Hulu stopped working properly on my Shield after using Pi-Hole, so I guess it was working?
On the pihole subreddit there's a wiki with lists of domains you can whitelist for certain services. I had to whitelist something for xbox live to work.
Readit Newssaltymug76 commented on Pi-hole v6 pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/... · Posted by u/tkuraku
Can’t you just use uBlock for this?
Pihole catches a lot of the trackers and crap coming out of my android tv. On my pc I see it as an extra line of defense after ublock.
saltymug76 commented on U.S. math scores drop on major international test chalkbeat.org/2024/12/04/... · Posted by u/akantler
Great even fewer tech jobs!
saltymug76 commented on US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward reuters.com/technology/us... · Posted by u/christhecaribou
Not every one can afford the name brand.
- Sincerely a kid raised on everything store brand.
I dont think anyone's arguing against generic alternatives of name brand items. The issue here is Amazon using up-and-coming and popular products as fodder for them to generic-ize and push to the top of results, essentially knee capping the original seller.
saltymug76 commented on ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface github.com/cnlohr/channel... · Posted by u/_Microft
How old of a TV do you need to still have an analog receiver?
Most TVs with a tuner can still listen to analog signals, I'm assuming for legacy device support (game consoles, VCRs, etc.)
What would be the practical use case for this?
Like a Linux phone or more like a raspberry like device?
Otherwise useless phones would be cool as battery backed raspberry like devices
saltymug76 commented on Company offers unofficial security patches for Windows 10 until 2030 tomshardware.com/software... · Posted by u/tgol
Stop spreading FUD.
I don't think he's spreading FUD. It's a lot of trust you're placing in a 3rd party who doesn't have the source code to patch your system. Independent reviews and A B testing would help sway a lot of people, IMO.
saltymug76 commented on Below MI – IBM i for hackers silentsignal.github.io/Be... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Yeesh. What a weird area to make deep cuts. They spend all that money developing the hardware, successfully, but it needs the software in order to shine.
My conspiracy brain thinks part of the reason for the red hat acquisition was to funnel disgruntled IBM i customers into that while bleeding the platform dry.
saltymug76 commented on Below MI – IBM i for hackers silentsignal.github.io/Be... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Is the profit that low for IBM to do that? It sounds like it's an empty shell eaten by <>.
Profits fine, its just not raking in billions and billions like IBM Z is, so IBM i always gets the scraps.
saltymug76 commented on Below MI – IBM i for hackers silentsignal.github.io/Be... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
IBM may have billions of issues, but I think that the fact the IBM I is still a supported product actively developed is commendable. I doubt that are that many active clients, and while I have no doubt the prices for new equipment, support and licenses are enterprise-level obscene, for enterprise customers running 30 years old critical code on this platform, I bet they are happy IBM is not trigger happy on discontinuing products like Google, or even Microsoft.
I can speak with confidence that its hanging on by a thread. IBM has bean counted the development and support staff to the point that entire critical sections of the OS have maybe one, two people working on it. Bugs take months or years to be addressed and security flaws sometimes take just as long to get patched.
Not to mention features that were new 20 years ago get the IBM red tape and beuracacy treatment and never get implemented, alienating even more customers.