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There are multiple DNS options. Or you can just use Unbound and be your own DNS. https://i.imgur.com/3sVDwhQ.png https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/

Ditto. I have had tons of dental work. Fire up the iPod, and yes I still use a old iPod Nano for walks and dental work so I can be distraction-free. Toss in some nitrous and it is …

Back in the day the internet for normal people was 3 bucks a hour over a 14,400 modem. I didn't consider myself a "creator" for posting my recipes for making mashed potatoes in a c…

I never had to Bing how to quit nano.

Propagandhi did a song about this in 2005 called America’s Army (Die Jugend Marschiert). They even have a hat-tip to Enders Game near the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjt1L…

While not nearly as bad as what is in the article. Predictive text in Messages on iOS now suggests "cancer" when I type "can" and "chemotheteropy" when I type "ch". And to really r…

I was really into skateboarding from about 12 years old to 30. But back in the day I used to buy the Sony Sport Walkman's. The big yellow ugly ones. When I would skate I had the Wa…

When I was getting my woodshop going I was hitting up estate sales/auctions. There was one I auction I scored a nearly brand new SawStop table saw, Dewault planer, and ShopFox join…

And he also has a thing on getting a pretty good woodshop going for under a grand.

I haven't noticed that in Netflix. But 80% of my use of the Apple TV is plex and a little app I wrote that reads directories on my computer running Apache and shows everything in a…

My main beef with the roku is the sluggishness of the UI. And I have a few of them in the house (ultras or whatever the top of the line one was as of six months ago. Amazon had a s…

Weird.. I use rclone sync to move files between OS X in my room to Ubuntu in the garage and both of those to Google Drive. It has always just moved new files or changed files.

I bought this book at a place called "Hungry Head Books" in Eugene Oregon in 1997. I was working as a projectionist at the time and pretty much had to kill 30 hours a week in the b…

So lets say that there are a couple hundred thousand dead and you are pretty sure that 50% of the people out there have it. Are you going to go out for dinner or a movie? Not me.. …

This is the number of people that filed for unemployment in the last week. A staggering number. Just seven days of data.

I have a friend I talk to daily for 5+ hours a day that works for a major UC school in California. They can totally work from home and everyone kept passing the buck when pressed a…

Since everyone seems to be all negative I will share a story about the greatest day of my life. This happened around 10 months ago and it involves hash browns. Due to mouth radiati…

I use Mintmobile (US) for my cellphone. They are a cheap provider. I pay $180 a year for 2GB of a data a month. They emailed the other day saying data is free for the next month.

Not sure if this is bad form to respond to my own comment here. But my comments here have probably been massively depressing. I have a positive one. There was a radiation tech, a o…

That is the fucked thing about cancer. It is never over. Even if you come up clean in a PET it is always still there. Lingering. Forever.. The mental game after you recover is near…

I had inquired into why people refuse and the radiologist pretty much said that religion seems to be a major factor. He also asked me about the "gun situation" where I live. We hav…

Absolutely. That was the goal. If I didn't like it we could pop it out in a minute and it won't hurt. So no harm in having it done. I am glad they were aggressive. I would have die…

For sure. When I first saw the oncologist he made me meet with a lady that walked me through chemo. She laid out that explicitly that I am such a slender guy that I will die withou…

Wowsa.. You had it worse. I had a "swallowing coach" who was a doppelganger for David Mitchell. The WILTY guy. The best posh comedian. And yes, a swallowing coach is a real thing. …

Whole milk. I tried the heavier dairy products but they slowed things to a crawl. The feeding tube is actually very narrow. I tried blending spinach and other assorted vegetables a…