HornedMeatBeast

Same, also a Nova refugee using Lawnchair.

One thing I don't like though, is if you change the homescreen grid size it destroys everything and you have to start over with your homesdreen icons.

UBlock Origin works for me in Firefox, but the last time YouTube was at war with adblockers I had to retore default settings in uBlock every few days.

I can't remember the process but I think I had to reset the settings and do something with the lists.

You can also try a desktop app like Freetube. There is no algorithm through, if you are looking for that. It sometimes breaks when YouTube makes changes and everything is stored locally, so you have to back up your subscriptions if you plan on reinstalling Windows at some stage.

See if you can default uBlock Origin, that method worked before.

100% of people who drink water die.

Vaccines BAD! so I believe anything bad I hear about vaccines!

I don't think I had seen a Wes Anderson movie until about 3 years ago when I watched one with friends.

It was 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou', and my reaction to it prompted a friend of a friend to suggest that maybe I should watch more of his movies.

Now, I am no fan of certain directors or produces and know/recognise their work. I just like a movie because I like the movie.

So I cannot say if this is a good one to start off with or how good it is compared to other works of his.

Edit:

Wait, I lie.

I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel a few years before The Life Aquatic and I enjoyed that one as well.

I didn't realise that was one of his as well, but I had a hunch and looked it up.

They've... changed. Another friend of ours have noticed it as well and has been distancing himself.

I don't keep in constantly contact with them these days, but I'll play games with them at times but I share zero information with them. Seems like I am opening myself up for a lecture.

Sometimes they'll ask me what I had for dinner and I just reply with 'Noooooooooope!'.

It feels like a trap when they ask me that, so I refuse to answer. Not great having to be on constant alert around friends.

I play a lot more with our mutual friend now, he is quite chill.

Yes, and it gets a bit much at times.

I think that sometimes it comes from good intentions, as in they think they are helping by suggesting a healthy way to live to me, but it is 100% unsolicited and comes across as condescending. This pair are the kind of vegans that give them a bad name and doing more damage than good. If I had questions and wanted advice, I'd ask. I don't want to be talked down to.

I have nothing against vegans and veganism, it's their choice, but they should also respect my choices and not try and guilt me into their way of life. They have told me before that I cannot like animals if I am not vegan.

They've sent me pages and pages of 'information' to me when I mentioned I was heading to bed early because I was tired. Oh! An opportunity for them to lecture me! And a lot of what they send me is never information that has been studied, peer reviewed and widely accepted. It's always some some random YouTuber or blogger that echos their ideas and ideals.

So I have been getting bombarded with anti-vax topics from them as well as veganism.

They do also push organic on me, which I do somewhat agree is better for you, but also not everyone can afford to buy only organic food and products. Also, some modified crops are required to survive certain environments and without them I am sure many additional people would have starved by now without these crops.

I did some work at a major car manufacturer years ago and one of the staff told me after she saw how they made one of the cars she would NEVER drive that band again.

She worked in the IT department and she said they just glue the panels onto the inside of the doors.

Well... yes. This was in the 80's and 90's and it was a cheap little car and my car at the time was made the same way.

A metal door and the very thin panel on the inside was clipped and glued into place. The panel is literally nothing other than cosmetic trim and noise dampening. If it came off, nothing would happen.

It's not like the wheels or outer panels were being glued on so her fears were not really founded on anything in my opinion. Just because she worked there doesn't mean she has insight knowledge that made her an expert on whether someone should drive their cars or not.

This friend of mine used to work on site at Big Pharma.

He must know things.

Hell, I used to do work for them and other Big Pharma... they might have gotten to me and I never knew it.

Ah, I should explain. But correct, I shouldn't really include that.

I mentioned the veganism bit because they try and lecture me on my eating habits in addition to lecturing me on vaccinations.

They'd often bring up diet while we game and then when Covid hit their comments flipped over to anti-vax.

I've got some vegan/anti-vax friends and they told me at the start of Covid that the vaccine has a 100% kill rate (based on the very early testing when it was apparently given to very ill people, on their deathbeds). Zero evidence that the vaccines were the cause.

Don't take the vaccine! It will kill you.

4 or so years later and we are still waiting for literally billions of people to just drop dead, all those people that took the vaccine.

Any day now...

But really, if it killed 100% of people that quickly I'm sure we'd have seen it by now.