This was my exact reaction too. Supposedly he stopped taking pharmaceutical money but he still takes lots of other corporate money. While I was searching, an AI summary said he was a business friendly progressive which seems like an oxymoron to me.
But whatever. I like performative over submissive.
Of all the Microsoft products I’m forced to use for work, teams is by far the best. It still sucks. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck monopolies.
I jump between a lot of profiles for work and chrome makes that too easy. It’s the only thing holding me back from switching to Firefox.
Fast Profile switching? I’m downloading this immediately when I get home.
I was pleasantly surprised that my Sony tv has a basic option so you can use it just as a screen. All smart stuff disabled.
Sideloading apps on iOS has gotten a lot easier. I use sideloadly. It has to connect to your computer (wirelessly) once a week but does this automatically in the background. I’m still running Apollo, the best Reddit iOS app this way.
I have YT premium through Sri Lanka for $3/mo. Sponsorblock works in safari.
ROM apps like delta are in the App Store now. I have no idea about phone gaming otherwise.
Never ran into any content filtering.
If your gf uses iOS try it out there first and see how you like it.
New iPhones release on a pretty strict schedule each September so even if you don’t want the new model best to wait for older ones to be discounted.
Got the fork of prowlarr you recommended up and running but getting a timeout on adding ABB. Will try again later. For now, it is working in jackett again so that is a good temp solution. I will ideally have both running so there is a backup if one goes down later.
Deleting and readding it worked!
It seems ABB asked prowlarr not to use its api.
MAM = myanonymouse
Stopped working for me. I’ll delete and readd when back home.

Audiobookbay in Prowlarr (or jackett) - Anyone have a new workaround?
I found some old threads but nothing I could get working today. My automated readarr setup would greatly benefit from ABB access. Which I used to have not long ago but now seems to be blocked. Not everything is on MAM, unfortunately.
They just blocked a few of the main ones. I was able to sign up from Sri Lanka last week for ~$4/mo family plan. Might meet more investigating to see where works.
Whenever there is a question in the article title just assume the answer is no. Saves time and is true for clickbait like this.
This will be an unpopular answer but I use Nordvpn mainly because during Black Friday sales you can get it essentially for free using a cash back portal. The start of the sale last year, which I missed, was offering over 100% cash back. They’d pay you to use it!
Others are better but if the level of protection you’re looking for is “Comcast stop sending me piracy warnings” this’ll work.
It does seem unlikely Plex would include this ever. Hate their generic pivot to ad supported bs. But as a lifetime sub to Plex I’m riding it down.
I hear jellyfin supports plugins which is one step easier.
At home I watch on an Apple TV with a nas running isponsorblock. Works well but is a single device/location solution. And I am still paying for YouTube premium.
Interesting. Just need it to work on a server with an interface as effortless as sonarr.
What if I want to watch on my tv or download for offline use?
Yep. Add to the server with ads and sponsor bs removed.
Interesting. I’d not considered that Plex could build it in. That of course relies on accurate YouTube metadata but it’s not impossible.
Arr software for YouTube with Sponsorblock built in.
A way to use Sponsorblock on podcasts.
Would be great for commentary tracks too.

Barbenheimer? This is the weekend of The Venture Bros: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart


This weekend we got the conclusion to The Venture Bros. One of my favorite shows that’s stuck around for years even if seasons were released sporadically. Loved the movie. It closes enough plot threads without overdoing it. Lots of good character moments.
Anyone else watch this? What did you think?

Sponsorblock for Podcasts
As someone who aggressively adblocks everything, one of the final places that ads can still reach me is in annoying ad reads within podcasts. Youtube sponsorblock is incredible but it seems no one has yet adapted this for podcasts. Has anyone else managed to find a solution here? As far as i can tell in my googleing, this doesn't yet exist. Anyone else extremely interested in something that skips/removes sponsor segments from podcasts?
Discussion Thread - Week of 7/3/2023
Welcome to all the new Reddit migrants. What’s something different you’d like to see in c/churning you never got from r/churning?

Futurama Returns - Again - Yes, another time.

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Discussion Thread - Week of 6/26/2023
Welcome Reddit refugees! What’s something that always bothered you about Reddit you’d like to be different here?
Discussion Thread - Week of 6/19
Perhaps daily discussion threads are a little ambitious with this small offshoot from r/churning.
How have you been dealing with the r/churning withdrawals? Have you done and interesting churns? know of any other reddit alternatives for the churning community?
Daily discussion thread
Adding in a familiar thread to keep things feeling normal.
Lets check out this fediverse thing
While we try out reddit alternatives, why not try the open source reddit clone, lemmy. I honestly don't know a whole lot about the whole fediverse, only heard about mastadon vs twitter recently but I never used twitter and don't see a reason to start with mastadon. But the churning community is small enough and separate enough from main reddit, why not give it a try.