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Espionage724 said:
Discord might require a face scan or ID next month:
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I saw a video on that yesterday. I think what that sort of thing should tell people is that we need to return to the way that things were decades ago when most interactions with other internet users were some combination of forum, email and IM. There's far too much consolidation going on and whereas when I first logged in the big concern was proto-Pedobear and scammers, somehow the range of things to worry about now is far, far longer and oftentimes a lot harder to avoid.
 
Some people write very long posts. This is fine. I hardly ever read more than 5-10 lines, though. At that point my mind has lost all interest irrespective of how interesting the post is.
 
when we're in an unfamiliar codebase sometimes we will print off pieces of code and scribble on them with a pen until we're satisfied that we understand what they do. if we're feeling extra, we'll use multiple colors of pen.
 
A Forum Without Avatars (a Zen Forum?)

If you are like me and don't like avatars, add these two rules to your uBlock Origin's custom rules:
Code: 
||forums.freebsd.org/data/avatars/*/$image
||gravatar.com/avatar/$image

I you don't even want to see the circled capital letters, add instead this one:
Code: 
forums.freebsd.org##.avatar

I'm using the second option. It's very chill. More text, less distractions.

Edit: For an even cleaner home page, add:
Code: 
forums.freebsd.org##.node-icon

This is how my forum home page looks now:
Screenshot_20260213_092401-1.png


If you use another theme, the result is basically the same but in the theme's colors.

Edit 2: I've also disabled users' signatures (you can do this in your "preferences"). One less distraction.
 
I find this funny. The day before yesterday I started doing a certain process in one of this huge website that exist on the internet. It was the first time I did this process, which requires a review period before it completes. While in the review period you cannot make changes. Once your process is approved, you can make certain changes, but then another review period starts.

So, I've started 9 of this processes during the past hours, and the only one that is not yet completed is the one that I started first, because I made the most errors in it.
 
I pay for Youtube Premium (so I don't see ads, basically, and also to keep YouTube playing when I turn off the screen in my phone). It's the only streaming service I pay for. I watch a lot of music videos and concerts, comedy clips and specials, news videos, old Jay Leno's and Craig Ferguson's clips, current Family Feud's clips, and ASMR videos. I also get YouTube Music, which has, in my experience, as much songs as Spotify. I also use YouTube Music a lot. All in all, money well spend given my usage.
 
cracauer@ said:
I would be willing to pay for the ads to go away (as opposed to using an adblocker). But last I looked they bundled it with some crap and it was too expensive.
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I pay 14.00€/month (13.99€). Given that I use it a lot, alongside YouTube music, and I don't pay any other streaming service, for me it's okay. Anyhow, I think that secretly they prefer people watching ads. I think it's more profitable.
 
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