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  • I loved The Talos Principle! I haven’t played the remake, I didn’t realise they added new stuff I thought it was just updated graphics which didn’t interest me.

    The Talos Principle 2 was great, the puzzles were fantastic, some of the new concepts totally broke my brain for ages and had me trying the dumbest stuff because I was fully lost lol but it was so fun! I recommended the DLC too, I loved the Hexahedron in the Isle of the Blessed and I hope they do more puzzles like that in the future.

    I just wish the world was smaller and there was less emphasis on the story, when it comes to puzzle games I just want to get to the puzzles asap I don’t want to run back and forth across the world just to sit through cut scenes. I do kind of get why it was so big for the bonus stuff outside the main puzzles and also

    Tap for spoiler

    on my first playthrough, I did manage to finish the whole game without completing any puzzles,

    which was pretty funny.

    I’ve been playing Balatro for what feels like the last 84 years and I constantly rage quit and say I’m done with the game when I know my run is over then stare out the window for a minute and start the game again, its painfully addictive.

    I’ve also been playing Angry Birds on the 3DS its so fun. I haven’t played it since it first came out on mobile 15 years ago, I didn’t realise how old it was! I’ve needed games like this for the past few weeks with life being so busy, they’re so easy to pick up and then just pause whenever I need to.



  • The website uses google services while promoting a phone that advertises avoiding google services… And it seems to be completely broken for me on any android browser I use. Also his main website seems to use the Microsoft store logo for his store logo lol

    720 display?, it doesn’t say it has a removable battery? and can somehow promise years of software updates when they rely on third party custom ROMs for their software…

    Also I don’t know of any android phones that block replacing the battery?

    The website says 6GB RAM and the indiegogo page says 8GB RAM

    The hardware seems meh and the software is based on FOSS ROMs that support a wide variety of devices that actually exist. Ubuntu touch is advertised as Coming Soon™

    The BraX3 phone offers the most privacy-friendly location service through the Lunar Network

    Please anyone who can find the Lunar Network website, link it because right now to me it seems they’re using a now defunct minecraft server for location services

    I’ve got scammy vibes from this guy for years, even when I was new to privacy I never felt like he was reliable. Did he dub himself “the internet privacy guy” lol

    Overall, I think the phone will probably come out at some point, it’ll be kinda sucky from a hardware perspective for anyone who is used to mid range phones and the software could be fine or it could be buggy AF but I don’t think it’ll be anything special or offer anything unique enough from a privacy perspective to bother with.

    I don’t think he can guarantee software updates as he has no control over the ROMs he relies on and I would not expect any sort of support for bugs etc. I don’t think he is knowledgeable enough to trust not to have privacy/security issues with the phone, especially when his whole shtick is “privacy”

    It sucks that headphone jacks and sd cards are so hard to find in phones today but I’d prefer to use a dongle and external storage or self host and have a better refurbished phone running LineageOS or any other degoogled ROM than trust this guy.





  • Yep, thats the blogpost from the owner of haveibeenpwnd regarding the email OP received.

    OP, it seems like you have or had malware on one or more of your devices that has been logging all of your credentials to any services you signed into on the infected devices with the email address provided in the screenshot you shared.

    we’re talking about the logs created by malware running on infected machines. You know that game cheat you downloaded? Or that crack for the pirated software product? Or the video of your colleague doing something that sounded crazy but you thought you’d better download and run that executable program showing it just to be sure? That’s just a few different ways you end up with malware on your machine that then watches what you’re doing and logs it.

    These logs all came from the same person and each time the poor bloke visited a website and logged in, the malware snared the URL, his email address and his password.

    I would suggest running a malware scan on devices you use to log in with that email.

    On a secure device, you should change the passwords for each service that you use that email with.

    If 2FA is already enabled on any of these accounts, then it should be safe and I would ensure the device is not infected before changing the passwords or else the passwords will be stolen again when you sign in on the infected device.

    It is likely any other accounts that were signed into on the infected device have had their credentials stolen too, you may not have those email addresses set up to receive this notification. Also you should notify anyone else who has used the infected device that their credentials were likely stolen too.

    You can check if other emails have been comprised using https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and you can also check if passwords have been comprised there too.




  • Lol I spent a week going back and forth with Revolut support in august. I could sign into the app but it would always ask me for a “selfie” verification and every time support would say its a super dark selfie.

    Eventually I decided to try a stock ROM and it just worked and I realised what was happening so I transferred all of my money out and deleted my account.

    Most local banks here are terrible at making apps, some even require a separate device that looks like a calculator to use online banking, so hopefully they wont follow suit anytime soon




  • What do you mean they’re failing to install? That sounds like a wine issue.

    Sometimes games just work better on previous wine versions so it might be worth trying a couple of those.

    I haven’t played the game but it seems to be DX11 so DXVK probably needs to be installed to the prefix

    Towards the end of the FG installer, there is usually an option to download the dependencies so make sure you have those installed with winetricks to the correct prefix. C++ Redist download option here refers to vcrun in winetricks and its probably vcrun2022 since the game is new.

    Is it defaulting to using your integrated graphics instead of the discreet gpu?

    You could also add it as a non steam game in steam since proton will be set up properly to see if it runs better.

    Edit:

    470

    Do you need to update your drivers? 470 came out in April 2021. DXVK only supports 510 and later so d3dcompiler instead of dxvk should be used but a driver update would be better.


  • 2 accounts consistently reporting the same IP, location and user habits etc being linked is more absurd than nobody ever noticing excessive uploaded data from their phones? It is very easy to monitor the amount of uploaded and downloaded data on a device, lots of people would have noticed by now. The amount of storage, bandwidth and processing power that would be required to monitor the audio from hundreds of millions of android users globally 24/7 would make this the dumbest business decision ever when there are so many easier and efficient ways to track users.



  • I finished Silent Hill 2 too, the Mannequins made me jump so many times. They always seemed to appear when I least expected them to. The game created such a tense and scary atmosphere the whole way through but the prison area was by far the spookiest and of course I didn’t understand the hanging part and kept getting punished for it lol.

    I also played The Last of Us Part 1 it was no where near as scary but the story was so good, I even cried a bit. I’d love more games that focused on keeping quiet, I dont think I’ve played anything with that sort of mechanic before. I really hope they port part 2 to pc soon.

    I tried to play Alien Isolation but I kept getting game breaking bugs and when I finally managed to get about an hour in, there were still no aliens?? Just more bugs so I’ve given up on it and maybe I’ll try see if there are any fixes and stuff when I have more time since so many people recommend it.