I used to be an a friend’s planning exchange for sharing Disney plus. But he booted me after I kept putting weird shit on his family calendar.

“Wash that thing on your back that’s hard to reach and puts out a putrid smell.”

“Soak feet in melted butter.”

I’ve been a premium member since then. I’ve been watching the battle with ad blockers from the sidelines.

Who is winning that battle? This will inform my next move.

Sorry, the sort of individualism you speak of only applies to opting out of vaccines and praying to jeebus in the classroom.

I’m a regular ass taxpayer trying to feed my family. I do what I can to protect privacy. I use a VPN, self host whatever I can, shit like that. I can’t stop driving to work so I can avoid cameras.

Is that you step brother?

I take RTFM more broadly to mean that I at least put in some effort to solve the problem myself. I googled, checked forum posts, read the man page, opened a config file or two and read some comments, etc. So I get offended when I get RTFM’d.

If you can’t reply without being a dick, then keep scrolling! Why participate in a forum where people with less experiece ask questions in the first place? That time could be better spent reading your shop vac manual or figuring out who you need to blow to save $700 on a dishwasher repair.

OP may be a master of RTFM, but they clearly didn’t read through that passage before posting. Blowing the technician is a good way to save money, but maybe not the best way to learn.

Did you forget to convert back to USD and the number is just higher?

You can sandbox play store apps right?

You mean trolls?

Thanks for making me not the first person to mention slackware for once. I don’t have any beef with systemd. It’s just foreign to me. I installed slackware some time in the late 90s and found my life’s calling.

No. I’m about to change my number because I get so many spam calls and texts.

Wanna cyber?

I took fell into the 7 million sites blocked trap!

Take an old PC or laptop out of the box-o-crap, install Ubuntu server, give it a fixed IP address, install pi hole with the one line command from their website, tell your regular PC that the laptop IP is your DNS server.

This is the easiest way to play around before rolling out to your whole network.

I haven’t installed it direct on my router. I used to have it running in a container on my little proxmox server (aka old PC repurposed). I really liked the interface.

Then I was practically gifted a really nice Asus router. I flashed merlin-wrt to it and read some guide on how to install a different ad blocker. It’s really good whatever it is. I haven’t had to touch it in months, and I never see an ad.

You and me both

I’ve been waiting a few weeks for my zima blade 7700 to ship. They’ve been out of stock.

This is the best advice. Heed it!

Same, except I bought the domain through namecheap

I use a microSD to usb adapter and have 2 spinning rust disks. So it’s /sdc for me, but i still always double check. Dd isn’t called the disk destroyer for nothing.