Yup. Toys R Us still lives and it’s still going strong in many countries like Canada and many European countries
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Portugal still has multiple very successful Toys R Us stores, most of them more than 20 years old at this point
azenyr@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introducedEnglish4·11 months agoOh no, what will turtles eat now? They will all die from hunger! 🤔 /s
azenyr@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•IT outage: banks, airlines and media hit by issues linked to Windows PCsEnglish1463·1 year agoHaving half of the world depend on a corporate proprietary single company is the stupidest thing ever. They will learn nothing with this, sadly
azenyr@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.1·1 year agoI don’t know what dependencies he has but my 3 year old system that is constantly being updated is full of flatpaks and all of the dependencies combined are only around 3GB. People see 1GB of dependencies and lose their mind.
azenyr@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.2·1 year agoI change my opinion depending on which app it is. I use KDE, so any KDE app will be installed natively for sure for perfect integration. Stuff like grub costumizer etc all native. Steam, Lutris, GIMP, Discord, chrome, firefox, telegram? Flatpak, all of those. They don’t need perfect integration and I prefer the stability, easy upgrades and ease of uninstall of flatpak. Native is used when OS integration is a must. Flatpak for everything else. Especially since sometimes the distro’s package is months/years old… prefering distro packages for everything should be a thing of the past.
azenyr@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.5·1 year agoSame app in native format: 2MB. As a flatpak: 15MB. As an appimage: 350MB.
Appimages are awesome, rock solid, and I have a few on my system, but flatpak never gave me any problem and integrates better with my KDE, and is smaller. Both have their advantages tho. I’m fine with using both. If you are a developer, make a flatpak or an appimage i dont really care just make your software available for linux. Both are fine, choose the one that fits your specific app the most.
But I also think appimages deserve the same attention and great integration with the OS as flatpaks. Stuff like that AppImageLauncher functionalities should just be integrated inside the DE itself.
But we need an universal package format for linux asap. Flatpak is on the front in this race, and I’m fine with it. Appimages second, for sure.
azenyr@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Privacy on Cars. How to stop data collection and transmission?102·1 year agoWhile editing my comment I deleted it by mistake lol. Here is what I was trying to post:
Don’t buy a Tesla or BMW. Done.
Edit: im joking, but you can just not connect your car to any internet. Most casual brands have literally zero outgoing connections if you don’t add or connect them to a network. Androd Auto and Apple Carplay are just displaying what your phone sends to the screen, the car itself doesn’t access the internet through those. Think of android auto and carplay like “HDMI monitors for your phone that have touch too”. Your phone does everything the car just displays it.
Connecting via bluetooth should also not be any problem since bluetooth doesn’t include internet access (unless you activate that ok your phone but Im sure the car will not use it). Bluetooth only sends and receives small bits of data that your phone chooses to send, not what the car chooses. Contacts names, phone numbers, audio and microphone are the only few data that gets sent to your car and only during phone calls or audio listening.
In the end, just avoid cars that have always connected systems like Teslas or modern BMWs or similar cars. Most Volkswagen, Audi, etc etc are 100% offline cars when you don’t connect them to a network. Most now can do it, but most its a subscription service that you can just not buy, and some even need SIM cards to work, that you just not use. Unless its a Tesla, those are connected even if you don’t pay the subscription.
Test drive the car. Disconnect it from all networks or don’t turn them on. Try to use all features. If the car constantly complains that it has no internet access for all of them, thats good.
Note that GPS access is always on and doesn’t require any subscription, so maps and navigation will still work. However that is not really a privacy violation by itself because GPS on cars and phones only receives signal, doesn’t transmit anything. You wont have traffic information or weather or anything tho. If you have traffic info, the car is connecting to some network, find how to deactivate that.
Many modern cars are too connected, thats true, but with the exception of a few brands, most cars go 100% offline the moment you disconnect them from their data services or don’t pay for that upgrade/subscription. So you will be fine even with a modern car.
azenyr@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Privacy on Cars. How to stop data collection and transmission?English14·1 year agodeleted by creator
azenyr@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permissionEnglish5·1 year agoAnd yet people will just shrug it off and keep using windows. And Microsoft loves that.
azenyr@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Israel orders people in more areas of Gaza's Rafah to evacuateEnglish84·1 year agoThe best TLDR bot I have ever seen. Keep on going little bro!
azenyr@lemmy.worldto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped math world for centuriesEnglish13·1 year agoI love when pages or websites have so much bloat, ads and bs that it’s actually a huge effort to try and use their site, but then if you use an adblocker to actually be able to use their site, you get notices like OHH NOO YOU ARE USING AN ADBLOCK WE ARE SO SAD PLEASE DISABLE AND HELP US PAY FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM yadayada… lol please. Hypocrites. If good marketing is all about removing user friction, I don’t understand why they add this much friction as ads and spam.
azenyr@lemmy.worldto Games@sh.itjust.works•Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming todayEnglish82·1 year agoDear valve. Please never ever go public. We will happily keep giving you money while you keep yourself a private company
azenyr@lemmy.worldto Steam@lemmy.ml•Steam now warns you if a game you're about to buy is already owned by someone in your Steam Family.381·1 year agoAnd this boys is why we choose to give money to valve, and as a bonus steam sales are amazing. Valve really knows how to keep a steady income of profit and just dont fck with what works
azenyr@lemmy.worldto Steam@lemmy.ml•Steam now warns you if a game you're about to buy is already owned by someone in your Steam Family.46·1 year agoThis world really does not deserve Valve
azenyr@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them141·1 year agoSo you were the “horse armor DLC” of car insurance companies. Congratulations
To be fair, if they are like the example (static silent ads) they would be the least intrusive ads that YouTube ever had. To the point that I don’t even mind them. All of YouTube ads should be like this, not annoying, silent, and easily ignored.
Electricity companies hate this trick!
For real I dont understand why people forget that they can just wear thicker clothes even at home. And they complain the electricity is expensive
has a tendency to crap the bed a few minutes after startup
Tell me you are an nvidia user without telling me. Either that is hard to believe. I use KDE daily for more than 8-9 hours a day, sometimes my pc goes for a full week without geting turned off, multiple apps tabs and servers on, themes installed, widgets on the desktop, I am such an extremely heavy KDE user you have no idea. Still, zero crashes. Sometimes something goes a bit “wut” like moving a window around gliches a liiiiiiitle bit, but it instantly corrects itself and goes back to being stable. And I am on Plasma 6.0.3, funny enough has been more stable than Plasma 5.
Update your KDE or use a distro that has better KDE support. Some distros fck up KDE packages and get it unstable. Fedora KDE is rock solid for example. Nobara has been great too and its now KDE by default.
The problem is that the paid premium is NOT better than free with extensions. Piracy is a service problem, and the paid service is NOT better than the “pirated” one. Even if premium was completely free, if it didn’t allow extensions I would still use the ad version with extensions.
Revanced android apps also exist, and I won’t use them with premium accounts (no point) and they are the only way of having sponsorblock, return youtube dislike, manual HDR and many other small but very useful features.
I would gladly pay for the content if and when the youtube official apps and website had features similar to those extensions.