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I'm on book 4, love the series!

I appreciate the recommendation, I'll look into it thanks.

There are a few channels like that I watch, one is "History to fall asleep to" or something like that.

I just downloaded NewPipe, and on there you can turn off the screen and just have the audio playing, so that's awesome.

It's tricky for me, because if the show is too boring, my mind will wander and I'll start to get anxious, thinking about things I shouldn't. Conversely if it's too exciting, I'll get too into it and it'll wake me back up lol

I know, I'm kind of a mess.

To make matters worse most sleeping medicine doesn't work at all for me, and the only one I've found that does gives me dry mouth to the point it gags me.

I tried flagging it as such when I asked them to stop showing me the ad. Either they are fine with it or the advertiser found some loophole to get around the TOS. It's possible they edited the ad copy so that the SA is only implied now, I don't really pay attention anymore.

I also didn't even mention the bullies SA the protagonist as well, at least they heavily imply it and mention the blood in his underwear. Gross.

Awesome, thank you. I just installed it and it seems to be working great.

Also signing up for PeerTube as well. 👍

I swear, YouTube uses the camera on my phone/tablet to detect if I am facing the screen or not. It doesn't have 'permission' to access the camera, but the behavior is too consistent to be a coincidence.

I can't fall asleep to silence. I have to have something playing to keep me from being alone with my thoughts, or I will literally never sleep. So I watch YouTube videos while Im tying to fall asleep. I skip every ad as soon as it will let me when facing the screen. Every time, and I mean literally every time I turn over so my back is to the screen, YouTube will start playing one of those long ass ads, ones that will go on for 1/2 hr or more if I don't turn back over and hit 'skip'. It's just too consistent to be random.

The best is when it's the ad for the stupid ass 'superhero' audiobook where the main character is the only person who doesn't have a superpower and gets picked on, and by picked on I mean they force him to watch as they SA his girlfriend. I have done the thing where you can request they don't show you that particular ad at least a dozen times now and it never helps.

I already know that guy will get his superpower eventually. I already know that he will get his revenge on his bullies. Its about the most obvious, 5th grade level writing you could imagine. Nothing about it appeals to me, I hate that fucking ad with a passion.

IBM 386DX with a 'turbo' button.

I used Apple II's in school and older "IBM" PC's but my family never got one. I had to buy one myself once I moved out.

I remember learning to write BASIC and Logo programs in grade school. I even went to 'computer camp' during summer school, but that was more 'play Oregon Trail/ Carmen San Diego and print out basic ass ascii art' than learning.

Weirdly, after 6th grade the whole 'computer literacy' thing at our school quietly disappeared. In 8th grade I learned to type, on an actual typewriter. Maybe they thought the whole 'computer' thing was a fad, or they could have just been cheapskates. Idk.

True, but it seems like the EUs interests aligns with public interest a lot more often than it does in the U.S.

Id trade for sure. As an American, I am conditioned to settle for the lesser of two evils.

To get pedantic for a second. The title of this post is "Microsoft gives..." as if this was an altruistic act that Microsoft decided to do for some people, when the article states they did it to comply with a law.

A much better title would have been "EU Forces Microsoft to Give Users More Control:" It returns the credit to the people who deserve the credit and clarifies that it wasn't something Microsoft did willingly.

I'm more surprised that a city in Germany didn't switch to Linux a decade or more ago.

Late to the party is still showing up, good for them.

I live in an RV, which has a special toilet designed to use very little water.

I don't think it would work even if I could afford to retrofit my bathroom, as water pressure is often an issue when traveling.

Most likely? Unfortunately most people either don't care about software freedom, don't know about it, are actually scared of it, or just don't have the time or know how to switch. Couple that with the fact that Microsoft and Apple are determined to lock it down and the trend seems clear to me.

Ofc I would Love to be wrong, I just don't have much faith in people knowing or caring about what is in their best interest.

I like to call it GNU plus Trek