The irony is that ads breed a different kind of discontent for me. The more I see an ad for something I'm not interested in the more I want less than nothing to do with it. The more I see ads for stupid games on Google Play the more I refuse to play them and hate the idea of installing them. The more I see ads for something I deem a fad or an annoyance, the more contempt I have for the product, and even the brand as a whole. I'm on the autism spectrum, so it basically triggers my demand avoidance response, and makes me irrationally hate the company and all of their employees. Like, to the point if I saw them bleeding on the ground, asking for help, I would walk towards them just to get their hopes up and then step over them as if they didn't exist.
I would block even relevant ads. Advertising is an extremely lazy and overused way of trying to generate income, I decide what goes into my eyes and ears - not Google. With that said, I am always a potential customer for any service or product of interest - so your job as the creator of that product or service is to put in some hard work to make it something I am willing to pay for, and then sell it to me.
It's crazy how ads are apparently the most targeted they've ever been to people's "interests". But my friends who don't use adblockers constantly complain about how awful the ads they're seeing are.
@@docopoper That's a really good point - and I'd probably put it down to evil corporations just hiring people that don't know how to do their jobs properly. Let's face it, it's much easier to send out "any old ad" rather than a targeted one where you've had to do some additional internal data processing to work out which ad to send.
I explained this to a RUclipsr who was arguing with me for using an adblocker: RUclips/Google's ability to raise revenue is not my problem; it's theirs. I will continue to use my adblocker and not see their intrusive ads because I can.
@@Winnetou17 If RUclips disappears, it'll be due to their mismanagement; not because I used an adblocker in Firefox. If they want me to care about RUclips's ability to stay afloat financially, they can hire me to their accounting department. Otherwise... Besides, RUclips has been around for, what? Eighteen years or so now? In that time it has become such a 'load bearing' part of the internet that it has choked out competitors who might do the same thing better. Innovation is supposed to be one of the big ideas of capitalism, but you can't have it when the same 3-4 companies dominate a space. So maybe RUclips going away isn't such a bad thing.
Google does not want you out of their ecosystem. That's why they hit Linus and Louis Rossmann's videos about google alternatives. And I learned how to use proxmox and setting up containers through him. Notably, jellyfin. Walked through of a simple LXC setup.
The thing that REALLY p*sses me off is how insane they are with the sensor chip. First, they don't apply it evenly/fairly. Second, it seems to sensor certain poly tickle views. Finally, the stuff they decide to cent sore doesn't even make sense sometimes. It's worse than China, IMO. If I wanted to mention an alt site with a SFW name, it gets automatically deleted. I guess that's why they removed "Don't be evil" from their company motto/ethics.
Ads are programming,pure and simple.I grew up in the era of 4 ad 'breaks' an hour on TV,which we tolerated. Without ad blocker,a lot of content is unwatchable since the flow of info/story is disrupted.
Great video, but when you talked about getting internet service, yes my first ISP in the 90's was a guy running a computer repair shop in the next small town over in a strip mall attached to a Food Lion, Excard drugs, & a movie rental/music store/pizza parlor so it was a one stop shop for nerd like myself 😅 Also when it comes to more modern internet, and they are big corporate players as they have the cash to build out the networks but 5G wireless internet from T-Mobile & Verizon(AT&T's offering is a joke right now) is also driving cost back down, while increasing accessibility to more people with really good speeds/pings for the money. Lastly I'll say you know it's bad when even Google with Chrome OS/Chrome OS Flex is not near as bad as Windows, or Mac OS at the popups, and notifications which can be turned off really easy if you don't want them.
Speaking of this manufactured discontent, it's crazy how much of a fundamental agreement there is between people about major issues like this in our society. Like, you dislike this power centralisation and want small business with a free market. You also as a Christian want people to be good and kind to each other and to live morally. It's crazy how similar that is in intended function to what more left leaning people are pushing for. The left currently seems quite focused on civil rights, which is a type of pushing for morality and kindness. Socialism too is about redistributing power through redistributing wealth and providing more services for the poor. The redistribution of power is ultimately part of the equation of breaking up these oligopolies and creating an environment were small business can thrive. I personally want a balance of both, so my take is that free markets left unchecked ultimately lead to consolidation, so we do need forces countering that. But also I 100% agree that ideally people should be as free as possible within the bounds of morality, and I love small business. One thing that makes me quite hopeful is seeing how much people are realising how unhealthy social media is, and seeing people get concerned about what is being done to our democratic stability. It feels like humanity as a metaphorical person got addicted to a substance and is now finally realising how much it messed up their life and mind and is making efforts to recover.
It's not just advertising that "they" are worried about. It's also the big media companies worried about the big scary P word and ensuring that if you do sail those seas, that you can't effectively utilize that media. They are trying to undermine it rather than making a service worth paying for.
I'm not against ads. I'm against data collection in anyway that people can be individually tracked. There was a study some years ago that showed ads targeted at the individual did not necessarily perform better than ads targeted at the page or media content.
Back in the late 90s my first ISP was actually run in the owner's garage. To join I actually had to speak with him, he was it! As for seeing 4000 to 10000 ads per day, No! I value my life and my time far too much to subject myself to such abuse. I don't see ads at all, one way or another. If that becomes impossible, then I will just move on. I wouldn't mind non-intrusive "conveyance of information", but what we have is, as I state, abuse. I am very content. If I need something I will actively look for it on my own terms.
The situation of aggressive marketing and advertisement is getting really hectic in my opinion. The fact that you mention, us being overcrowded by a flood of advertisements, wave after wave relentlessly is truly frustrating and disassociating us quite often, most importantly into perceptions with origins that we cannot accurately pinpoint. Creating needs for us all the time, creating situations as if we are getting less than the rest in life, turning us into consuming entities, valuable only for perpetrating our purchasing power so we can continue to be exploited in that regard. What's worst, is that this is not anymore just a business model or just another business practice. Alternatives or ways to become less dependent are becoming more and more scarce as well. Take cars for example, companies make cars full of electronics, that a simple engineer can no longer fix. They are create more and more complicated parts, though with less reliability, and they don't pay attention to spare parts either. In computers, there are massive advertising campaigns about AI, but none pays particular attention to provide sufficient support for their GPUs to just "work". Instead, they limit availability by passively idling on support so that less and less can run such platforms locally, enhancing paid subscription AI plans, censorship (and I am not merely suggesting nsfw restrictions) as well as data access to our thoughts and way of functioning. This is a massive subject you are opening, but this can go on to extreme lengths to take on as an issue to be solved. I am a firm believer of an individual's abilities to both recognize and tackle these challenges of our times. In my opinion, it is less probable for someone to choose his freedom - in the sense of not being forced to behave in a certain manner, but actually choosing to - rather than not. And the most common cause of this probability in my experience is fear of social rejection. As if it matters (which leads to a different conversation).
Thanks for this commentary - I whole heartedly agree with your stance. I have used linux for the past 20 years, but just switched over to my primary desktop OS in the past 6 months. I really don't know I hadn't done this sooner.
I'm not watching ads I consider them an assault on my mind. And as someone with ADHD it's medically advisable that i not have needless distractions as they contribute to my insanity.
Advertising and the mechanisms surrounding pushing advertising is why this platform and so many others are a hellscape and why there is so much censorship.
I just had a community strike for a obvious joke video of a guy who replaced his bike wheels with "Pinwheels" (if you know what i'm referring to)... It's not advertising, they are actually worried about their ESG policies which affects their advertisers ESG score. This is just a move to please their investors, who are likely Blackrock and vanguard
if i sit her down and have a talk on why she's the perfect target, she will never see ads the same way again... years ago i use to blog and one of the main contributors of the blog was an ad man...
You mentioned Coca-Cola and I was reminded that I have one in the fridge.... to clean some coins that have rusted. Leave em soaking overnight (add vinegar too) and it's all gone!
The simultaneous montage reminds me of (a number of) the clip where various leaders in various countries make the same "NWO" like speech. I am so glad I don't watch that MSM rubbish anymore, but I'm in great pain that so many other people do watch it and are influenced by it.
Firefox dose something completely sneaky, i see no ads when i use Firefox (with nextdns as my default dns, 20 bucks a year...) but when my daughter barrows my laptop to print out college papers, she gets ads all the time!!! she left her car keys down stairs the other day and i went up to her room to leave them in her desk & there they were... a bunch of ads as she was studying... *it's the same laptop i use and i see no ads but when she uses it....*
If you use two different accounts on that laptop then clearly the cause is just down to different configuration settings between what is in your home directory and in your daughter's home directory. There's nothing "sneaky" about it, just compare your Firefox configurations and see where they differ.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 she was logged in to her *google* account to access study material... but still, i have nextDNS on my browser with a config ID they provide... & i have my router setup with nextDNS as well!!! *** *i never see ads even when i login to my google account and email... i don't know man [confused look]
I agree with Linux. Linux is very nice to use. With Windows, the user has to really spend some time with the system setup. In fact, Linux Mint system takes less time to setup than a Windows 11 system, to avoid invasive ads. It is possible however, to really minimize Windows ability to show you ads.
I despise people that push advertising as if it is some divine right to shove garbage in my face way more than the people who push it for despise me for refusing to consume it.
My system recently locked up on me. I was trying to access bios and got an error message about a critical fault occurred and requested a password - a password I didn't enter into the security system. I only use two passwords on my Linux systems and neither work. I had a computer tech take a look at it and he said he couldn't figure out why it was locked. He even tried to over-write the OS by installing Windows over it. Nothing. I was using LMDE6 on a Geekom A8 with the Ryzen 9 processor. It had been working beautifully, but after an update it started shutting down on its own after 30 minutes of operation. I checked all the settings and it wasn't set to turn itself off or enter hibernation. Do you know of a way to access my system again? I have another computer on the way with Windows 11 Pro pre-installed and am considering keeping it as the OS. I just hate losing the freedom from Microsoft I had with Linux.
Just go back to basics and stop following influencers. Buy ingredients and make food for yourself, leave boxed products on the shelves. Wear quality, not quantity. Mend what you can instead of throwing something away just because a few stitches gave a way. I have a treadmill I use often, for over 3 years. It was never serviced. It develops some white fluff residues, I suspect it is the dried silicon oil I keep topping up every now and then. I called the maintenance to clean it and check the motor, maybe clean it off dust, too. Not a big job. The chap came, shook his head, wiped most of the stuff without removing the belt or looking at the motor, took zillion pictures of the white stuff, said I use the right oil and left, after tightening the belt back (too tightly). I paid £95 for this call. Then got a quote £165 to have a belt and rollers replaced. FU. I keep cleaning the fluff, oil it and use it without issues, 6 months later on... walking on it while watch8ng youtube right now. Another 200 kcal down at the end of the session. No cookies, I have apples in the garden. They taste far better than any Nestle or Mondelez or Kraft crap.
@SwitchedtoLinux Geez, Tom, with me being the economically left-leaning athiest I am, I thought we weren't supposed to agree on anything. Well, speaking of discontentment, media would have society believe, and therefore society would have us believe, that it is supposed to be impossible for us to agree on anything. Yet, here we are. In this video, you're speaking a whole lot of my same thoughts, all of the thoughts that no media want people to be exposed to or consider. As you felt a need to declare more than once that you're not a socialist or anything, I dare take this one step further. Media would have us believe, and therefore society would have us believe, that any criticism of socialism makes us a capitalist, and any criticism of capitalism makes us a socialist. I hereby declare that both systems in their purest form SUCK. Beyond that, media would have us believe, and therefore society would have us believe, that capitalism and the free enterprise system are the same thing. They aren't. Free enterprise means entrepreneurs are free to create independent businesses and try to serve customers better than their competition. The public wins. Capitalism means those born into wealth can invest in existing publicly traded companies, direct CEOs to "make me money by any means necessary", lobby governments for advantageous laws, retain legal teams to ensure they never face proper justice, force exclusivity contracts to hold down competition, hire foreign manufacturing labour to reduce costs, once there are only a few big fish engage in anti-competitive price-fixing, buy any startup company that actually serves customers properly, keep the customer unsatisfied. The public loses. We need to take a long hard look at the truth of "what is capitalism?" Capitalism is anti- free enterprise. It's even worse than socialism. It's worse than anything. We need to stop equating capitalism with free enterprise.
the pihole boom is literally because of these ad annoyances... and as Terrydakyllus1320 said, 90% percent of the population don't know there are ways out!!
"Corpratism" IS capitalism, to say that it is not is to not understand the outcome of competition and private business owners doing what is in their best interest as private business owners. To be clear, you are not a capitalist, you are a self-employed worker. You are not running a business in which you are employing people. What we have is not an oligarchy but a plutocracy, to say that it is an oligarchy is to ignore the role of lobbying and campaign contributions in our government.
Soviet people in 1980s: "Our socialism is authoritarian and economically inefficient. If we had REAL socialism..." American people in 2020s: "Our capitalism is oligarchic and monopolistic. If we had REAL capitalism..." Me, who witnessed these both: not knowing, whether I should laugh or cry.
@@bobmcbob4399 When any of them fails you get TENS of millions of lost lives. With one of them we already had it (and in fact still having it). I don't want the same to happen to even more people, that's why I said "not knowing, whether I should laugh or cry" - because there are/will be a lot of reasons to cry. But the naivety of people's takes on failing ideologies after all these years is definitely funny.
@@comesignotus9888 Commie regimes mort total is about 110 million across all of these regimes. Can you give some numbers for capitalism failing - I can't name one example. Help me out here.
@@bobmcbob4399 Seems you missed my point, sorry. I observed the pattern of people's behavior when their ideologies start "giving a leak". "If we had TRUE socialism", "If we had TRUE capitalism". An it is laughable. But I know, that the results of ideologies failing are not funny at all. I saw what happened after "if we had true socialism". I don't want the same to happen to people who say "if we had true capitalism". That's all. Nothing to argue about.
I catch myself trying to find content and realize I'm down cause I have too much to watch, but none of it feels interesting. Either too much of the same stuff, or feeling like I have no control over what is there. Doomscrolling can manifest in several different forms.
Repetitive, intrusive ads make me resent the product or service being advertised. If the advertiser's goal is to create a memory, it's working. I remember how much I hate the ad and vow to never buy what's being advertised.
I've changed to Manjaro because I was finding Linux mint I was updating it every day can you tell me why this is happening.I'm using the same desktop in Manjaro Cinnamon
Manjaro actually has more updates, but you might have had updates due to flatpaks, which update way too often. Recently, Mint manages flatpak updates in the update manager, so you might be seeing more updates from that.
You don't need to update every day in Linux - that's something Microsoft has expected you to do because their OSes are so rubbish, and so paranoid about breaking in front of you, that they are constantly forcing new stuff on you as the user. You should be aware of latest security issues in Linux and learn to conduct your own threat assessments - then decide how urgent an update is and how quickly you need to install it.
"Here's a tutorial on Jellyfin! You should look at it!" ...but first I need to be convinced that my Samba server isn't good enough for my video-serving needs. So far, it gets the job done.
capitalism is always govern by big corp or rich people its goal is oligarchi, that we see in US, in india our govt is pro privatization and they have lot of supporters on higher posts, but majority of people suffering.
you and I are not capitalists those corps and top percentile of the wealth owned are the captilist. Socialism is when the majority (worker class) which owns or has a say in the means of production. Socialism is comparable with capitalism. A majority of EU countries have a lot of socialist policies that make capitalism favor everyone not just the mega rich. democracy, monarchy, centrist dictatorships governments have nothing to with communism, socialism and capitalism..
Thank you, The Brothers Grimm, for another really great book of fairy stories too - I particularly like the ones about the ugly duckling and the tin soldier.
@@act.13.41 It depends how easily one can be horrified. Killing all human and animal life on the planet with a 40-day flood except for a select few on a big boat is a fairly horrific story too.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 But do you understand why God did it? The fallen ones had corrupted all flesh. Noah was a holy man and perfect in his generations, thus he was saved. Ever since Genesis 3 in the garden of Eden, it has been a seed war. Eve's seed against Satan's seed. Noah was the 10th from Adam and already things were that bad.
The irony is that ads breed a different kind of discontent for me. The more I see an ad for something I'm not interested in the more I want less than nothing to do with it. The more I see ads for stupid games on Google Play the more I refuse to play them and hate the idea of installing them. The more I see ads for something I deem a fad or an annoyance, the more contempt I have for the product, and even the brand as a whole. I'm on the autism spectrum, so it basically triggers my demand avoidance response, and makes me irrationally hate the company and all of their employees. Like, to the point if I saw them bleeding on the ground, asking for help, I would walk towards them just to get their hopes up and then step over them as if they didn't exist.
It may be ads for things you would never buy and they will still show you them. Then they wonder why so many of us block ads.
These are the best for one's purse.
I would block even relevant ads. Advertising is an extremely lazy and overused way of trying to generate income, I decide what goes into my eyes and ears - not Google.
With that said, I am always a potential customer for any service or product of interest - so your job as the creator of that product or service is to put in some hard work to make it something I am willing to pay for, and then sell it to me.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Exactly.
It's crazy how ads are apparently the most targeted they've ever been to people's "interests". But my friends who don't use adblockers constantly complain about how awful the ads they're seeing are.
@@docopoper That's a really good point - and I'd probably put it down to evil corporations just hiring people that don't know how to do their jobs properly.
Let's face it, it's much easier to send out "any old ad" rather than a targeted one where you've had to do some additional internal data processing to work out which ad to send.
I've been following you for some time as I ditched apple for linux a year ago. Your best video as far as I can remember. Finally subscribed.
I explained this to a RUclipsr who was arguing with me for using an adblocker: RUclips/Google's ability to raise revenue is not my problem; it's theirs. I will continue to use my adblocker and not see their intrusive ads because I can.
I get so sick of people that think watching ads puts them on some moral pedestal. Gtfo of my house then, go watch your ads.
Fair enough, but if RUclips disappears, don't complain about it.
@@Winnetou17 Delulu. How could this platform ever disappear. Not going to happen.
@@Winnetou17 If RUclips disappears, it'll be due to their mismanagement; not because I used an adblocker in Firefox. If they want me to care about RUclips's ability to stay afloat financially, they can hire me to their accounting department. Otherwise...
Besides, RUclips has been around for, what? Eighteen years or so now? In that time it has become such a 'load bearing' part of the internet that it has choked out competitors who might do the same thing better. Innovation is supposed to be one of the big ideas of capitalism, but you can't have it when the same 3-4 companies dominate a space. So maybe RUclips going away isn't such a bad thing.
Google does not want you out of their ecosystem. That's why they hit Linus and Louis Rossmann's videos about google alternatives. And I learned how to use proxmox and setting up containers through him. Notably, jellyfin. Walked through of a simple LXC setup.
The thing that REALLY p*sses me off is how insane they are with the sensor chip. First, they don't apply it evenly/fairly. Second, it seems to sensor certain poly tickle views. Finally, the stuff they decide to cent sore doesn't even make sense sometimes. It's worse than China, IMO.
If I wanted to mention an alt site with a SFW name, it gets automatically deleted. I guess that's why they removed "Don't be evil" from their company motto/ethics.
@@encycl07pedia- Yes, it's all so infuriating. Should be not legal for this to happen.
Ads are programming,pure and simple.I grew up in the era of 4 ad 'breaks' an hour on TV,which we tolerated. Without ad blocker,a lot of content is unwatchable since the flow of info/story is disrupted.
[Pets Firefox] Never seen an internet ad in my life 🙂
You have, even if you don't admit or realize it.
Great video, but when you talked about getting internet service, yes my first ISP in the 90's was a guy running a computer repair shop in the next small town over in a strip mall attached to a Food Lion, Excard drugs, & a movie rental/music store/pizza parlor so it was a one stop shop for nerd like myself 😅
Also when it comes to more modern internet, and they are big corporate players as they have the cash to build out the networks but 5G wireless internet from T-Mobile & Verizon(AT&T's offering is a joke right now) is also driving cost back down, while increasing accessibility to more people with really good speeds/pings for the money.
Lastly I'll say you know it's bad when even Google with Chrome OS/Chrome OS Flex is not near as bad as Windows, or Mac OS at the popups, and notifications which can be turned off really easy if you don't want them.
Speaking of this manufactured discontent, it's crazy how much of a fundamental agreement there is between people about major issues like this in our society. Like, you dislike this power centralisation and want small business with a free market. You also as a Christian want people to be good and kind to each other and to live morally. It's crazy how similar that is in intended function to what more left leaning people are pushing for. The left currently seems quite focused on civil rights, which is a type of pushing for morality and kindness. Socialism too is about redistributing power through redistributing wealth and providing more services for the poor. The redistribution of power is ultimately part of the equation of breaking up these oligopolies and creating an environment were small business can thrive.
I personally want a balance of both, so my take is that free markets left unchecked ultimately lead to consolidation, so we do need forces countering that. But also I 100% agree that ideally people should be as free as possible within the bounds of morality, and I love small business.
One thing that makes me quite hopeful is seeing how much people are realising how unhealthy social media is, and seeing people get concerned about what is being done to our democratic stability. It feels like humanity as a metaphorical person got addicted to a substance and is now finally realising how much it messed up their life and mind and is making efforts to recover.
For whoever has will be given more. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
In a spiritual sense, as it was intended. It doesn't relate to materialism
From the classic book "How to be a Rotten Meanie"
It's not just advertising that "they" are worried about. It's also the big media companies worried about the big scary P word and ensuring that if you do sail those seas, that you can't effectively utilize that media. They are trying to undermine it rather than making a service worth paying for.
I'm not against ads. I'm against data collection in anyway that people can be individually tracked. There was a study some years ago that showed ads targeted at the individual did not necessarily perform better than ads targeted at the page or media content.
Good video. The modern world is disgusting on many levels.
Back in the late 90s my first ISP was actually run in the owner's garage. To join I actually had to speak with him, he was it! As for seeing 4000 to 10000 ads per day, No! I value my life and my time far too much to subject myself to such abuse. I don't see ads at all, one way or another. If that becomes impossible, then I will just move on. I wouldn't mind non-intrusive "conveyance of information", but what we have is, as I state, abuse. I am very content. If I need something I will actively look for it on my own terms.
The situation of aggressive marketing and advertisement is getting really hectic in my opinion. The fact that you mention, us being overcrowded by a flood of advertisements, wave after wave relentlessly is truly frustrating and disassociating us quite often, most importantly into perceptions with origins that we cannot accurately pinpoint. Creating needs for us all the time, creating situations as if we are getting less than the rest in life, turning us into consuming entities, valuable only for perpetrating our purchasing power so we can continue to be exploited in that regard.
What's worst, is that this is not anymore just a business model or just another business practice. Alternatives or ways to become less dependent are becoming more and more scarce as well. Take cars for example, companies make cars full of electronics, that a simple engineer can no longer fix. They are create more and more complicated parts, though with less reliability, and they don't pay attention to spare parts either. In computers, there are massive advertising campaigns about AI, but none pays particular attention to provide sufficient support for their GPUs to just "work". Instead, they limit availability by passively idling on support so that less and less can run such platforms locally, enhancing paid subscription AI plans, censorship (and I am not merely suggesting nsfw restrictions) as well as data access to our thoughts and way of functioning.
This is a massive subject you are opening, but this can go on to extreme lengths to take on as an issue to be solved. I am a firm believer of an individual's abilities to both recognize and tackle these challenges of our times. In my opinion, it is less probable for someone to choose his freedom - in the sense of not being forced to behave in a certain manner, but actually choosing to - rather than not. And the most common cause of this probability in my experience is fear of social rejection. As if it matters (which leads to a different conversation).
Thanks for this commentary - I whole heartedly agree with your stance. I have used linux for the past 20 years, but just switched over to my primary desktop OS in the past 6 months. I really don't know I hadn't done this sooner.
I'm not watching ads I consider them an assault on my mind. And as someone with ADHD it's medically advisable that i not have needless distractions as they contribute to my insanity.
Advertising and the mechanisms surrounding pushing advertising is why this platform and so many others are a hellscape and why there is so much censorship.
Linux first is a philosophy for me ,then all the other fun stuff you can do with it .
We are just "enjoying" an updated version of "keep up with the Jones."
I just had a community strike for a obvious joke video of a guy who replaced his bike wheels with "Pinwheels" (if you know what i'm referring to)... It's not advertising, they are actually worried about their ESG policies which affects their advertisers ESG score. This is just a move to please their investors, who are likely Blackrock and vanguard
if i sit her down and have a talk on why she's the perfect target, she will never see ads the same way again... years ago i use to blog and one of the main contributors of the blog was an ad man...
the "Illusion of freedom"
You mentioned Coca-Cola and I was reminded that I have one in the fridge.... to clean some coins that have rusted. Leave em soaking overnight (add vinegar too) and it's all gone!
Good stuff!
Giving folk a Community Strike because of talking about Jellyfin, is tantamount to George Orwell's book 1984 and New Speak etc.
Curiously, it was 1984 that Amazon removed from several people's kindles.
Bruh... the local news vid is terrifying. Hope they can't even try to deny they are all bought WTF O_o
The simultaneous montage reminds me of (a number of) the clip where various leaders in various countries make the same "NWO" like speech. I am so glad I don't watch that MSM rubbish anymore, but I'm in great pain that so many other people do watch it and are influenced by it.
Firefox dose something completely sneaky, i see no ads when i use Firefox (with nextdns as my default dns, 20 bucks a year...) but when my daughter barrows my laptop to print out college papers, she gets ads all the time!!! she left her car keys down stairs the other day and i went up to her room to leave them in her desk & there they were... a bunch of ads as she was studying... *it's the same laptop i use and i see no ads but when she uses it....*
If you use two different accounts on that laptop then clearly the cause is just down to different configuration settings between what is in your home directory and in your daughter's home directory. There's nothing "sneaky" about it, just compare your Firefox configurations and see where they differ.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 she was logged in to her *google* account to access study material... but still, i have nextDNS on my browser with a config ID they provide... & i have my router setup with nextDNS as well!!!
*** *i never see ads even when i login to my google account and email... i don't know man [confused look]
I agree with Linux. Linux is very nice to use. With Windows, the user has to really spend some time with the system setup. In fact, Linux Mint system takes less time to setup than a Windows 11 system, to avoid invasive ads. It is possible however, to really minimize Windows ability to show you ads.
I despise people that push advertising as if it is some divine right to shove garbage in my face way more than the people who push it for despise me for refusing to consume it.
It's goy-slop
My system recently locked up on me. I was trying to access bios and got an error message about a critical fault occurred and requested a password - a password I didn't enter into the security system. I only use two passwords on my Linux systems and neither work. I had a computer tech take a look at it and he said he couldn't figure out why it was locked. He even tried to over-write the OS by installing Windows over it. Nothing. I was using LMDE6 on a Geekom A8 with the Ryzen 9 processor. It had been working beautifully, but after an update it started shutting down on its own after 30 minutes of operation. I checked all the settings and it wasn't set to turn itself off or enter hibernation. Do you know of a way to access my system again? I have another computer on the way with Windows 11 Pro pre-installed and am considering keeping it as the OS. I just hate losing the freedom from Microsoft I had with Linux.
Just go back to basics and stop following influencers. Buy ingredients and make food for yourself, leave boxed products on the shelves. Wear quality, not quantity. Mend what you can instead of throwing something away just because a few stitches gave a way.
I have a treadmill I use often, for over 3 years. It was never serviced. It develops some white fluff residues, I suspect it is the dried silicon oil I keep topping up every now and then. I called the maintenance to clean it and check the motor, maybe clean it off dust, too. Not a big job. The chap came, shook his head, wiped most of the stuff without removing the belt or looking at the motor, took zillion pictures of the white stuff, said I use the right oil and left, after tightening the belt back (too tightly). I paid £95 for this call. Then got a quote £165 to have a belt and rollers replaced. FU. I keep cleaning the fluff, oil it and use it without issues, 6 months later on... walking on it while watch8ng youtube right now. Another 200 kcal down at the end of the session. No cookies, I have apples in the garden. They taste far better than any Nestle or Mondelez or Kraft crap.
I'm an anarchist, baby.
So I like the idea where markets are just a little different...
1 Timothy 6:6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain.
Preach Brother!!!
@SwitchedtoLinux Geez, Tom, with me being the economically left-leaning athiest I am, I thought we weren't supposed to agree on anything. Well, speaking of discontentment, media would have society believe, and therefore society would have us believe, that it is supposed to be impossible for us to agree on anything. Yet, here we are. In this video, you're speaking a whole lot of my same thoughts, all of the thoughts that no media want people to be exposed to or consider. As you felt a need to declare more than once that you're not a socialist or anything, I dare take this one step further.
Media would have us believe, and therefore society would have us believe, that any criticism of socialism makes us a capitalist, and any criticism of capitalism makes us a socialist. I hereby declare that both systems in their purest form SUCK. Beyond that, media would have us believe, and therefore society would have us believe, that capitalism and the free enterprise system are the same thing. They aren't. Free enterprise means entrepreneurs are free to create independent businesses and try to serve customers better than their competition. The public wins. Capitalism means those born into wealth can invest in existing publicly traded companies, direct CEOs to "make me money by any means necessary", lobby governments for advantageous laws, retain legal teams to ensure they never face proper justice, force exclusivity contracts to hold down competition, hire foreign manufacturing labour to reduce costs, once there are only a few big fish engage in anti-competitive price-fixing, buy any startup company that actually serves customers properly, keep the customer unsatisfied. The public loses. We need to take a long hard look at the truth of "what is capitalism?" Capitalism is anti- free enterprise. It's even worse than socialism. It's worse than anything. We need to stop equating capitalism with free enterprise.
People agree on a whole lot more than we think if we can just sit down clamly and talk!
the pihole boom is literally because of these ad annoyances... and as Terrydakyllus1320 said, 90% percent of the population don't know there are ways out!!
actually yt dlp in video cause problem not jellyfin, my video about it was deleted by ytube 😂 that downloader is a problem
"Corpratism" IS capitalism, to say that it is not is to not understand the outcome of competition and private business owners doing what is in their best interest as private business owners. To be clear, you are not a capitalist, you are a self-employed worker. You are not running a business in which you are employing people. What we have is not an oligarchy but a plutocracy, to say that it is an oligarchy is to ignore the role of lobbying and campaign contributions in our government.
How did this video get so many dislikes? Are these people wanting to see tens of thousands of unsolicited ads?
Probably bots designed to limit the visibility of a video that "breeds anti-Google dissent".
How can you see the dislikes? I can not.
I'm red pilled so I see right through ads.
Soviet people in 1980s: "Our socialism is authoritarian and economically inefficient. If we had REAL socialism..." American people in 2020s: "Our capitalism is oligarchic and monopolistic. If we had REAL capitalism..." Me, who witnessed these both: not knowing, whether I should laugh or cry.
Well, when one of these fails, you get millions of not living people. The other failing? You decide.
@@bobmcbob4399 When any of them fails you get TENS of millions of lost lives. With one of them we already had it (and in fact still having it). I don't want the same to happen to even more people, that's why I said "not knowing, whether I should laugh or cry" - because there are/will be a lot of reasons to cry. But the naivety of people's takes on failing ideologies after all these years is definitely funny.
@@comesignotus9888 Commie regimes mort total is about 110 million across all of these regimes. Can you give some numbers for capitalism failing - I can't name one example. Help me out here.
@@bobmcbob4399 Seems you missed my point, sorry. I observed the pattern of people's behavior when their ideologies start "giving a leak". "If we had TRUE socialism", "If we had TRUE capitalism". An it is laughable. But I know, that the results of ideologies failing are not funny at all. I saw what happened after "if we had true socialism". I don't want the same to happen to people who say "if we had true capitalism". That's all. Nothing to argue about.
Any one who can use docker can easily install Jellyfin. Even I have one.
I catch myself trying to find content and realize I'm down cause I have too much to watch, but none of it feels interesting. Either too much of the same stuff, or feeling like I have no control over what is there.
Doomscrolling can manifest in several different forms.
Other people have told me the same. I find turning off the toobies and going with an old classic is what helps me.
Repetitive, intrusive ads make me resent the product or service being advertised. If the advertiser's goal is to create a memory, it's working. I remember how much I hate the ad and vow to never buy what's being advertised.
I've changed to Manjaro because I was finding Linux mint I was updating it every day can you tell me why this is happening.I'm using the same desktop in Manjaro Cinnamon
Manjaro actually has more updates, but you might have had updates due to flatpaks, which update way too often. Recently, Mint manages flatpak updates in the update manager, so you might be seeing more updates from that.
You don't need to update every day in Linux - that's something Microsoft has expected you to do because their OSes are so rubbish, and so paranoid about breaking in front of you, that they are constantly forcing new stuff on you as the user.
You should be aware of latest security issues in Linux and learn to conduct your own threat assessments - then decide how urgent an update is and how quickly you need to install it.
"Here's a tutorial on Jellyfin! You should look at it!" ...but first I need to be convinced that my Samba server isn't good enough for my video-serving needs. So far, it gets the job done.
If JehovaJesus had wanted us to see ads he wouldn't have given us adblockers or the Brave browser.
capitalism is always govern by big corp or rich people its goal is oligarchi, that we see in US, in india our govt is pro privatization and they have lot of supporters on higher posts, but majority of people suffering.
Phi 4:11 kjv, 1Tim 6:8 kjv, Heb 13:5 kjv
What i see is creepy, i am happy why all the gloom
you and I are not capitalists those corps and top percentile of the wealth owned are the captilist. Socialism is when the majority (worker class) which owns or has a say in the means of production. Socialism is comparable with capitalism. A majority of EU countries have a lot of socialist policies that make capitalism favor everyone not just the mega rich. democracy, monarchy, centrist dictatorships governments have nothing to with communism, socialism and capitalism..
Thank you Jesus, for putting peace in my heart. As I watch a world in turmoil, I do not fear it. Thank you Lord.
Thank you, The Brothers Grimm, for another really great book of fairy stories too - I particularly like the ones about the ugly duckling and the tin soldier.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Most fairy tales are horror stories.
@@act.13.41 It depends how easily one can be horrified. Killing all human and animal life on the planet with a 40-day flood except for a select few on a big boat is a fairly horrific story too.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 But do you understand why God did it? The fallen ones had corrupted all flesh. Noah was a holy man and perfect in his generations, thus he was saved.
Ever since Genesis 3 in the garden of Eden, it has been a seed war. Eve's seed against Satan's seed. Noah was the 10th from Adam and already things were that bad.
Amen brother
Unsubbed. Channel didn't say any new ways I can use Linux to destroy fools and make $$$
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