Howdy

$25 or less is the US Fed rule.

John nailed it at the end. Fuck, this can’t be real life.

Worked in higher Ed for a decade. Can confirm.

Can confirm. Pi-hole does not block YouTube smart TV app ads. Hasn’t for a long time (2018ish?)

I use sefiniks (sp?) lists which has a YouTube list but no luck.

Fucking hell.

Damn, also would break ublock I assume?

First OS: Win 95 (As a wee lad). First Linux: early lubuntu and backtrack that I used in college around 08-09.

I’m new too but I separated by root and home partitions this last install to try and allow that.

As a fellow jenkins miner. I know this red (x) all too well.

I ran into that when I worked at a university…

Totally not a link to mass gravel.

ublock Origin + pihole.

For my pihole I use these lists: https://github.com/sefinek24/Sefinek-Blocklist-Collection

Ubuntu, Pop!_os, KDE… Currently on fedora. It’s been solid. I honestly think I like pop the most but I was having weird gpu issues which haven’t showed up over on fedora.

As soon as you start running a pihole on your home network it makes really stop and think and want to eradicate all unnecessary data tracking. Windows was so chatty. Science only knows how much of a consumer profile they create and sell on you for just wanting to use a computer.

Additionally… Smart TV’s are the absolute worst too.

Yeah I’m used to doing extra “are you a human?” Checks since I’m on a VPN most of the time but this was extreme. I’ve never seen something so over the top.

It was PlayStation…

ran into that a few days ago. 20 fucking steps and THEN IT VALIDATED my email address I entered previous and said I couldn’t use an @duck domain.

Latest example I ran into is on android TV you cannot change your dns settings in wifi config. On regular android you can. I had to spend a couple hours fiddling with my routers networking (I was doing some weird routing for a specific network that android TV is on with a VPN tun only for that network). And if it just had the ability to change the dns settings to a static value I wouldn’t of had to do that. Why would they do that?

Same thing happened to me. Moved to pop!_os.I have zero regrets. I’ve learned a ton. I use tons of apps off f-droid and foss Ubuntu apps. I have degoogled most of my life. I’m also developing an Firefox addon for lemmy. It’s usable as a user script addon now. It’s called lemmytools. It’s my small contribution. All because Reddit got stupid. I don’t even browse reddit for answers usually about tech/programming stuff anymore because they block my VPN.

Yeah happening to mullvad vpn users for sure.