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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • When watching over-the-air television, I mute the TV and look away when ads come on.
    You can show me all the ads in the world but you sure as fuck can’t force me to engage.

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    God help those fuckers when I finally fall down the TV Tuner + Jellyfin + TVHeadend rabbithole. I’m gonna “Live Pause” that shit or I’m gonna straight up DVR everything I wanna watch and skip the ads.
    And my parents watch much more OTA TV than me so you bet your ass I’m setting up every TV in their house with a cheap trustable Android TV stick and teaching them how to Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward. Fuck ads foreverrrrrr.








  • I was gonna say this could be a way to make account sharing more annoying, so say if you go to a friend’s house and you gotta fiddle to log in with the remote instead of picking up your phone and starting a cast they might be motivated to get their own subscription.
    But it seems you can still log into an account by scanning a QR Code, so… ehh???


  • I could do something simple like a NUC or equivalent and a tiny NAS

    Literally me rn. A tiny second-hand Dell Optiplex with a 8th gen i3 and a 2TB SSD.
    Maybe not the most future thinking solution since it can only fit 2.5" HDDs and NVMe’s, which are both more expensive than conventional big fat HDDs, but hey, works great.
    If you can find one for cheap locally and get a decent deal on a compatible drive you’re set. You could stretch a Terabyte or two for a while as long as you’re not trying to host Jellyfin for too many people (and are OK deleting watched Shows/Movies when you start running low)