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They can detect that too, so Microsoft “could” automate the better way.

I know, but the rollout playbook is to pump up the Office integrations, not showcase the cost savings. Because normal end users don’t care.

Yeah that was BS. Boss was told to say anything other than “to save money”. That’s the entire value prop for Teams.

The Folger’s “coming home” (incest heavily implied) ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhfcWTZeP1k

It’s like $20 year, not everything good can be free.

NextDNS.

Also, be wary of relying on anything blocking ads on streaming services this way. They will likely serve them within the video stream, so not network-blockable.

I’ve had their 2.1 computer speaker set for nearly 20 years at this point. The only issue I’ve ever had was crackling when adjusting volume, and that was caused by dust inside the knob. WD-40 to fix. Love them.

Apple is the least terrible of my list.

ATV is the only box I recommend. I’m anti-Google, don’t trust Amazon (and now their service is going to do ads on a paid Prime membership), and Roku has major privacy issues at least in the past. Curious why you’re seeking an alternative to Apple.

They are a threat to humanity as a whole

True

0.19 allows users themselves to block instances…

It’s the first thing I do when installing a new app, as most prompt for it on first launch, and I reject it immediately. I can always allow them later, but it’s been my default mode since iOS started letting you control them.

For email and work IM’s, my phone shows only the badge, no sound. Signal, SMS, and the phone app get sounds, too. That’s it, silence on everything else.

One of these companies needs to be beached to prove damages, I guess.

Proton Mail is cheap. I think I paid $40 for a year and you get a bunch more stuff in addition to mail and a custom mail domain.

When they add the “pull hammer back on gun” sound effect and the character is holding a gun with no hammer (like a Glock). I first noticed this in one of the Fast and Furious movies, and I haven’t been able to watch any of them since.

I’ll likely retire before my parents, aunts and uncles. I won’t tell them, I"ll just stop working and if they ask, I will say I’m an investment manager. Boomers and Gen X were shit with their finances, I guess.

Ah, didn’t know that.

I always scratch my head at people griping about too many notifications. When I install an app, if it doesn’t immediately ask for the ability to send them, I proactively disable them. And if it does, I deny the. Mobile games are the worst about it, for sure I only allow badges for some apps, and even fewer get real notifications, and still fewer can break trough Focus Mode.

iOS “could” allow more granularity, but in reality, spammy apps have a solution (disable them), and apps that want to send both “real” notifications and spam/ads/marketing indiscriminately have another (uninstall or yell at the company that made it by way of lousy app store reviews).