F-Droid is a decent replacement for the play store. Lots of FOSS and less-enshittified apps available.

WTF? No no no.

WTF, Mate?

It’s frustrating that battery capacities are so small that a simple networking utility will noticeably deplete them.

These cardstock-thin phones with half-day battery lives are bullshit.

I want a big brick of a phone. My phone and my laptop should use the same battery pack. A phone should last through a long weekend without a charger.

https://zombo.com/

I use FF on android, but on my (ancient) desktop, it just runs like shit, while any of the chromium variants “just work”.

You might be happier elsewhere.

Android. Never noticed a problem with zerotier, but I will admit that I’m usually using a commercial VPN rather than my own zerotier network.

I’ve used tailscale, but not enough to confirm or deny battery issues.

AFAIK, they all use Wireguard, though, so if there is a problem with one, it’s likely a problem for all of them.

Always-on VPN works well on my device. But I agree, native ad blocking is important.

In my area, “Don” is pronounced with the mouth wide, jaw open. Force a smile as you say it, and you should be in the ballpark.

“Dawn” is pronounced with the lips pursed. Kiss your grandmother on the cheek.

I’m going to reject that criticism in this particular case. PiHole is a significantly more complex setup than Tailscale or ZeroTier. While I agree that it is beyond expectations for the “average person”, so is PiHole.

An OpenVPN server on a dynamic IP address is not that far beyond the skillset of the average PiHole user, especially if they are using an open source router with OpenVPN and DDNS preinstalled.

Tailscale or ZeroTier are well within the capabilities of a PiHole user.

Tailscale, zerotier, or any other VPN server on your home network can keep your mobile device on your pihole network regardless of physical location.

I’m told there are differences between “merry”, “marry”, and “Mary”, but I don’t believe it.

This might come as a shock, but that “MD” behind their name isn’t a guarantee they dont hold quackish beliefs either.

She was dead anyway for simply having a brain

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TikTok

There is no evidence she had a brain.

We have the same problems in America, but with deer, and the same solutions to that problem.

But those same nutjobs who want to ban roo meat also want to ban deer hunting. Because they are idiots.

Government performs services, and acceptd payment for those services in the form of taxation. The thing that is missing is the recognition that the powers exercised by government are possessed by We The People. We own those powers. We “invest” those powers in the government, who uses those powers to provide paid services to its customers.

We are each owed a return on our “investment” of political authority. Our political authority should not be given to the government freely. We should be individually compensated for it.

We are shareholders.

Universal Basic Income is one possible method of compensating the citizenry for the use of our political authority.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_limits

Increasing the bag limit on “billionaire” to something greater than “0” would have a much more appreciable effect on the climate than a thousand families forgoing children.