What’s the equivalent easy(ish) to use / post replacement for them?

Ya, the problem is I primarily use a shield TV (on my TV) and I know there are things I can sideload but meh, I just cannot be bothered.

I can hide them for 30 days at a time on my PC and they don’t riddle my feed

I’m going to move all zero of my videos on TikTok over to X right after I don’t create another account on there.

TikTok has been DNS blocked (pihole) in my house for years and will continue to be whether it’s owned by someone in the US or not.

Wish I could easily block Reels, YT Shorts also. Short Form video is an ADD crock pot IMHO.

I’m sure the workers will be excited to learn they get to deal with becoming bouncers too. The general population is so fun to deal with these days as it is.

I don’t believe this guy (Bryan) has a lot of bad habits, his whole life seems to revolve around this life extending plan. I’m not at all defending/justifying him, but he had a pretty good answer regarding what supplements are best when Magnus asked. His response was “The ones you are deficient in”

Again, as I said above, in the linked video he doesn’t scream “batshit crazy” but just really eccentric!

It would be a shameful act by the US government.

So, for sure happening

I ran across a YouTube video of this guy a couple months ago because a popular YT fitness guy (rock climber) I watch went and interviewed him and did some physical ‘age tests’ with him as well as just talk about his daily routines.

He doesn’t come across as batshit crazy in the video, but obviously he’s a bit obsessive over this whole thing.

The funniest part about it was that Magnus (Climber) matched or exceeded him in almost all the physical ‘age tests’ they performed. Of course, Magnus would also outperform most other people in most physical tests but that didn’t make it any less humorous. On the “not as batshit as I imagined” list, he also seemed fairly supportive/genuine of Magnus’ results/abilities during the video.

https://youtu.be/G7b28Vm9-O0

Right after they stop letting guns in there maybe

I’m sure a lot of people’s self hosting journey started on junk hardware… “try it out”, followed by “oh this is cool” followed by “omg I could do this, that and that” followed by dumping that hand-me-down garbage hardware you were using for something new and shiny specifically for the server.

My unRAID journey was this exactly. I now have a 12 hot/swap bay rack mounted case, with a Ryzan 9 multi core, ECC ram, but it started out with my ‘old’ PC with a few old/small HDDs

That might be it, but would an optical drive run off that? Guess it’s all the same power wires.

I’ve asked my dad to snap a picture if he doesn’t mind :) but it’s a bit of a pain to get to

I didn’t have anything at the house to split off the sata power and I was ok getting rid of my spare stuff so it worked out better anyway

no, this thing had a separate power/data. It was a normal sized optical drive (old thick size). I’m going to see if I can get my dad to snap a picture. They’re 600 miles away so I can’t just do it real quick.

Like a tiny proprietary connector, not Molex, not SATA. So the power supply had a single line running to the spinner HDD (standard SATA), and then piggy backed off that to the optical drive was this little connector. Kind of looked like a 4pin fan connector size. I didn’t bother investigating after my plan to just disconnect the optical drive was thwarted <sigh>

Part of my Christmas gift to my father this year was getting him a SSD, and install Linux on his PC, that doesn’t support Windows 11. But his Dell was very not friendly for upgrading. It has a proprietary PSU with only the connectors needed to run the one HDD and Optical drive (also a non sata connector).

I had a plan in case there were issues, and had enough spare parts to build him a nicer used PC. It’s also an upgrade for him as his Dell was a 6th gen i5, now he’s got a 7th gen i7 :) and more ram.

But I built it, and installed Fedora 41 KDE on it. He started setting it up here over the holidays then took it home and set it up there. He’s not run into any “problems” he hasn’t found solutions for. Mom is still using the Dell but Dad hopes he can eventually get her moved to the Linux box.

I used to run ESET and really liked them ‘back in the day’ and glad to see them looking out for people.

I was just responding to the comment about why people would pet an elephant over a lion or bear.

If I was told I had to Walk into one of two rooms, both having completely wild animals, I’d pick the elephant over a lion or bear 100% of the time

My point was a response to the comment I replied to saying he didn’t understand why people would pet an elephant but not a lion or bear

Of course literally all large wild animals are dangerous and I wasn’t disputing that one bit!

Ya, I’m not walking up to an elephant either.

My aunt owns a herd of Hyland cows (which have huge horns) and they are not aggressive at all but can accidentally hurt you with them.

Well, there is a pretty big difference between a carnivore/omnivore and a herbivore animal when it comes to how dangerous they are to other animals including humans.

But certainly not “safe” since they’re so huge, powerful and wild animals.

So, my current whole house audio is powered by Chromecast Audios. Unfortunately they no longer make them. But you can still get them new off eBay. I know because I just bought 5 more (unopened from Japan) as part of finishing our basement

Mine feed two 12 channel (six room) amplifiers. I’ve got a mini in each room whose default speaker is the associated CCA and it works great. I have speaker groups so I can ask “hey Google, play music in the basement” and all rooms play.

Previously I used casatunes. They don’t do this anymore, but I bought a PCI card from them (it was a sound blaster hardware) but it was a 6 channel sound card and associated software that ran on windows IIS. It allowed both hardware and software streaming. I liked it but it never supported Google music and eventually I switched to the CCAs

Maybe, just maybe let us uncheck some of those expensive channels we don’t want or need?

All we managed to do was move cables infrastructure to the Internet. Still the same BS packaged overpriced garbage.