None of those are hard technically. They’re just very essential and I rather enjoy my DNS working and email delivered at all times.

If I had a symmetrical connection, I would do that.

But it’s like 1G down and something fucking pathetic up on a good day.

I trust my VPS provider more than a VPN. And I want a VPN primarily for privacy, not massive p2p bandwidth or the ability to circumvent geographical restrictions.

Also my seedbox can run 24/7 with the bandwidth capped and it doesn’t have any effect on my life.

If my home internet is uploading at full speed, streaming services start to stutter and that’s annoying.

I’ll never host my own DNS, Email or torrents.

Everything else yes.

I don’t mind the “does the same thing”, I do that myself because I’ve been burned by single use tools becoming everything apps slowly. (*arr stack apps tend to do this…) My apps are just on GitHub and only for me.

What I do mind is buying a domain and making a snazzy landing page for what is pretty much a weekend project. Oh and a Discord “community” with more channels than users.

Because I don’t understand. Really.

An “ad” for me is “buy Charm paper towels” or “install app you don’t have”.

“Continue watching Reacher Season 3” is not an ad.

For you it is?

So a “continue watching” or “new on amazon prime” is an AD now?

You can just move them off the top row and you get no “ads”. Only put stuff with no previews in there.

Wtf? Where? I have three and zero ads.

If I select a top row app, that application can “advertise” what’s new on the top half of the screen. That’s it.

Apple TV the device has no ads, zero, nada.

The person in question was German. Microsoft found suspicious images on their Skydrive and shut down the whole MS account, Xbox and all.

What was it? Pictures of his kids on the beach, which the puritan American algorithm determined as evil

Every cloud provider scans their storage, because the law is like that.

People have gotten their MS accounts closed when Onedrive was still called Skydrive due to automated scans finding suspicious activity

What ”launcher”? The TV app? You can just move it away. There is no launcher anywhere, every service along with AppleTV+ is just a separate application

And Google spyware is all open source?

Not at this scale. Remember that Apple is a hardware company first. They make money from hardware and app stores.

Google is the worlds largest ad company who dabble in hardware and services to increase their ad revenue.

What? There’s one icon that says “TV”. You can move it to the bottom and you won’t see any apple stuff beyond that.

Not a popular answer, but Apple TV is the best out of the box experience. Zero ads, massive longevity. Mine is like 7 years old and still running the latest tvOS.

If you have the cash and inclination, Nvidia Shield is the hackers choice. Zero hardware upgrades in years tho, but software aplenty.

Just don’t let your smart TV access the internet in any situation, there’s no need. It’s just a stupid display.

And still he made his career with doing stuff on a band saw in a New York basement pretty much 😅

Dude knows exactly what he’s doing.

AI is like a band saw. It’s really easy to use it wrong and start missing fingers when you get cocky and move too fast.

Then you have people who know how to use it like Jimmy DiResta who will just freehand stuff on one and still has 10 fingers: https://youtu.be/gA4lpsEWM5k

From a statement like this you can’t tell which one it is. Usually the first.

McD Sprite is the fizziest based on empirical evidence

And you’re too tall and handsome like Barron Trump? 😀