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Got a new phone. It took like 3 days setting it up, way more time consuming than setting up a PC, but in the end I have a clean experience with no ads or bullshit. Full control. Just enough google malware and allowed connections to enable push notifications. But damn... to think people use these things how they come from the factory is insane.

Ads. litterally. everywhere.

You can't simply put a youtube video on and watch it. Because every few minutes an ad comes on and it STAYS ON THE SCREEN till you manually press a button to get back to the video, so waiting 30-60 seconds for the ad to end is pointless. You have to let the gods at google know you are there and physically touch your device to continue their feed of dopamine. Every 3-5 minutes. Forget multitasking or playing a video in the background.

It's everywhere, every app, every website non-stop. The amount of power and bandwidth spent sending in ads and sending out your data is criminal. Is it any better on Iphone? I doubt that. Apple fan boys are generally even worse because they're superficial. I'd take a rooted $100 Android over your $1000 iphone any day.

And most people put up with it. It's their every day experience. A new phone is like a used condom. Have some respect for yourself.

https://getaether.net

Aether is where Voat should be.

It is a distributed, Free Speech platform, released under a Free Licence.

If you haven't tried it yet, take a look. There are a few tricks to learn, like almost every sub is NSFW, even cooking! To see them all, you need to enable NSFW in options. Also, for security, thumbnails are disabled, so you will need to enable that too if you want to view images in the client.

People often misunderstand a Terms of Service (ToS) statement on the Aether website. The ToS pertains to the website forum for Aether, which is used for logging bugs etc. Speech is Free on Aether, to the extent that the laws of the USA permit, which is as much as anywhere.

The moderation system is such that you can impeach a mod you don't like and have them replaced, if enough people feel the same way.

Aether is due for a major new update any day now, so it is a good time to check. The project is funded through purchases of a different application, which is not required, and this is available on the Aether website.

I am glad to see the feeling of Voat here again, but unfortunately, a centralized, HTTP website, using Cloudflare, is just repeating the mistakes of history and I fear doomed to failure. Hopefully not, but there you are.

If you have any questions, I would be happy to try and answer them here.

See you on Aether!

https://wccftech.com/dish-wants-starlink-to-cease-operations-in-case-of-unfavorable-fcc-decisions/

FTA: "The third-party studies which it uses as the basis of the claims use different assumptions than those which SpaceX has stated to the FCC. A portion of DISH's analysis which conforms with SpaceX's claims shows that no interference to DISH terminals will take place from Starlink communications, but the company believes that the scenario under which this applies is not applicable to real-world usage conditions."

Sounds like Dish is sweating a bit..

Google says, "go to yr Downloads history and select an item by long pressing it, a blue heading will appear with a bin icon hit it and you have successfully deleted yr download history," except when you take that path if the download was an image file it is permanently erased from yr computer.

The item I am using is an OPPO model CPH1831 the fellow at their helpline was no help at all, he said to download the stuff I wanted to keep onto a third party computer, then do a full factory reset on the Iphone which would necessarily delete the DL history .. which was no solution at all since i needed to keep the stuff on the phone, he was no further use and when I rang back after discovering the method he would not take the call.

Ok open "File Manager" a list will appear in this case we click "Pictures" at right screen, there will be a number in a bracket, click that and a panel will open with a "Select" box top right .. click "Select All" and green headings appear at the bottom of the screen, click the "More" icon and a box will open with the heading "Add to Private Safe," click that and yr images are transferred to the PS folder and removed from yr downloads history all at once.

So how do we open our "Private Safe" and how do we find it .. go to "Settings" and scroll to "Security," at bottom is the "Private Safe" heading click that and a panel will open prompting you to enter yr "Passcode" for PS - ok first time users will have to enter a four digit pin when you have done that yr "Private Safe" folder will open, in this case we tested the op with an image, thus clicking the "Photos" heading there it is as large as life and yr DL history is gone :)

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/where-are-the-robotic-bricklayers

It is not the only technology with a surprisingly long history. Rail gun projects start from scratch, make good progress, hit snags, fail, and go down the memory hole. Then the next rail gun project starts from scratch...

So I'm intrigued that there is a book https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/SAM/Jonathan-Waldman/9781501140594 documenting the trials and tribulations of one project. Perhaps progress here will be cumulative?

If you search for beautiful woman on Google images, you get some Black women.

https://www.google.com/search?q=beautiful+woman&source=lnms&tbm=isch

https://media.glamour.com/photos/56966e6716d0dc3747f0435b/master/pass/beauty-2014-04-lupita-nyongo-people-most-beautiful-woman-main.jpg

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article805238.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/People%20Magazine%20cover%20of%20Beyonce%20named%20the%20worlds%20most%20beautiful%20woman

https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1613876215075-276fd62c89a4

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If you search for beautiful woman on Yandex images, it's wall-to-wall White women. No Black women.

https://yandex.com/images/search?text=beautiful%20woman

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Summary: Russia's Yandex.com image search is useful if you want to see less pictures of Black people.

https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

Just in case if you need it.

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

This is meant to be combined with AdBlock, the latter only blocks YouTube ads, this skips over the "This video is brought to you by Shitware Company" segments, very useful.

https://www.guilded.gg/blog/pip-streaming

Seems that this if fairly pro free speech. At least there's something else besides discord.