I use several providers as upstream for Adguard Home where my blocklists, regex blocks and rewrites are. Via DNS-over-TLS URL for Android phones or DHCP with the IP of the DNS-server they get directed to it.

I don't click on clickbait i'm absolutely sure it's misleading or wrong.

If someone has a valid point, tone it way down, i don't expect anything serious out of it.

"Why blue isn't a color" isn't something i'm interested in.

For real though, i already 1/10th the amount of pictures and it takes ages even with GPU

Perfectly organizing in 50 different ways has a name too

You're right, i tend to forget the majority uses Google as the default

It's only a fancy name for speaker/headphones which make them sound more professionally, there's a chance but no guarantee that they are tuned more neutral in sound

Can i interest you in something called IoT

You think my grandma fucks with Google Home or Apple Homekit?

Not everyone is up to the task anyway.

I've recently switched to the VM instead of the docker, the setup is so easy if you fail at that you shouldn't be doing anything with it to begin with.

You can buy pre-installed devices which are essentially plug-and-play

You can use the session on your desktop on the go automatically on Firefox.

I'm not forced into anything, i can choose to not contribute anything to Reddit and still read it via alternative frontends to keep user number measurement low.

I found a place here and i choose to contribute here with people like me going the extra mile just because we can and we have the options. The majority can stay over there, some of these people made my blood boil too often anyway and i'm far better off with like minded people.

I'm using Lemmy and Mastodon and so many open source projects because i believe in it and want to support the cause.

The gay part is true in some countries, even in Europe.

You have to deny it in a form before you're able to donate

Privacy focused would've been selfhosted, as one device has to send the update to something which is always available.

There are two easy to setup solutions, Home-Assistant and Nextcloud, both have the tools.