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[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago

My interpretation was not that they can force Billups to return to the planet and perform as king, but that their laws would name him as their king and he is not willing to be negligent in his duties if he is named king because of his personal character.

In the long term, this may mean eventually he will return and become king when it is required of him, but he was trying to delay that and follow his own interests for as long as possible, since the planet currently has a functional and effective ruler: his mother.

This is why he agreed to go through the process of becoming king when he believed his mother had died, again reluctantly, but still choosing to fulfill his duties to respect his family and the needs of the people he would be ruling over, as there is no exploration of alternative heirs or loopholes or workarounds in their legal system.

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

VoiceAttack can be used to freely create arbitrary voice commands with pretty good recognition accuracy. It can send KB&M or gamepad inputs and run scripts and various other features. I used to use it to supplement controls for Elite: Dangerous and it worked pretty well. I imagine it'd get tiresome for complex games but could be good for simpler games, and for other computer tasks. https://voiceattack.com/Default.aspx

There are tons of potential accessibility devices like specialized buttons and breath control etc, but they're usually expensive medical devices or custom builds. The other commenters have already mentioned the consumer products I'm aware of.

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

TS releases do have good audio. Cams in general have a lot of visual problems though; poor color accuracy, warping, incomplete frames, sometimes people moving around, things like that. Also pretty much every cam I've seen lately has been covered in ads for sketchy gambling sites throughout the entire runtime. None of this makes for a good viewing experience.

Also, I don't think I've ever seen a cam with subtitles available.

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I expect they mean the site google.com, because that's been my experience. Whenever I get captcha'd there for using a VPN (which is getting more and more common), I always see the Maps image style captcha. Like 60% of the time it tells me I'm wrong anyway and I just give up.

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

With opnwrt you can do DNS hijacking, where you force redirect DNS requests for other servers to your own DNS server. This works as long as they aren't encrypted (DNS over HTTPS or TLS), which most devices don't use.

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Yes, ProtonVPN still provides port forwarding. They randomly assign you a single port every time you connect, so you'll have to update the settings in qB occasionally, but it's manageable.

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Auto injected context-aware ads are becoming increasingly common these days. Lots of podcast providers will use your IP or user information (if available) to select ads for your area or personal data and and they'll splice it into your download. It almost always interrupts the flow of discussions but the ones I've heard are at least usually good enough to happen at the end of sentences and not mid sentence or mid word.

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Alternatively Lichess which is FOSS (and can be found on fdroid)

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It's not exactly the same but you can use the SponsorBlock addon to skip the non-music segments of music videos when playing in browser, and for Android there's a fork of NewPipe that has this integrated.