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Hey, I tried
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But that's not what I get today, apparently. Today my brain's the toxic parent that makes you sit at the dinner table for hours until you finish your damn food
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Much prefer when I'm so AVOIDANT about one thing I should be doing that I CAN do the other things. Like it sopped up all my anti-dopamine so my (unrelated) task initiation gets nice and clean. The #ShamWow of executive dysfunction, if you will
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And I can't even harvest its bones
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"the LED will illuminate amber--" I know full goddamn well the transcript said "will TURN amber", you're just being fancy to be fancy. You wrote ACTUAL OTHER SENTENCES to expand on the original transcript, you didn't ALSO have to give it the kid-copying-an-essay treatment
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Apropos of nothing, I have a sudden urge to watch Office Space again. A very specific scene.
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So, eff it. Conclusion is that I'd bunged up the profile somehow. I'll be SLOWLY putting everything back as I want it. Any issue THIS time will be recognized closer to whatever change or addition prompted it, and thus (hopefully) I'll fix it without another THREE HOURS of work 😑
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-User found obscure forum thread suggesting a temporary total profile reset
-ISSUE DID NOT PERSIST WITH FRESH USER DATA. HOT DIGGITY.
-Thread suggested culprit was extensions. User tested removing extensions from first profile and resetting ALL settings. Issue persisted.
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-User considered giving it all up, finding a yurt, and eschewing tech entirely
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-Earlier issue fixed via restart. Not this time, though
-Discovered on Google Docs, but issue persisted across other sites
-Issue did NOT persist across browsers or offline text fields. Just #Vivaldi
-Issue did not persist in Vivaldi's address window, just websites
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But Perfect's the enemy of Better, so I'll take my unreliably conflicting tech advice sources and... do my best, I guess
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Really, it's walking around NY with my wallet in a secured bag and phone in my back pocket. I avoid Facebook, but I use Instagram. I'm moving off Gmail, but I'm on YouTube every goddamn day
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I've been on Brave for a few years, but I don't particularly like it (or them). Taking a shot at Vivaldi --and finding guides on mitigating its privacy gaps
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It's the work of a lifetime to detangle myself from the Google ecosystem, but I'm switching (slowly) to Proton email. I'm already on iCal, go team. Apple and Google Maps are equally shitty in various circumstances, god help me
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Realistically, I'm not going to sustain privacy measures that require consistent attention. I know myself. So I'm harnessing a spurt of momentum to integrate systems with a higher BASELINE of privacy and security
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Mind you, NOTHING here was from anything but a .com
Believe me, I looked
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Vivaldi: Founded by the initial brains behind Opera (pre-Chromium), PACKED with customization, the perfect browser for power users. Also, they undermine privacy features by still using some of Google's API's, storing a unique identifier for your installation, and having bad IP anonymization
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Pale Moon: non-corporate with good customization, deliberately disabled modern "antifeatures", and minimal spywear. Also, its developers went off the deep end personally and professionally, killed any customization that isn't done their way, and are fully in bed with CloudFlare. Which is evil.
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Tor Browser: the safest browser with a multi-step encryption route that creates unmatched protection from tracking, surveillance, and censorship. Also, it's just Mozilla in a trench coat and turning the safety features on breaks most sites. Plus it's slow as FUCK
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Opera: fan-favorite known for innovation and endless customization. Also, it's horrible spyware in ways that CAN'T be disabled and its acquisition by a Chinese company puts the data gathered unrestrictedly in the hands of the CCP, which is bad because China 🙃
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Brave: The trusted anti-tracking browser that hosts their own search engine and is one of the very few with advanced fingerprinting protections. Also, they pull shady-to-criminal stunts while THEMSELVES tracking you AND white-listing privacy's worst offenders
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Firefox: Open-source alternative at the forefront of privacy innovation. Also, it broadcasts user / system info every time you click ANYTHING and their new privacy policy is literally "you agree we can do anything we want"
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Chrome: Robust catalog of privacy features and extensions. Also, Google will count your nose hairs and sell the data to Everyone
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Long story short, everyone sucks and there are no good browsers. Or, conversely, these browsers are good and safe because, like, PC Mag said the browser said so
🤷♀️ It really feels like a "pick your favorite liar" prospect to choose which tech article's evaluation to trust
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Not that your friendly neocities spiderman is necessarily wrong, I just struggle to view them as a citable source
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I do not skeet @ you, sir, but I skeet, sir
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Boo. No brand identity. But Twitter's bird theme had the alliteratively onomatopoeic "tweet" noun/verb going for it, which BlueSky doesn't quite have ready to hand. Flutter? Bsk (pronounced "busk")?
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Today's fuss has been brought to you by: A skit followed by a FAKE-playable. I hate.
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5) Unlimited playability means nothing if it's AFTER a skit. No second chances
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4: Unskippable ads aren't great, so mitigate that by keeping them short and WORDLESS. Lure me with your visuals, not the cheapest voice actor you could get on Fiverr
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3: Please, PLEASE don't make me sit through a skit. I don't care if your app is the second coming. If I have to sit through 45 excruciating seconds of fake street interviews or "oh no! I don't have money to pay the check 😫" "Then play THIS app to get FREE REAL CASH 🤑" then I'm shunning you
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2: FAKE interactive ads fill me with incandescent rage. I'm not just holding it against the companies, I'm blaming the designers who pitched it and the developers who didn't quit in protest. You shame your ancestors and your children will never visit
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1b: These are of course subranked by how long they let you play before forcing the game page popup. Unlimited? Stellar. Two moves? Die.
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1: Interactive ads are the purest form of advertisement: I want more and willing to sacrifice my data privacy to get it. Sometimes.
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I won't take on TOO many Whys at once, I know how this wax melts in the heat. But by golly I like the taste of flying