EasyRPG seems to be what I’m talking about albeit focusing on being compatible with an older RPG Maker and not only inspired by, Godot and those are a whole other ballpark and require a lot more coding knowledge to get into imo.

If the answer was no then I imagine being able to say so would be good for Microsoft in regards to both Public and Legal Affairs, so the fact that he doesn’t know do say something in my opinion.

That’s why my data lives on redundant disks in the basement and my remote backup lives in a closet at my parents house. :)

I imagine a newer open source RPG Maker would make a lot of people happy, with or without tux branding.
https://github.com/cstrahan/open-rpg-maker

“Don’t worry, we encrypt all the data”
“I’ve heard as part of the prism program NSA has the encryption key?”
“I don’t know the answer to that”

I wouldn’t dare believe that anything in AWS or Azure or Google Cloud is out of reach for the US agencies unless the end-user has encrypted it with a key that the cloud provider doesn’t have access to.

Ten Points is another swedish brand with production in Portugal
https://tenpointsfootwear.com/pages/about-us

Graninge is Swedish design, mostly produced in Italy and Portugal
https://graningeshoes.com/en/story/

With the new sustainability laws in EU they have to offer 5 years of updates from the sale of their last unit.

The Ecodesign Regulation lays out minimum requirements for mobile phones, cordless phones and tablets to be sold on the EU market to ensure

• greater resistance to drops, scratches, dust and water
• use of more durable batteries, capable of at least 800 charge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity
• clear rules on disassembly and repair, requiring manufacturers to supply key spare parts within 5-10 working days, and for at least 7 years after the product model is no longer sold in the EU
• longer availability of operating system updates, at least 5 years from the date the last unit model is sold
• fair access for professional repairers to the software or firmware needed for repairs

https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-durable-energy-efficient-and-repairable-smartphones-and-tablets-start-applying-2025-06-20_en

Could it be that it checks for updates?
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_updates/blob/?file=updates.json&branch=main

Yeah, you’re right but when was the last time a close friend of yours, or a family member, gave you a copy of their Blu-Ray movie?
With all the DRM preventing us from making a private copy according to our lawful rights then why are we still forced to pay for the right?

They’re popular in the DC segment though, in Sweden Exos has cheaper price/tb than Ironwolf Pro hdds do. The Exos 30TB ends up about 610 euro here, the 30tb Ironwolf Pro about 670 euro. That’s with vat and “piracy” taxes and all that added on.

Yeah, for some reason I thought that html.duckduckgo.com was free from ads, but when I temporarily disabbled uBlock origin I see that isn’t the case.
I didn’t mean to insinuate that no js means no tracking, I meant that the only tracking on ddg (clicking ads) was gone. I was wrong on that count.

They mention standardisations and cost savings in their paper, as well as solving the heat load per cell problem by decreasing cell size. They also mention that there’s been a lot of micro-CPV module designs but that they haven’t been scaled up. Some quotes below:

Various researchers and developers have been exploring different micro-CPV module designs [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]. Most approaches have been tested on small prototypes or minimodules, while fewer have been realized with aperture areas (Aap) above 200 and 800 cm2,[…]

By decreasing the sizes of the primary optics and the solar cells, the heat load per cell is minimized. This reduction allows for sufficient heat spreading via the circuit board, enabling the direct assembly of solar cells onto the circuit board on glass.

At Fraunhofer ISE, we have developed a micro-CPV module concept [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], which is based on parallelized manufacturing processes and commercially available components.

The final module features a panel size of 24” × 18”, which is a standard in the microelectronics industry, facilitating machine adaption without necessitating special adjustments.

• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10938951

What are concentrating photovoltaics? One of the ways to increase the output from the photovoltaic systems is to supply concentrated light onto the PV cells. This can be done by using optical light collectors, such as lenses or mirrors. The PV systems that use concentrated light are called concentrating photovoltaics (CPV). The CPV collect light from a larger area and concentrate it to a smaller area solar cell. This is illustrated in Figure 5.1.

Also, from the article - 33.6% efficiency in real-world conditions:

A 60 cell-lens prototype was studied for a year. In “real-world” conditions, CPVs achieved up to 33.6% efficiency. The 36% mark was posted at 167 degrees Fahrenheit. The prototype showed no signs of degradation, according to IE.

They allow you to search with js off, which means no tracking on their domain. Quite a big difference.
They can’t stop tracking on other sites, quite obviously.

Is Google Analytics and embedded tracking news? I have a whole list of untrusted domains in noscript that has to do with analytics from google, cloudflare and others.
DDG works without javascript, so I run it without.

Why do you believe duckduckgo is a controlled opposition?

lemmy doesn’t have it yet but piefed does.
You can access lemmy from piefed so by moving there you can do it.
https://piefed.social/post/102787

Yeah, if the user can’t verify the truthfulness of the LLM generated text then it has no use as it can’t be trusted.
I’d say the thing LLM is best at for me is giving me a starting point, in the same way that it is easier to fix someone else’s writing than it is to write something from a blank slate. Oh and copilot is generally up to date on where in Microsoft 365 Admin you find an option right now, compared to all the outdated official and unofficial guides out there.

Why use apps instead of a browser and why hop?
There are still fully functioning phpbb forums out there if forums are your thing, not to mention that the fediverse can just be forked and remain in existence if someone tries to steal it.