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Buying isn't always the best option but don't forget about potential appreciation and tax write-offs in your financial decisions.

There is no doubt that pihole works for some people. I'm just giving my honest review: it didn't work for me. It blocked too much. I asked for guidance and got a lecture about privacy.

And I did find a solution, just not with you product :)

Can't find it, it may have been on chat.

But I did find a very similar request here with a work around: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/49ckht/feature_requ...

So I understand you don't control the lists, but you do control the oobe and it seems like it might not be working for some people.

You can whitelist but it isn't easy for non-technical users and becomes a huge chore.

And this story is 100% accurate. I'll try and find it.

Yes, it was. In fact, I think it was you personally, lol.

They may be suffering in silence. Ask them if any sites or emails seem broken.

I spoke directly with the pihole maintainers. They took a Hardline position that them blocking email from my city was the right thing to do because it used click tracking or some other metric gathering and was deemed a privacy risk.

I understand the devotion to a cause but it was too myopic for me.

Yes you can. But having non-technical people verbalize the need to whitelist a domain is incredibly painful.

How do I edit the hosts file on my iPhone?

I tried pi-hole but my family couldn't make it work. Pihole blocks a lot of content they want to see, for example, email newsletters from our city gov. I understand why (privacy/tracking concerns) but it was just blocking too much and frustrating non-technical users in my house.

They keep your cc on file so the next transaction is simply a text message.

Boobs

For some people, Google sheets was their first spreadsheet and people tend to stick with what they know.

The working class will be too busy trying to keep up. There won't be time for a revolution.

> I'm 40 this year and as a milestone birthday

It's only a milestone if you make it a milestone. You don't have to participate in these made up events if you don't want to.

I'd recommend the book "a guide to the good life" by William Irvine. It may help you transform your "anhedonia" from something negative to something positive.

They would use Verizon if anything

A nice lesson for the rest of us to learn.

> can't win

You are buying national brands. Try something a little more local

Different priorities. The goal isn't to make beautiful software. The goal is a system flexible enough to meet the users needs.

I also think it is a cultural. See SAP's blog entry "Why users might think their SAP user interface is crumby" https://blogs.sap.com/2015/09/15/why-users-might-think-their...

I don't have unlimited ram and am not interested in subsidizing the companies cost at the expense of my resources.

The upvote is an implicit down vote for other things.

I think you need two things. First an upvote/downvote so that users can express their agree/disagree. This value wouldn't necessarily effect the visibility of the content. Second, a sort of budget system where users can trade earned karma to classify an items "quality".

I think this would lead to a system where you would spend your karma on the communities you care/know/like the most. If I were, for example, a blind apple hater, the upvote/dowmvote makes it easy to downvote apple content or upvotecother content to push it down the page. But I may be more inclined to save my karma for promting Android content instead.

Think about contentious issues like abortion, politics, vim vs emacs and the comments that could arise

"Those other people should die in a fire"

"But you should shoot them too, just in case"

These might be funny, light-hearted, sarcastic, and quality in some topics and angry, mean, toxic in others.

I'm sure it is being worked on but I don't see it happening anytime soon. It seems like it would require to much training and that the biases of the trained data would still produce incorrect outcomes.

"sentiment analysis" is flawed because it lacks broader context of the conversation. A negative/angry/abusive comment can still be a quality comment depending on the comments upstream.

This assumes the user is accurate in his interpretation of a comment.

Once they learn that "a" makes comments more visible and "b" makes them less, it just becomes an agree / disagree vote

The author makes a distinction between an online"community" and "society". He posits that trying to maintain a community with individual votes is foolish since it makes the votes an "agree/disagree" vs "this is a high quality/low quality".

We don't have the technology to do this. It relies on the users to make an effort to accurately rate quality instead of using them a blunt force tools, eg : rating something you don't agree with as "off topic"

> I am lost at what Google attempts to gain with this

I'm finding this hard to believe. China has over a billion people. Google would be insane to ignore it.

Ask open ended questions that get them talking. Avoid leading questions. Avoid yes/no questions. Don't ask if they would buy it (they will lie to be nice). The book mentioned in other posts may help.

You don't need to convince users that you want to help them and this is a useless task. If a user won't talk to you, find someone else to talk to. If you can't find anyone, offer incentives (free lunch meeting, etc).

To listen better, dig deeper into why they are asking for something. Example: I read of a company that kept getting requests for ftp integration. The founders recognized that what the users really wanted was more file based features. The users wanted ftp because that is what they knew. The new features became a big selling point.

Reframe the question

"How do I get the girl" may work for a particular girl but is that healthy for you long term?

Reframe: what traits do partners appreciate and how do I cultivate them?

Much better, right? And the goal becomes long term "being better" instead of short term "dating girl in cubicle 7"

This also has multiplier effects: now you can be better in all areas, not just the "getting the girl" area. This may lead to more money or other goals.

Practice lots of empathy and selfless improvement. Don't focus on girl, job, monetary figure. Once you "get" them, if you "get" them, you will be lost again.

Focus on being a better person. Then you will appreciate the things you have and will have the mindset to maintain them.

You missed the point.

The test is about finding people who understand the nature of the work. It to sort out the bullshitters who will agree to anything and then deliver a terrible solution over 3 months late and over budget.

You can likely find examples in your everyday life. Pay attention next time you hear people talking about doing work. Who is the defeatist (it can't be done in 3 months), who is deluded (I can do that in a weekend), and who understands the right answer is somewhere in between (maybe we could do it if x)

Step 1: read your employees a children's book (https://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-childrens-book...)