You can sandbox play store apps right?

Lemmy does a good enough job of bringing content to me. But I appreciate your perspective. It’s definitely something to keep in mind as we get closer to the AI apocalypse.

I’m the same! I just don’t keep track of where all the useless knowledge in my head comes from.

This is so foreign to me. I never bookmark anything ever. I leave a few tabs open until I complete that task, read that article or decide I don’t care anymore.

No. I’m about to change my number because I get so many spam calls and texts.

I took fell into the 7 million sites blocked trap!

Take an old PC or laptop out of the box-o-crap, install Ubuntu server, give it a fixed IP address, install pi hole with the one line command from their website, tell your regular PC that the laptop IP is your DNS server.

This is the easiest way to play around before rolling out to your whole network.

I haven’t installed it direct on my router. I used to have it running in a container on my little proxmox server (aka old PC repurposed). I really liked the interface.

Then I was practically gifted a really nice Asus router. I flashed merlin-wrt to it and read some guide on how to install a different ad blocker. It’s really good whatever it is. I haven’t had to touch it in months, and I never see an ad.

You and me both

I’ve been waiting a few weeks for my zima blade 7700 to ship. They’ve been out of stock.

I’d get myself banned this way. I forget the -p flag at least once per week.

I’ve had good luck with these guys: https://cloudfanatic.net/pricing/

I think they would fall in the less resources category. But they offer unlimited data transfer, and you can use any distro you want. I run slackware btw.

This is the best advice. Heed it!

There are charities around me that take old laptops, put chromeOS on them and give to low income folks.

I cashapp sent her my life savings. She’s going to wire me back 10x that amount any minute now.

Gold star for you!

This one: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/fileserver

Nextcloud was too high fallutin for me. I share a zfs pool with proxmox’s file server appliance.

Same, except I bought the domain through namecheap

The loyalists who replace the fired workers, duh!