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What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
  • I work on peoples' PCs at work (regular people and not business IT), and one thing that I do for every PC I work on is add uBlock Origin Lite to Chrome and uBlock Origin on other browsers no matter what. As 8 or 9 times out of 10 the shit that caused someone to bring in their PC for cleaning are actually full-screen scam messages and scummy ads on sites or from emails. The only times I ever randomly get someone that is upset about the blockers being installed are from either the pickup person not showing them how to use them. Or I get a random person that actually uses those "news" start pages like MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc. not understanding that the blank slides in the main slideshow are not actual articles and are ads.

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    What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
  • "Everyone lies" - House, MD

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    What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
  • I too feel like there is like one or more reasons some people say to not use them (I haven't used one myself). Though I think that one thing is that if you don't clean the pot very thoroughly, it might cause some bad infections. But that would be true of anything like that since bacteria can thrive on warm moist devices that come into contact with our bodies (and from the buildup that you would be trying to clear).

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    adblock on mobile is 95% the only reason I use firefox
  • I also went completely to FF on my phone the moment it had uBlock Origin and some other extensions. Now that I learned how to force other ones, it has been game over for other browsers aside from just seeing how they are every now and then (I work with general public and need to be aware of how they work). The only thing I would really really advise in addition to FF on a non-rooted device is setting the Mullvad ad-blocking/tracking blocking DNS for the device.

    It helps even if I need to use a different browser (not as good as also having uBO), and has really good chances of blocking ads in many apps. For example, I kind of treat the Microsoft Solitaire app since it keeps games and stats from my PC. However they have lots of video ads that play after a couple of games. With the DNS it just kind of glitches when an ad should run and just goes on to the next round instead. The only odd thing I see with other apps is that it can cause my bank app to take a little longer to load when signing in (I am guessing due to tracking it is trying to do). But after like ten seconds it goes through like normal.

    This is the DNS address to add if you want:

    https://base.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

    And here is the main site for all their options and tester to make sure whichever one you pick is working:

    https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

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    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • For sure. It might be that my city has a regional hospital in addition to being pretty close to a much larger city with multiple hospitals. Also likely helps that the larger city nearby has an airport which UPS and Fedex (might also have others) hubs in it. Along with those shipping companies having big ground sorting/shipping facilities in the same city.

    I can currently roll with the prices as long as I can still get my meds. Just hoping that the generic versions are able to catch up next year.

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    Weary lioness eyes tourists with quiet intensity
  • She is thinking to herself: "sigh I could catch all of you so fast."

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    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • That would be great. My insurance was already not covering Vyvanse super well, but I at least had the extra coupon thing from Vyvanse that was getting it under $80 per month. But the start of this year Vyvanse stopped the coupon since there was a generic and my insurance was also pushing that. Which I didn't realize was a thing until I was about a week and a half past my refill and just kept getting auto calls from Walgreens that it was delayed.

    Found out it was because the generic was on back order and they literally didn't know when they (or any location in my county or the next one over) would even get it. So I had to demand that they just fill the name brand since I can't function at work. The pharmacist was like "It will be over $200, are you sure you don't want to wait?". And all I could say was "Not like I really have a choice atm if I want to have my meds." Which while the price was (and still is) fucked. I am glad I didn't just keep waiting. I just said to put it on my file that I request the name brand if the generic isn't available.

    It does seem that the insurance has also seen this happening to a fuck ton of people as they are back to at least covering what they were before. Which is still costing me around $125 or so a month since Vyvanse didn't re-instate their coupon. I had thought about going back to Adderall, but it doesn't last as long and I have heard there have been shortages for both name brand and generic before Vyvanse and its generic.

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    ‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours
  • Sounds like he should get domed along with everyone like him (and everyone that supports/bootlicks him).

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    GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release
  • Since it is FOSS, couldn't they just take the source code and just re-compile it with different naming? Like how Debian did with Iceweasel naming and branding, though I know in their case it wasn't due to not liking the Firefox name/branding.

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    Why This New CD Could Change Storage
  • And I was over here thinking the 100GB Blu-ray M disc that came with my BDXL drive was some wild shit. It has been wild seeing how big some PC cases are these days, but don't even have 5.24 bays. Would be dope to have some discs like these to use as cold storage for my Plex server/complete uncompressed rips of literally all of my DVDs/BDs. Sad that these things would be kept at some wildly high prices since they would be overkill for normal media releases. And since many of the companies are starting to scale back on said releases in favor of revokable digital copies and subscriptions.

    I will always have a soft spot for spinning discs and other weird storage.

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    'Gas-station heroin' kratom, targeted in crackdowns by states and cities
  • I like how they mention that there aren't any dosage advice on most of the products and "not our problem if you die" portrayal. But the whole reason most products like Kratom don't give usage advise is because doing so tends to then come with regulations that tend to be bad-faith. Yet the largely more damaging products that are openly sold in "supplement" stores are able to grift all day. Stuff like Kratom actually does shit and therefore gets sniped by pharma and other deep pockets.

    They went nuts over how many people tried or actively used shit like K2/Spice. But the only reason basically everyone used it was all down to weed being illegal. If weed were legal, then there wouldn't have been a massive demand for K2 or any of the variants. At least with shit like Kratom, the chances of bad shit happening are super fucking low compared to the shit that pharma somehow convinced the gov and regulators wasn't addictive.

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    Significant Link Found Between Heme Iron, Found in Red Meat and Other Animal Products, and Type 2 Diabetes Risk
  • Would imagine that their main goal is to make it easier for the average current meat eater consumer to actually try non-meat options. And is their version of heme the same level of problem as actual meat based heme?

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    End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone
  • I never had a WP, but I do have a few Zunes. The Live Tile main screen for WP is a bit too busy for me, but I would love to have the slightly cut-off styles in settings and menus that it and the Zune models had. Just really vibed with the look for some reason.

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    End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone
  • OneUI is much much better than Touchwiz was. It has been nice to see Samsung actually putting effort into their main launcher and having the options to add things (and that they can augment stuff while using other launchers). I was using Nova on both my phone and my old Tab S2, but found OneUI to "feel" more correct on my Tab S8+ than Nova. Though Nova has seemed better for my phones over the years.

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    Debating upgrading from RTX 2080 > RX 7900 GRE to please my driver making overlords, thoughts?
  • Ah, good to know. Though wouldn't it still at least make it easier for people to install overall? The last time I messed with Nvidia on Linux gave me issues even with using a named supported distro on their site. Would error out about "missing headers" or something like that. Given this was many years ago and before distros would offer an Nvidia specific iso. Mostly just curious in the event that I needed to help someone that is all-in on having one of their cards.

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    Debating upgrading from RTX 2080 > RX 7900 GRE to please my driver making overlords, thoughts?
  • I am all AMD both PC (currently Windows but have used Linux on systems with AMD and Nvidia over the years) and Steam Deck (of course). AMD is overall easier. That being said, Nvidia is supposedly in process of making opensource drivers. I believe they are going to be focusing on their newer cards. So it might be worth researching into any recent news on their progress. Always good to have options if you get a better deal on one vs another.

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    Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma
  • Probably a good move for them to make tbh. I like how CrowdStrike's name already sounds like it should be the name of a big malware/virus/zeroday. So we should have seen it coming.

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    Adversarial images on clothing to combat AI facial recognition without covering the face
  • A friend of mine's dad worked in some capacity of pigs. Which lead to my friend finding out that some people had either by really random luck in attempting something like the comic or also finding out from interacting with pigs. That in the city I lived in, there is like a "panic" signal that auto calls for lots of help that involved hitting a specific letter or number multiple times. For some reason I want to say it was maybe either zero or O, but I don't remember off hand.

    So when they would be quickly inputting a plate with enough taps and not thinking, shit would cause resources to be pulled and wasted. Not great for attracting attention to the driver since it is basically pulling aggro. But could be great for moving attention from somewhere else.

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    Adversarial images on clothing to combat AI facial recognition without covering the face
  • Glitch art clothing would be dope even if it didn't help with AI fuzzing.

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  • Saw this on an ADHD Memes account on X. Shit happens more than I would like to admit. lol

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