Brian (he/him)

Well, it takes a while longer to fix. The only times it’s happened (perhaps twice in 6 months) it’s been when a family member has been trying to buy something from a website. I can also access the Pi-hole remotely and—in the worst case scenario—just turn off blocking altogether for a short period.

Yes, that does sometimes happen but the frequency depends on the blocking list used, or if multiple lists are used. When a family member encounters something like this, I can usually quite quickly identify the relevant blocked item and whitelist it.

Yes, that’s right. It would only work with TV over the internet and not with a digital signal transmitted direct to the TV via aerial.

One major advantage is that on the domestic TV channels here in the UK which have ad breaks (essentially all of them except the BBC) it removes the ads altogether and the programmes run seamlessly from the part before the ad break into the part after. I still smile every time it happens!

Another vote for Pi-hole here. I don’t know how I lived without it before!

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, although I’m not sure its subtleties could be brought to the screen.

This looks good, and I really like the clean look of the app.

I ditched Goodreads about a year ago and am currently using StoryGraph, but I’m interested in a truly FOSS app with no account necessary. It looks as though the .csv export from StoryGraph has different parameters than Openreads and Goodreads, and would need a bit of tinkering to allow the import into Openreads. I see that Openreads explicity allows Goodreads and Bookwyrm import but not StoryGraph.

All of the tiers show for me too, without me being a member or being logged into Patreon.

Ah, yes! That’ll explain it.

I use Ivory on iOS and it puts the hashtag above the post so I know it’s a post from a hashtag I follow! Quite a helpful feature.

The Home feed (in comparison to Local or Federated feeds) should only show the accounts you follow, but those posts will be made up of original posts by those you follow and anything they boost (as well as responses to and from mutual people you follow). As someone else has commented, you can hide boosts of those you follow by going into their individual profile page and choosing to hide their boosts.

You shouldn’t be getting anything else on your Home feed.

Thank you for the link. I didn’t know about Standard Ebooks: looks like a very broad range of material!

One of my favourite horror novels of the last decade is John Langan’s The Fisherman. He’s an absolutely fantastic writer.