This.

I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of “never visit” sites.

In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.

But to read the odd crappy article? No I’m not disabling my ad blocker.

I got sick of subscriptions, so I got Affinity Photo 2 for iPad as it was a reasonably priced one time purchase.

I cannot recommend it highly enough. I made a post about it here:

https://lemmy.world/post/1402700

Most things I do on it can be done as well or better elsewhere.

However, I really like Photo editing on my iPad Pro using the Apple pencil.

It’s now my preferred platform for that.

I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an “enterprise” feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.

Anyway, I haven’t done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.

Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.

I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn’t lose anything important.

They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven’t used that feature.

They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn’t great.

I have both Android and IOS phones. In Australia it is rated as 4.7 on the Apple app store and 2.7 on the Google Play store.

Interestingly on the Play store, I scrolled through the top news apps and the top social apps all the way past number 150 and the Reddit app doesn’t even make the list. Yet other Reddit apps like Boost are still on that list.

But yes, it’s listed as one of the top news apps on the app store. It’s also listed as an app I “might be interested in” 😆

How are you doing that?

Do you mean just manually copying a link, switching into the Mastodon app and pasting it in, or is there a better method?

Anna’s Archive?

https://annas-archive.org/

I only found out about it on here recently and I’ve been able to find a couple of quite obscure titles on there.

Including one that had never been released as an ebook Seems someone has scanned it.

You can pess and hold for thread collapse.

Just had a look,shows as 2.9 for me too.

Lol, sounds like a downgrade 😅

Great discussion.

Because it’s happened gradually I’ve just gotten used to Google being less and less useful.

It’s good to try something else.

This thread made me try Perplexity, Kagi and SearXNG. I’ll give them all a run over the next week or so and see how they go.

What is different about the pro version?

Thanks for the suggestion I hadn’t heard of this.

I just tried it to find some simple info that I struggled finding last night because I had to shovel through so much crap with Google. It definitely did a better job than Google did.

It’s sad how far the Goog had fallen.

An AI Special Operation

I found this diagram useful for picturing the Fediverse vs Reddit:

https://mastodon.online/@binoctdechex/110538120775065728

Some will.

Not sure how big a number that some will be though.

For people that use 3rd party apps, suddenly they won’t work. They’ll try the Reddit app, some won’t be happy when they see how it looks and some of those will look at alternatives.

Quite possibly some users have already heard about something called Lemmy, but haven’t been bothered to leave Reddit. If their app stops working, that might be enough to make them take a look.

There will be a bit of a surge. It won’t suddenly be millions.

I don’t think we need it.

You can already see which posts are up/down voted. You can already check a user accounts age and post history.

I don’t need more than that.