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So, I have a situation where a much older person in my family keeps clicking on YouTube ads and things like that on their Android phone, turning it into an adware riddled landmine within hours of use. Is there an easy way to block all ads for them? Switching to using a browser and adding adblock there is not an option, they have a very hard time remembering new ways to do things these days. I'm finding old articles that say AdGuard VPN can act like a sort of PiHole situation for an individual phone, but I'd like to hear from people who've actually done this and kept it up (and aren't paid ads for AdGuard VPN). Please boost if you can! #askFedi

@grimalkina@mastodon.social honestly we do encourage each other to do that! and I have heard colleagues say they wish they knew more about the birds we see so I think I need to maybe get a book on birds in the area for the office :jackal_excited:

One Piece live action has brought back my love for film.

Finished the second season.

Everyone brings such an enthusiasm with them.

And it's actual sets, actual makeup, actual costuming first, CGI only for the things props and setbuilding and costuming cannot cover.

It's everything I love in filmmaking brought together, everything I thought films had thrown out (apart from the indie scene).

And there are So. Many. African. Actors. This makes me so happy you cannot believe.

:jackal_excited:

(Yes, I will be consuming every bit of bonus and production behind the scenes I can find.)

#OnePiece #OnePieceLiveAction

@literalgrill@sakurajima.moe I mean I don't mind if my particular website is delisted by all search engines and by all bot agents, but it's not okay if no one can find any neocities pages at all. It's the one corner of the internet that's normal right now, and that actually lets you and teaches you to make stuff.

@GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa I'll be okay with the term "engineer" once we have some actual regulations in this cursed industry that is eating itself and pulling all of society with it. I've been known as programmer and developer. Depends on the context. Titles have always been developer.

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @me @maxoakland@mastodon.social Akkoma also has this option. And you can save several profile settings and switch between them, depending on how you're feeling or what device you're on. (I do forget about this, but it's a good tool for when you know you have moments where you can handle a lot and moments where you can handle very little. Giving yourself presets for that is nice.)

@JoBlakely@mastodon.social if the website is printed in text that's best case scenario! That way you know what the URL should look like when you scan it, so you don't have to type but can still compare.

@MelissaBearTrix all the time! I can't always load images, and even when I can, I'm often very bad at realising what I'm looking at. It's not my eyes, it's my brain

@gsuberland@chaos.social @stux@mstdn.social @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social also the car park thing in lower quantity wouldn't be bad on fields with animals, either. You wouldn't know it from most of the farmland in the Netherlands, but livestock do actually need shade.

@fasterandworse@hci.social oh, I feel like I need to knock on wood now It can always reach new lows

@literalgrill@sakurajima.moe (I was thinking of advising some peeps I know to switch to neocities from WordPress since they only need single page static site for business card purposes, and I can help 'em a whole lot better if it's just plain old CSS, html, and a lil bit of js if they need it, than whatever the heck WordPress does. The last time I needed to help them WordPress had deleted their whole site so they couldn't edit it without getting rid of all previous data...)

@futurebird@sauropods.win @tante@tldr.nettime.org Yup. I wish it wasn't at that same level in the software dev world too, but it is (more in the format "look at all this boilerplate it makes for me!"). Working slowly there. Though it feels like hitting a cement wall these days.

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social My favourite Agatha Christie!! That's very good news, I shall have to reread it in the new year :jackal_happy:

@pierogiburo@tech.lgbt lol FIFA 🤝 anyone with money

@ifixcoinops@retro.social I have bookmarked this in order to have just a good old time reading later on this weekend :jackal_lovebread: I keep meaning to read through that one very silly account you have, too, but I gotta sit down and plan for it with like, a cider or something

@SeaFury@aus.social this has made me crave bitter lemon :jackal_happy: But yeah, they're very different to me! Which is why bitter lemon is different to lemonade (unless you're making it in the same way my great grandmother did, which is..... bitter lemon, aka you use the whole lemon including the whites, which is what makes it bitter).

@theresnotime@fox.nexus there'll be better answers, but my rule of thumb is check per medication, and /never/ assume for liquid/wet medications (including encased liquid pills), I know some of those can go rancid.

@GustavinoBevilacqua they used to and then they gave up because it was more bother than useful. Some still do, but most don't.

@SeaFury@aus.social iiieee seedlings coming up is great!! :jackal_excited: We've finally started up a balcony garden and the spinach seedlings are starting to appear, and so are the coriander and tomato ones :jackal_excited: It's one of those things where if you forget it for a few days it can be /more/ exciting because there's even more of them. Got some sweetpea sprouts, too, and I'm especially excited for those because I love the smell of the flowers so much. It's about the only flower I genuinely love for the smell.

@Njord@zeroes.ca living breathing hot water bottles! :jackal_happy:

@potterybyosa@mastodon.social seeing glaze change colours is always one of the most magical things :jackal_excited:

Okay so my current thought is buy eye-safe glitter in large amounts and add it to conditioner/wax/gel step in hair care :jackal_excited: Just gotta find a supplier for that then. (I bought some glitter hair product but it turns out I'm even more sensitive to added perfumes than I remember, even when the perfume is apparently "minimal" or "mild")

@literalgrill@sakurajima.moe this is all neocities pages, right? Including the ones on your own domain? Or only the subdomained ones?

@ifixcoinops@retro.social it says a lot that I somehow didn't even know those two things were related. :jackal_no: (and if I did, it certainly didn't stick!)

@ShadowJonathan bet this is a continuation of that whole music shitshow Wasn't the Spotify version the "official" version that was mixed by an amateur?

@fasterandworse ....the only pro that I can see is that it takes less time than the atrocious "give us a day of free work" or "do a whole-ass IQ test" things I've had to go through before. Wastes less time. Still, giant red flag for any place using anything like this.

@Arapalla hoping along with you! :jackal_happy:

@sophie please yes For mobile and for pc The mobile stuff is /dire/

@RussSharek oh, I love this very very much :jackal_lovebread:

@dahie It ends up being anti-disability in practise. It is not where it comes from (where it comes from is usually anti-drug due to opium history, and racism/colonialism laws that got leaned into instead of reversed), but it is what it ends up being. Most international travel is like this. I get you, working with other countries is difficult. (Must have misread your original post!) I also would not risk it with Japan, this is why I specified Taiwan. I am honestly taken aback that you're taking them with you at all for Japan, I was under the impression that the chances of being able to bring them are so low it's not even worth attempting. Maybe I should look into it again.

@Hyperlynx I don't have advice as to who to go to because I never managed that either.

But I do have similar issues (sleep without pain but with discomfort) and recently discovered several things:

• polyester or non-biodegradable things as a direct contact thing is a definite no (probably mild sensitivity)
• I probably have a mild dust allergy so definitely need to clean everything in the bedroom more than usual
• I need a den to sleep in, a den of cushions and things to feel surrounded by that also doesn't close me in (just comfy feeling, no claustrophobia feeling)

A mattress on the floor next to the couch with lots of cushions was easier to sleep in than the bed. I've gotten myself to "actually fall asleep within about half an hour of attempting to try to sleep" in the bed by spouse adding loads of cushions and big stuffed animals in a wall around me. I suspect the next thing will have to be "a firmer mattress so I can't feel the bed's shape, with soft topper so I don't feel hardness".

If you have the opportunity, sleeping in different areas and figuring out why it's harder or easier in those areas definitely adds some usable clues to the mystery. And if you suspect something (like dust or polyester or particular fabric or whatever), act on it just to try it out and see if it helps.

@swaldman@mendeddrum.org @alice@lgbtqia.space This would only list Kansas as unsafe. You'd have to run out of all "safe" states before they'd start accepting asylum claims from trans USians with a chance of success. Atm even Palestine or Syria aren't places where you can get guaranteed successful asylum claims (glances at Syrian refugees currently being sent back to unsafe situations).

@ifixcoinops@retro.social I am kinda scared of getting a domain that I have to pay for on a recurring basis because recurring things that I then attach my life to is kinda :jackal_yell2: I am also actually suspicious of having to pay for a domain, the whole structure there seems very very "many people in the middle are claiming money" to me and I Do Not Like And then somehow getting my website linked up to a domain is weird and esoteric and I've forgotten everything I once knew about how to do that, somehow the plain IP address looks more logical to me :jackal_yell2: All that to say that I have a neocities, I even have a self hacked together one of a kind static website generator (not a static markdown generator!!), but I do not have a domain

@pierogiburo@tech.lgbt I like this chart

@dahie I've never once seen the drug laws in Asian countries as specifically against neurodiversity, considering the backdrop of the opium crises and colonialism-era anti-drug laws. I /am/ curious how you've travelled between countries within Europe without doing any paperwork. You can travel without, but legally you should be doing the paperwork (it's about the same level required as of Taiwan, if you "get caught" worst is the meds /might/ be taken away).

@mattgrayyes@chaos.social ah, that's my timekeeping method, too! :jackal_happy: With all the consequences thereof :jackal_yell2:

@gsuberland@chaos.social oh, you disliked seeing that, too (I just muted the post so I can't see it pop up again... until the next one)

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I honestly miss this the most about living in the southern hemisphere. Loads of other things, too, but this one the most by far.

@Njord I don't use them for the same reason I don't use AWS and all that, but coworkers keep using them for things that I 100% know there are templates for that do the exact same thing! Because I've used those! So it just ends up being "use a thing that replaces a thing that also exists and does this same job but with a guaranteed working outcome". I guess that falls under worse than useless?? The few things that people seem to use that "win" anything fall under "let a thing run while you do other stuff", and then you still need to double triple check things... except they don't, they let it write a bullshit test suite and consider it done if it passes all the tests. Tests only mean something if they've been crafted with intent!

@futurebird@sauropods.win @tante@tldr.nettime.org Thank you. Been feeling the same tiredness. This helps.