Set up automatic updates

Immich

You like to live dangerously, right?

You mean Teams or the other incompatible Teams, with the colors inverted on the icon?

Fun fact: if Jeff bezos lost 90% of his wealth, he still would be a billionaire

From some YouTube videos I’m intrigued in cachyos + hyprland, do you think it’s a good idea to wipe my laptop and switch to that?

Edit: I wiped my laptop and now I have no idea how to connect to wifi and all the settings because I assumed it had a gui for that like kde instead is all from terminal lol

Since 2023 they need you to fill the online immigration form online from this app or in a web app inside WeChat. If you don’t have a phone, you can do an extremely long line to a kiosk where you essentially do the same.

Immigration office then they want to see the qr code generated by that app, it can be a screenshot and you can generate it while abroad (they also wanted the legacy handwritten slip, maybe it was just for a temporary measure waiting for other ports to update)

Source: I personally experienced it in Guangzhou airport

After a quick analysis of the app it looks like used by an activity licensed by a japanese software house that shines it to see if it has a live person in front of the camera or a picture of it. The legitimate use of this in the app it’s because you can apply to visa, passports and certificates remotely without the need of going to the embassy (you still need to go in person for identification though, as they don’t really trust it)

It’s not forced but the paper slip for immigration now is online, so it’s this app or the mini app inside WeChat (or waiting a couple hours in the line for the clerk that basically signs up a WeChat for you and inserts your data in the MFA mini app)

Even when you enter China the officials won’t check your phone. They just tell you to install their “com.gov.mfa” apk downloaded from a server with invalid SSL certificate and totally not suspicious permissions like:

android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
android.permission.INTERNET
android.permission.READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
android.permission.CAMERA
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
android.permission.READ_SETTINGS
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN
android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
android.permission.GET_TASKS
android.permission.RECEIVE_USER_PRESENT
android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
android.permission.VIBRATE
android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW
android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE
android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE
android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO
android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS
android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS
android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES
android.permission.BLUETOOTH
android.permission.CALL_PHONE
android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE
android.permission.PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS
com.asus.msa.SupplementaryDID.ACCESS
com.gov.mfa.permission.SP_NOTIFY_CHANGE
com.coloros.mcs.permission.RECIEVE_MCS_MESSAGE
android.permission.REORDER_TASKS
android.permission.USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT
android.permission.DOWNLOAD_WITHOUT_NOTIFICATION
android.permission.ACCESS_DOWNLOAD_MANAGER
android.permission.LOCAL_MAC_ADDRESS
android.permission.READ_APN_SETTINGS
android.permission.BROADCAST_STICKY
android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS
com.gov.mfa.permission.TMF_SHARK
com.gov.mfa.permission.MIPUSH_RECEIVE
android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES
android.permission.FLASHLIGHT
android.permission.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS
android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
com.gov.mfa.permission.PROCESS_PUSH_MSG
com.gov.mfa.permission.PUSH_PROVIDER
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PROJECTION
com.huawei.appmarket.service.commondata.permission.GET_COMMON_DATA

and totally legitimate looking activities like com.tencent.rtmp.video.TXScreenCapture$TXScreenCaptureAssistantActivity , com.tencent.qcloud.logutils.LogActivity and com.tencent.liteav.audio2.permission.PermissionActivity

It’s not normal here? I’m only Lemmy+mastodon (with a bsky bridge)

From the color and the amount of liquid in the result picture I seriously doubt that the core went even over 40 C

i think you are trolling or you have some issue that limits your comprehension. I’m sorry if it’s the second.

When the machine it’s designed to work exclusively online, tell me how to keep it offline. To enjoy the nice premium wallpapers?

It’s not like the x360 era where online access was completely optional

it can be both. My hardware, my games and once i pay i should be able to do whatever the fuck i want with them

yes exactly, fuck those users who paid $450 for a console and $80 for games, they can learn their lesson and buy a new $450 console

The problem is that updates are not automatically inserted in the flashcart. All the flashcart does is clone the original one as it was put on sale. Updates are always downloaded by the console and are not stored on the cart.

Let’s make a real world example: you go in a store and buy the cart for “disney dreamlight valley” for $40. You actually don’t know, but inside the cart there’s only a 34,6 MB file that only contains a splashscreen and a popup that says “connect to internet to download the update”. It then connects to Nintendo servers to download the 4.61 GB “update” that is the actual game. If you are blocked from Nintendo servers how can you get the update? Your console itself isn’t hacked, so you can’t just download it from random online sources with a different signature. You can dismiss the popup but then you can only admire your new $40 wallpaper.

This is the “gameplay” of said $40 game if you don’t have the possibility of installing updates:

Only online ban? Nowadays most physical games are glorified DRM dongles that require a full download from online servers.

Banned from online means when you buy the $80 games all they can do is showing a cute icon on the launcher

And even if the full game is present on the cart, only a handful is ready at launch and not just a buggy alpha without the day one update