Same. I think i could have enjoyed the gameplay but the horror aspect and overall vibe was too offputting.

This is the primary reason I stopped consumimg news that doesn’t directly relate to my interests. Eliminating news and advertisement from my life is the most liberating thing I’ve evr done.

I think a big part of it is that a lot of people stream on their phones. For a lot of those people, their phone is the only computer they have. So quality is less of a concern than availability. I’m all for the Arr stack, personally, but I can see how streaming has more appeal for a lot of folks.

I love Obsidian. It blows away every other notes app I’ve used. I use it seemlessly across Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac devices. It’s as customizable as you want it to be, even if that means “not at all”.

I’ve set mine up with all kinds of templates and automation to populate and organize my daily notes, notes on books I’ve read, notes about people I meet, project notes, the list goes on and on…

And if I ever decide not to use Obsidian any more, all of the notes are stored as markdown files on my device(s). So I don’t lose anything. Not even the formatting. Just make sure to back up your vault, in case you lose the device itself.

limiting entrepreneurial freedom

Also known as protecting consumers.

I was really excited about this. I’d been looking for a reason to try Proton’s products, and also a reason to move my family off of LastPass. After signing up for Pass Family, I did find the Proton Pass product to be superior to LastPass in most ways. I appreciate that Proton provides a way for me to request, and vote on, new features. At that point, I couldn’t have been happier with the decision, and had started the process of getting the family moved over.

Then I made the mistake of upgrading my Proton Mail plan. While using Proton Mail, I got a lovely offer to upgrade, with a pro-rated price of on $0.99 per month. Nothing on the offer page indicated that it was anything other than an add-on to my existing subscription. Amazing, I thought. Now, in addition to moving off of LastPass, I can move off of Gmail too. And I could transfer my domain over to a privacy focused provider. All for a great price! What the offer didn’t say, was that by upgrading my Proton Mail plan to Mail Plus, I would immediately lose access to Pass Family. I only found this out after the fact. No big deal, I thought. I’ll just reach out to support and they’ll help me get this sorted. I could not have been more wrong.

Support has routed me through a number of account upgrade paths with the promise that these would then allow me to downgrade my Proton Mail account and get back on Pass Family. Instead, it’s left me stuck with a Proton Unlimited account that I have no use for, and no way to share my Proton password vault with my family. It seems my only choice is to cancel my Proton subscription entirely, and go back to LastPass. With no option for a refund from Proton, it’s basically $50 down the drain. Now, at this point, I could not be more disappointed with the experience.

edit: Ultimately, support was able to help me get back on the Pass Family plan. I won’t say it was easy. Proton only allows you to have one subscription plan at a time, so having different subscription levels for their various products is not possible with a single account. That’s disappointing, because I would like to have all my Proton products linked to one primary account, while selecting the subscription level that’s right for me, for each product. That said, I do want to recognize that technical support did as much as they could to help, and they deserve kudos for their patience.

I see your point. I have no illusions that democracy is healthy in modern times. Perhaps not ever? We don’t even live in a democracy any more, we live in a corporatocracy.

But doing nothing will solve nothing.

edited to add: In fact, it’s our complacency that our corporate masters depend on. Corporate news is designed to overwhelm you. Advertising is designed to lull you to sleep. Together, they make it seem like there’s nothing you can do. But that’s not true. You can do something. Maybe not the things I suggested, but something. It will make a difference, even if it only makes a small difference for a few people. Isn’t that better than nothing?

If you don’t want to be tracked illegally, don’t bring your phone.

If you don’t want any to be tracked legally, write/call/tweet/visit your representatives.

If you don’t want to be tracked illegally, don’t bring your phone.

If you don’t want any to be tracked legally, write/call/tweet/visit your representatives.

edit: responded to the wrong comment

They’ll likely rely on reports from the public. I don’t imagine this is intended to go after individuals, but rather, companies that buy fake reviews by the hundreds.

Which brings us back to the real, underlying, problems with the prevalent model: greed and the concentration of wealth.

A Kroger spokesperson said in a statement that the company’s business model is built on a “foundation of lowering prices to attract more customers.” “To be clear, Kroger does not and has never engaged in ‘surge pricing,’” the statement said. “Any test of electronic shelf tags is designed to lower prices for more customers where it matters most.”

I know these PR people get paid a lot to tell bald-faced lies, but I just don’t understand how they live with themselves.

Well put.

Soon, it won’t be this idiotic hype cycle, but it’ll be some other idiotic hype cycle. Short term investors love hype cycles.

So you’re saying that didnt happen?

I recently picked up a GL-iNet Flint 2 because it’s a powerhouse and one of the easiest routers to flash Open-WRT onto. If you don’t want to mess with firnware flashing, it comes stock with their fork of Open-WRT. So, either way, you have a ton of control over your router, including setting up VLANs and running AdGuard.

I get emails from school, with a link that opens a 3rd party app, which only displays a link that opens in the default browser. I’ve asked the school to just send me direct links to the announcements, but they say they can’t. The site doesn’t require authentication, but the URLs have UUIDs so I can’t just guess what the link would be. The app is quite literally just a data exfiltration layer that does everything it can to make sure you can’t bypass it. Good luck getting any other parents to give a shit though.

…we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm

Seems like that’s about the only actions Reddit execs have taken over the last several years. Glad I left when I did.

What’s a lemon party? I should Google it.

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I’ve gotten some surprisingly long lasting gems there, but you can never be sure. Like you said, I’ve also gotten a number “single use” tools from Harbor Freight. Overall though, it’s almost always been worth it.