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Wait, seriously?

wait wait wait people actually just look up??? like i thought that it was always the second one. i guess the explanation helps, cause I defo didn't see it when I first heard it lol

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Me but ublock origin

I'm a GenZ-er, and I adblock everywhere I can. What makes the difference with YouTube premium for me is that I fall asleep to YouTube videos on a TV every night, and the advertisements alone can make that experience terrible because you can't adblock YT on a TV as easily as elsewhere. Premium might be one of my best decisions I've made for a platform I spend so much time on. I still donate to Wikipedia and uBlock even if I pay the premium for other services.

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Graphene sandboxes Google services heavily, and is enabled and used only at user discretion. It doesn't get higher priority than any other user application on the device. Calyx is alright but I would recommend Graphene much more than Calyx. I don't like either of these though unless you are a privacy nut. If you just want to get out of Google, LineageOS works plenty well although without many of the creature comforts of a stock ROM.

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Hi, I'm super confused

I have been trying to access blahaj lemmy for a while and I think it's been down for a bit. I couldn't find anything about it on other instances but it's back for me now so maybe give it a try now. Also I think blahaj.zone is run by the same people as the lemmy, and considering it's the same domain this is probably true.

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good alternatives to raspberry pi which are cheap and efficient?

I'd recommend an x86 board because as great as the RPI and similar can be, ARM just doesn't have the same support for a lot of things you might want to self host. I personally like to spring for a used thinclient PC off of eBay, because they have about the same resources as a Raspberry Pi but on an x86 platform. With my thin clients I typically install Alpine but a really light Debian install could work as well, and then from there you can go about installing Docker etc for a little homelab. Even better, if you get lucky and get a couple of them you could mess around with clustering them and some light Kubernetes at home. I've got mine running PiHole and Unbound on Alpine to serve my whole house with DNS and it works great. I don't think I've had hardly any downtime issues or anything of that sort.

TL;DR: try a couple cheap thin clients from eBay and you can run some light stuff on them for cheap.

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BVG out here recommending the best 2FA Apps!

I self host Bitwarden (Vaultwarden) so I just use the built-in TOTP authenticator in the Bitwarden app. It's nice to have it all in one place + having auto copy and paste when I log in. And because I self host, it's all backed up securely and with (as far as I know) no real backdoors.

ETA: just realized what community this is in. people that replied to me I'm sorry lmao, I'm not a nut about this kinda stuff and I'm by no means recommending this just like using it this way for convenience factor and to keep the likes of google out of my password.