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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • lol.

    Just search for Purism customer support experiences.

    I’m honestly amazed there hasn’t been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.

    All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.

    Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there’s a sizable market for it.

    Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:

    Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.

    Customer pays

    Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.

    Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told “No Returns”

    There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.









  • Is your phone using your pi-hole for DNS? Or is it using Android/WiFi configured to use custom DNS e.g. 9.9.9.9, 1.1.1.1, etc.?

    DuckDuckGo’s Android app’s VPN based ad blocker works to block it’s ads, at least for me. I don’t have a link to their host file though.

    Check your Pi-Hole logs to see if your phone shows up, and if so, open Sync and see what pops up in your logs.





  • There are good business use cases for Pi’s, you can search online to learn more if you want.

    That’s not the issue. The Raspberry Pi Foundation stopped supplying retail resellers and shipped 99% of ALL of their inventory to business customers for the past several years. Which is why you can’t find consistent stock, and why scalpers are mysteriously the only ones able to have reliable inventory.

    It’s not a secret, you can look up any number of news stories covering it. Originally they could blame the chip shortage, but long after that’s over, they’re still diverting almost everything they manufacture to business channels, and screwing over the hobbyists who built their brand.

    Screw them. I’m not supporting them with my money ever again, and I have double digit amounts going back to the RPi2.



  • I still use it via the limited 3rd party apps that are still available, but my usage has dropped by 90%.

    Lemmy is mostly fine for news sharing and commenting, but my more niche subs aren’t really built out enough here yet. I’m relatively hopeful that Lemmy will continue to grow, and the non-meme communities will grow with it.

    JFC the meme communities are everywhere here. I block all that I find. Maybe that’s how Reddit is now as well, but my subs had been curated and fine toned over a decade so I didn’t see the content I wasn’t interested in.