For good reason. It’s basically a speed run of enshittification from day-one.

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

With AI generated crypto rewards

There are ones with clauses that say “cancel any time” and then when you actually try to cancel they make it a substantial pain.

In preparing to get my ticket in 2020, I hopped on the Utah WebSDR and even got a shortwave listener (SWL) QSL card from a guy in the Cook Islands (E51JD).

Earlier this year I made a two-way QSL (contact) with him using my rig and 100W.

There’s a ton to learn, do, or accomplish if you want. So many facets to amateur radio.

I’m working on CW now!

Lede:

Under a local law, drivers are supposed to be paid even for the time they spend between trips. But Uber and Lyft found a money-saving loophole: Simply prevent them from logging into the apps, erasing some of their working time from the record.

The very first video on YouTube was 19 seconds.

Then videos got so long they created shorts.

Now shorts are longer than the first YouTube video.

We’ve come full circle.

A three minute short is not a short, it is a video lol

When you absolutely need something to work presicely once between the day you buy it and the day you’re late for jury duty.

A few moments later…

The year is 2045, after record profits of 18 quadrillion dollars and formal recognition by the UN, the new nation Republic of Google (formerly Cuba) announces closure of its final web product: Google Search.

Shhhh! I accidentally opened this thread while my phone was connected and EVERYTHING IS FINE RECALCULATING ROUTE.

What’s in vogue changes as the age demographic changes. Previously, it was spoons, now it’s 90s video games.

59!

And the skills to use it; they’re not plug-and-play. Get you license and get on the air to hone those skills.

A buddy experienced the exact same issue as OP just the other day. We ran diagnostics and it turns out his computer was running deprecated DNS IPs for a popular ad-blocking DNS provider.

It was DNS.

Ensure you have multiple layers of ad blocking. A winning combination blocks first at the DNS level, then at the browser level, and finally at the element level.

AsGuard DNS, uBlock, and ABP.

I virtually never see ads.

This is just on the outside edge of A Clockwork Orange.

Good bot.

This is what notification profiles were built for. Set it to work/school/whatever and select who you want to get through and notifications are delivered, all else are silenced.

I even have one called “Blackout”. Nothing gets through, no one is approved, everything is silenced—for when I absolutely must not be disturbed.