I used the volume controls for the website in my phone’s pulldown menu to stop it, then the music player resumed. Still very much unwanted behavior. Will dig into the page source and see if there’s anything hidden.

I’ll do some digging in the code and see if I can come up with a custom filter for ublock.

Nope there wasn’t anything visible, I’ve been scrolling up and down to verify. Unless the video was somehow truncated or scaled to 1x1 px or something.

It’s a clone of the official Firefox repo stripped of all telemetry.

Totally off topic, but I was reading the article on Fennec (mobile Firefox clone) while playing music over Bluetooth to my car. I was parked waiting for someone, not driving. No streaming service, playing honest to god mp3s from my device, when out of the blue I got VPN ads over the speaker.

Fennec indicated that cnet was playing them, but there as was no video box or other audio player widget active, so it looks like they are splicing invisible audio ads in somehow?

I’m also using ublock origin on mobile plus AdAway (rooted), so that’s not an easy feat.

Could anyone double check? That’s the most obnoxious behavior I’ve experienced in recent time.

Never liked alcohol much, and while getting a nice weed buzz every now and again is fun to chill out, I do that twice a year at most. For me it’s all about finding something that is both interesting, entertaining and calming at the same time. I get that from woodworking or general DIY stuff, reading, and Yoga. But everybody is different.

Huh? I don’t use a VPN unless I want to watch geoblocked content, and adblocking works just fine without.

Free access to “radical” ideas doesn’t bode well with conservative governments.

Only if they are unable to care for themselves and do not qualify for subsidies/grants.

Zero is the norm in Germany, and I appreciate it that way. Other than providing housing until I moved out at 19 shortly after finishing high school, I got no monetary support from family.

Plenty of good advice, assistance with where and how to apply for grants, actual help on how to conduct research during uni, helping carry stuff when I moved houses, helping to draft my first cv and cover letters, and moral support and whatnot, sure.

But money? Other than maybe sending me 200 Euro for my birthday or ordering pizza when I visited, nothing, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Nothing prepares people more for adulthood than being responsible, and at the same time not feeling you have to pay back.

I’ve just switched from Windows 10 to Windows 10 IoT LTSC (long term support channel), designed for IoT means there’s no AI garbage, game bar and any other crap installed, and I get updates until 2032.

Quite happy with it, after a disastrous experience with Windows 11 that essentially killed my system.

And no, I can’t switch to Linux due to company requirements. I work in finance and some of the banks we use operate by hardware tokens that only have Windows drivers.

Nah their website got hijacked and instead of an ISO they spread malware. The system itself was never at risk, if you ran it.

I upgraded to Windows 11 last week after my laptop initially came with it 2 years ago, but was so bloated and slow I installed Windows 10 from USB.

With the EoL I reluctantly upgraded due to company policy, and it was running surprisingly smooth. Really thought they’d fixed it. Only that two days later when I booted the system, I had a blue screen - the first one I have seen since Windows XP.

Page fault in non-page area 0x50 - google suggests reboots, or if they don’t bring any progress, boot into safe mode and update all drivers. Only that I couldn’t boot into safe mode, the BSOD locked me out.

Second suggestion was faulty RAM. Did a memtest from boot stick, no fault.

Third suggestion was to run checkdisk and scm or whatever it was called (some system file integrity check). All good.

Fourth suggestion was to boot into recovery mode, roll back into the system image the Windows 11 installer created, and redo the upgrade. Only to find out that the system restore point had not been created, despite the info box during the installation that this was happening.

Last suggestion was to reinstall Windows 11 from the repair mode, and select the “keep files” option. The offline installer crashed at 25% repeatedly, the online installer moved to 92% and stopped there. Repeatedly, again (tried 3x, and it takes about 1h to get there).

After all that frustration I had enough of that shit and installed Windows 10 IoT LTSC with updates until 2032. When the time comes I’ll either have a new job where I can use Xubuntu, or Microsoft installed on a chip in my brain. Let’s see.

I really doubt the device really needs 2A, that sounds more like the definition of a generic phone charger than functional requirement. But yeah POE or simply a regular extension cord where you plug in a short cable at the end would be a safe bet.

I have a 15m long USB-C cable that’s just about sufficient to power a surveillance camera, but due to the length it only delivers 0.1-0.15A. Depending on the needs that might just be enough though.

Edit: Measured with Ampere (Android app), I simply plugged my phone in to test.

If you’re seeding more than one file to more than one concurrent user, chances are, your drive needs to switch around and buffer quite a bit left and right to get the material you’re seeding cached. That sounds like fairly formal behavior.

Saunas in Germany are more an adult thing, at least as a kid I never went to any, nor do I remember seeing kids there when going now.

Showers in school had individual cabins or at least some dividers between them and curtains to close them, and typically you’d leave your towel hanging on a hook right in front, dry yourself quickly and wrap up to walk back. There was a brief moment of nudity when changing back into regular clothes, but nobody was ever really looking at anybody else.

The condition you describe under 2 is called frenulum breve, and it’s sorted by cutting the frenulum and fixing the loose ends with 3 stitches to the shaft. I had exactly the same condition, got it fixed at about 20 years old, and was fully recovered after a week. No more bent out of shape tip, and the foreskin is perfectly intact.

I’d never sacrifice 50% of the feelings for the sake of a shriveled tip to please some invisible sky daddy.

Male genital mutilation should be as outlawed as female.

And… Kids bullying others over their foreskin? I don’t think I ever saw any classmate’s dick in my life. Why is that even a thing?

Guinea pig?