As long as both remain free and open source I'll allow it.

Do something active that allows for conversation. Things like movies are trash for a first date. You can't talk, there's no way to get to know the other person.

Something like a park, or a light hike is ideal. You get to experience something together in a conversational atmosphere. Where I grew up there's a nice park by the river. It's well lit, safe, and relatively public; while still being a beautiful place to visit. It helps everyone involved feel safe and gives ample time to chat and see the sights.

Apk support. Saves you having to get LDplayer or something. Would be great if you're developing android aps.

But yeah the juice isn't worth the squeeze in this case. I'm not switching till 10 goes eol and even then there's a strong chance I'll fully switch to linux instead.

Yeah, I guarantee you google isn't interested in showing you one or the other. They want the revenue from both. My only question is, if you pause an ad, can you get another ad in your ad?

"I promise" followed by anything. That thing will 100% not happen.

Recently I've taken to self hosting. It started with me just wanting a raspberry pi for pi-hole and has developed into a full hobby. Because so many of these services are FOSS and can run on a toaster it's helped me immensely with avoiding commercial fatigue. I also find that the communities for the hobby are insightful and, because the solutions are free, they aren't selling you on a product. They're just passionate about the service, distro, or setup that they use.

I've also learned a ton of applicable skills for adult life, so happy side-effects.

Its this one. And the reason is that if steam sells a game at $10 and humble sells you a steam key at $5, steam gets no profit and is 100% responsible for the bandwidth when you donlload it, for hosting the page, for the market, etc etc. Basically steam doesn't want to assume all the work with none of the reward. Which I don't really see an iissue with.

I switched in November. I have no regrets. I rarely run into issues, and having the control to make decisions over my own computer is superb.

Exactly! Pirate Software talked about this a while back. Steam doesn't want you cutting them out, and then them still being responsible for the bandwidth to download and host your game.

Speaking of plane tickets. As a man who flies to Korea to visit family every other year or so.

1. Always brows tickets in incognito. Airlines may change rates based on whether you're a return visitor to their site and not having cookies can help.

2. Start with Google flights. This will give you an idea of when (what days and times) tickets are cheapest. Though generally Tuesday or Thursday are the answer.

3. Once you have your time frame use kayak or some other ticket agregator. This will let you find the airline and flight that you want.

4. Take that flight number and time and go directly to the airlines website. Aggregate sites like kayak rates are generally slightly higher that the airline because they gotta make dollars somehow.

5. Though not always I've found that some foreign Airlines charge native fliers less. E.g. if you're flying Korea air change .Com in your web address to .kr. This makes the site in Korean but Google translate page can help here

It's a bit of a process but I generally pay less than 1,000 round trip for flight to Korea and I live in a state with no international airport so I always have layovers.

Speaking of layovers. Use them. See a cheap ticket but it has a 24 hour layover in Paris? Fuck it, that's a day in Paris :). Just be aware that you need roughly 3 hours in customs depending on your destination. So a 5 hour layover is gonna be a boring 5 hours. Long enough to wait, not long enough to do anything.

Bonus tip!! If you have good credit. Look for a credit card that offers a huge bonus or mile's up front then immediately cash those in for a cheaper flight. Side note though on the ones that give you 5% cash back or whatever. You always have to book through them and it's almost always, in my experience, like 5% more expensive. Fuck you Chase.

Me, scrolling lemmy on the toilet after eating beans... feeling attacked right now.

Naa cast-iron pan user. Throw that shit in a fire, melt away the bad and star it over.

Also kidding, but maybe.

Bold of you to assume that you're not the one in the mirror.

Was actually unaware of SmartTube. Looks like it may cover that part for me :). I had also never heard of LineageOS, I'll take a look there too. I have a Pi4 laying about I was going to use.

As for FireTV I may just end up going that rout, I was just curious what the options looked like. Thank you for taking the time to enlighten me :).

I had been using Ghostery Dawn for ages. Got the pop-ups. Couldn't get around them. Switched to just firefox with ublock, no more ads. Can confirm it does work.

You can also set up up so that it looks very similar to rif. The devs have been pretty active with updates as well. It's been my go to since leaving reddit.

Under look and feel. You can set the post view to list. You may have to fiddle with some of the other settings there but it gets it close.

I would like to formally agree that this is annoying. I'm trying to retrain my brain but it is old and unwilling.

Well for me I have: RAM - 32gb ddr5 corsair vengeance MOBO - gigabyte b650 aorus elite CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 7900 GPU - sapphire Raedon rx 7900 xtx CASE - corsair airflow 4700d PSU - gol 850w can't remember the model atm COOLER - Ek nucleus aio 240

That should leave you well within budget depending on storage. I have 2 Samsung 2tb m.2s. But you may not need that much. I run popos on it and have had no issues with it at all.

I bought everything listed during black Friday minus the case and psu because I pulled those out of my old rig. Total cost for everything but the case and psu, but including storage was about 1,900 after tax.

Edit: I see you mentioned not being great with hardware. You should check out pc part picker. It's good for compatability. For the most part. It will NOT account for actual dimensions as they relate to the case, fans, RAM. Etc. You should absolutely read up on your preferred case dimensions, length of your graphics card, and fan size (especially in the case of using an aio liquid cooler). That said if you have room for it I do love the corsair airflow case. Plenty of room, good thermals, easy clean. Only complaint is that the psu slot felt small and it is a pain to get in and out. I guess Ideally you aren't taking your psu out often so it won't matter.

I do have a pi-hole set up, but alas it won't stop YT ads.

It can be. I'm actually headed there in 4 days. Tickets this time around were definitely higher than usual but I managed to get them for $940 ish. Not ideal since the whole family is going and my bank account is hurting. Also not ideal was having to choose a 3am flight with a trash layover in dfw... but fingers crossed cheap shopping while were there makes up for it.

Ignore my ignorance here. You're talking about something like Nginx?

I actually can't wait. And 3/22/24 is waaay sooner than I had expected.

I think that it does as of gnome 43+. Oddly enough Pop_OS ships with gnome 42.5. Which seems to have been the issue.

This is it for me. In particular as my hobbies shifted to self hosting, linux, and my own privacy, I find that lemmy is an incredible source of info and insight. But I'm not really here to meet or follow individuals as much as I am things that interest me.

Of course its innovative, imagine the room this clears up for more ads.

I've actually never heard of this one! Definitely worth a look.

Both the Fang and Brave system sound great. Particularly the later since you generally DONT want to fight in the open like that in RLs. What a cool idea!

Eyy! That got it! I think I'm still going to set up nginx to make it easier as I add more self hosts so I'm not trying to memorize everything's port. Thank you kindly for your time!

This. It's one things to disagree politically. It's another to think violence is an acceptable means of conveying that belief.

Got it, thank you kindly :)

Do you happen to know how I would find what port it's on and where I would change it? My Pi-hole actually defaulted to /admin, and when using my Searx instance I never had to use a port, so I'm not entirely sure where that info would be.

I generally do prefer containers. But I'll be sure to stick to them as much as possible. Thanks for the tips!

Roguelikes are like beer. Often times you have to find one you like to get a taste for them. That said, beer is also not for everyone :).

It's pretty fucked up in places but an excellent game.

Rogue Fable is excellent! Definitely a good intro to the Genre for more casual play.

Speaking of, if you like more casual RLs, check out The Ground Gives Way or Path of Achra.

TGGW is a coffee break RL. Meant to be played in small 15-20 min bites. Simple, yet effective.

PoA is a RL almost entirely built on character theory crafting. The actual RL play can be done with 1-2 buttons most of the time. The character and build creation is... a lot lol. But if you're into theory crafting and build variety its a great time.

pavucontrol does seem to work well. Just need to choose an easier way to switch now. Thank you kindly.

Halocene, she does a bunch of covers of old rock songs from around the early 2000s. It's like fresh nostalgia straight into my ears. Her original stuff is also pretty good :)

Yes! Exploring old forts and seeing the world you've built through that different lens is an excellent experience!

I've never even touched rogue actually. Played quite a bit of ADOM though. Definitely a good time :). Also there's a post up above with links to RL communities :)

Both excellent games. Though not entirely what I'm looking for. If you've never had the experience of a traditional roguelike I would HIGHLY recommend Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It's free and has a tile version, and can even be played directly in your browser. It's complex and unforgiving at first but an excellent intro to the genre. And when it does start to click its one of the most well paced RLs I've ever played.