempt to recreate the chaos that is r/notinteresting but here on Lemmy.

Basically how it works, you post something that is seemingly uninteresting but you sneak in a tiny little detail that makes it more intriguing, but the point is to act like it's nothing at all, while the people in the comments get weirded out trying to understand what's going on in your image

it's not really an exact explanation since it's very hard to put to words, so if you want a better understanding of what i mean I'd suggest you visit the original subreddit so you understand better what i intend to say.

wanted to try this since it was tried before here on lemmy.world but it never took of, so I'm looking to try my own attempt to make this idea more popular on the threadiverse

hope you like it!

"I think there's far more similarity than there is difference," said Dave Perry, president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

It is, he said, significant that the parties agree on meeting the NATO benchmark, which allies, including Canada, originally pledged to work toward in 2014 following Russia's invasion of Crimea.

"Canadians need to be aware that we've landed on actually living up to the set of commitments we promised to deliver on 11 years ago, just as our allies move on to a new set of commitments when it comes to the share of our economy we're investing in defence."

As soon as I make an account and try to post a comment or something. I get "server error" which is basically a ban.

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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/-Revelation- on 2025-04-23 12:13:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/yeoz on 2025-04-23 11:29:03+00:00.

Pro-Palestine protesters entered a BBC building in Belfast and the RTÉ campus in Dublin on Tuesday. Both protests voiced their criticism of the coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza.

The BBC building in the city centre was put into lockdown for a short period when protesters made their way on to the premises.

“Officers attended the scene and spoke with the crowd who then left the building and moved their protest outside. “No damage was caused and the protesters have since moved on from this area.”

I've been researching dumbphones lately and wanted to share about the developments I've learned. I'll be writing from an European perspective. I am omitting Android since I wasn't interested in it. Android Go is discontinued, if you care.

CloudFone

This is an addon to the barebones OS manufacturers add to their phones. Such OS' are e.g. HMD (formely Nokia) S30+ or other Mocor RTOS based systtems. This addon is an "app" within the OS that's a browser which offloads the rendering to another server. It works similar to the Puffin browser.

The advantage here is that the underlying browser engine is ran and updated on the server. This helps avoid the KaiOS situation: KaiOS v2 (the last version in Europe) uses Firefox 48 (current version is 137). CloudFone could be running the latest stable Chromium even on an old device, as long as the rendering server is updated to that version. The remote server rendering is obviously more powerful than what the little feature phone can normally do.

You can see how it works here: https://youtu.be/coaLnA7Twl4?t=295

The disadvantage here is that those apps do not work offline - you need to connect to the server over the Internet to render them. If the underyling rendering server is ever shut down, you lose all your apps and your phone is back to being a dumb-dumbphone. It seems like you don't have control over what apps are available and which are not. These could be rug-pulled at any moment. There are some rumors on /r/dumbphones about a WhatsApp CloudFone app which would be big. Some of the apps are something you wouldn't want on a dumbphone, like tiktok or yt shorts.

The trick is that the firmware versions with CloudFone enabled are only offered to phones in India. The only way to get these firmware versions is to download a custom firmware from the Russian 4pda.to forums. This custom firmware seems to be available for Nokia 3210 4G 2024 or Nokia 220 4G. A more powerful option would be HMD 110 4G 2024 since it has 128 MB RAM, but I couldn't find the CloudFone enabled firmware for it.

I get that this approach is not acceptable to the freedom-oriented, tech-savvy demographic on Lemmy, but it looks like this is where the mainstreaim is heading right now.

The downside of the non-KaiOS devices is that they normally don't support WiFi and thus can't serve as a mobile hotspot. There are devices like itel R60+ which can, however, but I have no idea which website to import it from.

KaiOS

The latest KaiOS version on devices sold in Europe is KaiOS v2.5.x. The latest available outside Europe is 3.1 (?). There's supposedly KaiOS v4 in the works. People say it's dead.

KaiOS is just not an European thing - this is balantly obvious if you look at HMD's "Barbie phone" - it uses KaiOS 3.1 in the US version, but in Europe, it uses the basic HMD S30+ OS.

There's a KaiOS jailbreaking community. See https://wiki.bananahackers.net/en/devices for supported devices. Apps you can install with the jailbreak are here: https://store.bananahackers.net/. I've seen an XMPP client and a Matrix one too.

I've been only considering devices with a USB-C port and available in Europe and what I've found is Gigaset GL7, myPhone UP smart LTE, Maxcom MK281. Note that some of those aren't jailbreakable according to the bananahackers table above. These devices aren't sold anymore so you'll have to go secondhand.

You could also import an US KaiOS v3 phone, but the overlap in LTE bands is only on band 7 (I think?), meaning it'd only have reception in cities. There's someone that imported an US Nokia 2780 and reports it works in Italy on /r/dumbphones.

KaiOS devices mostly can serve as a mobile hotspot, which is nice.

postmarketOS

Phones that run KaiOS out of the factory normally have 0.5 GB of RAM, meaning they can boot Linux. See https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Feature_Phone The newest device in this table is the NA Nokia 2780 released in 2022. The feature support tables seems not to support calls.

SoCs

The "Feature phone SoCs" section seems to be gone from the Unisoc website. The Wikipedia SoC Unisoc table lists e.g. T107 but doesn't list the newer T127 or T157 (supports 5G and only ever used on Asian feature phones)