The way AdGuard does it, is it has you install a certificate on your phone, which then allows you to block ads and trackers within HTTPS pipelines. If you don’t do that, then it can only block HTTP requests, which tends to be pretty low quality filtering. In addition, I also enable DNS blocking through AdGuard DNS service, so it’s kind of like blanket coverage.

I haven’t honestly found anything that does the same thing, or at least not at the same level of quality. So I’m always curious to see if something new has come out that can reach this level of filtering performance.

Can anyone tell me if this filters HTTPS requests?

That’s one feature that keeps me using Adguard, and it makes a huge difference to the filtering ability/quality.

Very cool. Thanks for the recommendation.

tp link routers tend to run openwrt pretty well.

Of course, I have the TP-Link router that isn’t well-supported 😖

I kind of miss my old Linksys routers, which officially supported third-party firmware.

Fucking legend! I’m going to spend the weekend exploring these apps and see what changes I can make on my phone. 👍

Are those green mini icons an indication of a PWA shortcut?

I use the app Hermit to run isolated websites, usually as PWAs. It’s replaced quite a few apps, but I’ve noticed that many companies are intentionally making their web experience shit so they force you to use invasive apps.

Anyway, it can create home icons for those sites, and they run separately (i.e. in your task switcher), so it works better than browser shortcuts.

Enforces privacy laws

I mean, there didn’t seem to be any consequences. No fines or anything like that. They were basically told that they can’t use facial recognition for what they were using it for, but there are others ways they could still use it (outlined in the article).

They were given a free-pass, it seems.

One does not torrent porn by accident, so Meta is doing this on purpose and hoping they don’t get caught.

And if they do, so what? Any legal consequences would have very little impact on the benefits they gained.

META wins again.

The “text messages” between him and his roommate tho…

The language is completely different. Vocab, grammar, punctuation, everything

I just read the “texts” and had the exact same thought. Everything about it seems… off.

And anyone his age would 100% know that you can’t just “delete this exchange” after giving very specific details that didn’t need to be shared at all.

Then he claims “idek if it had a serial number”, referring to the gun used, all while being a highly proficient shooter who has likely used this gun for ages, since it’s supposed to be in his family. Makes no sense.

Assuming he was texting using a modern phone, why are simple autocorrect rules being applied sporadically? You see “I’m” and then “Im”. Autocorrect wouldn’t let that slip.

Nobody should trust the FBI under Trump, anyway. It wouldn’t surprise me if this was faked, just like the fake MS-13 tattoo on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s knuckles. The one that Trump defended as being totally real, and the one that was brought up by a journalist during an interview, who was later fired for criticizing Trump.

What a screwed up timeline. People in the future won’t believe that any of this happened.

Life has been so good with Linux.

5% is too many. 15% is alarming.

We’re talking people who believe in an ideology of hate, violence, racism, and the erosion of rights and freedoms.

Wars were fought to make sure this shit never happened again, and here we are, happening all over the world.

They can always blame Biden (Joe or Hunter), Obama, or trans people! 🤡🤡🤡🤡

only reason i might want to have kids is to have people who care about me when i’m old.

There are a lot of variables that would need to fall into place for that to be a reality, and chances are, you’ll be supporting your kids until you die.

Not worth the gamble (IMO) in time, energy, and money, if that’s what the hope is.

LTT is probably the reason why I started using Sponsorblock 😂

You didn’t ask for it, but my advice is not to have kids, at any age.

Life is so short, and you’ll never have enough time to do everything you want before you’re too old to.

So why burden yourself with a kid(s)?

That assumes the kid(s) is totally healthy and doesn’t grow up to be an asshole, addict, or troublemaker.

But if your kid(s) ends up with health problems, intellectually slow, or has nightmare behaviour problems, you’ll hate living the rest of your life. Then you’ll resent them, which would suck for everyone.

And at your husband’s age, you’ll be doing it all alone. And in 20 years, you’ll likely be caring for your husband, so there’s no life, even after this kid(s) becomes an adult.

Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?

I have a channel with over 20k subs, nearly all evergreen content. Haven’t uploaded a video in many years, so it’s slowly getting fewer views. Fun fact, the pandemic saw the highest view counts, and I also didn’t add content back then.

Every enhancement YouTube brings is specifically to improve monetization, and since I disable ads on my channel and don’t have any sponsored content, I’m not getting any benefits. I also refuse to do shorts, so I’m losing a ton of exposure there, too.

If an active channel isn’t doing well, they should call it quits, TBH. They’ll either have to compromise the quality of their content “for the algorithm”, or their content isn’t actually useful outside of a single view.

I stopped watching LTT videos when they just became long-form ads. Or when everyone five minutes was a sponsored segment.

Because stores use a high quality feed

Yes, obviously, and consumers who are buying such high-end displays should do their best to provide the highest quality source to play back on those displays.

Distance from the display is important, too. On a small TV, you’ll be close to it, but resolution won’t matter as much.

But from across the room, you want a higher resolution display up to a certain point, or else you’ll see large pixels, and that looks terrible.

Personally, going with a 4k TV was a big leap, but the addition of HDR and an OLED display (for black blacks) had the most impact.

I find that it really depends on the content on the size of the display.

The larger the display, the more you’d benefit from having a higher resolution.

For instance, a good quality 1080p stream vs a highly compressed 4k stream probably won’t look much different. But a “raw” 4k stream looks incredible… think of the demos you see in stores showing off 4k TVs… that quality is noticeable.

Put the same content on a 50"+ screen, and you’ll see the difference.

When I had Netflix, watching in 4k was great, but to me, having HDR is “better”.

On a computer monitor, there’s a case for high-resolution displays because they allow you to fit more on the screen without making the content look blurry. But on a TV, 4k + HDR is pretty much peak viewing for most people.

That’s not to say that if you create content, 8k is useless. It can be really handy when cropping or re-framing if needed, assuming the desired output is less than 8k.

The difference between 1080 and 4K is pretty visible, but the difference between 4K and 8K, especially from across a room, is so negligible that it might as well be placebo.

Also the fact that 8K content takes up a fuckload more storage space. So, there’s that, too.