A year or so I turned off targeted ads from Google. I very quickly noticed an increase in ads with anime tiddies.

I guess Google sees a correlation between people who worry about privacy, and people who are likely to click on anime tiddies…

I’m nervous about how long it’ll be until those stop working

Going from 256GB -> 1TB is $400. That’s insanity. A 1TB NVME drive is less than $100 these days.

1. Ditch Chromium.
2. Use a Password Manager instead of “log in with Google/Facebook/whatever”
3. Keep tabs on Mobile App permissions and revoke as many as you possibly can. I revoke location permissions from every single app except Navigation apps, which have to ask for location permissions. If possible, remove apps in favor of Native Alpha / Hermit web apps

Use a Zigbee controller or Zigbee USB stick on a controller, and Zigbee lights. I’m planning to switch to that myself

I have my TV offline, connected to my Xbox, with HDMI-CEC enabled.

When I turn on the Xbox, it automatically turns the TV on, which goes to my last used input (the Xbox). From there I can launch whatever streaming apps I want.

I know I have to deal with Microsoft’s nonsense too, but at least the performance is good and it shows the most recent app at the top of my home page.

This was definitely going to be my answer too

Film photography. Started with a camera I got for free, and $20 worth of film. Quickly spiraled into many cameras that I bought or inherited, and so much money on film and development

Problem is I like c/piracy. I don’t pirate much, but I do everything I can to avoid ads, and i self-host a lot of stuff, so there’s a lot of overlap between my interest and the content there.

The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.

That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There’s very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.

Seriously, my first reaction was “10C isn’t even that cold.”

By the time you’re 20 you’ll be using Arch Linux and self-hosting everything!

I’ve been using Photoprism. Single-user is fine for me. I see lots of people switching to immich, but haven’t checked it out myself.

Photoprism supports sharing albums via link to people who don’t have accounts. Mine is remotely accessible using Tailscale. I would like to set up proper remote access via DNS, but haven’t made that leap yet, I’m too nervous about opening ports up.

Heck yeah

Question, where did you find a phone that isn’t run by an ad company?

TandoorRecipes is a great little recipe-hosting service, and it’s available as an app on Unraid. No more saving recipes in my notes app, I actually have nicely-formatted ingredient lists and instructions.

Anyone have any good extensions for hiding ad blockers from sites? Can ublock origin do it natively?