I’ve never had a problem with YouTube ad blocking. uBlock Origin + ProtonVPN (NetShield) works just fine for me. I haven’t seen a single ad on YouTube since I installed them.

Some VPNs have adblockers built in. Or you could just install uBlock Origin for free if you don’t have a VPN

Yeah. Before OneUI 8, you could set up a custom ROM on a Samsung phone too. Short of that you can disable google services. Use non google apps from F-Droid or Aurora Store. You can also use ADB to uninstall system-level APKs. Though the only way that I know of to fully de-google is to install a different OS.

Not all android spies on you. Have you ever tried GrapheneOS? It’s very secure and pro-privacy. Technically it’s not android (if you really want to nitpick), but you need a Google Pixel to run it.

Quite the opposite at the moment

I’m guessing you didn’t think that through. The US is the second largest nuclear power in the world. The US has more nukes than India, Pankistan, Israel, and North Korea combined. Even if the US was hit first, or if Washington was vaporized, hundreds of US nukes would still launch from submarines, silos, and bombers. Poke the bear, and they’ll realiate. Trust me, nuclear war isn’t something you want. Why do you think it hasn’t happened since 1945?

3000 BTC? That’s about $354,000,000 (ish) at the time of writing this.

Does this person realize thay you can make more than one burger per cow?

I agree with you. But I think you missed the point of my comment.

You make a very good point. I myself have noticed sites like Lemmy.world are a bit of a ghost town compared to other forums. I think the main reason is that sites like Reddit are still more popular. And that’s either because people started using Reddit when it was actually good and are clinging to nostalgia, or because people don’t know that Lemmy exists. Or both. I recently saw a post on Reddit where someone claimed that Reddit is the only usable forum on the internet.

To answer your question: Convince people that Lemmy is what Reddit was trying to be back in 2006.

Not to nitpick, but I believe the term you’re looking for is “Neo Nazi”. The Nazi party ended in 1945. Though you’re right. If the US government was completely taken over by Neo Nazi’s, it would almost definitely cause WWIII.

Health insurance is a decent solution to no universal healthcare…on paper. But the way the US executed it is poor

Kindness to those who genuinely deserve it is a good thing. Just don’t allow your kindness to make you naive

That entirely depends on what you’re using it for. I personally use ZorinOS as my daily driver because it’s easy to use, based on Ubuntu, and I like the interface.

If you’re using the PC for gaming, go with Nobara. It’s based on Fedora and has built-in support for Nvidia.

I used to have a job in IT, building PCs. It sounds fun, but building computers all day gets old fast. After about a year of working there I decided i’d like to try working in a different department, so I asked my boss about being moved. He told me that the specific department I had requested didn’t need any help and the department I was currently in was his priority. That seemed fair.

A few months later, somebody in that department left for another job, so I saw an opportunity and I swooped in. I told my boss that if he was looking for someone to replace the guy who left, i’d really appreciate it if he kept me in mind. My boss told me that he appreciated and acknowledged that I had been working there for a long time and he would keep me in mind. About a week later he calls me into his office and tells me he’s going to move me to the department I had requested.

9 months go by and I haven’t heard another word about being moved. 9 whole months.

At this point I was already thinking about quitting. Then I had a performance review which I was told would be one-to-one. But it wasn’t. My boss and two of my department supervisors were there. My boss brings up an issue of which I was at fault, and shows me a spread sheet as evidence. I checked the date on the spreadsheet and it was from 3 months prior. If it was that much of an issue, why did he wait 3 months to tell me? Why not bring it up at the time? That’s not helping anybody.

That was the final straw. I started looking for jobs when I got home that day. I got one and gave my boss 2 weeks notice.