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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • 1/3 of the population isnt well represented by the choices available. Voting day is on a work day. Hell part of the non-participation might have to do with people feeling their vote isnt necessary because their candidate is locked in for their district. A lot of people just dont care about politics because it does not affect them. Theres been a lot of talk about getting more people engaged with the process but its just makes people tired and annoyed.






  • I felt the same way about youtube, streaming, shopping and general browsing: too many ads. Ruins the content. I set up a pi-hole as an experiment to see if it would do what it said and what others said about it. Manage your expectations here. Pi-hole works well for blocking a lot of static information and ads in your browser and a lot of apps on iOS and Android. It does not block video ads on Youtube or Hulu, it does not block ads for Roku or Firestick or Smart TV apps for example, it just does not work because of the technical limitations of how the PiHole software is designed. Using a regular PC with adblock browser extension installed as well gets rid of 99% of ads including video ads from adcdns. PiHole is incredibly easy to setup and install, the pay off in quality of life is enormous. I cannot recommend it more to someone that has a little networking knowledge base. If you can figure out how to port forward and run a handful of command lines you can complete a pihole setup in an hour.