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Today I'm donating my streaming sticks. I got a ONN brand 2k one I bought for 15 and I got an Amazon Firestick 4K I got for $3 from a thrift store because they didn't know what it was.

And I love the concept of stream sticks, I really do. Too fucking bad that corporate interests got in the way and now everything has to have a bundle of ads at every damn turn. Not even some of the things I'm subscribed to is free from ads because this is the future apparently, we're here.

Shame because I don't want to let these go and even if I were to subscribe to Netflix's ad-free subscription, that's only one source. Why do that when I can just grab a long HDMI cable, plug it into my desktop and to my TV and I can watch everything that's there, without ads because of the extensions I use to block ads.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Dual-booting, modding, or debloating Windows. And anything but the LTSC edition. It'll all fall apart within a year given the nature of Windows 10 updates. Projects like Ameliorated, while well-intentioned, are a security mess waiting to happen since you have to disable any and all updates.

So I bit the bullet on an extra laptop, exiled any Windows-specific projects, files, etc. to it and slapped on a copy of LTSC. I consider the machine compromised and only use it for what absolutely depends on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And your other machine?

'please be arch. Please be arch'

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Z-Wave. I could never get it working quite right despite purchasing highly recommended Aeotec stuff.

The MultiSensor 7s and door sensors would always report a battery level of 100%, fall off the network, and do other crazy stuff. I spent a year with a Z-Stick 7 before finally bailing a buying a fifth generation stick.

Firmware updates would take weeks because they just wouldn’t install. Constantly factory resetting them never fixed anything either.

I really hate to say it, but Zigbee ended up working much better despite living in a 2.4GHz interference hell hole.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Corporate media

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Burger King. They've messed up orders, burned food, and drowned stuff in mayonnaise too many times to tolerate.

Now I just cook frozen burger patties on the stove, and tell myself that their sides were never all that great anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Caring about my life. Im going to let the rest of this one slip through my fingers like beach sand. No need to hold on tight anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Just be aware enough to hold on whenever you encounter a nugget of beauty

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not? Still so much good and beautiful left... Saying this as someone who has seen more than his fair share of dark underbelly of society.

Sometimes it's really a dark day but seriously, cheesy as it is to say, the next day will be brighter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Politics aint looking too bright in the US. πŸ˜“

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My therapist told me that family members can't be replaced. I disagree. They can be replaced. They only become titles but titles also can be ignored.

You don't have to associate with, acknowledge or interact with the biological family members if they've proven to have been a contractual mess of toxicity in your life.

I've replaced members of my 'real' family and I got better people. People who care and support. I recommend it, to anyone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, thankfully my therapist doesn't say that but she does seem to say it's all on me to deal with and change since I can't change them, which is fair.

Thankfully I have a few folks helping me escape them, but it's a slow process.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I finally blocked my mom's phone number earlier this month. It's only taken me 7 years since she blew up at me in a way she couldn't/wouldn't take back.

It can be a slow journey and you might question it as you go, but it's worthwhile. And more people than you might expect are estranged from their families. I used to worry that my IRL acquaintances and friends would judge me for it, but nope.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Those bosses in my game that I keep dying on

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You just gotta clear the biter spawners around your factory so pollution doest trigger a ton of waves over and over.

Once you get a car drive really far in each direction because nest you have discovered don't evolve from time passing/pollution/killing spawners. Bring walls if you can and seal up choke points so you get peace of mind and can work on what's important.

Oh, and look into how to make a BUS. My first playthrough was full spaghetti. The BUS saved my life. There are guides on YouTube

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Trains are the way to go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Goddam traffic in cities skylines

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I think my brain shut off because I read this like β€œHas Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like”

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My willingness to creat things for other people.

Less depressingly: the local pizza shop fucked up my order 1 too many times. Faith in them has been destroyed, which sucks cuz they're a decently priced mom and pop kind of place, but I can only accept a wrong/missing item if I get a refund if it's not literally half or more of the time I go to your place of business!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Talk to them man. Faith needs propping up from both sides. So invest in it and say, ideally before your next order, what happened and if they please could try. It may seem as much but it may just make your experience better

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I already tried that, thus my frustration. Only so many times you can have them respond in an annoyed manner with that "of course we won't fuck it up" attitude only for it to be messed up in the same way again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Try appletv, a pirate ship and plex

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It worked well for me until at some point the audio in Plex was slightly off and there was no way to adjust anything in this damn app. I was not alone with this issue but they never did anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I hate how corporate Plex has become. Instead of making their apps better, now it's how many "free" services they can try and get you to use.

All I wanted was my hosted media. And to easily share that with family without having to manage user accounts.

I run jellyfin along side it, but Plex still gets the most use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trying to draw using vector programs such as Illustrator. Prior to settling on my beloved (Paint Tool SAI) I tried to use Illustrator, and despite the benefit of being able to blow up a drawing without losing quality, it just never sat right with me and always felt awkward.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Depends on the style, I think. If it requires any kind of gradient shading or texture, pixel editing software. If you can get away with just lines, colors, and solid shading, vector is good enough but it'll be easier on pixel editing software.

Nowadays I just work on massive files so that I can shrink them to size.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

It's Walmart's generic brand for electronics.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

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