In the past my mom pirated anime while still paying for Funimation, because they had a quality service that got simuldubs and had a lot of content. Then CR bought them oit and now were stuck with this “pay for the highest tier to get all the content and no ads” and “oh it’s only on our platform until March!” and “Oops we didn’t even port over all the shows on Funimation, sorry lol!” and “Oh, like the AI generated subtitles?”

We will not be giving CR a single fucking penny. I’m close to finishing my home/media server and we’ll just watch that way or with Kodi.

Ugh, I’m so tired of this. I never had twitter in the first place, but I did used to have Instagram and I loved it for all the artists I’d follow on there. But I dropped that a year or two ago (officially deleted my accounts 😤) and just stuck with Tumblr ever since. But so many of my favorite former fanartists just REFUSE to let either service go, despite them very openly stating their new AI policies or worsening ToS policies.

I know Bluesky will turn out the same way as the others, but I’ve been trying to encourage artists to move to BS and use bridgy fed so I can still see them on Mastodon. Like you’d literally get the visibility of TWO platforms by using bridgy fed rather than sticking with just Insta or just Twitter. And yes, Instagram and Twitter have bigger numbers than BS or the Fediverse, but one day the AI issues will grow too big and you’ll lose those numbers anyway when you leave the platform. Plus how many of those numbers are bots anyway?

But it just sucks man. I only have Tumblr and the occasional visit to Pixiv as my source of fanart. Mastodon and Pixelfed are just lacking, or make it very hard to find the artists I’m looking for (and I literally joined Pixelfed.art!). I’ve tried following hashtags but it’s a little dry…

Every day I get more thankful for my hand-me-down car. It has no heated seats or anything fancy, but that also means no subscriptions, no wifi tracking/stalking, no digital touch screen over physical buttons, etc. All I’ve ever done is use a clip holder on my AC vent for my phone, so I’m used to it. It’s given me time to see how others feel about Android Auto and features in newer cars, and I can make an informed decision whenever my baby decides to kick the bucket. Hopefully I can get something not too stalkerish nor with subscriptions.

I use Zotero and Bitwarden with no issues on Librewolf, and I also use Bitwarden on mobile, but the app instead of the extension. I have use Bitwarden as an extension on mobile and it worked fine, but I can’t remember if that was when I still used FF or a fork.

Librewolf and IronFox (android) both work like a charm! Well, in IronFox’s case you might have to tweak JIT and WASM to ensure some niche extensions work, but I’m pretty sure it’s a me thing.

I also used Fennec (android) for a hot second, and that has extensions too.

Unfortunately it comes down to luck, you can check this crowd-sourced list to see if your banking app works. Users report whether or not they had (sandboxed) play services installed and what settings they toggled.

You won’t be able to use GPay/Wallet at all due to lack of SafetyNet.