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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
I haven't read any news in about 4 or so months.
Previously, I was glued every day doomscrolling multiple news sources and subreddits a day.
In a way, it's putting my head in the sand. But to be completely up front, my mental health has benefited significantly.
I'm mostly like that now too and yes, it's healthier.
Have returned to Firefox and it was far less painful of a transition than I thought. After figuring out some video rendering issues (stuttering caused by hardware acceleration, and tearing fixed by setting monitor frame rate to max) there are only upsides so far!
I returned to Firefox (after years of using Chrome out of laziness) on my work laptop because of Google's manifestly (ha) stupid decision to block functionality that means uBlock Origin no longer could be installed, which means I had no way of manually adding extra filters to block the garbage AI Overview in el goog search results.
Honestly think I should just switch to Firefox on my personal computer too. I use Iceraven on my phone which is a fork of Firefox, anyway...
This is why I returned, though I was using Edge and they haven't set a date yet for ending Manifest V2 support. Figured I'd get ahead of it. The uBO team also say it works best on Firefox too.
I use Brave on my phone, because of its inbuilt ad blocker - I can watch YT videos without all the ads before, during, and after the vid lol idk about it's other functionalities however.
I can use uBlock Origin in Iceraven on my phone, which probably has a similar-ish outcome (though it's slower at keeping up the YT ads arms race, every so often ads will slip in)
However, I instead watch YT on a Revanced patched version of the Youtube app, which blocks ads, uses Sponsorblock (skip all the sponsored segments and if you want to skip intros/intermissions/outros etc), and very importantly, lets you have background playback - I couldn't be happier with it! Especially when I want to have some 3 hour brown noise + rain video playing in the background while I doomscroll
I had to work on some spreadsheet stuff this morning. My dock stopped working so a lot of it was done head down on one laptop screen. So now I feel a bit uugh and need longer screen free time than my walk at lunch
This is the first morning so far I've woken up and thought "it's pretty damn cold".
Icicles on bicycles โ๏ธ
looks at the date ๐ง
Woke up 7 times in 8 hours. Yay...
