Ahh, going to the Google news webpage on my phone does give me quite different results compared to when I swipe left from my phone's home screen.
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Interesting. I mindlessly swipe over to the news feed on my Pixel more than I'd like to admit, and it only gives me horoscope type stuff very rarely... Definitely not frequently enough for me to bother trying to block it. I wonder why you're seeing so much more of it?
I've been using whatbox as my seed box for nearly 10 years now. I'm on their USD 15/month plan, and they've upgraded my storage & bandwidth twice now in that time without increasing my costs.
Can anyone recommend some stable general purpose instances that federate with dbzer0? I believe lemmy.world defederated, as the link doesn't work for me. I had a kbin account, but that seems to be dead, and I'd like to minimize the number of accounts I have to use to access things.
Wait, what? My cat only spoons with me when I lay on my left side, so of course I prefer laying on my left side now. Does he know something I don't??
- A seed box (Whatbox). I'm paying USD 15/month, and they've actually upgraded my storage and bandwidth twice now without any price increases. I think I've been using that for roughly 10 years now. At this point, it's cheaper than any single streaming service, while allowing me access to basically every TV show and movie ever produced, and I can easily share my library with friends via Plex. Now that I have *aars, it's very little effort to keep up with my favorite shows.
- Whatever the YouTube music thing is called now. I signed up when it was brand new, and while I occasionally consider going back to piracy for music, it's just not worth the effort for me these days, but I am extremely opposed to ads.
- Amazon Prime. I should probably cancel, but I don't have a car and definitely utilize the same day delivery quite often.
- Housing. Do mortgage payments & HOA fees count as subscriptions? Lol. I definitely get a lot of value out of housing, and appreciate the fact that I don't have to wonder if my landlord is going to renew my lease each year.
I was living in a house with a few random housemates.. people that I didn't even meet until I had moved in. They were okay.. nothing amazing, nothing too terrible. Somehow, the person I was on the date with realized that they used to know one of my housemates, and absolutely hated them, and wouldn't stop talking about all of the reasons why my housemate was a terrible person.
I've somehow lost rolls to cats rolling in either direction, so my TP roll is now often found in the cabinet above the toilet.
They've been my go to for headphones & speakers for a while, but my last few purchases of different models all ended up getting returned due to the same connectivity issues. Sitting at home, the headphones are fine, but when I'm out for a walk, they experience some sort of interference that causes the music to skip/stutter. I still have an old, long discontinued, pair of Anker earbuds, and when I go for the same walk with those, there's zero connectivity issues.
Garmin. You'll probably spend a bit more on the hardware, but there's nothing locked behind a subscription. I had the Fitbit Sense and switched to the Garmin Forerunner 265. If the skin temperature sensor is important to you, you'll want a different model, but that's the only thing I've noticed as missing so far.
Niche interests and/or local stuff. My city has basically no activity over here, so I still browse the local subreddit regularly.
My current phone game is ∞ Loop. Just a simple puzzle-type game.
I also like a variety of solitaire card games, but the app I used to like has become quite enshittified, and I haven't found a good replacement.