Stupid Linux! Be more funny

[AArdvark]

Shes been playing Diablo 1, 2 and 3 since they came out. She likes those arpg games, the clickfest kind while listening to Rush Limburger (or whoever)

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This is an update to my tablet thread. I might might not even have started one already but who knows anymore. Long ago I carefully followed explicit directions for a whole afternoon and was able to root my Nook tablet. It involved a lot of downloading from sketchy places and lots of text based commands and just the right size micro SD card.
I've been wanting to do the same kind of thing to my Amazon Fire tablet because my phone battery isn't what it used to be and the tablet works just fine but it's loaded with bloat and ads. XDA has a way to root the thing but it involves taking it apart and shorting out a contact with the case ground, not something I'm willing to do. So the device sat in a bookshelf for the past five years. While browsing earlier today I came across the Fire toolkit, a very easy to understand piece of software that can take care of all the built in garbage without the arcane rooting process. All the Amazon apps are gone, there's no more forced lockscreen ads and I can use the browser of my choice. It seems I'm the winner for a change. I'll play around and see how things work out

[AArdvark]

Update: tablet works fine but it's just too slow. Old phone is faster and can use the cell towers.

[AArdvark]

Christmas is the time of upgrades! My nephew's big Corsair PC case is going into the Magnavox tv. I replaced it with a peanut butter sandwich PC, the GMKtec something-something from Amazon. Its faster snd 1/10th the size and totally quiet. I also get Win11 Pro installed...hmmmmm.

I figured out the local account login so there's no password needed, thank god. I found out how to turn off most of the crap as well. Why does the end user have to spend an hour just disabling stuff when they get a new phone or PC? Ridiculous!

Note: They will not accept FUCK YOU as a Microsoft account name, just saying.
Soon as it was online I installed Brave and hid any Edge shortcuts as much as possible. I know I can't totally get rid of it.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Yeah, I learned the same trying to remove Edge. They will not let you do it. Crazy to me how you can get in trouble the way that Microsoft did in whatever it was, the 1990s or early 2000s and then just do similar shit later and hope nobody notices. (I know it's not the same, but it's close enough.)

[Jizaboz]

There is a good (or stupid) reason for not being able to remove Edge and that's because of Windows based programs (including games) which talk to Edge.



Note: I do not use Edge. I prefer Safari (ha!) and Vivaldi.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Here is my BROWSER LINEUP.

Home:
Brave: main browsing browser.

Firefox: the site that I use to watch pirate streams of sports is constantly doing the pop up tab nonsense for ads. Brave is so good at blocking the pirate sites, the sites don't work on Brave. So Firefox's only purpose is to act as a containment dump for sportsurge.

Opera: I have Opera when I want to test if things are accessible to the internet or not, without worrying about being logged in. So if I change permissions on a Google Drive folder in Brave, I will go check the link on Opera to make sure it looks to the general world how I'd like it to look.

Work:
Vivaldi: main browsing browser for work-related things that don't have to do with the web apps we make. I have found it much easier to do my job if I have a browser for all the HR stuff and github and gmail and Jenkins where I can leave cookies there and - when asked - "could you clear cache and try it again?" I'm not having to deal with all the applications I need to do my job.

Chrome, Firefox, Safari - used to see if our stuff works.

Edge is the only one I don't look at. My special thanks to PINBACK for writing software to make it so that we don't have to actually go in there and look manually/visually.

[AArdvark]

Which ones automatically block pirate sites? There was one, maybe Chrome, that said I was being naughty by trying to go to TPB. That was the minute I got Brave and haven't looked back.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Sorry - I misspoke. Brave doesn't block the site itself, but it blocks the pop up ads that the pirate site wants to serve. The pirate site in question has configured things to not let you click on games unless three or five pop up ads show. So Brave is doing what I would want it to do.

There is probably a way to make exceptions, but I just sort of like sequestering what the different browsers do. Using a bunch of them keeps me up to date with any differences they have, which is helpful in my line of work, a little.

[Tdarcos]

I use Firefox for most tasks, but no matter which ad blocker I use, even so-called undetectable ones, YouTube will get pissed off and warn me if I continue using an ad blocker the site will disable access. Which is why I use Brave exclusively for watching YouTube videos. I never see the ads YouTube inserts in the videos, it's absolutely seamless, and YouTube hasn't the slightest clue anything is happening.

[AArdvark]

Super double middle fingers to YouTube! My goal is to avoid it as much as possible. Techmoan and Flack's vids excepted, naturally.