What’s a better product? I use TeamViewer as an individual to help my technically illiterate grandparents who live across the country with tech issues. Would love an alternative if there is one.

Quad9 is a great thing to learn about right about now.

They will though. He’s going to settle out of court. Some amount of money that is meaningless to him. There will be no punishment on a scale he will even notice. And he will continue to do the same shit.

Like 90% of Americans who have android phones use SMS. WhatsApp is more common in places outside the US. Not inside.

They are too big and the corporate contracts are too ingrained in society. They won’t lose anything meaningful over these terrible anti-consumer decisions because they don’t care about individual consumers. As long as the bigger ticket contracts are in place, their income is totally safe.

Wonder if Merlin plans to bypass this somehow.

Oh shit you’re right, I didn’t check dates. That’s actually crazy, he actually is just clinically imbecilic then.

I’m fairly certain a history of being tried in court because you’re a trigger happy murderer also likely disqualifies you from joining the armed forces. That’s too much of a ticking pipe bomb even for them.

I give it a few months before the Community tier servers’ data is dumped and sold to an AI model company.

Jesus. I can’t find an affordable apartment in Boston but “Blue grounds” is listing fucking 372 of them on Airbnb…

EDIT: so Blueground is the biggest property holder in almost every city? Or one of the top 5 in the places it isn’t #1. What the hell?

Boost on Android. Used it for reddit, use it for Lemmy now that it swapped over.

I believe someone debunked the claim of lossless audio. But otherwise I think that’s all accurate.

The Internet is actually free. Services on it aren’t always. The issue with YouTube monetizing, for me, is 1) they are doing it retroactively and 2) they’re monetizing content made by others.

It costs $23/mo for fucking YouTube? And to get the same experience you get with a free browser add-on? Fuck all of that. Absolutely not.

What’s the issue with lemmy.world? Serious question

What ads are you trying to remove?

Firefox on android allows you to use uBlockOrigin. YoutubeRevanced is an excellent application patcher system that you can use to remove ads from YouTube, Twitch, Spotify, and many other. F-droid has some good resources.

If you’re playing games with ads, it’s a little harder. You probably need a piHole on your home network for that (they are super fun either way).

In general, yes, I guess it’s a little harder to remove ads from your entire phone than it is to just remove them from a desktop web browser. Way better than Apple’s options though.

Android is one of the easiest places to block ads.

Kinda low on alternatives with rarbg gone. Any recs?

It’s not. It’s massively expensive though. There’s money pouring into it because it’s the next big thing. Eventually, the companies that can afford to consistently power a massive LLM learning server farm will be the ones to keep going, the rest will flounder, get acquired, or disappear. Mozilla isn’t a big enough fish and won’t get acquired. AI is not a fad, but it’s not a sustainable business model for a company like Mozilla so I hope all their eggs aren’t going in that basket.

Lucid dreaming is such a cool concept. The ability to mentally experience things in a truly boundless environment, untethered by laws of physics or standards of reality.

Why the fuck would you want to waste that experience on work?