Generally temp-whitelisting the base domain lets you move around the website while blocking all this garbage. Not always, unfortunately. I tend to nope out of websites that don’t work after that unless I’m trying to shop for something, and then I just accept my fate if there’s no alternative shop to turn to.

I saw something similar to this once. I think it was just a computer error. Couldn’t start the car, all the lights came on. I pulled the key out, waited five minutes, car started with a check engine light.

Yep, the Kagi Assistant. I think you can turn it off but like DDG it’s on by default.

After looking up the person behind Collective Shout and seeing she was Australian didn’t exactly come as a shock to me. They have some bizarrely uptight censorship where video games are concerned.

Yep had a player like that. Would also be upset if he couldn’t do literally anything he wanted.

There’s also that one pharmacy the billionaire runs. Cost Plus Drugs I think? Not to shill, just hoping to help people.

We actually wound up deciding to give a cuban mop a shot.

Conversational Model Therapy

Opinion: I think curiosity about sex/pleasure starts a lot younger age than I feel most people are comfortable acknowledging/talking about openly.

Thanks!

I do have some very old stuff stockpiled, could always crack open a case.

One of my relatives’ primary concerns isn’t ticks, it’s mice getting into the house. Is that a valid concern? Personally I think just keeping a couple of indoor cats would offset encroaching rodents.

Awesome, thank you!

You can track pretty much anything on BookWyrm. If it’s not already listed in one of the instances’ directories, you can add it yourself.

Oh, sick! How? I’d love to start sharing them to Lemmy and getting conversations going.

It is not, not to confirm.

Fun tip for anyone reading this: You can probably get library cards to multiple libraries too. I live in MA, so I have one to my local library (which on Libby/Overdrive is several libraries that decided to roll up together under one banner, so that was cool), and to the Boston Public Library which naturally has a giant selection. Wait times can be long for newer stuff, but the more library cards you have the better the odds of getting something sooner than later.

I’ve looked at Storygraph and Bookwyrm. Storygraph is leaning pretty heavily into AI usage, so take that as you will. I, personally, did not like it so I bounced (I didn’t think it was adding anything useful–maybe they’ve improved it since then.)

Bookwyrm is federated, so you pick an instance you like, etc etc. Bookwyrm’s federation means that the same book will be scattered across instances, which makes doing review research a little difficult, but their search function is pretty solid for pulling all the books in, so at least you don’t have to work too hard to find what you’re looking for. It’s also reliant on the community for filling in metadata/adding new books, and I’m kind of shocked at how frequently people don’t put in basic metadata, but it’s not the end of the world for me.

I do really like the “community” vibe of Bookwyrm. I’ve even found someone I started following for reviews because their tastes/opinions line up with mine.

Both services have solid import options for moving off Goodreads, but I will say I think Storygraph’s is a bit better than Bookwyrm’s for that.

EDIT: Also worth mentioning that Storygraph paywalls some features, and Bookwyrm is completely free.

Agreed. There’s a gradient of what I do with potatoes based off how many there are. Just one or two? Baked. Three or four? Hasselback. More than that? Mashed.

I have tried and made other variants (chantilley, duchess, twice baked, etc) and they were fun and tasty (and generally more work than they’re worth unless you are impressing guests), but those three are my go tos.

I will give it this. It’s been actually pretty helpful in me learning a new language because what I’ll do is that I’ll grab an example of something in working code that’s kind of what I want, I’ll say “This, but do X” then when the output doesn’t work, I study the differences between the chatGPT output & the example code to learn why it doesn’t work.

It’s a weird learning tool but it works for me.