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Cake day: August 26th, 2024

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  • Was just thinking about this the other day too. I have started to use the Brave browser on my iPhone to watch YouTube videos since it blocks ads natively, but I can’t get the Brave browser on my Apple TV for the same reason. I would love to.

    I am sick to death of these obnoxious, irrelevant ads. And no, paying YouTube for Premium is not a solution.



  • I used all 3 for a few years a short time ago until I traded my aging MacBook for a newer iPad Pro. I still think about going back but for a Mac Mini on the side of my gaming PC.

    But then I feel like it’s more of a gimmick. It’s that feeling I get to just spend for the sake of spending to get something new and shiny, not necessarily because I need or would actually use it for anything I don’t use the others for. I didn’t do much different on there. It was nice for some situations when the other computers (let’s be honest, it was always the Windows PC) would act up like fixing a bad partition.

    But now I am good enough with Windows and Linux. Doing my best to move solely to Linux, but VR and work keep me back. Ugh…




  • Seriously. I used to actually use Siri.

    I realized this yesterday when I went through the manual process of unlocking my phone and looking for another LLM app to ask a question.

    I don’t even trust Siri anymore to open an app.

    Don’t get me started on music. I used to be able to say “Hey Siri, play this whole album” or “play that song” and it would play the whole album.

    She’s absolutely useless.


  • The benefit of these is that they actively dry your filament as it rolls into the printer. At least mine does that which has been great to reduce the time needed to prep for my prints. Mine lets you set the temperature and it will keep that as it rolls in.

    I heard about the food dryers but this was my choice also because I have limited space in my smaller home. This little box is about the size of a spool and sits behind my printer and I have it automated to turn on when I turn on my printer too.



  • In addition to adblocking, some people use it for family censoring like blocking porn and gore on the domain level. It’s a more effective means as it would mean that your kid can’t go to ph on the family computer as well as their iPad.

    You can block individual domains if you wish but there are also a lot of lists out there that are generated and maintained by the community to include new sites as they arise.

    I like it for my iPhone for playing free games like solitaire and the like. A lot of these have intrusive ads but the PiHole effectively blocks the ads and I don’t have to have any third party apps running on my phone.

    Additionally, I set up a VPN on my Raspberry Pi so I can take this adblocking on the go too.

    You can also set up the PiHole to keep a log history which some people may want or you can use it to never keep the history for privacy reasons. I suppose this is another use case in ensuring your DNS server at home doesn’t keep a history of websites you visit from any device on the network.


  • I’ve gotten it 3 times from 2 different accounts. The first account sent it to me twice on two separate days. Ironically from an account that I had replied to months before it spammed me.

    Then it sent me it again a few weeks later from a different account, same picture but different name.

    I’ve blocked both accounts so far, so they may have sent more and I just didn’t see the other attempts.