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[Solifuge]

I started blocking ads over a decade ago. My reasons are the same as that fellow's.

I do too, but I make special effort to whitelist all the sites I can, particularly those of content creators who make stuff I enjoy, on websites with a good track-record of avoiding annoying ads.

If I can't donate to them in other ways, I'm happy to be served ads I can ignore to help them make a living.

[TempAcc]

I keep adblock off on websites that I like, but there are websites I frequent that are outright harmful without a properly configured adblock. Something something shady russian flac deposits something.

But yea, if ads in general weren't so outright malicious, then I could maybe live without adblock. Until then, no thanks.

[EnigmaticHat]

Tried to build my first PC.  Spent a long time troubleshooting it.

All signs point to power supply that arrived broken.  No lights or anything from the motherboard, no fans, did the paperclip test (or tried to at least), and got nothing. I wish I had my old PC so I could switch out the parts but alas I'm in a different state and everyone I know here has laptops.  Guess I'll get Newegg to replace the power supply.  God help me if the motherboard is also broken, that's what I was worried about the whole time.

Feels like a lot of stress and finger strain for nothing.

[TempAcc]

Building a pc on your own can be an exercise in stress since even though its not something that requires a whole lot of technical skill, there are a lot of things to keep track of and you can easily screw things up if you lose track of what you're doing, plus there's always that element of uncertainty "did I fuck up or was this piece broken from the start? Maybe I didn't connect something properly? Did I forget something?", etc.

[heydude6]

Can't you get a refund if a part arrives brocken?

[Shadowlord]

You do a rma, but probably still have to pay the shipping to send it back.

[Eric Blank]

Stupid plastic bit for the generator's ignition coil broke. We are without power for the night.
dad wrapped bailing twine around the engine and spun it without the coil starter. We have power, for the night at least.

My father also got the car stuck sliding off the driveway this morning, then again tonigh, on the opposite side, so I get to rise bright and early tomorrow and help get it unstuck.

I couldn't climb the driveway either and so had to pull the groceries and propane I bought up on the sled.
And I can't find my winter boots so I wore my normal shoes, which are now totally soaked.

Fucking cold in here too. Cannot feel my toes

[Xantalos]

X-Men Apocalypse was ... disappointing. It had the potential to be a really interesting conflict, but just ended up kinda boring, cliche, and boring cliche. The fact that they have Jean Grey as a thing that exists is also saddening.

_{fucking deus ex machina bullshit with no narrative justification special snowflake character stencil}

[Yoink]

I want to party, but first I must poop.

[Xantalos]

X-Men Apocalypse was ... disappointing. It had the potential to be a really interesting conflict, but just ended up kinda boring, cliche, and boring cliche. The fact that they have Jean Grey as a thing that exists is also saddening.

_{fucking deus ex machina bullshit with no narrative justification special snowflake character stencil}

Also it kinda sorta had really shitty character development, progress, and portrayal through it all. Which sucks.

[spümpkin]

I started blocking ads over a decade ago. My reasons are the same as that fellow's.

I do too, but I make special effort to whitelist all the sites I can, particularly those of content creators who make stuff I enjoy, on websites with a good track-record of avoiding annoying ads.

If I can't donate to them in other ways, I'm happy to be served ads I can ignore to help them make a living.

I would do this, if my computer wasn't so infected with horrible adware that if I turn my adblocker off on pretty much any site that isn't bay12 or youtube I can't really do anything but BUY NOW.

[TheBiggerFish]

Youuuuuu need to devirus your computer.

[spümpkin]

You say that like you think I haven't already thought of that

I could probably get like, a professional devirusing or whatever, but I have a better security software in place now, and AdBlocker stops pretty much everything, and I can turn it off without having total ad problems, it's just sites like Deviantart give me terrible ads. It really depends on the site itself, but I'm fairly sure I did miss some adware. I have spent a lot of time scouring through files to find it.

[misko27]

Uuggggggggggggggggggggggh.
I need to wooooork but i don't want to woooooork.
ugh.
even if I was fine with not working, i have partners relying on me too.
oy.
I'm mentally fried. I gotta stop working. But it's literally the last week, and all my shit is due soon.
But I can't do it!
Ahh!
God damn it.

[hops]

You say that like you think I haven't already thought of that

I could probably get like, a professional devirusing or whatever, but I have a better security software in place now, and AdBlocker stops pretty much everything, and I can turn it off without having total ad problems, it's just sites like Deviantart give me terrible ads. It really depends on the site itself, but I'm fairly sure I did miss some adware. I have spent a lot of time scouring through files to find it.

Are you sure it's not your moden that is infected?