Yeah. I don’t think MTG’s district is gonna flip, but it’s funny that the race is even that close.

Best I can do is Google it and read it to you. I’m a little knowledgeable about how a pihole works since I have my Net+, and I’ve set up a few Pi-hole’s (or the same one a few times tbh), but I’m definitely not a networking expert.

Your Pi-hole can only block the things that query DNS. Try this, ping a website you don’t normally go to, and you should see that show up in Pihole log. Next, ping an IP, I usually pick on 8.8.8.8, and see if that shows up in your Pi-hole’s logs. I’m fairly confident it won’t.

Pi-hole blocks the name resolution. TV wants to go to Hisense.com, asks your Pi-hole where that site is. Your Pi-hole sees that Hisense is on a block list, so it says back to your TV “sorry, no idea how to get to that site, it must be offline.”

If the manufacturer wants to get around this, they program a public DNS in, like 8.8.8.8, or they hardcode the static IP for their website into the TV. Now when it wants to go to Hisense, it never has to ask your Pi-Hole where that site is, and it doesn’t get blocked. Heck, it probably won’t even show up on your Pi-hole’s logs.

If you black hole the site, then any traffic going out there gets dropped, and the hard-coded addresses on the TV don’t matter for shit.

Why wait? Streaming services are only getting worse, and we can only really fight back one way. Yo ho!

I bought my last TV about 7 years ago. I got a “small” 38" TV. As I was checking out, the cashier asked me if I’d rather upgrade to a larger model from the same brand with smart features for 10 dollars less. I flat out told him ‘no’ and that was probably the best decision I made that year.

AI is an assistant, not a replacement. It amazes me that Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and all these “tech leader” companies are going to make the same tech fuckup multiple times.

Looks like a swing and a miss on condemning Putin and Xi to me. I didn’t think it was possible to flop a softball question worse than trump “condemning” the proudboys during the 2020 debate.

I wanted to believe it was someone else too… But I sure as fuck knew it was us when I read the news earlier this week.

Why the fuck is a bunch of religious nuts praying a “historic moment”.

Now, if I got to place hands on trump… That would be a historic moment.

Deliberately Negligent.

I had one tell me that I needed a CVT flush. Which was news to me since my car was a 6spd manual. He was confused about the computer being wrong. I was confused about how they got the car up on the lift without using the 3rd pedal.

Edit: this was a Midas, not an AutoZone.

Yeah, that too, but we’re talking about the US… Unnecessary war is like the trademark move of the republican party.

“Community” and “Like-minded individuals” are mutually exclusive for my shut-in antisocial ass.

My grandma cooks a very authentic red sauce, allegedly, my great grandfather was in charge of some POWs stateside in WWII, and one of them was a chef before the war, so he had that guy come over and teach my great grandma how to cook a red sauce, and the recipe has literally been passed down for generations at this point.

Before you ask… I have not been granted the recipe yet.

I see no reason to fight fair, why put our troops at unnecessary risk?

I also can’t think of a reason why we wouldn’t capture their unarmed ship, or at least give them ample opportunity and “incentive” to surrender. Honestly, the greatest show of strength is the ability to show compassion and humanity to your enemy. Think of how much power it would project to capture a whole warship, hold the crew as PoWs, treat them well, and return them well fed and cared for?

Instead, we blew them up and left the survivors stranded in the ocean for other nations to assist.

I can honestly say that I dread the future of tech, and the goat farm thing sounds really appealing.

I went to a local store the other day and saw 2 new flock cameras that went up. There was one person manning 8 self checkout stations, and there was a camera watching me scan and bag my own stuff while displaying a live feed of me. I hopped in my car, which automatically turned on GPS and then my phone started giving me “helpful” suggestions like " have you tried out this restaurant nearby?" and “it’s been a while since you’ve been to the pet store to get stuff”. I suddenly felt like a boiled frog, because I don’t remember turning any of that shit on, or being notified about it being turned on, or seeing info about new surveillance cameras going up in the community. At this point, I want to buy some land in the middle of fucking nowhere and disconnect from all that shit, and I legitimately had a low-level panic about all of it.

Tricky question, gets back to the whole, “I’m a part time internet shit poster and not a pollution expert” bit. I think that the impacts of microplastic pollution is serious and needs to be reduced where possible and regulated when it can’t be reduced. I also think that the concern about MPs is valid and serious, but a bit overblown. I’ll leave you with the last bit to think about as well: There will never be another person born on this planet without microplastics in their body.

Behold, the smartest person on the internet.

Lines don’t always go up, but a “good” executive can always make it look like it’s going up.