You know, I’m almost 40, a big reader, and have seen and heard “illicit” my whole life.

I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone use licit, and that’s fascinating.

Whenever I get any of those contacts, I ask for about 150k more than the absolute max I could get for it (150k… is about half of the total sellable price). Sight unseen, as-is.

I’d take that deal, but they usually don’t reply :(. Did have one guy ask if there was a pool in the basement to justify the price. Told him he’d have to buy it to find out.

In reality it needs a lot of expensive work I’d rather not pay to do (re-wiring, ripping out the cracked lathe and plaster walls and drywalling, kitchen remodel, etc) and they would be piiiiiiised when they took possession ;)

I like that his fork melted. That’s a nice touch.

I know someone exactly like this. Frequently complains about the burn and heartburn, and keeps doing it anyway.

I left this open for a while and forgot what post I was reading when I returned, so I misread your first sentence as “politicians” rather than pelicans…

And lemme tell you, that was a quality chuckle.

If you set up a pihole, most of those in-game banner and popup ads won’t show up on iOS with the default blocklists. You won’t even be able to play ads for rewards anymore without disabling or swapping to a different network. Anything from the prime mobile store will still have ads unless you block the full Amazon domain, but those are the only ones I’ve encountered that are that persistent, and those are easy enough to avoid. Just don’t download anything from Amazon.

As a bonus, the pihole will also block ads across the rest of your network, and you can choose to be really aggressive with what gets blocked if you want, so you don’t need the piecemeal per-device solutions.

If you do opt to set a pihole up, make sure to port forward 53 to the pihole, so android users get the same Adblock perk (android will default to google dns via 53 to serve up ads without that port forward)

If you then set up a home VPN through your router, you can connect back to it when you are out and about and get the same level of ad protection wherever you go.

Nope, this is the info I was looking for, thanks :)

I’m struggling heavily to find that OS to learn more about it (literally just got a google tcl tv delivered today, as my old one died last week), can you provide a link of some variety?

I was very heartened to find out that it’s just big android, so there’s likely a lot that can be done with it (but I got it to be dumb).

The only problem I found with this is that Roku knows it’s being blocked so it’ll kill some apps over time (like the Plex app) in a way that forces you to fully reinstall the app. Which means unblocking their domain and allowing them to phone home (or disabling/bypassing pihole), because the app downloads go through that domain as well.

Before I just factory reset them and denied them any internet at all, Plex would break and need to be reinstalled about every 2 months like clockwork, and it wasn’t due to app updates or anything. I know this because I did a test once; reset on one tv, and 2 weeks later on another one. The first called for an update at roughly the 2 month mark, and the other exactly two weeks later. Meanwhile an absolutely ancient Samsung tv still has a copy of the Plex app that hasn’t been updated in like 5 years (it’s a fully obsolete tv)… works fine.

My speculation is that it records the data for that period, and then breaks things you use so it can phone home when you are forced to connect it to fix it.