Deleting my social media accounts, migrating from yahoo/google mail, using a password manager, using an ad blocker, frequent backups, all kinds of scripting automations for work, Plex, home automation, learning to fix stuff around the house by myself (some plumbing, some electrical, whatever is safe and easier - it’s hard to come by a good, available specialist these days).
Don’t buy makeup, buy yourself some backup.
Won’t metal do damage / scratch a glass surface? Is it safe?
Sell it in bulk to governments for large sums of money for which advertising isn’t their interest.
The sound of a Pentium computer booting up.
Learning DOS commands from an actual book I borrowed from a neighbor.
The first days of learning programming.
The sound of a dial-up modem while falling asleep on my desk waiting for a connection at a high usage hour (11 PM) when everybody was trying to get in on a lower tariff.
Downloading code for 3D demos - they were called “4k intros” (the challenge was to make the most complex graphics in only 4 KB), and changing equation parameters without any clue of what they do, compile and see the effect. That’s how I learned. Good days.
Prehistorik 2 with a “latest generation sound card” Creative Sound Blaster on cheap speakers.
Coding in Pascal (and later Delphi) my own tools / projects while listening to 80’s music in Winamp.
Being patient to download an mp3 in multiple sessions during 3 days, only to realize it’s a different song with the same name but by another singer.
Ripping CDs and cataloging your collection in Where Is It?
Hearing “who is the fox?” in an internet cafe room while playing Carmageddon.
Magazines with demo CDs, like PC Gamer.
The AltaVista search engine.
Parties where 5 people had to bring their 1GB HDDs so there would be enough music diversity. Of course, using Winamp visualizations as disco lights.
Tab Groups (which is a native feature, not an extension, but not sure if available on Mac)?
Or just multiple windows + Session Buddy to stowe away/restore your tabs/windows.
Omg first instinct was to downvote, but then realized the pun. Joke went whoosh
I’ve got all Meta IPs blocked at DNS level via PiHole on my LAN. I’m not that crazy to click the disable button. The gates of hell will remain closed in my house.
There are websites detecting adblockers that instruct you to disable them in order to view the website. It’s a constant game of cat and mouse between ad companies and adblockers.
And I would like to not watch and hear 3 x 10 seconds unskippable ads when one of my parents wants to show me some 30 seconds funny cat fails clip on their phone.