I blocked YouTube thumbnails for the past couple months and I don’t miss them

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Chinese companies including bytedance

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Some of these add-ons are redundant because of uBlock.

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I wish there wasn’t such a heavy tech focus. Common problem with a lot of the alternatives, the early adopters get on but they only want to talk about tech!

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Forcing employees to work any number of hours

Full stop. What is the point of all this automation if it doesn’t make our lives better? 40 hours 5 days a week is no way to live life.

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I don’t personally have an opinion on this but some Chicagoans have very strong opinions one way or the other:

“Dibs” refers to the practice of holding a shoveled-out parking space after a heavy snowfall by putting chairs, laundry baskets, or other items in the street to mark the claimed space.

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I hate leaf blowers.

Gas leaf blowers should be banned.
Leaf blowers should be banned.
Noise should be banned.

Blowing leaves is the most Sisyphean suburban American homeowner false task imaginable.

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I only host some of these right now, but this is a listing of some of the technologies I’d like to get into. awesome selfhosted has a good list.

Service/app/utility	What I use it for
Nextcloud	Private file sharing
Plex	Private media server for me, friends, and family
IPFS node	Earn crypto with filecoin while contributing to a good project
Matrix	So I can have my identity at my own domain
Multiple webservers	Host my own low traffic personal websites
Open directory	Just to say that I host an open directory
Home assistant	Private home automation
Pi-Hole	ad blocking and network protection
Unifi controller	homelab network infrastructure
PFsense	homelab network infrastructure
[Photo sharing service to replace Google photos]	Photo backup service to replace Google photos for friends and family
Torrent server (deluge)	Download Linux ISOs
headphones, music brainz, etc	For my self hosted music platform
Searx	Private search
Archive team downloader instance	To help with the archival projects
Discourse Forum	Private Forum for long form discussion with friends
Lemmy instance	Just doing my part
Calibre server	For a self hosted, private ebook ecosystem
onion websites	for fun and homelab experience
gemini server	For hosting content in Gemini
Gemini http proxy	Similar to mozz proxy
TrueNAS	The main file store
Zoneminder	For the IP cams
LBRY	For the experience of doing it
Bitwarden	Self hosted password manager
VPN	vpn

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My tongue in cheek way of saying Lake Michigan

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Oh there’s so many

Giant fresh water ocean
Low CoL for a city
Most convenient airport (in the world)
Architecture If I had to pick one thing I guess it’d be the CoL to arts and culture ratio.

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Looks like they shutdown