DefederateLemmyMl

Or he does have an idea, and the nonsensensical lies he spews just serve to reenforce the talking points for his MAGA base.

I don’t know which one is scarier.

You’re thinking of Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0

Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.

We did have plenty of usenet trolls and usenet wars.

I think cars peaked ca. 2010. Anything added after that are annoyances or things being taken away.

If I could get a brand new facelift E90, that would probably be my next car.

Barracudas are SMR garbage nowadays, they’re coasting on their reputation of many years ago when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.

Those look like real life windows media player skins from the early 2000s.

Do you have one for being terminally lazy and the world’s wost procrastinator?

This is why I boycott Logitech

You should boycott Microsoft instead. As you say, they’re the ones permitting it.

I have to upgrade my Mint install every two years

I know you’re joking around here, but you don’t have to upgrade every two years. You can use an LTS release instead, or, on the opposite of the spectrum, a rolling release.

Release schedule and duration of support should always be factored into the decision of choosing a distro.

Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml

I approve this comment.

I guess it’s why some Jellyfin streams started transcoding for me.

You’re better off using the Jellyfin Media Player standalone application anyway.

A core memory of mine is getting flung off of one of these things because of the centrifugal force, falling on my back, and being unable to breathe for like 20-30 seconds … until I screamed at the top of my lungs, and things slowly returned to normal, while the teacher just went: oh you’re fine, don’t be a baby. I was 6.

It’s apparently a hobby and to be competitive, you need to be able to spew bullshit at amazing rates. Personally I’ve maxed out at 140 wpm

I’m limited by the rate at which I can think of bullshit.

yet all I needed is a “this side up” symbol …

Platforms like reddit and Tumblr benefit from a friction-free sign up system.

Even on Reddit new accounts are often barred from participating in discussion, or even shadowbanned in some subs, until they’ve grinded enough karma elsewhere (and consequently, that’s why you have karmafarming bots).

Is this a problem here?

Not yet, but it most certainly will be once Lemmy grows big enough.

$100 though … a Chromecast used to be like $35.

What you’re describing is not a man-in-the-middle proxy, but a simple DNS block. That’s a very crude approach to blocking ads and notoriously doesn’t work for YouTube and Google ads because they’re served from the same domain.

I run a pihole myself but there’s still a huge difference between browsing with pihole only and pihole+ublock. It’s certainly not the answer to the Manifest V3 shenanigans.

That man-in-the-middle principle doesn’t work with TLS.