ramenandtrance

If I allowed tracking, which I don't, the ad companies wouldn't know what to make of me. Middle age white guy devops nerd into manga, anime, fishing, ramen, lo-fi, and coding. Yet, I wear Wrangler jeans, boots, and drink wine. Even my wife thinks I'm an oddball. My kids think I'm cool until it's bed time on a school night and then howls of "Dad, what about Gundam! It's almost over. We promise!"

What ads? I block them all, at home, at work, and do the same for friends and family. The only ads I see are the half second ads during my DVR playbook, and then skip. I pay for the Internet, for email, for the software I use. I'm not suffering through ads. One project I'm working on is sorting out how to get the Pi-hole to block YouTube ads 100%. I don't see them on my Linux latops because of Nano Adblock, but my kids see them on their iPads. For some reason no one (yet) seems to be able to sort out how to block ad content on YouTube 100%. There has to be a way.

I think this is what happens when we have a "feudal system". People have given over control to a few feudal lords. We increasingly don't control our infrastructure or data. We are seeing the consolidation of power into the hands of a few powerful organizations. Once you get locked into your walled in garden, it's difficult to leave, be this for developers or end users, and these organizations know it.

The beauty of iOS over Android is one of cohesiveness. Android seems "balkanized". Is something deployed guaranteed to work across all Android devices? I'm firmly in the iOS camp as an end user and my now-decreasing development efforts are on Linux, primarily Python and Bash (systems deployment and maintenance). Android, while nice on a Pixel (friends) seems almost broken on other devices.

The joy of using Mutt. Plain text and no flashy markup or images.