Man… back in the day my cousin saw a Hanson music video and he just “Wow, that drummer is going to be so hot when she grows up.”
I had to inform him they are the Hanson brothers.
Then only many years later I thought back about this and realised how gross it was. He was about 30 at the time.
*edit, my spelling mistakes.
I’m afraid I don’t know too much about that.
I use uBlock Origin in Firefox and that is basically all I use on my PC and Pi-Hole does the rest.
Pi-Hole has some default rules that do a decent job and most people just rely on those, you can add your own or apply additional rule lists but the more you add, the greater the chance you break or block something legitimate.
Whatever blocker or rules you use will need updating once Microsoft or whoever makes changes, and some might react faster to the changes than others and they will most likely never react instantly. Something will always get through.
I don’t think there is a definite solution that will always work, these large companies will always make changes and try and bypass our protections and all we can do is react to that.
The only way to truly stop all M$ telemetry is to not use their services but I am not going to tell anyone they need to move over to a non-M$ system because I know it’s not just that easy. I have software and games that only run in Windows so I am stuck with their slop for now.
Maybe someone will be able to suggest another method that will suit your needs.
It might be a more extreme method, but I use Pi-Hole on my home network running on a Raspberry Pi.
It’s more investment than tweaking some Windows settings or configuring a router, but it does a decent job of blocking a lot of telemetry and tracking.
Most of my denied queries listed on the Pi-Hole dashboard are Microsoft based.
I have to use my Pi-Hole as my DHCP server though, otherwise all traffic seems to only come from one device… my router.
If you have a server running at home, Pi-Hole can also be hosted in a Docker container.
I didn’t read the title, and only took a quick look and I legit thought these were rolls wrapped up in tortillas.
Madlad.
I hit a wall at some point, the difficulty seemed to have ramped up or I was super weak.
Probably my stats and bad weapon and skill choices and I had not picked up certain items and pictos.
I left the game for a few months and picked it up again, started over and I just finished it now, about 30 minutes ago.
I’ll admit I used some build guides and it helped me along, I wanted to finally finish the game without struggling as much as I did before.
Hot sap.
I saw some article mention that there has not been a Half-Life game in ages… completely forgetting about Alyx.
I’m just hoping for some good games moving forward that aren’t trying to milk us for everything we have with slop we don’t want.
Why Half-Life 3 can never be made.
XDefiant felt dirty with crossplay on.
A buddy of mine and I had problems playing against console players, the aim assist felt way too strong and I think there was mention of it somewhere.
So we turned crossplay off and we had a much better time instead of getting stomped on.
Bruh, I used to play Team Fortress Classic.
Nah.
Someone added him to an existing meme.
But, if this was his code he would defend it and condescendingly tell you that he is correct, you are not knowledgeable enough to understand and let you know he worked at Blizzard for seven years.
My one used to do the same.
She’d get excited if I was walking in the direction of her bowl and jump up onto the table and wait for me to enter the room.
Then purr while eating but only when I walked right up to her.
UBlock Origin works for me in Firefox, but the last time YouTube was at war with adblockers I had to retore default settings in uBlock every few days.
I can’t remember the process but I think I had to reset the settings and do something with the lists.
You can also try a desktop app like Freetube. There is no algorithm through, if you are looking for that. It sometimes breaks when YouTube makes changes and everything is stored locally, so you have to back up your subscriptions if you plan on reinstalling Windows at some stage.
See if you can default uBlock Origin, that method worked before.
I don’t think I had seen a Wes Anderson movie until about 3 years ago when I watched one with friends.
It was ‘The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’, and my reaction to it prompted a friend of a friend to suggest that maybe I should watch more of his movies.
Now, I am no fan of certain directors or produces and know/recognise their work. I just like a movie because I like the movie.
So I cannot say if this is a good one to start off with or how good it is compared to other works of his.
Edit:
Wait, I lie.
I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel a few years before The Life Aquatic and I enjoyed that one as well.
I didn’t realise that was one of his as well, but I had a hunch and looked it up.
I once worked with an engineer from Glasgow and I had him at our logistics depot in London so I could do some training with him.
Somehow, no idea, but he just wandered off and found the one other person from Glasgow in the whole building. Turns out they were even from the same area.
Sniffed him out. Came back to me with a smile on his face and said it was great being able to speak to someone without having to put on an accent just so they could understand him.
Bonus story.
Him and I were walking to the store to get some lunch and he was telling me about all the London stereotypes he heard of and he mentioned rats. Rats everywhere.
I told him I’ve never seen one, but I have seen a few mice here and there running around on the tracks in the central London tube stations and just a few seconds later, this bloody fat rat ran across the path in front of us and into a bush.
THERE THERE, SEE! THERE! he yells.
Dammit… of all the times I see a rat in London it had to be with him.
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin and for the last week or more every Youtube video I open takes about 10 or so seconds to open, just sitting there spinning.
The reason I don’t buy booze and limit snack buying… if it’s in my house it is going to be consumed quickly.
It’s like a challenge, it’s there, it will be consumed.
Can’t even play the game.
I can spend as much time in the menu and settings as I want, watch the first cutscene just fine… but as soon as I enter the game it freezes within 1 minute every time.
Literally unplayable.
I’ve tried tweaks I found online, tried new drivers (the version mentioned in the launcher) and the previous driver version recommended on the official website and no changes.
Womp womp.
Installed Doom 2016 and enjoying it again.
I hate that we now have to inspect every image posted to see if it is AI generated.
But yes, this looks AI generated.
Look at the fox portraits on the wall, the faces are wrong.
Lower than your balls hang, old man?
People should really call out things like this, I was too young at the time but at least I got to see my cousin’s face when he realised he had been perving over a teen boy instead of a girl.