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Sorry, I'm no expert on this, but I thought Adguard filters traffic on every browser. So why do I see (for ex: sponsored ads on Reddit) when using DDG?

I really, really like DDG — even on Mac — so I hope someone could help me out here

Hi guys, currently on my stock android, I have made a Work user on my Pixel to use Teams, Outlook etc for work. They can't work without an app called Company Portal. Any sysadmins/IT folks out there who know if these apps would work on GOS? Could you please let me know if they might work on Lineage too?

Thanks a ton!

I know The Suitcase is widely considered the best episode in the series. However, I always thought The Crash was so much more interesting.

I know that The Suitcase is more emotional in that Don loses Anna and forms a deeper bond with Peggy. But I thought The Crash revealed something very interesting about Don: he looks at women like they're customers, and the product he's selling is love. He can convince Sylvia to stay if only he could come up with the right copy. To him, the relationships don't seem real real. We know how empty and lonely he feels. But he's clever enough to know what to say to seduce them.

Now I know what he thinks about love (nylon etc) and that the core of the show is his double life, but I thought it was interesting to see the extent to which it affects him. He's an ad man through and through.

My alternative interpretation was that the heartbreak was so profound that instead of dealing with it straight up, Don turned it into a game (recall Megan's "this isn't that" fight). Just like how Stan and Abigail turn to drugs to escape their pain instead of dealing with it.

Anyway, overall, both episodes are phenomenal. But The Crash was a tiiiiny bit better (for me).

Thanks!

EDIT: I know that The Crash --> I know that The Suitcase

Hi guys, I just subscribed to Proton Mail Plus as I'm trying to de-google my life. Here's the thing though: I was already a Bitwarden and AdGuard Premium user. I also found out that Bitwarden has upped their price by almost $10. No biggie I guess? But double the cost?

Anyway, I was wondering if instead of subscribing to these different services should I just pay for Proton Unlimited instead?

Premium would cost me around $20 more, annually, compared to the others combined. However, I will also get a fast VPN for those $20, which seems like a good deal to me. My concern is that I'm a big email and not a big storage guy. It seems to me I'm paying a lot of money for storage that "will go to waste."

Suggestions?

Just wanted to thank the people behind the scenes!

My mom's Pixel 4a had been in a drawer for a while. Recently, I got bored and thought about installing a custom ROM just to check one out. I had jailbreaked my iPhones back in college, but never played around with androids. Anyway, someone suggested Graphene OS, but I learned that they don't support the 4a anymore. So I went with Lineage.

The instructions seemed a bit daunting at first, but once I really focused, they seemed easy enough. I was done in like an hour tops.

And the result is fantastic!

It's so minimal and smooth and fast. I went with vanilla Lineage, without Google's apps, and it had like 8 apps to start with. The craziest part to me has been the battery. Sure, this isn't my main phone, but I've been browsing and reading things and it just won't die. It legit seems to have a 1.5-2 day battery life. All in all, it almost seems like a new phone!

I always wanted to try de-googling and this seems like a great start to me. I only installed the DDG browser, Mullvad, Simple Keyboard, Joplin, Organic Maps, and Whatsapp, and everything works great.

I've had a few bugs here and there, and am concerned about banking apps, but man, this is such a refreshing OS, especially for older phones. Once my main (Pixel 7) stops getting updates (next October), I'm definitely giving Lineage a try! If the banking apps don't work, I'll just use a card.

Thanks, again!

I'd really appreciate getting some suggestions/tips from you guys as I continue using the phone.

Sorry if this is dumb, but I was shopping for a hub to connect my M1 Air to a 2K 100hz monitor and found that most hubs seem to only do HDMI at 4K 30hz, which is perhaps 2K 60hz? Like, why? Is that the most popular configuration? Is it a hardware constraint? I ended buying a Ugreen C to DisplayAlt cable, but was just curious

What's wrong with meee?!?! Is this the little treat economy effect people talk about?

Hear me out. I think as people read less and less - and we can talk about genres, quality etc - they become more inclined to have religious beliefs. And there's the nuance. Books, to me, equip readers with the religious instinct or attitude. But they don't necessarily have to supply the beliefs of a religion.

I'm talking about a capacity for wonder and awe, for finding a sense of the sacred in your everyday life. I still regard clouds and trees, and conversations with my friends and family, and so forth, with a sense of wonder and delight (especially after my morning coffee haha). I think the very way one reads, one word at a time, forces you to focus your attention on the smallest, most mundane things. Good books are of course especially great at this. Everyone has a read a book/author that changed how they look at things.

But as young people read less and less, they turn to a world that's increasingly digital, corporatized, and bleak. It might seem flashy, but it feels ultimately devoid of substance and meaning.

I wish I was more articulate. I understand that the argument is more complex. Especially when we consider what people are reading and so forth. But I feel like a reader just happens to look at the world differently than a non-reader. They are exposed to different ideas and worldviews, and can (hopefully) almost manufacture a sense of meaning from nothing. A primary reason I read (especially the classics) is to feel less lonely. Who hasn't? But it goes beyond that: it's also nourishment for the soul. What can young, non-readers turn to? Instagram?

So, what are they going to do, to feel a sense of the sacred, as I described? Turn to actual religion. Not just the instinct. But also the beliefs.

What do you think?

Lately, I've been feeling a bit lonely. Not the loneliness you feel from being alone, but the one you feel even in company. A sort of detachment/lack of connection etc, if that makes sense?

I'm fine with both fiction and non-fiction, but I was hoping less desperation and more searching/contemplative/sincere.

I recently read 100 Years of Solitude and absolutely loved it! I was planning to read The Lonely City and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, but I've heard the latter is kinda bleak, which is something I'd like to avoid. Other than the former, anything else you guys got in mind?

Thanks in advance!