Quick PSA: they don’t currently block VPNs, so you can sign up for an account in a cheap country (I picked Nigeria) and use a foreign currency debit card (I use Revolut) to get Premium for like £1.50 a month for my entire family.

If they close that loophole then I think I’ll be done with it, the ads make it basically unusable these days.

/r/webdev and /r/formulae are the main ones I miss.

This is how I do it.

I pay for Netflix, Prime (only really for the free shipping), Disney+, Apple TV+ and Spotify, if it’s not on any of these then I’m going to pirate it.

The whole exclusivity stuff is just rubbish, I get the reasoning but if you can’t make your content easily accessible then I just don’t want to pay for it.

YSK that YouTube Premium can be bought over a VPN for a whole lot less than the regular retail price, it’s a bit fiddly to set up but I’ve got a Nigerian based family account that costs me £1.76 a month.

This is the thing that got me.

I never used to mind ads that much, yea they were there but the sites had to earn money somehow and advertising was a fair way for them to do it. I’m not going to pay a subscription for every site that I want to visit.

Then one time I was looking at jeans on GAP and was bombarded for the next 3 weeks with ads for them on basically every damn site I visited.

I don’t hate ads that don’t track me about and are obnoxious in their presence, but that just doesn’t exist anymore.

Both of these.

American Gods really pissed me off though if they had stuck to the books it could have been an amazing series with great characters and weird but fun storylines in a unique setting. But they added too much stuff and there was a total mess with the show runners leaving so it all sort of fell apart before one of the best plot lines of the whole story.

I kinda want to rewatch it again someday though…

I have friends who are big time LOTR fans who absolutely hate it and didn’t get past the first couple of episodes.

Me - who has no context around the whole thing - found it kinda entertaining :/

If you want to move them elsewhere(or even just get a csv export of them) there are apps for that.

https://freeyourmusic.com will let you pay a one time fee to do it to as many services as you want, it’s a bit slow but it’ll get there eventually.

I like Invasion but it’s always felt like popcorn entertainment, silly contrivances that advance the plot, characters that do things out of character, a decent amount of action but nothing particularly deep and hardly “prestige” TV like The Last Of Us.

So - for me - the first episode felt pretty on-brand.

Already had my 3 year old melt down at me three times this morning:

• Once for not finding her the right Peppa Pig sock
• Once for not taking her to the shop (we were out of coffee and milk)
• Once for not buying her the right juice from said shop

I’m now hiding in the bedroom whilst drinking my coffee in peace.

It’s gonna be a long day…

It is very different:

• Tabs are always vertical which is better for todays ultrawide monitors
• You have the ability to pin tabs to the sidebar which means that whenever you’re on a particular site (not page!) they’re stored in the same place
• Other tabs are ephemeral, they’re open for at most the 24 hours from when you use them, then they get cleaned away
• There are separate workspaces; like swappable sidebars that you can use to - for example - keep work and personal tabs separate
• The vast majority of commands (going to a tab, getting to settings plus loads more) are access via a Stoplight like global search control
• You can “boost” a particular site and change its style sheet to be different colours - this can be handy if you’re a developer and need to be extra careful when working in a production environment.

That’s just the stuff off the top of my head, there is probably more.

Sorry, missed the Android requirement.

It has just been released for windows though

If you want something a little different, try arc it doesn’t behave like pretty much any browser I’ve used but it’s certainly a unique take on it

Obvious answer is obvious

Fight Club

Needed office for my Mac, internet was terrible and I couldn’t find it legitimately to download anywhere (these were the days before Office 365)

Took a shot at an eBay listing, got sent a burned DVD with an OEM product key written on it sharpie

It worked, but I wasn’t particularly happy

Our first family holiday to Wales.

• Didn’t realise the drive would take 6 hours
• Oldest kid is somewhat on the spectrum, we stupidly didn’t talk about it before we left
• Kid decided he didn’t like it the moment we pull up to sign in and wanted to go home
• We tried to stick it out but he just complained about everything
• 2 days in youngest kid starts doing the same
• The wife starts feeling sick too, turns out eldest was actually sick from nursery
• Wife gets sicker than she’s ever been, can’t get out of bed
• Everything is horribly expensive (it was some knock off center parcs thing) which we didn’t really budget for
• It rains the whole time
• Everyone is in bed the most of the days, have maybe 1 nice afternoon
• No one sleeps through the night, spend most of the time lying on the floor hard floor
• Decide to come home after 4 days even though we paid for 7

Massive waste of time, money and energy, going somewhere shorter and cheaper next time!

Not OP, but those people are just not my friends any more.

We had one person in our group say she wanted to delete facebook and we were all “Yea, alright then” and just moved that group to discord.

I’ve still got an account but use it way less these days since all the people I really cared about were in that group.

+1 for 1Password

The app is fast, the service is great, I never have problems with the login prompt pop-ups coughNordPasscough and sharing credentials is super easy. It even works well when you’ve got multiple accounts for home and work, something other providers really seemed to struggle with.

I’m also a Fastmail subscriber and the integration between the two is awesome, you can create disposable (masked) addresses that aren’t tied to your main account in anyway right from the website form, if they start spamming you then you can just kill the address and nothing has leaked.

WhatsApp for family Discord for friends Slack for work iMessage / SMS for everyone else

Their software is very early and honestly not quite fully baked yet.

The search engine is great though!