https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler

So’s your face!

Conflicted here…

Luigi Mangione, white courtesy phone. Luigi Mangione, white courtesy phone please.

F-Droid is a decent replacement for the play store. Lots of FOSS and less-enshittified apps available.

It’s frustrating that battery capacities are so small that a simple networking utility will noticeably deplete them.

These cardstock-thin phones with half-day battery lives are bullshit.

I want a big brick of a phone. My phone and my laptop should use the same battery pack. A phone should last through a long weekend without a charger.

I use FF on android, but on my (ancient) desktop, it just runs like shit, while any of the chromium variants “just work”.

You might be happier elsewhere.

Android. Never noticed a problem with zerotier, but I will admit that I’m usually using a commercial VPN rather than my own zerotier network.

I’ve used tailscale, but not enough to confirm or deny battery issues.

AFAIK, they all use Wireguard, though, so if there is a problem with one, it’s likely a problem for all of them.

Always-on VPN works well on my device. But I agree, native ad blocking is important.

In my area, “Don” is pronounced with the mouth wide, jaw open. Force a smile as you say it, and you should be in the ballpark.

“Dawn” is pronounced with the lips pursed. Kiss your grandmother on the cheek.

I’m going to reject that criticism in this particular case. PiHole is a significantly more complex setup than Tailscale or ZeroTier. While I agree that it is beyond expectations for the “average person”, so is PiHole.

An OpenVPN server on a dynamic IP address is not that far beyond the skillset of the average PiHole user, especially if they are using an open source router with OpenVPN and DDNS preinstalled.

Tailscale or ZeroTier are well within the capabilities of a PiHole user.

Tailscale, zerotier, or any other VPN server on your home network can keep your mobile device on your pihole network regardless of physical location.

I’m told there are differences between “merry”, “marry”, and “Mary”, but I don’t believe it.

This might come as a shock, but that “MD” behind their name isn’t a guarantee they dont hold quackish beliefs either.

Far easier ways to make/acquire gun powder, and far better explosives available. Fireworks make a lot of noise and light, but they aren’t particularly strong explosives.

Beer and bread share a common ancestor: gruel. Put grain in water to soften. Works better if you also heat the mixture. Now you have a carb-rich slurry or paste in which bacteria have been killed off, suitable for staying alive.

Don’t eat it all right away. Let it sit around for a bit, and wild yeasts will grow in it first, before bacteria start colonizing it.

Pour off the liquid: that’s a primitive beer. Let the remaining mash dry out a bit; that’s a primitive bread.

Actual beer and actual bread are just evolutions along the same lines.

The point is that, because it’s a flat rate, you end up paying more the more money you have.

The rich dont spend much of their money on consumer goods. They spend most of their money on investments, financial services, etc.

So when you and I spend nearly 100% of our money on consumer goods, we are paying 25% of our income in taxes. But the richest among us, whose consumer spending amounts to 10% (or less) of their earnings, pays just 2.5% of their income on taxes.

Flat rate taxes on consumer spending are wildly regressive.