The way AdGuard does it, is it has you install a certificate on your phone, which then allows you to block ads and trackers within HTTPS pipelines. If you don’t do that, then it can only block HTTP requests, which tends to be pretty low quality filtering. In addition, I also enable DNS blocking through AdGuard DNS service, so it’s kind of like blanket coverage.

I haven’t honestly found anything that does the same thing, or at least not at the same level of quality. So I’m always curious to see if something new has come out that can reach this level of filtering performance.

Can anyone tell me if this filters HTTPS requests?

That’s one feature that keeps me using Adguard, and it makes a huge difference to the filtering ability/quality.

Very cool. Thanks for the recommendation.

tp link routers tend to run openwrt pretty well.

Of course, I have the TP-Link router that isn’t well-supported 😖

I kind of miss my old Linksys routers, which officially supported third-party firmware.

Fucking legend! I’m going to spend the weekend exploring these apps and see what changes I can make on my phone. 👍

Are those green mini icons an indication of a PWA shortcut?

I use the app Hermit to run isolated websites, usually as PWAs. It’s replaced quite a few apps, but I’ve noticed that many companies are intentionally making their web experience shit so they force you to use invasive apps.

Anyway, it can create home icons for those sites, and they run separately (i.e. in your task switcher), so it works better than browser shortcuts.

Enforces privacy laws

I mean, there didn’t seem to be any consequences. No fines or anything like that. They were basically told that they can’t use facial recognition for what they were using it for, but there are others ways they could still use it (outlined in the article).

They were given a free-pass, it seems.

It’s using my Nvidia GPU to do the LLM thing, so that may be the difference.

This could be!

Interestingly enough, I was playing around with LLama, as they have speech to text to interact with their chat bot, and it converts in near real-time with very good accuracy. So I do know that things can be fast and accurate, but I wish it was in Speech Note. LOL

For now, I may just to STT through my phone on a shared document with my laptop.

I really wanted to use it, because on my Android phone I use voice input all the time.

That’s why I’m thinking it’s a problem with Speech Note and not my mic, or how I’m speaking to it.

That’s a real shame. I can type quite fast, but my hand joints called it quite a while ago. 😵

I use the firewall feature to actually stop Photos from accessing the internet, so it doesn’t touch YouTube.

I use third party YouTube apps to block ads and other crap from YouTube videos.

On desktop, I believe adguard will block ads on YouTube.com, but I also use third party apps to play videos.

I use Adguard and block Google photos from connecting to the internet.

Features like edit video still work, so I’m good. If editing didn’t work, I’d disable it.

I guess I’ll start pirating things like local news, weather forecasts, and garbage pickup schedules.

In the meantime, I’ll continue to self-host what I can, de-couple from online services, and find alternatives to get information from.

That’s cool! That would work for me!

How does this compare to “Speech Notes” (on Linux)?

Arch (and derivative) systems can install it through the AUR

Once installed, does it run as an application? I’m using Aurora, but it has DistroBox, and I’m almost certain that I’m able to get Arch programs installed through it.

Not currently available to download according to the official page:

“As of right now, Plasma Bigscreen isn’t available for public use yet. This is due to not being developed for so long. The project has been revived, but it might take a while until it becomes stable and is available for public use.”

That said, if this could run on top of the standard linux OS on my MiniPC (like Steam Big Picture), then I’d give it a go!

I’ve been using that a lot, but I wish there was a “disconnect” on the phone’s app, rather than keeping a persistent connection.

Poison your Facebook account and anything you post. Let their AI be trained on garbage so it becomes a liability.

Before you do that, let the people, orgs, and companies who insist on using those platforms know that they will no longer be able to reach you.

It’s not enough for users to abandon those sites, big players need to, too.

Yeah, KF2 has a different “feel” to it for sure.

Speaking of enshittification, I tried out Payday 1 again… it’s so awesome to get in the game and play. Payday 2, as with KF2, went the way of DLC and presented the game as more of a marketing vector, rather than a product for entertainment.

The gaming industry really sucked the joy out of gaming with some of their decisions, and they only have themselves to blame.