That is fucking epic. I had (not anymore) a similar issue with my wife and ads about shoes and coats. So I allowed all the crap on her devices only on Adguard Home.

Then her phone died, I gave her mine with GrapheneOS on it,until she could get a new one. The first 2 weeks were a pain: “where’s the playstore?”, “what is this gayscale chrome (Vanadium)?”, “My banking app keeps crashing”, etc. After a while we started spending more time doing things together, she was spending more time with the kids, and was being way more productive in her business.

Long story short, she kept the phone, I ended up getting a new one, and she even asked me to remove Windows from her computer and set her up with Fedora.

It’s a habit thing, I think.

Right? They’ve done some good stuff over the years, but that does not eliminate the fact that they have chosen to be part of all the enshitification going on.

Tubular has been working for me (97.5763% of the time) and so has Grayjay (98% of the time).

However, I do agree that we need a more effective way to just watch and enjoy. Unfortunately most creators are not willing to even entertain the idea of moving to a different platform.

What he said. 👏

They are not trying to “replace” cookies. This is effectively adding yet another way to track users. Sure, may not be as invasive as cookies, but this does nothing to remove or modify them either.

Then there’s the fact thay they deployed this behind the scenes and did not mention it until they were called out.

This comment alone:

“As part of this work, we are also committing to being transparent and open about our intent and plans prior to launching tests or features.”

… means they have no intention to be honest about shit.

This comment is a great start for what you’re looking for.

https://feddit.org/comment/2362732

Thanks for sharing. Very useful.

It’s pretty capable of blocking a lot of YouTube and Google bullshit. You could just use it for that.

Everyone should have the choice to delete their content, regardless of the reason, the same way, everyone should have the choice to leave their content as well.

I for one choose to leave my posts and comments, no matter how bright or stupid, and if I’m proven wrong (which happens more than I care to admit) I give the win to whomever countered my comment, and that tends to keep the discussions going and bringing new ideas and points of view. Also, if I believe it may have been offensive (not to be confused with someone else finding anything offensive, that’s their opinion) I have no problem apologizing. I would like to see more people just doing that as I believe it makes for a more open discussion.

https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV-category1category73.html

This brand sells all non-smart TVs at non-commecial prices.

I usually create 1 LXC and install docker to it to use it as a template for any other LXC in the future. So, docker on a Debian LXC is how I did it. ProxMox in on bare metal though.

Sweet. Never heard of this before. Thanks. I’ll take it for a spin over the weekend.

Are you hosting in ProxMox too?

I’m calling BS.

Yes, I tried Immich but it’s basically a second job, no thanks. Photoprism is very good, but would need something like Syncthing to auto upload. So I ended up going with Libre Photo. It’s nowhere near as powerful as Immich in terms of features, but for my over 500K photos and almost 50K videos, works like a charm in ProxMox with the “UhuruPhotos” Android app.

Yeah, I think that will end up being the available Streamline.

Great advise. I didn’t think of it that way. Thanks so much, and thanks for providing the link to your blog. It’s always super insightful to be able to gather different points of view.

I agree. But my wife does have a point. From all the feedback, those who want to share can just copy the link and paste it to their platforms, which would be good. The more normies see these in their environment, the higher chance of people starting to care, but I will not add mainstream SNs access directly from my site. Thanks so much guys.

I can’t, nor do I want to, lol. What my wife is pitching is basically “share to” buttons to everywhere.

That’s the idea, and now that I’ve written 2 articles, it’s a bit time consuming. I want to do 2 - and 3 posts per week, and absolutely planning on adding tutorials and suggestions that have worked for me, as well as lists of alternatives to mainstream software and hardware.

The blog is extremely raw in terms of design, and I will be getting a new domain soon to separate it from my personal life as well. I sent you the link via DM.