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Oh, I thought my VPN was the reason I got all of those.

Do you have to use a big social platform? Click on all of the ads you see or click on some of them, but don’t buy anything.

Check out AdNauseam, it’s based on uBlock Origin

Personally I don’t think they’re too heavy, but ymmv. Nothing goes in the ear canal so that stays clear.

You can also get over ear “hooks”: https://shokz.com/pages/openfit2
Those may be even heavier, but they sit on top of your ear rather than hanging off them.

I’ve never liked wearing earphones in bed as I want to turn on my side, I’ve never found any to be comfortable in that position.

Also Shokz is definitely not the only brand which sells these kinds, just the one I’m familiar with.

I find it difficult to say. I’ve gotten no such complaints, but I don’t generally use these on, say, the couch next to others.

I wouldn’t think they’re much more noisy then the “non-plug” style of earbuds of yesteryear.

Wired is also valid.

I guess what pushes wireless over the edge for me is the convenience of having a little puck in my pocket which cannot get tangled up.

I don’t think your tone was particularly negative, I think I could’ve done a better job at the tone of my earlier reply as well. I appreciate you clarifying, 'sall good.

I’ve been using them for a while and am fairly happy with them. I like that they keep my ears open, and after wearing them for a bit I hardly notice they’re there.
There’s enough of a gap between the rear “drum” and the front piece that it doesn’t uncomfortably pinch the cartilage of my ear, even during extended sessions.
I know Bose and JBL have their own versions too, there’s probably other brands out there.

Not to say you have to run out and try them, but just so you know there be options.

You might enjoy the increasingly popular “clip” style of earbud.

An example of such: https://shokz.com/pages/opendots-one

The text is pretty good though:

[…] but for hockey puck burgers that have been sitting under a hot lamp.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta

For me, in the EU, google maps shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” and “Lake Ontario (Lake America)”.

google maps will sometimes show different borders depending on where you access it from as well.

Personally I try to use OSM where I can, but streetview can be really useful sometimes.

My baking app has a “is <bank> calling” button, which is pretty neat. The button is highlighted whenever I open the banking app whilst on a phone call, presumably as a subtle anti-scammer warning.

One way the Chinese government is “subsidizing” their cars is by suppressing the living standards of its people.

That and their industry doesn’t appear to be as bloated and shareholder-driven.

Trump is to guardrails as a sieve is to buckets

But you see, they’re not regulating the corporations. That’s the big difference.

These services generally do warn you months in advance. Though I cannot say from experience, I think it most unlikely sony sent nothing to the user.

I was curious what that was:

you can keep the old version, or you can check “disable vote submission” in settings. (counting your like\dislike votes is the evil “personal data transfer” that I do. But it’s optional.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/reviews/2746239

Rat King

Alternatively; sony having pretty much won the console war knows they can enshittify without losing (too) much of their audience.

The more I think about this, the more I think it’s a really big problem how much Web surfing runs on Chromium.

It’s why I think Firefox (and forks) are the only real alternative to Chrome. Switching to edge, Vivaldi, opera, Helium, brave; none of it truly gets you away from google’s dominance.
I suppose there’s always safari/webkit too, but that’s apple.

I feel just like I’m back on Reddit.