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  • If I understand GPL licenses correctly, I think they have to keep the original FOSS. They're just going to make it FOSS with shitty ads.

    (Disclaimer: I might not understand GPL)

  • LOL bad timing on that recommendation. They just got bought by a company that puts ads in everything. Supposedly there's already a fork called Fossify though.

  • Number 1 is Alan Wake 2? Really? I mean, I hear it's a good game, but....

  • Rather then committing a year to a service, do a monthly subscription until you find something you're happy with. Then switch to annual billing if you want. I wouldn't continue paying for a VPN that doesn't work well. I'm personally pretty happy with PIA.

    As others have mentioned, Bitwarden is a very good password manager that has a very full-featured free tier. And its paid tiers are very cheap if you decide to upgrade.

  • If it's just for personal use, Tailscale is dead simple. But it doesn't use your domain; it assigns permanent Tailscale IPs to your nodes. And once you're connected, it allows you to use your local IPs.

    If you want a domain to point to your stuff, I found CloudFlare Tunnels to be very easy to set up. I use it for services that I want to share with others, like Overseerr.

  • Bitwarden has a sort of dead-man-switch, I forget the name. But you could use it to give a beneficiary access to whatever you want after you croak.

  • Element picker is a little less user friendly, you pick elements and then you have to decide what to do with them. I think you have to click "create" for each element that you "pick". Element zapper is the simpler tool, you just click things and they go away.

  • Yeah fair enough, if a website is going to be this annoying then you could argue we just shouldn't go there.

    But I still want to spread the gospel of Ublock Origin where I can. The zapper feature can be a little finicky, depending on how a site is structured. It helps to move the mouse around and try to find a spot that covers the entire area that you want to get rid of.

  • Ah, you're right, when I reset my site cache for steamdeckhq.com it comes up with that cookie window again.

    Luckily, Ublock Origin still has you covered! Click the UBO icon and click the little lightning bolt, starts "element zapper" mode. That allows you to create your own custom filters, just by clicking things on a page that you don't like.

    I was able to remove this cookie window with the zapper. If you accidentally zap something you want to keep, you can go to UBO settings and look for it in the "My Filters" section. Each new filter is noted with a timestamp so you know which ones you created today.

  • Use Firefox and Ublock Origin, friend. There are specific "annoyances" filters in Ublock Origin that take care of most (but not all) cookie banners.

    Edit: turns out you need to customize your filters to get this one to stop: https://lemmy.world/comment/5775350

  • It's all we talk about here lol

  • You're talking about remotely editing a file. That means you'll need remote access to the fileserver where it lives. The common way to do this would be with a network fileshare, but there are many options.

    If you want to access the file from OUTSIDE your home network, you need a VPN or something similar. The simplest option is probably Tailscale. Just install it on your server and on your remote device, and boom, both are always magically on the same virtual network.

  • Sure, I get the preference. But these people are acting like GrayJay is somehow worse than completely closed-source software that they use every day. It's obviously not as good as FOSS, but being able to audit the code makes it a lot more useful and safe than your average closed-source software.

    If I had said something about ReVanced, which is a FOSS project that only repackages a completely closed-source app (YouTube) then nobody would have said anything negative. But because I mentioned GrayJay instead, I get gatekeeping responses about "proprietary trash".

    It's so stupid.

  • He made a guess based on the evidence he had. It may or may not be "true" or factual. Either way, he wasn't lying, and the person you responded to didn't say anything about him lying.

  • Wait, they allow port forwarding for wireless connections but not wired? How does that work?

  • CloudFlare tunnels are dead simple, BUT their terms of service say you can't stream video with them (so not for Plex). I hear people stream video with them anyway and they haven't gotten in trouble yet, for what it's worth.

  • The person you were replying to also didn't say he was lying?

  • Greedy? Lmao the app is free to use. My point is that you make compromises elsewhere with proprietary hardware and software, just like everybody else here, but you decide to draw the line at GrayJay just because it's only source available? That's silly, you're just making yourself feel good with holier-than-thou bullshit.

    Also, for the record, I've tried all the fully FOSS alternatives and they all have crap UX. GrayJay just works, like a good app should, and you can plug multiple accounts in from different platforms. It's an excellent product, and it shows what excellent developers are capable of doing in a short time. It's impressively stable for an app this young. But I guess you'll never see for yourself because it's "proprietary trash". Lol.