I would say so, yes.

COVID definitely played a role in moving the bridge community to mostly online - but even during pre-covid times, I have seen physical clubs dwindling gradually. We had a couple of local bridge clubs, going down in numbers as days go by, where the players’ average age was deceased.

People getting busier and busier caused them to look for places to play deals after deals in a shorter period of time, and what’s better for it than an online platform ?

One good thing is that bridge is getting more and more competitive in recent times, and players have switched from “leisurely play” to “improving fast”. Unfortunately, online play has made bridge popular than ever, but the social aspect is diminishing, and there’s no way to deny that.

As for myself, I learnt bridge from my dad in my teens, with actual cards and human players in front of me, but then there was a hiatus of about 2 decades (you know the drill, life happens, family, kids, blah blah) - and after all this time when I got back to bridge again, online is what I see everywhere.

Not that it is necessarily bad - online platforms brought people “closer” from all over the world - but I do miss the bidding box, LOL.

The only peace you will find at the top of a mountain is the peace you bring there with yourself.

The only paid app that I have is Moon+ Reader Pro.

I read a boatload of ebooks on my device, and this has been my ebook-reader of choice for a while. I found it to be so good that I did the IAP, and stopped using Librera Reader.

For all that matters, I am a huge supporter of FOSS apps (that’s the reason I have only one paid app lol) - but Moon+ reader Pro beats Librera in two areas - Librera is pretty slow when it tries to open a huge file, and Librera also can’t download book covers like Moon+ does.

Someone is really obsessed with a kissing Tyson…

Now that you say that, it clearly looks like an AquaTurtle humping the shark’s a$$.

How do I unsee this?

In an instance like this, our riders have 24/7 access to Rider Support agents who will help them navigate the situation in real time

Clearly that’s what a human driver would do, but I guess those Rider Support Agents work for free, so why not fire the driver? /s

I might come across as an obsolete dinosaur (which I probably am) - but I really enjoyed the tracks from Hitman game series, especially Exploration from Hitman 2 : Silent Assasin, and then became a fan of anything composed by Jesper Kyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bGA0y40_38

Francicles…

Ever since TV remote was invented, people don’t even lift their asses off the couch and walk over to the TV to change the channel. Unless a company adapts to changing tech landscape, they can be many things, but not a company for grown-ups.

The fact that someone posted in this thread after a year made my day !!

I just read about this extension today. Seems interesting. The description says It’s supposedly doing more than just switching the UA.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/

Not going back to Jerboa unless the basic feature of searching contents other than just communities is implemented. I find this fundamental feature sorely lacking in Jerboa while every other app around there have this.

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https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/issues/27

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Kind of surprising, because this is pretty basic feature, and has been open for over two years.

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I take it that you were referring to Mull (Browser) and not MullVad (VPN service).

This seems to assume that advertisers don’t want our identifying information, and are clamoring for an alternative to tracking that lets them measure ad performance anonymously, which is just not true. Being able to uniquely identify users and target them is a feature, and getting more data points from the browser just helps add to their profiles.

The good thing is that Firefox has got some decent forks like Librewolf, which are worth exploring if one is okay with slightly delayed updates.

It was surprising to see this from Firefox, and even more unsettling was the fact that this was turned on by itself in my desktop firefox settings since the last update. So it was opt-out by default, while I expected this to be opt-in, just like their telemetry.

Not good. Nope.

Yep, someone thought of porting the awesome Freetube app to Android. It’s not as polished as NewPipe, but gets the job done. Especially at this time, it’s the only one that is working, having both a local API as well as option to use Invidious API.

I pulled the apk straight from their github page via Obtainium. You may want to give it a try.

https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid

Most Piped instances are also not working because they use NewPipe Extractor under the hood.

I have also temporarily switched to FreeTube for Android, because a few of the Invidious instances are still working fine.

The nice thing about the FOSS world is that it’s pretty easy to import subscriptions and other stuff from NewPipe to FreeTube.

I hope this YouTube fuckery is handled soon. I love NewPipe way more every time it successfully deals with the YT weirdos.

Most Piped instances are also not working because they use NewPipe Extractor under the hood.

As someone else said in this thread, I have also temporarily switched to FreeTube for Android, because a few of the Invidious instances are still working fine.

The nice thing about the FOSS world is that it’s pretty easy to import subscriptions and other stuff from NewPipe to FreeTube.

I hope this YouTube fuckery is handled soon. I love NewPipe way more every time it successfully deals with the YT weirdos.