Yeah, you’re right. I guess a better way to put it would have been “don’t load 3rd party shit that I didn’t tell you to load”.

Adblockers aren’t total security, nothing is, but it’s no doubt they are a massive improvement.

Good morning Slazar,

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There may be genuine use cases to run a script, or whatever the attacker used. The problem is the browsers will auto-run stuff, the user isn’t aware and there’s no way to stop it. All ublock (and others) do is provide the missing security layer called “don’t auto run shit from the web”.

Another example why Unlock Origin should be considered essential security software, not just an “ad-block”.

Did he quit? I don’t see any concrete references online, just vague form conversations about it.

Microbloat is deprecating something? That’s new. Do AI next.

Yes, let’s blame the victim and not the data hording mega corps that advertise their crap to collect more data, make big promises, hide the better options, and actively undermine open source in every way they can.

I’m pretty sure the average person hears “open source” and think “oh that’s insecure software made by hackers, I need to only use software from trusted sources”. Using only trusted software is still a good idea, but unfortunately the trusted sources of 2002 have betrayed us.

When adblox inevitably fixes this, you can block comments, and a bunch of other crap, on purpose with Unhooked

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recommended-videos/

That ain’t metric

https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/anythingbutmetric

I wouldn’t give full control, maybe 3 faders that allow for a 10% reduction in dialogue, music and SFX. Will if affect artist integrity, absolutely, but so does listening on our consumer speakers and watching the content on our consumer grade displays that aren’t perfectly color balanced in a pitch black room.

There is a hardware device, called a compressor that would solve the problem. Basically it reduces the loudest parts of audio on a gradual curve, which allows you turn up the overall volume.

Affordable ones range $100-$250, which should get the job done. Personally, I wouldn’t go either direction out of that range, more expensive ones will be overkill and cheap ones could sound bad or lack the controls to set it up right)

If you can get analog audio out of the TV in to a speaker/sound bar, it’s easy to setup.

So with a cheaper sound bar and a compressor, you could accomplish this for about $250-$400 depending on how much money you can to throw at the problem,

(Edit, some else pointed out if you use a PC for all your content, you can have software compressor on the PC instead of extra hardware)

Pretty sure MS made this a “standard keyboard” button, which could mean it needs to be included for the OEM to be able to put windows on the machine.

Next month they’ll quietly add these “features” as background services under a generic name.

Rename the shortcut to notepad++2?

I said League, and it has to be one that unlocked all the skins.

Still cheaper than a mac

What version of lawnchair are you using? I have app folders (although its a bit clunky to manage in the UI, they do exist). Still missing tabs though.

“Let’s see, here is a fine of 7 million dollars, please pay to this account that tax payers will never see a dime from.”

The main thing for me, it gets google out of the picture. No AI, no google search bar, etc.

It also allows me to manage apps in the app drawer. I can hide any stock apps, and put less commonly uses apps in to folders (I miss tabs on Nova). Instead of scrolling through pages of home screen, I swipe up and can see all my common apps at once, no scrolling. The home screen now has free space for widgets.

this device is designed to be your secondary smartphone

In this economy?