Could be UBO blocking cloudflare. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=31575

More likely though is that you’re using Firefox with UBO and it is reading as out of date or a robot because it’s using manifest V3 and it just doesn’t like Firefox at all. I do believe someone posted the internet archive of the article though and you should be able to use that.

I’m trying out nebula because I saw your suggestion and honestly a year for $60 isn’t terrible at all. But I’m having trouble finding creators (not because the app isn’t good but because it seems a lot of the channels I follow on YouTube aren’t on Nebula. I have two devices open actively going down the list of channels I follow on YouTube trying to find channels I want to follow on Nebula and so far I am striking out pretty bad. I hope I can get half the creators I follow on Nebula because so far it’s pretty decent from what I have seen. App is easy to navigate and pretty polished etc.

Is there a way to view who’s on the service (creator wise) before paying for it? Because if not that’s the major flaw with it.

It’s likely you’re running Firefox and it’s an extension preventing it from doing the check to see if you’re human. I get this a lot for running JShelter.

This is why English does the thing. Thank you! Its something I noticed and know but couldn’t put into words.

They may very well be on to something (anyone who thought about this for a bit after the first announcement, could figure out this strategy, but it doesn’t include an important factor). Xbox is predominantly a console that lives in the living room. The most expensive Xbox series x is currently available is $729.99. The handheld they modeled this off is currently $899.99. The price increase when this handheld and it’s predecessor consoles have been popular in majority US markets, during a financially unstable time where there exist things like the switch 2 and the Lenovo Legion series of handhelds, not to mention ROG’s other handhelds may make this untenable to consumers. It’s a great idea for them to drop a handheld with an Xbox interface. It’s not a good time.

I don’t think it’s just parents falling for this or older people.

Yeah. I don’t know why the downvotes. But I was waiting to see how they Z2 go chips would compare so I watched a bunch of reviews and every review mentions the difference in RAM among other things including color way.

Fox news isn’t legally considered a news outlet. In fact we have literally seen them admit to not being one in court proceedings.

In the context of my original comment, social media companies like Meta and Reddit have fought tooth and nail to not be considered news networks or news outlets specifically because they don’t want to be beholden to the laws that regulate news outlets/networks. Jeopardizing their ineligibility to be sued for what users post (in the US) by going all in on AI LLM’s scrapers when those scrapers rely pretty heavily on news networks and other media to stay useful means they’ll starve themselves of AI scraped content, and that they’ll potentially forfeit what protections against lawsuits they have. It’s a no win situation for them to continue to bet on AI which has already largely reached the limit of what it’s capable of in current iterations because of the lack of clean organic training data.

So social media are news outlets now. Good. Glad we cleared that up.

That they trained on their own images. One of the few AI not trained on stolen data. And they’re fighting (suing) other AI companies who stole their shit. Let them fight.

I have a set of Loops and a set of off brand Loop-like ear plugs from Amazon called Curvd. I’m not a super big fan of the ear fins in the Curvd but they’re somewhat cheaper than the Loops. They come with a carry case and you can buy lanyards for them. If I’m honest though I prefer the loops.

None of those guys were particularly happy with the original slate of handhelds from everything I watched. Steve and Linus especially seemed to quibble a lot over performance and battery life. I watched so many reviews before I bought a handheld and I ended up not really enjoying the Legion Go I originally bought. It’s lovely but it’s way too big. So I ended up giving it away to my sister (who doesn’t use it as a handheld but as an entertainment center PC), and I bought myself the Ally X.

For sure though we can at least trust that Steve and Linus and Dave will put out reliable benchmarks. So there’s that.

The real question is if this is will be available for other windows handhelds. If it is, people who already have a first or second Gen ROG Ally /X will likely not upgrade. 30% increases in chip performance sounds great on paper but don’t necessarily mean anything in real world use depending on games and other specs. I can’t say because I don’t play a whole lot of AAA games on my ROG Ally X, but my opinion is that it’s unlikely to make enough of a difference to get me to buy the new one. That’s probably true for most of the people who own a handheld (including the steam deck). The suspend feature is useful, and the Xbox os optimization of windows sounds great, but I want to see side by side specs and benchmarks, and I want to know how upgradeable this thing is. You can already get a 2TB ROG Ally X for just under $1000. Is this thing gonna come in a 2TB variant? Can I dual boot steam os? Will changing the edition of windows (home to pro) lock me out of the Xbox style interface? I have lots of questions.

I did something of the opposite. I had a Verizon number. I moved it to Google voice. I had a second Google voice number that then became a google fi number. So now I have a Verizon coded google voice number (that my bank accepts etc), and a google fi number that was originally a google voice number. I’m curious how this honestly effects me. My work numbers have never been associated with my personal accounts so there’s that.

Yeah. But the ROG Ally X just got a price increase so it’s $100 more now than what I quoted in the first comment. And that’s for the 1TB version with the 2TB version costing $1000. This handheld will have less RAM and an new chip with unknown benchmarks? That’s gonna be a hard sell in markets constantly under threat from tariffs. Especially with other handhelds now available at cheaper price points. I’m not sure how much more they can sell this thing for and actually get people who already have a handheld to buy it (or entice people who have held off this long to buy it). Most people looking for a handheld are looking at buying a switch or a steam deck. The things they have going for them is mostly that they’re available for purchase in stores and Lenovo’s steam os variant is gonna be out in the wild and available by the time this thing hits shelves.

Supposedly it’s got a newer chip (Z2).

Nah. The ROG Ally X they already make with windows 11 and 1 TB is $800+tax. The ROG Ally that came before it was $700 and currently sells for like $400 or so.

The 2TB Rog Ally X is about $1k + tax. I honestly doubt they can get people to pay more than that for a handheld, regardless of the Z2 chip. They are having trouble selling the ones they currently make. Add to this that Lenovo just launched the steam os variant of their newest handheld and it’s significantly cheaper.

The windows variant of the legion go s has twice the RAM so it’s not that weird.

People would just subscribe to downvote.