Showroom7561 @ Showroom7561 @lemmy.ca

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Yes, and use a combination of various attachments for grooming, and even got a third-party nose hair trimmer attachment that works pretty damn well, too! LOL

I tend to have really sensitive skin, and the OneBlade helps a lot. Philips says that you can use it wet or dry, with foam or gel, but also say that the best results are when you use it dry.

Holy shit does that bring back memories! I probably still have my Braun Series 5 somewhere (and yeah, it's probably at least 15 years old), but I haven't used it in some time.

I've mostly been using Philips OneBlade, but true BIFL would be a safety razor.

The way AdGuard does it, is it has you install a certificate on your phone, which then allows you to block ads and trackers within HTTPS pipelines. If you don't do that, then it can only block HTTP requests, which tends to be pretty low quality filtering. In addition, I also enable DNS blocking through AdGuard DNS service, so it's kind of like blanket coverage.

I haven't honestly found anything that does the same thing, or at least not at the same level of quality. So I'm always curious to see if something new has come out that can reach this level of filtering performance.

Well, none of the phone's I've owned in the last 5+ years have been very "root friendly", so I haven't rooted since then.

But it gives you a ton of (not risk-free) options to tweak your system. Shizuku is a cool alternative, but it is limited by comparison.

Can anyone tell me if this filters HTTPS requests?

That's one feature that keeps me using Adguard, and it makes a huge difference to the filtering ability/quality.

I actually really like TrackerControl, but use Adguard instead for the same purpose (can't use them at the same time, unfortunately, since they both work through a local VPN).

The difference, though, is that Blocker stops apps from even loading the component that would "call home", where TrackerControl and Adguard try to block those connections after they've been sent by the app.

Yes, you kind of accomplish the same thing, but I would love to be able to prevent apps from using these SDKs in the first place :)

There's a clear pattern with violence in the States.

Quick, find a way to blame Obama, Biden, or immigrants! /s

I'm not looking to delete apps, just stop certain components within apps.

For example, my banking app uses the Google Ads, Google Firebase Analytics, and Adobe analytics, and I'd like to disable those from running without uninstalling the banking app.

Basically, it disables the bad parts of an app :)

I used to do this when I was into rooting and custom firmware, but I really don't want to go full root with my current phone.

It's not permissions that I want to block/stop, but actual receivers, services, SDKs... components within apps. So, something like the analytics services can be disabled, rather than "blocked" like using an adblocker.

I used to do this when I was rooted years ago, and it was great!

Well, shit. It's strange how so many places recommend Blocker when using Shizuku, but it really needs Root to be useful.

Synology. Whatever is in your budget.

Yes, they've done things to piss off the community, and sure, a DIY build is going to give you more control and powerful hardware.

But you can get support (though Synology or the Internet communities of users), and if any family member ever needs to take it over, it'll be easy for them to pick up and manage.

Very cool. Thanks for the recommendation.

tp link routers tend to run openwrt pretty well.

Of course, I have the TP-Link router that isn't well-supported 😖

I kind of miss my old Linksys routers, which officially supported third-party firmware.

Sounds like farmers should focus on selling "to the people" again, and screw these greedy corporations who don't give a fuck about farmers or other people, for that matter!

There are a ton of people who knew what went on there.

Of course. There's "we know what went on there", like what you and me know. But there's "we know what went on there" because THEY WERE FRIENDS WITH EPSTEIN.

Those people should have consequences put on them. I don't care how rich they are. Children were being raped, and everybody who knew said nothing.

You make way less selling things wholesale, than you do selling small amounts to a larger number of people.

I'm not arguing that. I can empathize when the costs are broken down.

But what I don't understand is how they can justify selling u-pick at $4/pound.

I remember many years ago, being able to get 50lbs of potatoes for less than what the stores were selling 10lbs for, because I would go directly to the farm growing them. That's how I would imagine it's supposed to work.

But this trend of charging way, way more for stuff directly from the farm or farmer's market is frustrating.

I see apples from local orchards selling for $0.99 / lb in local grocery stores (then those same apples are 3-4x more when you pick them yourself). So if nobody is losing money, maybe farms are undercharging wholesalers and overcharging u-pick customers?

Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED, yet they name me even before Prince Andrew, who did visit.

Leads us to more questions....

Did he refuse because he knows what went on there? And if so, why didn't he report it?

The only ones who would harm her over this would be other Republicans. I wish she would let that sink in, because she's spent her career propping them up.

At roughly $4 a pound

Help me understand.

Farmers claim to only make pennies per pound when their harvest is sold through retail stores, while also charging direct consumers what amounts to multi-thousand percent markup.

Also, fuck the people who steal from farms.

Like father, like son.