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double-down and do something even more stupid. it’s what they do.

good thing the planet spins around and goes around on its own, because they’d find a way to fuck that up, too.

Book directly with the hotel

my boss always does this now, she learned her lesson ‘the hard way’ about third-party sites years ago.

do not get a vizio. that’s walmart trash now.

can those be “set up properly” without having to use a wm or google account?

am still an Android engineer, but all my TV systems are Apple TV. This should tell you everything.

i run into other cases like that… ‘i work on x but use y instead’.

hell, i work in and on windows shit and “smart” devices, but i run linux and have a flip phone.

very similar to my dietpi running on a low-power sff, except i use the hotspot app in dietpi and leave the guest ssid on the main router for stuff i dont want going through the pihole|adguard home (but don’t want on the main network)

that’s a nice idea, but when they catch-on it probably wouldn’t survive six months before breaking changes are implemented on the backend somewhere.

pi or old pc/laptop, maybe? with remote control or mini wireless kb/mouse (what i use, one with trackpad integrated) or one of these remote control sized ones?

$22 billion to get the maga propaganda machine front-and-center on more screens than cable tv ever did, and timing is just right to get it all going in time for 2028.

that’s what those worthless crypto “bonus” payouts are for.

“autopilot” shouldn’t even be used on a narrow residential street like that.

so now they’re gonna be buying more hardware, too, so they can run their own models instead.

great.

they’re also getting the benefits of solar, despite voting for the moron nixing renewables while peddling coal and oil.

States won by President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election accounted for 74% of all solar capacity installed in the first quarter

afaik windows has no native capability to control brightness setting on external displays. an optional driver for the display may be available via windows update which might allow a third-party utility to control the setting directly.

from what i know about ‘gname’ is that they’re popular with scammers and other bad actors. i would steer clear of them, even if they are ‘free’.

more than i ever got out of mine.

city power here charges households $10 a month for that, the infrastructure and ‘account servicing’; and bill usage at cost. electric distribution costs a hell of a lot more than coax. so make that hypothetical bill $20, then. better paying $20 for what you’ll use and need than $100 for wasted service. it costs the big providers a few pennies per mbps to provide unthrottled, uncapped wireline broadband in the u.s., your bill is almost entirely profit for them.

and, not to forget, just because you have 1gbps or faster download available, doesn’t mean the other end and the pipes in between can deliver at that rate.

if you don’t need it, buy a smaller package.

if that were only possible here. i’d love to pay 10 percent of my bill for 10 percent of the speed. that’d be $10 for 50mbps. the cable company ‘discontinues’ slower speeds, calls it a ‘free’ upgrade (but you don’t actually get it unless you know about it and call in and navigate their bullshit in order to actually get it ‘free’), then raises rates anyway (even on those that did not ‘upgrade’). every. single. year. the only other provider is the telephone company. needless to say, they’re even worse.

he’s not in charge of the decision to use Flock cameras

but that council or whatever it was, do make the rules (local laws, ordinances) for that jurisdiction. they could do something if they wanted to. a simple ordinance prohibiting their use within their boundaries. but they do not, and they had already made up their minds–public input be damned.