bOTh SiDEs 🙄

Yes, I have a question. Why doesn’t anything I build look a fraction as cool as this? 😂

Religion is a helluva drug.

You made it!

Same for me, but that glorified auto complete helps a lot.

Do you do any online banking? Do you ever log into any sort of health provider website? These are just two examples of a nearly infinite list of highly private information you would not want other people seeing.

Because we also have words like quadruple, quintuple, etc which would break his theory. lol

To be fair, I probably wouldn’t wear one either if I looked like that.

The main reason is that it lets me access my home network. So if I want to watch a movie or something I have stored on my NAS, I can do that without exposing that service to the internet. Or if I want to Remote Desktop into one of my computers. And it’s a decent way to protect Internet traffic while on an untrusted public network.

I used to use the AdGuard app on my iPhone, but 1) I found for whatever reason it didn’t seem to work as well as the standalone self hosted version. The way it works on phones is that it does some sort of local VPN trickery, and for whatever reason it’s like it would temporarily stop working. Who knows. But 2) now I just have a single instance of AdGuard to manage and get its benefits on all my devices. I don’t need to maintain lists or rules for the one running at home and separately maintain rules in the phone app version.

I have AdGuard set up at home and OpenVPN so I can connect to my home network and route all my traffic through it. Gives the same ad blocking ability but without the need to travel with it.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/wi-fi-network-criminal-liability.html#what-happens-if-someone-engages-in-illegal-activity-using-my-wi-fi-connection

If you knowingly share your connection with someone else and then they go on to do illegal activities with it, you can be held liable.

And not to mention liability issues if you share a network like that with neighbors. If they start doing illegal stuff while connected to your router, you are on the hook for it.

Cries in Apple.

Have you tried The Universim?

Pokémon Red/Blue, Stardew Valley, and then Borderlands games. Honorable mentions: The Witcher games, Fallout series, some of the Assassins Creed games, and Baldur’s Gate 3.

What’s your new career?

Oh yeah, I definitely agree. Just pointing out it’s nowhere near as difficult/complicated to build or maintain apps for multiple platforms like it used to be.

To be fair, there are frameworks like Flutter nowadays that let you build your app once in one language and it will build/compile an iOS, Android, and web app for you.