OK. I’m not claiming google isn’t trying. I’m claiming it doesn’t matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.

I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.

FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.

I haven’t seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it’s no different than hitting youtube directly.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh yeah that would piss me off.

My last epson experience was about 5 years ago, (edit: holy cow maybe more like 10+ years ago. why does time go so fast?) so they may have gone downhill, appreciate the update. I had 2 in a row and both were good with Linux support and general lack of fussiness.

OK man. Doesn’t bother me if you don’t buy one. This is the longest I’ve kept a printer without throwing it away in disgust in a long time. Companies like to brand things with catchy names. shrug

Thirded. Get an Brother inkvestment model. No bullshit, it just does your bidding, like a printer should. And the ink lasts a very long time.

Yes, everyone says get a B&W laser printer. If that fits your needs do so. We have kids that want or need to print in color fairly often, and color laser was out of the question last time we purchased.

Brother is the now only brand I look at after decades of buying consumer printers. If absolutely forced not to buy Brother, I’d go with Epson. I used to love Canon, but each model started incorporating more and more bullshit, and I found their ink to be both expensive and short lived. HP is the king of printer bullshit, but Canon seems to want to sit on their court in recent years.

So, like usual, DRM only fucked the people trying to play by the rules.

I couldn’t help but think of this (nearly 20 year old) video in response to that comment. 😁

https://youtu.be/EUXnJraKM3k

Yep, Brother rocks.

Too lazy for my usual lengthy monologue about Brother when this comes up, but works well with Linux, far more reasonable ink cost than any other brand I’ve tried, and the even low end ‘inkvestment’ model we have has really lived up to its claims regarding ink longevity. It doesn’t even hassle you when you use off brand ink, but I only tried hat once since I had so little complaint about the Brother ink. You do lose ink level indication, which is annoying, but that’s it, and manually checking level is also easy with this style of printer.

For non-tech users I think the problem is momentum, for technical users it’s (IMO) Stockholm Syndrome a good percentage of the time.

Controversial case after controversial case exposes police lies by their own bodycam, security cam, or bystander cam.

Police clearly do lie, and rarely do I read an article that involves those lies being corrected without them being forced to acknowledge them by video from a camera they don’t or can’t control.

Walter Scott was the first lesson I learned this way, and I could not even begin to count how many like that since then just that I personally have become aware of. (And I somehow doubt I am aware of them all)

Nothing to add except to also point out that even where there are consequences, these are usually settlements paid by taxpayers. No incentive to change behavior when there’s no impact even at the departmental level.

Example: NYPD “Transparency” Site Leaves Out Misconduct Lawsuits Settled for Millions

Ah, sorry for being so serious.

Really?

Yep that would be just the picture to post about an information freedom activist driven to death by the US justice system. That’s why it says “Aaron Swartz day” in OP, because it’s a pic of Rishi Sunak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Ah sorry! I have only run it from within Docker on Linux. BUT, I’m glad you got it working!

I was about to move from Plex to Emby when the whole controversy erupted, and I waited excitedly for it to be ready.

Switched as soon as it was viable and have not regretted it one time.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Plus last.fm scrobbling

Every app seems to offer this. Why do I want this? I feel like I’ve been wondering this for like 20 years, but have been too afraid to ask lol.

I was an early adopter of Jellyfin and love it - but personally prefer Navidrome for my music server. Granted, I haven’t looked at the music capabilities of Jellyfin in a long while, because I’ve been running Navidrome.

Symphonium android client is my recommendation for that (and I believe it also works for Jellyfin) but there are others.

My pipeline is essentially as you describe though Lidarr –> nzbget –> Navidrome

Any time, have a great day (or night as the case may be).

I’ve got a Bluesky account but never use it since barely anyone I know is on it, and I don’t really know how to find people to follow that are actually interesting to me.

Hope the below is helpful! 🙂

In a month-ish on bluesky I’ve ended up with a far better experience than ever I could find on twitter, and I sincerely think many folks not finding the same have probably not recognized how core feeds are to the experience. They more or less let you build your own algorithm.

https://www.astrobetter.com/blog/2023/09/18/how-to-get-started-on-bluesky-cross-post/

Point 4 in the linked article discusses feeds.

In addition to other specific feeds you may add for yourself, I recommend the recent-ishly created “For You” feed which tracks what you seem interested in and tries to suggest based on that. (I removed the default “Discover” feed and replaced it with “For You.”) I’ve subbed to about 10 or 12 feeds, but that’s one of four I have pinned.

All in all my bluesky homepage is 99% things I actually want to see, and people I actually want to engage with, and there is plenty of it - despite my feed selections being intentionally niche.

There’s also a browser extension called “Sky Follower Bridge” that will semi-automatically find where folks you follow on twitter have created bluesky accounts so you can just go down the list and follow them all. It’s something to run every few days if you follow a lot of folks, as people continue to move over.

If there are very specific public figures you are waiting on to move over, no solution but patience there, and I have some of those too. However, I’ve been giving out my invitation codes to regular people who I want to see on Bluesky and that has worked out pretty well.

Good luck, and sorry for the unsolicited advice. :-)

Not one single time after seeing someone parrot the “ZOMG Dems could have solved all problems if only they’d used that majority they had under Obama” line have I seen them acknowledge the post like yours that almost inevitably follows it.

Yep. I’m sure they’ve made some duds, but they are my go to brand. Have been impressed in one way or another with everything I’ve had from them.

My number two is Lenovo.

For smaller things I’m a fan of Anker, and I admit for cables I usually just find something cheapish on Amazon that gets good reviews.

I always wanted one, but by the time my disposable income and the price of a player met, they were on their way out. Always seemed like a really cool bit of personal tech to me though.

mini-disc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ofxFrwzDHM&t=41s

Yeah, there aren’t many Pumpkins fans left these days

Woah woah woah. There are plenty of Pumpkins fans left these days. Damn did that make me feel old. Give us another twenty years before you issue such statements please, Sir or Madam.

I remembered there was a Part II to the story that made it even worse, but did not remember those details. Should have read my own link! Thanks for highlighting that because it truly is the icing on the cake.

Ah Sony Music is involved.

Remember the time Sony Music installed a rootkit on peoples’ computers via commercially purchased CDs because hacking paying customers’ computers seemed like a good way to combat piracy?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

The history of Facebook (there I said it) and the EEE example MS already provided us years ago (as referenced by @HeartyBeast ) does not incline me to believe in their good faith. If Meta has proven one thing over and over and over, it’s that their interests will always lie in harvesting of user data to enrich themselves, and that any restraint on their part will be that which is legislatively forced.

Let the Fediverse grow on its own. It’s not a race. And it’s surely not a race best won by letting the wolf in through the front door.

The day we federate with Meta is the day I find the fediverse instances that refuse to do so, and take my account there.

Edit: Blog post on this topic that goes into some detail about historical precedent and etc.