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plz1, to selfhosted in Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?

NextDNS.

Also, be wary of relying on anything blocking ads on streaming services this way. They will likely serve them within the video stream, so not network-blockable.

plz1, to selfhosted in AppleTV complete replacement opinions

ATV is the only box I recommend. I’m anti-Google, don’t trust Amazon (and now their service is going to do ads on a paid Prime membership), and Roku has major privacy issues at least in the past. Curious why you’re seeking an alternative to Apple.

plz1, to memes in Betrayal

Children can’t legally sign a contract, so D.A.R.E. has no authority (and never did).

plz1, (edited ) to privacy in The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend?
  • Voyager for Lemmy
  • NextDNS to kill basically all 3rd party ad networks and tracking
plz1, to asklemmy in Good “Buy for Life” Brands

I’ve had their 2.1 computer speaker set for nearly 20 years at this point. The only issue I’ve ever had was crackling when adjusting volume, and that was caused by dust inside the knob. WD-40 to fix. Love them.

plz1, to selfhosted in AppleTV complete replacement opinions

Apple is the least terrible of my list.

plz1, to asklemmy in Do you disable notifications for all your apps?

It’s the first thing I do when installing a new app, as most prompt for it on first launch, and I reject it immediately. I can always allow them later, but it’s been my default mode since iOS started letting you control them.

For email and work IM’s, my phone shows only the badge, no sound. Signal, SMS, and the phone app get sounds, too. That’s it, silence on everything else.

plz1, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Within reason, yeah. If the video industry came out with a platform that had all you can stream and all the content in one place, but wanted $150/month for it, that would be a pricing problem. My ceiling is more like $40-50/month.

plz1, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

The industry argument for that is “you’re stealing our potential revenue”. I personally subscribe to one streaming service. That’s it. If what I want to watch isn’t on that, I hoist the anchor and set sail.

The predictable way that video streaming services became content islands and actually a worse user experience than cable really shows how the industry would rather provide worse experience and cash grab than attract more customers naturally. By contrast, I can subscribe to one music service, and listen to literally every artist I can possibly want to. As soon as video streaming does that (at a reasonable price), piracy for video will plummet like it did for music.

plz1, to privacy in Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly

You do know IMDB has porn listings, right? And “friends” includes people you share a library with, in either direction.

plz1, to privacy in filen.io - one time payment plans - encrypted cloud storage

“Cloud” + “lifetime” are not a real thing. Caveat emptor.

plz1, to memes in Knock it the duck off

Me too, so frustrating

plz1, to upliftingnews in Germany approves global minimum corporate tax

That’s the entire goal of this

plz1, to memes in The panzer has spoken

that’s a shitload of lines of math to write out/work in your head. I learned percentages of x as: 6 * 45 / 100 = x (2.7) If you picture both as fractions, you multiply the opposite and then divide by the other number to get the missing one (x). Hopefully Lemmy renders this well…
6 x
100 45

The way I learned it was multiply diagonally and then divide by whatever is opposite diagonally to x.

plz1, to maliciouscompliance in [REPOST] A Manager Has To Dismiss Me? OK, I'll Just Get Overtime For Doing Nothing Then

Retail managers are about the dumbest people I’ve ever worked with. All they know how to do is boss people with passive/submissive personalities around (poorly) and make up rules when things go awry. Also shifting blame onto others is a key skill in retail management.

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