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  • it looks cute, i would worry about it being so small + light that the cables push it around but that doesn't really happen for the apple tv and this will probably be heavier. might be an upgrade path from my M1 iMac one day, but good 4k monitors are still way too expensive.

  • i've been enjoying it, the docs are really good. i think it could be a little "smarter" like with recognizing schedules, but it'll only get better. a major limiting factor for me that isn't any fault of actual is that my apple card either through simplefin or manually exporting only allows download of the previous month's transactions after closing. so for that account it's not really useful for seeing where i'm at budget-wise halfway through the month, only in retrospect and forecasting.

  • for a game that came out when this one did and on the hardware it did, would you prefer a $20 basic, well-performing but aged looking port, or a $60 remaster? but if other comments are right we'll get a $60 bad port lol

  • ars posted this article today: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/its-not-worth-paying-to-be-removed-from-people-finder-sites-study-says/

    takeaways:

    1. the paid automated options don't work very well
    2. easyoptouts had the best success rate at (only) 65%
    3. claims connections between the data sites and removal sites -- i certainly saw a few ads on the sites but nothing points any fingers at any of the services mentioned in the comments here.

    i ended up using kanary and optery in the free tier and doing the removals manually. but to follow up on my OP, there's no service i've seen that goes any deeper than what comes up on google, which is disappointing. there are larger, private databases (such as lexisnexis) which was hoping to be able to get out of.

  • Yeah true. I think what I'm looking for is a reasonable cost/benefit/time investment, like maybe I'll order a Kanary scan once a year and manually opt them all out. I did kanary this afternoon and the vast majority only had my voter registration info, but a few had attached my cell number which might be from the WhoIs data. If I can slow the spread of that for <$20/year I'll feel satisfied.

  • Checking them out, thanks. I kinda wish there was a different pricing model than a subscription for this kind of service.

    edit; after signing up i can actually see within the free tier that there's a "buy custom scan" option which might allow more piecemeal payments, gonna look into it

  • i just realized i set up ente but put the login for it in my bitwarden. that kind of defeats the purpose. so i guess i would need to save the ente creds outside of bitwarden... then i need a second 2FA source for that... endless cycle...