i had a super stable provider for years that was shutdown by the fed and have been itching to find another US-based provider. hoping this new directory helps accomplish that!

sure, jan 🤷‍♂️

zoot's suggestion is probably the simplest, but if you're feeling adventurous you could get a raspberry pi and setup a pi-hole server to intercept your internet traffic and redirect ad requests to a null domain

i miss techtv every single day. found a trove of old screen savers episodes i put in a youtube playlist that i sometimes watch to scratch the itch. what a magical time to be alive

damn, this looks pretty amazing. thanks for sharing!

hate to say it, but this literally is the way... 🤣

eta: ah fuck, you're on lemmy-lemmy. kbin made this appear as if it originated on their server

i do own a steam deck and can say with certainty that, after seeing how well it's handled every game i've thrown at it, i will be switching my primary pc to linux once support for win10 ends

i got a steam deck a few months ago and am constantly amazed at how well it performs. in fact, assassin's creed 2 plays better on the deck than it does on my seven-year-old gaming rig

needless to say, once windows pulls the plug on 10 i'm fully converting to linux and not looking back