Every once in a while I help a family member or friend out with their machine and am stunned when I see the web without an adblocker. It honestly reminds me of the malicious early 2000s porn and “free downloads” sites… but it’s everywhere now, like cnn and eBay and shit. First thing I do is install Firefox and ublock origin, and mostly for their security.

Youtube has also been running basically porn ads on “for kids” youtube channels as well and my kindergarten aged niece and nephew have been exposed to that shit. Adblock is 100% cyber security AND for kids safety.

I know it’s not the same, but you could just play elite dangerous which is an actual game, and you can get new ships through a crazy new innovative mechanic called “playing the game”

It’s real, July 12 2022 on truth social. I would post the link but I don’t want to give that site more traffic. Here’s a screenshot.

Probably because people are bad at parking and it’s easy to pull forward till you feel your tires bump against the curb. Only problem is that with increasing safety standards usually resulting in longer hoods and bigger engine compartments for crumple zones, you get this.

I think part of it was he had a really tough time dealing with California covid regulations for his business. It wasn’t something he could buy his way out of or pad someone’s pocket to make go away and they were very serious about it. In the same vein, that’s around the time his daughter came out as trans and you can see how that ended with her changing her name and completely disassociating herself from him. Combine that all with a slow (arguable) but consistent decline in the public’s admiration and opinion of him (which he craves desperately) and he began to crack.

Started running into things he couldn’t control or pay to go away and couldn’t cope I guess… I dunno

Bring back small vehicles!

Yup, hector barbossa. Villain from the first movie I believe

The article says they will be voting for Biden or at least some had a “republicans for Biden” sign in their yards

They’re a godsend at Costco when I have like 5 items and the normal lines are super long.

Super small, super cheap computer designed to run Linux. The board itself is about the size of a pack of cards, and cost about $80 although earlier models a few years ago before prices of everything skyrocketed was about $35. It’s a fully fledged computer and with a microssd card loaded with a Linux distribution, a keyboard, monitor and mouse (last two optional) you can have either a command line only or fully fledged gui OS up and running in minutes.

Not super powerful but it’s low energy requirements and form factor make it great for tinkerers and specific tasks/functions. Home automation, video game emulation, pi hole (network wide dns ad blocking), and home based VPN services are a few that pop into mind.

Personally I don’t really mind as I have met some pretty cool other ghosts to hang and talk with here.

Good call, didn’t cross my mind for some reason. Will do that in the future, thanks!

Check out “Dave the diver”. I’ve fallen out of love with gaming as well and I’ve been dropping a lot of hours into this game on my steam deck. Super unique and easy to pick up and put down. Feels fresh.

Yeah, I’ve been following the war, not everyday, but pretty consistently and this definitely seems like the biggest day I’ve seen both in casualties and in material. LFG Ukraine and hopefully this emboldens other nations to donate more!

That’s a really good point, and most of the dog posts I’ve seen have been in “aww” while cats have “cat” that seems to at times dominate the top posts even while not logged in

Yeah, he made a statement I think on Twitter or somewhere apologizing and recognizing his wrongdoing. Whether it was sincere or not, I dunno

Nah, standard “awww, ohhhh, uh oh” response.

Like three

Need to do yard work, but it’s record hot constant triple digits.

If it was a real failure, there wouldn’t be a need to address it. It would be self evident.

Them and stamets. They both basically got me and my wife watching TNG for the first time with all the memes (only seen voyager before that) and we are loving every minute of it

I’m currently in Tokyo and will be going out to Kyoto and Osaka in a few days. Got to visit Mount Fuji and the giant gundam on odaiba.

Honestly I haven’t played in quite a while and was just a space trucker so my opinion really probably doesn’t count for much but if you already own it I would definitely boot it up and give it a few hours and see if it works for you

As someone who mostly had dogs growing up but now have two cats, I can support that. Haha

Awesome! I appreciate the suggestion. That’s actually pretty close to our Airbnb and on the way to a couple of other things we want to see so I will for sure put that on the list. Domo!

Probably going there today or tomorrow, I’ll grab you a Tenga