Can anyone tell me if this filters HTTPS requests?

That’s one feature that keeps me using Adguard, and it makes a huge difference to the filtering ability/quality.

Very cool. Thanks for the recommendation.

tp link routers tend to run openwrt pretty well.

Of course, I have the TP-Link router that isn’t well-supported 😖

I kind of miss my old Linksys routers, which officially supported third-party firmware.

Fucking legend! I’m going to spend the weekend exploring these apps and see what changes I can make on my phone. 👍

Are those green mini icons an indication of a PWA shortcut?

I use the app Hermit to run isolated websites, usually as PWAs. It’s replaced quite a few apps, but I’ve noticed that many companies are intentionally making their web experience shit so they force you to use invasive apps.

Anyway, it can create home icons for those sites, and they run separately (i.e. in your task switcher), so it works better than browser shortcuts.

That’s some sleazy bullshit right there!

Enforces privacy laws

I mean, there didn’t seem to be any consequences. No fines or anything like that. They were basically told that they can’t use facial recognition for what they were using it for, but there are others ways they could still use it (outlined in the article).

They were given a free-pass, it seems.

When should I sell my unused Series X? Because I feel like I’d make a profit if retail prices keep increasing 😂

Life has been so good with Linux.

It’s using my Nvidia GPU to do the LLM thing, so that may be the difference.

This could be!

Interestingly enough, I was playing around with LLama, as they have speech to text to interact with their chat bot, and it converts in near real-time with very good accuracy. So I do know that things can be fast and accurate, but I wish it was in Speech Note. LOL

For now, I may just to STT through my phone on a shared document with my laptop.

5% is too many. 15% is alarming.

We’re talking people who believe in an ideology of hate, violence, racism, and the erosion of rights and freedoms.

Wars were fought to make sure this shit never happened again, and here we are, happening all over the world.

You know, it may be possible that all the ass-kissing is being done by people who also need their names scrubbed from the Trumpstein files.

Or else, they really just have no problem associating with a child rapist. Business or not, it has terrible optics.

I should probably turn it off 😧

Experts warn the rhetoric echoes tactics used by authoritarian regimes seeking to suppress dissent abroad. The FBI defines such measures as transnational repression, a worrying trend for democracies.

This is this the same FBI who is redacting Trump’s name from the Epstein files. South Korea must be doing something right! 😂

Edit: fixing autocorrect gone wild!

LTT is probably the reason why I started using Sponsorblock 😂

Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?

I have a channel with over 20k subs, nearly all evergreen content. Haven’t uploaded a video in many years, so it’s slowly getting fewer views. Fun fact, the pandemic saw the highest view counts, and I also didn’t add content back then.

Every enhancement YouTube brings is specifically to improve monetization, and since I disable ads on my channel and don’t have any sponsored content, I’m not getting any benefits. I also refuse to do shorts, so I’m losing a ton of exposure there, too.

If an active channel isn’t doing well, they should call it quits, TBH. They’ll either have to compromise the quality of their content “for the algorithm”, or their content isn’t actually useful outside of a single view.

I stopped watching LTT videos when they just became long-form ads. Or when everyone five minutes was a sponsored segment.

Almost 40 percent of New Zealanders are failing their full licence test the first time around, leaving experts wondering why the government wants to get rid of it.

New Zealand has one of the worst youth road safety records in the developed world.

I know nothing about NZ politics or lobbying groups, but I’d follow the money on this one.

Because stores use a high quality feed

Yes, obviously, and consumers who are buying such high-end displays should do their best to provide the highest quality source to play back on those displays.

Distance from the display is important, too. On a small TV, you’ll be close to it, but resolution won’t matter as much.

But from across the room, you want a higher resolution display up to a certain point, or else you’ll see large pixels, and that looks terrible.

Personally, going with a 4k TV was a big leap, but the addition of HDR and an OLED display (for black blacks) had the most impact.

I find that it really depends on the content on the size of the display.

The larger the display, the more you’d benefit from having a higher resolution.

For instance, a good quality 1080p stream vs a highly compressed 4k stream probably won’t look much different. But a “raw” 4k stream looks incredible… think of the demos you see in stores showing off 4k TVs… that quality is noticeable.

Put the same content on a 50"+ screen, and you’ll see the difference.

When I had Netflix, watching in 4k was great, but to me, having HDR is “better”.

On a computer monitor, there’s a case for high-resolution displays because they allow you to fit more on the screen without making the content look blurry. But on a TV, 4k + HDR is pretty much peak viewing for most people.

That’s not to say that if you create content, 8k is useless. It can be really handy when cropping or re-framing if needed, assuming the desired output is less than 8k.