For the last few years I’ve been going to festivals that avoid fricken Ticketbastard. They’re still expensive but at least the money is going to the people putting it on instead of some corporate heads and hedge funders

Odd. I’m able to listen to music there still

Not all of my Ad On’s are for YT, but yes I run a JS blocker and also block video’s and sound on all sites except YT

I actually liked and used the old pull up menus in Windows. Starting at Win10 I put everything I use on my desktop and avoid as much of Windows functionality as I can and turn off everything I can. I don’t want an Android or IOS type interface on my PC and will go to Linux at some point as Windows pushes that envelope further, or switch to some WinServer type setup where they allow the owner a lot more control of the OS

Israeli and extremist Jewish lobbyists have monstrous power in congress.

Fuck our politicians and their collusion with Israel in this genocide. Our damn oligarchy masquerading as a democracy is getting to grow old and we need to change and take control of our country through voting which starts in the primaries so we get true progressives in instead of people who want to go backwards or rollover to those with power or money to control our democratic institutions. Yeah I’m looking at the damn DNC who control our only reasonable hope for change. argh

I run uOrigin, flashblock, JS disabled, No Overlays, and DDG’s privacy ad on’s and I have no problems with YT

Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to all the biblical lands. IMO everything else is semantics.

I use hotel water for 2 things when I travel; showers and toilets. The 2 or 3 liters I drink is nothing compared to those. But I imagine Americans and others from areas where water isn’t restricted take much longer showers and we have a habit of leaving the tap running while we do stuff like wash something or brush our teeth. That being said I’m heading to Barcelona in fall and I’ll try to be mindful of my water usage

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I actually do have an MSI laptop. I forgot I had read so many negative reviews of the Asus that I went the other direction. After posting that I got on my laptop and realized my mistake and remembered the negative reviews about them

For desktop motherboards I’ve usually gone MSI but my gaming laptop is an Asus and is a little over a year old. It’s worked perfect since I got it and I’ve had zero problems with it. The Nvidia GPU and laptop fans sure do sing when I’m playing games though

I got my first notification on my Win10 Pro box today about support ending too

I did corporate training for an international company for about 20 years. Once when I was in Mexico something happened in class and I said something was okay and used my finger and thumb to make the okay sign. They kind of laughed and started talking among themselves. I guess the okay sign means asshole in Mexico so when they explained that I laughed with them and said I didn’t know that. One of the jokers in class said “yeah, okay we believe you” and gave me the okay sign. lol

If youtube shows me anything but music video’s in my home page I tag them as do not like and don’t show this type of content

Michigander so it was all in the Great Lakes or smaller bodies of water. It was mostly a fishing boat

Mine was a compilation of my wife and daughter’s name; Elisae and as a nod to my Norwegian heritage it was the Norse Elisae. It was only a 22’ though

While we continue to give arms to a country committing genocide. Welcome to AIPAC power over US citizens

Those pop up pages that prevent you from seeing the underlying page. It doesn’t happen as often anymore but it’s nice to have a way to remove them

The biggest problem I’ve had learning basic language skills is people talk back to you and they don’t typically say what’s in the learning material. I’ve kind of made it seem like I understand if I speak the language and I kind of feel like an idiot looking back at them with a blank face when they speak it back to me. But I sucked in school with languages and chose to learn a dead one to get the language credit to graduate.