The movie actually incorporates the album very well. IIRC, that’s on purpose (they intended to make the movie when mixing the album).

Seconded on NextDNS. It’s like $20/year for the “pro” version (no monthly limits) and I honestly cannot recall the last time I saw an ad on any device I control. The sole exception is my Apple TV, where one of the apps I use has ads injected into the video, so, no way to block those.

If advertisers truly cared about serving the customers they claim to care so much about, the ad networks would have better standards and more safeguards to prevent malware. I’d still block them, I just wouldn’t feel the same level of pride in blocking them for both annoyance and safety factors.

Yes but the difference is they were opting their readers in. Now Google is hijacking content without consent if the site owner.

Doing anything on Facebook is the opposite of private.

I’m on LibreWolf. What made you switch?

Just having the video player be the same across all sites is a win, I don’t even need the multi-threading or pre-cache entire video to love this.

I don’t think I did. I just assumed it would be impossible to detect the home network automatically once WiFi was automatically switched off. Unless off isn’t actually off. Or the “auto on” part was location based.

How does it detect your home wifi if it has turned off wifi? I don’t know Android, but the logic there seems odd. Are you using location services to drive it?

This. No way in hell I’m entering all that personal info on a non-official website. That’s how you get on voter spam lists…

I thought it was a coating, like what they use to filter UV light. I have Theraspecs that do it, but those are sunglasses.

She was just upselling, not actually knowledgeable. They filter some blue spectrum, not the whole color blue.

Nope, but I also feel like Apple would have it off by default, unlike Microsoft.

Looks neat. I wonder if the mail proofread and rewrite will work anywhere other than in Mail or Safari, though. If so, it’'d give Outlook users a way better option than forking over $30/month for Microsoft’s extremely sluggish O365 Copilot. I don’t know if that’s any better on Windows, but the O365 Copilot experience on Mac slowed everything down, workflow-wise, when I tested it out a couple months ago. Click button, wait 30 seconds, repeat. Doing this stuff on-device will be great.

Internet traffic gets mirrored to NSA data centers, that’s old news from the Snowden leak.

Spent $350 on a single cart of groceries today, nearly lost my mind at how bad it’s gotten.

Irony is, a lot of larger office building thermostats are really only there for display purposes (thermometer), not for control purposes (actually functional).

Our profit margin demands you buy over-priced books from our shop

College material monopolies should be illegal, just like all other monopolies. Want to give students an education in the real world? Let the free market determine textbook prices.

The more popular ad blocking gets, the more I worry about the ad industry lobbying to criminalize blocking ads as “theft of revenue” or some insane concept along that line.

They do that too.

It’s already being used, and already screens out people with the same biases you could expect (name sounds foreign, name is female, etc.).