/baw/ - General Discussion

I just bought a nintendo Switch

>>418822
You have my condolences.

I missed this place

>>418825
Well, now that you're here, you don't miss it anymore!

>>418825
Tell me, what was it you missed the most about this place?

anyone knows whats up with 8chan? I heard they had their DNS terminated, and that someone put up a copy of the site on zeronet.

>>418834
Have no idea what zeronet even is, what happened with Infinichan is government censorship. The site was blamed for hosting the manifesto of one of those loser mass shooters, so Cloudflare dropped the support. Cause, you know, if you read a journal of a killer, YOU will become a killer yourself! (cause humans are totally blank slates to be influenced by the smallest thing)

And later it turned out it wasn't even posted on 8chan, but Cloudflare are a bunch of faggots who will never admit being wrong.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-verizon-tumblr/verizon-to-sell-tumblr-to-wordpress-owner-idUSKCN1V21W8

In the end, they didn't sell tumblr to Youporn, they sold it to Wordpress.

>>418834
CodeMonkey confimed the ZeroNet copy is unofficial. I believe it is a darknet:
>ZeroNet is a decentralized web-like network of peer-to-peer users

>>418837
>Cause, you know, if you read a journal of a killer, YOU will become a killer yourself!
Don't forget that every single board was involved! I just want it to come back online so I can save some old posts from niche boards, that's all.

>>418844
>purging NSFW content then selling to a porn company
The world is strange but I doubt that would have happened.

>>418860
34 is not bad for summer. Some places get WAY higher.

>>418864
Maybe, but the carpathian basin isn't Siciliy or the Canary Islands or the coasts of Portugal. Those places usually have oceanic climates or are otherwise windy areas, which makes the large temperatures more easily bearable. And/or they have their society accostumed to the temperatures, such as mid-day siestas and work hours being mornings and nights. We don't have all of that. 34C in a city, with no wind movement nor any rain, where work hours are mostly in the middle of the day, can be very difficult. But we have had up to 41C last year.

>>418860
That looks beautiful.

>>418881
>he doesn't even SKRATTA

>>418881
Oh, so that's what that wojak variant is parodying...
I learned reasonably early not to try and be a cartoon in real life, it seems these guys didn't get the memo.

>>418886
>not to try and be a cartoon in real life
You won't succeed with that attitude, soldier!

>>418897
My first thought is : WTF?
My second thought is : Free Mattresses!

This belongs here the most:
Scratch21 - Ayleeyuns [Official Music Video]

>>419034
Finally, I can see if I actually have the oldest post on /tech/. Either that or second place.

I spent half a week waiting for a reply on two emails, only to find that Thunderbird did not send them in the first place, due to Gmail requiring a cookie login now, beyond the normal SMTP access. Also, it locks me out of my account every few months when my dynamic IP changes. Getting back is near impossible, only simple way is to keep changing my IP until it uses the same octets as before.

Gmail fucking sucks nowadays, but what other good email providers are there? The only ones I know of are cock.li, and I've seen someone use posteo.de and mailbox.org....

>>419058
You should use Hotmail

>>419058
Don't use a client, ever. Just go to the website like all the normal people/

>>419077
no
t. FOSS guy

>>419077
You must be joking.

Yoko Taro is a pretty shitty writer with a fetish for Misery that he beats people over the head with in a hamhanded fashion.

Just found out about the manga he created awhile back. as you might imagine is all dumb Edge, which is what brought this to mind.

I got so used to computer graphics that I forgot yellow is a primary color. RGB is one true system.

When MS stop updating Windows 7 does that mean I'll need to get something to replace Windows Security Essentials as my main thing or is that separate?

>>419111
WSE gets definition updates regardless of win7 support, but you should be using a better antivirus. WSE is not bad, but there are better.

I recently installed a 2nd SSD in my machine, mainly for caching plus to store games on. Oddly, after I redirected every temp folder to that new SSD, my machine became significantly more responsive... after doing some benchmarks, turns out that the new drive scores up to 4x higher in random read tests, and 4x better in sequential writing. The low write speeds could be attributed to the old SSD being 90% full and also extremely fragmented (contrary to popular belief, filesystem fragmentation does matter a lot for SSDs, for writing at least). But not a 4x difference, and not in random reads.

So my next weekend project will be repartitioning my computer, and using the new SSD as a shared system + games drive. It actually is so fast that in certain benchmarks, it's the CPU that becomes the bottleneck.

>>419126
Adding time travel to a story/setting is a mistake, often even in stories where the central concept is time travel.

>person posts their "best episodes" list
>half of them are horrible picks
I don't get it!

>>419218
Alot of people have shit taste.

>>419264
>wtf how long has plus4 been a thing again
sometime around 2006/7

>last I remember was it being shut down
In the end we didn't, but most people think we did. Spread the word, plus4chan is still open for business!

Some of you may be familiar with towel.blinkenlights.nl, which will send you an ASCII rendition of Star Wars IV (viewable here: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/) via telnet protocol.
I learned about it maybe ten years ago. I didn't know about the blinkenlights joke (nor the significance of towel (or .nl, come to think of it)). I just remember thinking it was a really comfy name, I imagined a midnight cityscape and all those windows with their lights on. It was nice.

>>419311
>didn't know about the blinkenlights joke (nor the significance of towel (or .nl, come to think of it))

Wait, what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Towel (the address also serves quotes from the character Marvin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nl (just means Netherlands domain)

>>419314
Oh, okay, I thought it was a composite joke or something, since individually those things don't have a particular significance (.nl), or are references at best (the towel).

Didn't knew about blinkenlights being an actual expression though. I've learned something new today, which makes it a good day.

>>419315
Yeah, I didn't know either. I found it when looking up turbo-encabulators.

I'm sure a lot of kids thought, "I wish it could be Christmas every day".
Sooner or later, it just might happen. It's not even December and shopping malls look like it's Christmas Eve already. Christmas is supposed to make me happy but I'm sick to death of carols and it isn't even December.

>>419317
>I found it when looking up turbo-encabulators.

Ah. Yes. Those things. My pan sexual roto plooker has one inside; finding a replacement part when it broke was so difficult.

Hey Thanksgiving, Woo! So does America still teach the bullshit about the 'Pilgrims' in school?

>>419358
Which one?

>>419359
Most of it really.

Just drank some Thai chilli sauces for half an hour, now I'm salivating so hard it feels like my mouth is filling itself with soup.

I want to eat chalk, it's fine isn't it? Like not just grab some colored chalk from an art supply store but stuff that is specifically non-toxic, would be great if you could just buy a bag of it like you would sweets.

Anonymous is at it again, it seems:
New security warning for in-home smart cameras l ABC News

>>419441
>any smart device in your house
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

Twas a good sssssssssss
http://boards.4channel.org/co/thread/111986913

A thread deleted for no reason
https://boards.fireden.net/co/thread/112055771/

A set of trips, well used:
http://boards.4channel.org/co/thread/112246555

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Plus4chan is immortal

4chan itself will burn to the ground and somehow this place will still trickle along

Enjoy the new year and decade!

Also, has anyone ever done a reading of Plato's Republic but styled as a podcast?

/co/ Prime had a long Hazel thread for two days:
http://boards.4channel.org/co/thread/112395198

Posting here because this is an ancient sacred tradition of the highest order.

That "Coomer" shit some retards spam on 4chan proper is such a forced meme.

>>419558
Well, some forced memes become the dream.

The madman has actually done it.

It's been real, but I'm out!

>a WHOLESOME thread 404'd to death
https://boards.fireden.net/co/thread/112620319/

Fun threads are not allowed:
http://boards.4channel.org/co/thread/112809647

did the coronavirus turn into full blown zombie invasion yet?

>>419635
I feel bad for the innocent plebs being infected but at the same time... China being weakened in some fashion isn't a negative outcome.

Its not like the officials give a shit about the lives and safety of the common person the rest of the time with how much of a deathtrap things become because of their lax building standards, or various other tyrannies inflicted upon them.

>>419636
China has way too much economic strength in the world. If this virus weakens them greatly, that is not bad. What's going to be interesting is when the virus hits india, the least sanitary environment on the planet.

Me and my roommate are disabled and rent a place from his parents.

He just came in telling me they might lose the mortgage in the next five years and sell the place.

This has left me in an unsettled state to say the very least.

>>419661
Sounds like you guys are going to have some hard times ahead. At the least you should talk to them to see what's causing them problems and what you guys could do to help out.
That or look for a new place in advance.

I'm in my early 30's and I worry about my memory, I go to use a word in my fairly extensive vocabulary and just totally space on it despite knowing the word I want to use. Then I need minutes to try and coax the word out of my brain if I even manage to remember it at all at that time period.

The word right now was Superstitious and it took my a few minutes, brain kept snapping to words like Sympathetic.

The world is disgusting and impure, it needs to be cleansed.

In a fire of bleach, wet wipes and other cleaning products.

>>419724
>The world is disgusting and impure, it needs to be cleansed.

soon, brother. soon.

Getting euthanized in old age seems a better bet than retirement. Not planning on having a family anyway.

>>419767
Sounds a bit extreme, but with decent health care costing so much, and no family members to take care of you, this does sound like something necessary.

Whoever is still on the party board, I finally replied.

Holy shit, the site looks so much different now. ?

>>419852
Maybe word of the revamp will spread and more oldfags will reappear to check it out.

>>419852
Holy shit, you actually posted again.

This is fucked but I think I've been infected by the casual racism of the internet.

Live in a place where white is the most prominent, then other races, then black people being the least common. And now when I happen to see a black person in the street or on internet often the memories of all the racist spam and memes that are everywhere are what pops into my head.
Not even thinking it about the person just being reminded and have recollections all pop-up unbidden.

Its more than a little annoying.

Geeze the guy from Binging with Babish caught the 19

Binging with Babish: Cold Cure from Kenan & Kel

This seems more shocking personally than hearing the likes of Tom Hanks has it

>>418819
>Speak Your BRAIN!: Thought for Food edition
>Food
The greatest regret had since this pandemic started... is that our place doesn't have a working oven. Just a microwave and a toaster.

>>419959
Make LOTS of salads then.

>>418819
Hey gang, been a while.

sup with yall

>>419977
Dealing with a more enforced form of my usual isolation

Sup with you?

>>419978
Just got furloughed at work. Starting to have massive anxiety and random panic attacks so at least I have time to try and take care of that instead of deal with work at the same time.

>>419979
>furloughed
Goddammit, I thought you meant an old furry anthology magazine.

Also
https://boards.fireden.net/co/thread/114028238

>>419985
We Didn't Start This Website (YTMND)

>>419985
ok boomer

>>419974
I wonder if anyone posted my default 'sick' reaction image? Probably not...

>>419994
Well, I won't know unless I saw your choice.....

>>419991
Fuck you.

>>420055
Where is that? Would be fucked if they forced that around here since the only 'mask' in the house is two of those builders dust masks I bought years ago.
Wouldn't mind owning a proper full-face gas mask, if I'm gonna wear anything not gonna bother with half-measures.

>>420056
dust masks and disposable plastic gloves are exactly what is considered what you should be wearing (though the rubber gloves are preferred). More efficient masks are better, but the n95 masks are extremely uncomfortable with my glasses so I'm just not bothering with them right now.

I may have to though, but the thing is, the only way I can wear them is so they don't cover my face properly, meaning they are useless.
Also I can barely breath in these things. There's no place to went the air out, so after 3 breaths my face is already hot and my glasses are covered in steam.

>>420055
> How would they react in the store if I wore a
>Darth Vader outfit
Fun!
>or as Jason Voorhees
holy shit were getting robbed get the shotgun

Here the recommendations are to avoid masks so that medical professionals have enough of them.

Happy Hat Day plus4chan!

>>420071
>>420072

The washing machine in my apartman is leaking... I have to take apart half the kitchen furniture to get access to it. Not fun.

Judging by how the floorboard cracks near the washing machine, I'm guessing that it's already bad enough that many tiles are rotten. Which means taking apart the ENTIRE kitchen at some point. Not fun.

>>420084
I'll have to do the same with my shower at one point. Only my situation is slightly less catastrophic.

>>420084
Sympathies go out to you anon.

We'd be fucked in that situation during the outbreak.

I didn't even bother checking the kitchen because I've had the *floor* leaking under my washing machine - before even loading it. Basically I came home to find a puddle there. This has happened MANY times before. So I'm again thinking that the problem does not lie with me, but something in the building is just fucked between the floors.

I'll have to take the kitchen apart anyway though, just in case. Those squeaky tiles have been there for a decade already. For all I know, half the tiles in the corner may have rotten away without me knowing.

>>420112
Turns out the washing machines extension cable is leaking all over. Crap.

And when I pulled off the kitchen counter to access the washing machine (it is underneath it), the damn thing collapsed so I need to call a carpenter too, to fix that.

fuck.

I'm tired all the time, I'm cold and the guts are always in some state of discomfort.

Just want it to be over.

>>420129
Find what's bothering you, and get rid of it.

>>420130
What makes you think I haven't been doing that?

Don't know where to post this since we don't have a youtube thread:
George Carlin on soft language

>>420204
Such a good performance. Shame he also said and done some awful things at other times.

>>420206
Hasn't every comedian/celebrity turned out to have done horrific things now?

>>420206
>>420209
Stop talking shit about Rufus, he's one excellent dude.

>>420210
And by excellent, I of course mean MOST OUTSTANDING.

Man just got a bunch more 'Netflix' phishing emails all at once.

Don't even use Netflix, the closest I came to it was when I signed up to Amazon which came with a trial period for Amazon Prime.

>>420212
Sure it wasn't "Netfux"?

>>420216
>actually 25fps
Now that is what I call didacetion!

>>420217
>actually 25fps
It sure is, pal! I didn't even notice

After many years I just realized Back To The Future III could be mostly solved by running away and waiting.

Oh I thought Shawn Wallace was dead. Good to see he isn't. I must have confused him with [redacted].

>>420251
You mean the rule 34 artist? I thought he was dead too. I recall that he raised up a lot of shit over hiw work being reposted or not.

The artist I know for sure to have died is Zimmerman.

>>420252
Nah, I meant the actor. Boss guy from The Incredibles, Rizzini from The Princess Bride.
I didn't even know there was a rule 34 artist using the same name...

>>420252
How do you even find out a porn artist died? Rather than them just never posting content again.

>>420267
They may have relatives checking their old inboxes, or you know their names and look them up on social media and the like (some artists use their real names, you also may find their real name if you do commissions and send money via paypal or so).

And in the case of Zimmerman, he wasn't just a random guy posting porn behind a pseudonym, he made thousands of pictures over 20 years all signed with his own name, and his art was published at one point.

An obituary was posted online with his name, I'm guessing someone just contacted the family afterwards to confirm it.

Or maybe he just had real life friends who knew of his craft and posted the facts online.

>>420269
I remember Zimmerman, he did black and white images of the likes of Jessica rabbit and disney chicks? Had alot of sameface/body going on?

Spent a week working from 9 to 19 with no breaks. I never felt so much mental fatigue that I couldn't actually hold enough coherent thoughts together to use a computer.

>>420289
Yeah, that was him. Entry level Disney rule 34 from the early days of the internet, to be honest.

Here, have something cute.
みっちりねこマーチ - MitchiriNeko March - Cute cat characters in a marching band!

Was at the shops yesterday and saw more Madeleine Mccann stuff splashed over the front page of every paper, just now saw her face in the sidebar of twitter.

Man when are the news outlets gonna let her go, this seems even more egregious than Princess Diana-spam.

>>420449
I only read of it the first time yesterday. What caught my eye the most is the one of the suspects was under trial for 15+ times already, for arson, drugs, rape charges, and attacking minors.

It just reinforces my thoughts that the death penalty should be re-established. A man like that, who has fallen back to his ways 15+ times will not change. Giving him penance and another chance is just a waste of resources, and it will lead to further crimes.

My old mouse kicked the bucket after so many years, so I bought a new one - this one apparently has teflon coated feet (or something like that) so it can move easier for all the esports kids. However this makes it slip around so easily that the *weight of the cable* is enough to push it away; I can't put it idle unless I move it in the corner or something.

I watch ProZD videos on youtube, I enjoy his voice acting skits, but now youtube keeps recommending his 'other' videos where he eats all the various varieties of pop tarts or crisps or what have you and I don't even want to be told about that because such ridiculous gluttony infront of a camera for views disgusts me.

For fuck's sake.

What do you call that condition where your vision is dazzled? Like when you watch a bright strobing light, and you keep seeing it after you close your eyes, EXCEPT that you never looked into a strobing light but your eyes still work like that, for hours. Like there's a bright spot on the upper part of your vision that doesn't blur things, just makes it take more concentration to focus.

>>420575
We call that: time to call an eye-doctor

What's the deal with this Microsoft Edge which has just updated itself on my laptop?

>>420596
They switched Edge to use webkit, so now it's just a Chrome reskin. Which makes it completely pointless to use. The only alternative webbrowser engine now is Firefox.

>>420597
Something something Palemoon and its Goanna engine.

>>420599
That's just a fork of Firefox, the same way opera/edge is now a fork of Chrome.

My watercooling setup had a broken pump a few months back, and since I fixed that, it got pretty noisy... I did not refill it properly and it was full of air bubbles, which made constant noise.

I finally got around to fixing it. Since it is a semi-AIO (it is possible to take it apart, refill it, and expand it), it had no dedicated reservoir, the radiator doubled as the reservoir. Had to take out the entire thing and twist and turn it around until I could hear the air bubbles not in the pump part, but in the radiator. Had to keep it running while doing all of that, and refill it while it was running too, to keep the air bubbles surfacing. I could still add about a 1dl of cooling water until it was full, so it was missing a lot.

I've gotten so used to the bubbly noise that I can barely believe how silent it became after doing this. I want to expand it to cover my CPU as well as having a dedicated pump and reservoir, but for that I need a new case since my current one predates the proliferation of consumer watercooling equipment. Even the current AIO fits in partially by accident.

I would never have thought that I'd start adding watercooling to my computer, but it makes a ludicrous difference in cooling performance even with just a single 120mm radiator.

I finally had a week free, after 2 months of nonstop work on weekends too.

On the first fucking day, my NAS died with 11tb data on it. So now I have to sort that shit out, get new hardware, assemble it, set up a new server, and see if I can restore the data.

>>420686
I should wear a mask more.

To be fair my main tactic is just never going out when at all possible.

Also its stupid but I hold my breath and run past groups of people when they clog up the streets.

>>420686
I seen 40 year olds die of less.

Fakku started uploading a few books to sadpanda, to practically universal revile. Then they declared that if you want to complain, do it in the forum not in the comments - then the forum thread got locked.

>>420704
As in it got hacked? Hackers got access to all the fancy accounts of major influncers?

I don't even get the message spammed, since I don't have any truck with bit coins. Not sure why anyone would expect to receive money back in return for sending them less money.

>>420711
Someone(s) got access to the accounts of a lot of famous people and posted the bitcoin equivalent of the nigerian prince scam. It was either an extremely serious security problem that allowed attackers to access random peoples accounts, or it was an attack by insiders - or the attackers knew people who had access. So, basically, one of the top social media sites on the internet got hacked.

I believe the technical term for it is "pwned", not just owned.

>>420731
Being screwed by others' idiotic decisions is a special kind of awful.

>>420731
Clear cookies/local storage/session, and try again.
Use a new email, if the signup is tied to email addresses. Even if you'll have to permanently switch to that email address, if the job is truly once in a lifetime, it'll be a insignificant sacrifice.

>>420733
It's tied to a legal name, however I may have found another (somewhat better, actually) way into the job.
It's not really once in a lifetime but it would be very nice

What kind of job is it?

>>420786
That's some Independence Day shit there.

>>420786
Considering storms are controlled by electrical currents which attract dust and water vapor, a photo like that phases me not a bit.

>>420790
I mean there's also the fact its happening over Montreal, no one would care if something wiped that city off the face of the Earth.

>>420792
What are they guilty of?

>>420793
Being of Quebec.

>>420794
Well, Quebec is best Canada. Also, confused that with Melbourne.

>>420795
Being "best Canada" still means it is largely a joke.

>>420796
Super South Park Friends: French Canada

Jesus christ, Beirut got fucked

https://twitter.com/i/status/1290680079266308098
https://twitter.com/i/status/1290669185715118086
https://twitter.com/i/status/1290672517733064705
https://twitter.com/i/status/1290971057143283712

>>420802
Yup, 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse just blew up. According to experts, it is the equivalent of 400 tons of TNT. The city center now looks like it got hit by a nuclear weapon.

2020 just keeps on giving, doesn't it.

>>420802
I own a movie called West Beirut. I only know of that city from a movie. Wow.

pilotredsun's videos are ones that make me expect a jump scare
Mr. Fujiwara's Office

I've got a habit in typing that pisses me off to no end, might be a symptom of some mental disability.

Will frequently use the same word multiple times in a single sentence or at least a single paragraph.
Makes the sentence or paragraph read terribly and I'll only really notice after I have already submitted it.

>>420856
Kind of like me with NOT vs NOW. I think I'm getting better.

>>418819
I don't think that's rare. If you just used a word, it's going to be one of the first ones you think of while trying to write the next sentence.

Why are quantum computers progressive?
Because they're non-binary

>>420878
I am of the opinion quantum computing is actually a bunch of phooie. Claiming to have invented one and having a copy is fine and good. Now, show it to me, show it in action, and then definitively prove it's "quantum" on the inside. Do all three, and I'm a believer.

TWC storm alert 2006 theme
I can't believe how legit this piece is

I hate having to wash myself, or perhaps I hate the fact that my body becomes dirty so that I'm required to wash myself.

>>420890
bitch, you are just lazy.

I cleaned the floor on my room, and now it's all slippery without that fine layer of dust. I actually almost fell several times.

>>420892
No fuck you, the human body is disgusting and impure.

>>420896
>the human body is disgusting and impure.
That's what makes it so sexy.

>>420896
You make yourself pure through your own actions. If you do not wish to perform actions I would have to ask why you are even alive. For life is nothing but a series of actions; don't want to act, don't live.

>>420902
Were you openly masturbating as you typed this overly-poetic nonsense.

>>420904
What if I'm openly masturbating whenever I browse plus4chan?

>>420905
Not just /pco/? The whole board?

>>420906
I'm masturbating right now.

Was watching some Fraiser clips on youtube when an interview on some talk show with Kelsey Grammer from a couple of years ago popped up.

He looked so old, which made me feel so old.

>>420916
Have you seen any recent movies from old action movie stars? Arnold, Willis, Stallone, people like that? Those dudes are in their 70s now. Used to watch all their stuff in the telly as a kid and now I see them and they are grey haired, wrinkly old men.

>>420917
Honestly don't watch as many movies anymore.

Like I've seen more recent pictures of Arnold but for some reason it didn't hit me as hard as what I saw at this particular moment in time.

>>420918
The new Arnold movies are indeed not as good. I admit that Arnold today is not as imposing as an action hero as he was in the 80s and 90s. But I can't think of any one of his recent movies, that has a script as entertaining as True Lies or Last Action Hero. Or even Jingle All the Way for that matter.

>>420917
I will watch the Arnold/Jackie Chan movie some day.

>>420933
Thanks for reminding me about that.

Cursive is bullshit.

All that wasted time my mom had me practicing in work books at home.

>>420970
Eventually all humans realize cursive develops you as a person, making you appreciate beautiful things. Provided you live long enough that is.

Your mom is based. Make sure to ell her that.

>>420979
Its dumb, pointless and overall less clear a form of communication.

>>421062
It's made for writing faster, isn't it?
Now that we have keyboards widely available and shorthand for specialists, it's somewhat obsoleted unless you are doing it for calligraphic aesthetic reasons.

>>421071
There's nothing wrong with writing out something in block letters you spastic.

There's nothing wrong with cursive, we used it in school because it was the fastest way to write something that is still readable.

I wonder what alien lifeforms would think of us when they find out one of our most celebrated art pieces is a picture of a urinal.

>>421106
The shadow made me think he was going cross-eyed from pissing.

>>421109
Have you ever peed so hard you've gone cross-eyed?

>>421122
I once peed with an erection in the bathtub. From the other side of the bathroom.

>>421123
Must have been hella uncomfortable.

RIP Longcat

>>421125
It's not, and it's not supposed to be; you may need to consider seeing a doctor if pissing with an erection is painful for you.

>>421133
Maybe he meant uncomfortable in the sense its awkward to do rather than it physically hurts.

Getting pissed off that everything now requires a mobile phone number to receive text message as verification in order to use their services.

I don't own a mobile phone, don't need a mobile phone, this is nonsense.

>>421135
oh boy, it gets worse: some services specifically need a mobile application running in order to work. On your PC.

>>421136
What service are those? An what sort of application are we talking.

>>421137
Steams trading card thing only allows you to put cards on the market if you have their phone app installed. Without it it can only put cards up with 1 month delay, which basically makes them impossible to sell at market value.

Also banking applications started requiring 2FA for login here in Europe, and in a few months they'll change to needing biometric authentication for online transactions (using fingerprint scanner or face recognition in mobile phones). The bank I'm at could give you separate dongle keypads to get around 2FA to keep use their old banking app, but I have no idea what they'll do to comply with the new laws.

>>421135
>Getting pissed off that everything now requires a mobile phone number to receive text message as verification in order to use their services.

It's an EU law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_customer_authentication

>Article 4(30) defines "strong customer authentication" itself (as multi-factor authentication):
>an authentication based on the use of two or more elements categorised as knowledge (something only the user knows), possession (something only the user possesses) and inherence (something the user is) that are independent, in that the breach of one does not compromise the reliability of the others, and is designed in such a way as to protect the confidentiality of the authentication data

>>421139
Fuck the EU, worthless organisation.

>>421135
I agree, it sucks.
If you really need one, sites like juicysms can receive verification from popular sites using real norsk phone numbers. $0.50 a site, worked for each one I've tried.

Happened a few days ago but I just heard - the source code was leaked online for the entire Windows NT line from 3.5 to Server 2003, including Windows XP.