Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.
Some other communities to consider before posting:
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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Get an adblocker. It is cheaper, and still less ads.
Most people watch Youtube through their tv's app. You'd need an 300 dollar Nvidia Shield.
Or an old laptop.
Even then it's still android store apps, and incredibly hard to side load.
Oh, and if you didn't know, the shield now displays ads all over the place, even the app selection screen. Yes, the $300 piece of hardware throws ads in your face and there is no way to control the behavior.
You can install a different launcher. I use Projectivy
Buy an ad-subsidized machine, be forced to watch ads, unfortunately.
The $300 NVidia Shield also throws ads in your face, and you can't turn them off.
It's lose/lose.
Interesting, how does that work? Is it some kind of modified Android version with more restrictions? I'd assumed that unlike the usual smart TV's you could at least freely install Software on the Shield. I mean, in the end it's still an operating system developed by an advertising corporation, but Firefox+uBlock Origin has so far been bulletproof even on Android phones, at least to my understanding.
an old used dell optiplex is typically cheaper and not ad subsidized.
What about pi hole?
Pi-hole does not block YT ads. They state that clearly on their site. It kicks ass though and I’m happy running it for 5+ years. Highly recommend.