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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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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 8 points 4 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.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Corporate media

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
  • Rombas. I had a knock off, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but it was just easier with a regular vacuum, and faster. I also feel like a normal vacuum, currently, does a better job
  • Streaming services. I got lazy, but them breaking apart everything into services has gotten me back to basic. Laptop and an HDMI I cord, I can handle the rest. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ
  • Working. However, I recently changed departments, so that will keep me quiet for awhile.
[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 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.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Stremio+Torrentio+Real-debrid and a computer hooked up to your entertainment center like you proposed. One and done, wam, bam, thank you ma'am.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 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.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago

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

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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 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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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Those bosses in my game that I keep dying on

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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

Trains are the way to go

[–] pseudonym@monyet.cc 2 points 4 days ago

Goddam traffic in cities skylines

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Try appletv, a pirate ship and plex

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 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.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 4 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.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 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!

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 4 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

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 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

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 3 points 4 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.

[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 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.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

It's Walmart's generic brand for electronics.

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