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You should not trust Amazon. Multiple Ring privacy failures, including giving video footage to police without consent, Amazon employees watching Ring video footage without consent, then there’s stuff like Sidewalk that uses your home network as part of a mesh network, collection of biometric days via palm readers at Whole Foods for checkout, which they then use for their Amazon One service that they sell to businesses to verify age and identity, the whole “AI powered” Just Walk Out tech in physical Amazon stores that turned out to be not AI at all but a bunch of Indian subcontractors watching video cameras, etc, etc, etc…

Gandalf the Bae: * looks down * … I have no memory of this place …

I’ve moved to Garmin now, but I have an ocean’s worth of salt over Pebble as well.

LET US LISTEN TO YOU IT WILL BE FINE.

IGNORE ME!

My solution to this problem is Jellyfin, fed by usenet-backed sonarr/radar and Tubesync to pull in YouTube channel subscriptions. Those are added to a Jellyfin library which is accessible right next to movies and tv shows.

This is all through the Jellyfin app on a 2019 Nvidia Shield Pro. It’s a perfect couch-friendly setup. For just regular YouTube browsing, SmartTube can be installed on the Shield and on your phone. You can then cast to the SmartTube app on the Shield instead of to the YouTube app.

You may also want to look into Usenet instead of torrents when you’re researching. Sonarr/Radarr/Readarr etc all work (in my opinion) better with Usenet.

You’ll need to pay some, but the reliability is amazing, which is extremely helpful for the partner acceptance factor. I pay for two providers (newsdemon is primary and eweka is a backup) and two indexers (drunkenslug and nzbfinder), and everything has been rock solid reliable for years. Download speeds are also MUCH faster than torrents.

Combine this setup with overseerr (or jellyseerr) so your partner can find their own things to download and you might be able to get them back on board.

Plus, no flaresolverr required!

Confused man it sounds

And Innovis

“Would you kindly vote against your interests?”

The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in

My Cherry Blues: I’M DOING MY PART

North Korea just prints their own money!

Why you little…

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my meme. Prepare to die.

I didn’t buy “one year” of gameplay I bought the fucking game.

That right there is the root of the overall problems we’re seeing: licensing, and the increasing willingness of assholes with MBAs to use licensing as a weapon to increase profits.

When you pay your money, you’re not getting anything but the right to use the thing for as long as the company decides to let you keep using it. They take your money AND they retain the right to revoke or change the license whenever and however they want.

The only way to win this kind of game is to a) not play it, and/or b) take to the high seas.

Hey all you cool cats and kittens, my husband is alive and well in “Costa Rica”

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I mean, to Twitter employees he’s already kind of a SpockBeard version of Jo Bennett from The Office:

Now, you all must be in a tizzy. I can see it on your faces, I mean, what’s going on now? I mean, who owns Dunder Mifflin Twitter? Right? I mean, Sabre X? What’s that? Some company I’ve never heard of? Down in Tallahassee Hawthorne? Where is that? Near Mars?

https://youtu.be/mTVVuXn9hoo

And let us not forget the Quake soundtrack by Trent Reznor