swizzlestick

Odd one. Accessible using an app, not on browser though.

Will need an alternative if you need to port forward, but for general use you can't fault them

UK is implementing law for age verification on nsfw content, that's the jist of it.

Some services are choosing to simply not serve the UK rather than deal with the faff and/or the privacy concerns. lemmy.zip where I am from is one of them.

Blame lies squarely with the UK gov & Online Safety Act. It's a shit law made to pander to the 'think of the children' types that are incapable of parenting, also coming with the bonus of grift and doxxing concerns by companies that move in to provide the service.

I don't blame any site operator that chooses to simply not play. VPN goes on, normal service resumes.

Magic :)

A microphone that the product user willingly carries around all day to record their actions, conversations, and (if given access) email etc. Of course Amazon want it. It's a privacy-busting, user metric/advertising wet dream in a wristband.

So many varieties, it would be like trying to list "stew".

Frequently contains garlic, so go with no just to be safe. Our creature (in pfp) loves the smell and always thinks he's getting some, bless.

What dongle exactly and have you updated the firmware on that?

I have an old conbee II & they pair up just fine. I use a blueprint to take action on the zha events they fire when buttons are pressed.

Both the mice I use are Logitech.

Marathon M705 in work. Bought in 2017 and still trucks away in my 9-5. Fantastic scroll and enough buttons for convenience. Batteries last seemingly forever.

M510 at home. Bought in 2022 and no troubles. Has done me well in the same non-competitive gaming role, but you might appreciate a few more buttons.

Both use the unifying protocol. Both are pretty cheap too.

There's a world of difference between day 1 and the current build as well. Definitely take another look if you haven't recently. Devs finally waking up haha.

Favourite part so far has been the lighting system & ragdolls. If you whip a car fast enough in reverse and hit a sweet spot on the swing around, you can send Z flying like baseballs.

RAID1 with 8 drives is definitely in the funsies department

B42 multiplayer can't come quick enough...

Have you tried unstable in SP yet?

Not for me I think. On desktop, seems to be much like Tesseract but a little less busy. Alexandrite is just about tolerable and the default frontend is acceptable with dark theming. Newer frontends seem to focus more on big images and spoon-feeding posts bit by bit in a scrolly, algo-friendly manner. I'm more of a reader, so lots of scrolling for comparatively little output won't ever get along with me. It's like having a restaurant menu read out to you at the table dish by dish, instead of just simply being given the menu to pick from.

Can't comment for mobile, as a dedicated app will beat any web based frontend. There's just no use case in a mobile frontend for me.

Favourite will always be mlmym; hoping it continues to be maintained in forks as it seems to be mostly abandoned by the original author. It puts the most info in the space available, while remaining spartan and uncluttered.

Alternatives are always good though, even when they don't fit personal preference. I can see how others who have settled on the newer frontends up until now might appreciate Blorp a lot. I realise I am old, grumpy & in the minority on this one.