Usenet as daily driver works 99% of the time. Only use VPN/torrents for extremely new or very obscure shows. $5/month pays for unlimited Usenet and VPN.

That’s an unwinnable campaign - there is no escape from Flavor Town.

When Hamachi became unusable I switched to Tailscale to connect my phone, my laptop, and all my local PCs together. It just works, flawlessly. There are more features they offer like Exit Nodes (proxy servers to force Internet traffic through another PC on your Tailscale Network) and sharing your tailnet nodes with another Tailscale user on a separate tailnet, but realistically I just use it like I used Hamachi - as a dead-easy VPN between all my personal devices.

I’m assuming 1172 is a count of donations to official mainstream servers. I have definitely contributed to my local server.

Good thing Naval warships don’t have windows you can fall out of. Railings on the other hand…

I use FireFox + uBlock Origin, and never see ads. I did have to disable my other adblock/privacy extensions (DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, PrivacyBadger, and Ghostery) for YouTube before its anti-adblock stopped complaining, but FF+uBO seems to work just fine with default filters enabled.

I’m in favor of this, but how did it pass when “two out of four commissioners voted against the measure”?

Elon Musk has already taken the initiative…bless his heart.

uBlock Origin has kept their filters up-to-date for me. Still no ads, and no blocks from YouTube, since day 1. I did disable my other privacy extensions like Privacy Badger and Ghostery on YouTube to stay on their “good” side however.

This is my shocked face when nothing comes of this… :-/

Or by convincing the other side not to bother voting…

Staying home might be enough though, no?

And they were never heard from again.

Who views ads in Reddit? Except for all the shill posts, that is.

In other news, more than half of US adults do not plan to get the newly recommended COVID-19 vaccine.

Won’t employers just adopt the same workaround that they’re using in Colorado, by posting a huge pay range and hiring all employees near the bottom?

Was this written by AI? So many words saying so very little…

When you work with snakes you should not be surprised if you get bit.

Oregon here: Welcome to the club! Now you just need to work on mail-in voting, and you’ll be living the good great life!

Ah yes, the way to become unaffected by Western sanctions is to emulate the country that lives in perpetual serfdom and give up all those small luxuries you’ve become accustomed to before they can be taken away. Makes perfect sense!