No that’s not it. As I mentioned in the post, these ads change based on my location. They are absolutely not added by the people making the podcast because they are not even in the same language as the rest of the podcast.

As far as I can tell it depends on the podcast. Some have ads in every episode and some never have any

Thank you for the explanation. Kinda sucks that a premium service like Spotify doesn’t even host their own content, but that’s capitalism I guess.

Sure they decide that the ad should exist, but how? When I see a mid-roll ad on YouTube for example it was put there by the person who uploaded the video but the content of the ad is delivered by youtube. Who is delivering the content of these ads?

Thanks, that’s good to know! Although this seems to be more related to sponsors. Like the podcast host doing an ad-read. I don’t mind them as much because then at least the creators of the podcast are getting all the money and the ad is not tracking me to figure out what ad to serve me. What I am referring to is more like a regular ad that you would hear on the radio that has been stitched on to the beginning of the episode.

Oh absolutely. I understand that. But is Spotify even the one who is adding/profiting from the ads? I seems like this is coming from someone else since the ads are also on AntennaPod

I get that. But is Spotify using the same third party server then? Because the ads are always the same regardless of platform

This happened to my Surface pro 4 with both Windows and Linux. Could be a hardware issue.

Loads for me. It is a video of a small device with a screen. Both ends of a usb-c cable are connected to the device and the screen shows the max power, max data speeds and other information about the cable.

Could the open-sourcing of the other drive apps lead to an unofficial Linux app?

What is misleading about this? This is clearly just a personal opinion. Just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean it is misleading.

Oh no men are calling out sexism, how terrible

Notice how it says “having sex with” instead of “raping” because she is a woman.

Glad to see the VRR being worked on with the dock. I’ve had to disable it when I am playing on my TV for now because it keeps turning off and on over and over

Flatpak usually works fine with anti cheat. More likely a proton issue like other people are saying

Its a good idea, but how would that work with federation? There is already an issue with the number of upvotes on a post differing between instances. Would polls have the same problem or no?

Edit: now that I think about it, polls are already a thing on Mastodon but I don’t know if they have these issues or not.

Bro put Tinder DMs on the list. Points for being thorough I guess lol.

Jokes aside looks really useful. Good job!

A raccoon was behind the massive power outage that knocked out electricity to some 7,000 customers in downtown Toronto for hours Thursday night.

Hydro One said a raccoon “made contact with equipment” at a downtown station, which cut the lights for parts of the city. The raccoon’s condition is currently unknown

Fucking gold

Oh so when a theraphist plays DnD at work it’s fine but when I do it it’s “slacking off” and “grounds for termination”.

For me “best game on Linux” basically just means “best game” since everything I play runs perfect of very close to perfect.

That means Terraria is the winner for me. Best game of all time IMO, and it has a native Linux port that works great.