#thanks for trying

[eightmakesonebraincell]

I'm indeed really blind lol, I stared at your pinned post for a good five minutes and my brain still didn't notice/process that part, sorry for disturbing

that's okay it happens to the best of us 🫲😌🫱

[putting-rick-in-places]

Here me out, An balls out rick in Hugh Jackman's pad?

No.

[allo-frouto]

I bet you look so cute and Angelic when you're asleep 👀

I probably look like an ogre…

[scarletlizzard]

hey scary anon doms, could i somehow make spidey's punishment less intense?

(saving your ass)

-🐶

Unfortunately, there's absolutely no way little Brit will concede

[wolfsune09]

Have some cookies that I made myself™🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

Milo bites into one, thanking you and telling it's delishious. You can tell his smile is strained.

Leo takes that as a sign to dig in, but Milo quickly grabs his hand, yanking the cookie away from his mouth, still while smiling at you as kindly as he can.

"Ew, these look burnt as shit"

Wolf's not afraid to say what they were all thinking.

Tasha discreetly throws hers in the trash on the way out of the room.

[cloverhighfive]

I still understood none of what you said!!!! what the fuck is a raspberry pi?????

WHY IS THIS SO OBSCURE

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

[shadey-rper]

I checked out the Picrews you all sent me, but doesn't really fit the idea I had in mind, unfortunately. But I do thank you!

[jokes-randomness-galore]

anti loneliness beam!(Platonic)

My hopeful look fades as the beam is absorbed by some form of isolation field

[noodles-and-tea]

Last part whoo!!!

PART 1 / PART 2 / PART 3 / PART 4

[causetheturtle]

Very proud of Joel and what he has achieved but also we’ve got to give some major props to Gem for doing what no one else has been able to do and keeping that man away from his own self-destructive tendencies and his propensity towards insanity

[kvothes]

poetry and musical theater get similar accusations leveled at them in terms of not being realistic, i.e. “no one fucking talks like that” or “people don’t randomly burst into song in real life” and sometimes i just want to take people by the shoulders and say. there are forms of art that are not aiming for perfect realism. are you capable of handling that

[mellosdrawings]

Guess what happened to my dog yesterday.

[theoldkyokodied]

Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, gale’s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion 😐😑😐😑😐 (that’s me blinking)

[arcane-gold]

hello rookanis nation. can i present rel and lucanis’s dynamic. sun and moon trope, one with boundless energy and one who gets 2 hours of sleep a night, guy i pulled by being an idiot, etc. they’re special to me

[cabinette]

fun times at the theme park!