Ehhh… this is my dad’s Samsung tablet. F-droid is a nonstarter for a boomer.

Any suggestions?

You mean like a pi-hole? I use one of those and I love it. Ain’t no way I set up one of those for him. Then that’s another thing I have to support when it inevitably has problems.

My dad browsing on his tablet, shows me a page. “Ahhhh, my eyes! You need an ad blocker!”

“Ok give me one”

“You’d have to use firefox”

“Never mind then, I want chrome”

Then continue drowning in ads and tracking, chucklefuck.

People with Alzheimer’s usually are totally different people. Though they do tend to retain some long-term memories or skills.

Yeah the conflict resolution of the live updates is really tough. It has such spotty usage that I never truly ironed it out. It works fine if it’s not at the same time. This is more a function of the local-first strategy that keeps the UX better. I really have wanted to improve it but didn’t really see a reason to with such low usage.

I built tinylist.app a few years back and while it’s still chugging along, it’s basically in maintenance mode now.

Wives amirite?

Purelymail.com … cheap af, just works. I use my own domain and have never had deliverability issues. Support is fast. You’re also under the radar because it’s not a huge outfit.

I just hate these soft-language bait headlines when reporting on scientific studies. If the article was “going from shitty fast food diet to plant-based shitty fast food diet results in statistically healthier outcomes”, that would be interesting and newsworthy. But the whole “doing this thing may affect other thing” allows the reader to apply their biases to whatever they’re reading.

may

Oh I certainly don’t dismiss those at all. Of course environmental toxins and other hazards harm our health. RFK is basically at the point of “humours” and blood-letting and leeches. Even if he says that environmental harms exist, he is still citing long-debunked pseudoscience. I’m sure he thinks it’s nothing a little beef tallow won’t solve, though.

Ok, but the guy flat-out rejects absolute and established truth.

Nest is so tragic. Great independent company who made a sleek, high-end, innovative product. Bought by the most evil company* and completely enshittified. I don’t want to create more e-waste, so I still have mine and capitulated to their account demands. I almost look forward to them killing what I have now so that I can support a competitor.

*two-way tie with Meta for most evil

Facebook is acutely aware of the scams and actively encourages it.

It wouldn’t surprise me to see them move to another country. They just opened their first office in Belgrade.

There’s a reason it’s the cheapest. You pay with your privacy.

be in a community dedicated to getting rid of Google

Google does Google shit, locking down android even more

people in this thread: shockedpikachu.jpg

Apple Maps is starting to replace yelp ratings with their own. Usually some decent info in well-populated areas.

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