Froyn

Imagine paying $1 to each name that appears in the credits of a movie or tv show, which would be paying the artists directly for their work. It’s not feasible, but that’s what I read when folks toss out paying the artist directly.

Google the model number of the modem/router and it should tell you the speed of the Wifi built in. I’m using the ISP modem/router, but I’ve disabled the router portion and installed my own.

Not since I replaced my router. 1.8Gbs is so much smoother than the 100mbs I was getting from the ISPs device.

Stremio + torrentio + Real Debrid
Works like a champ on Chromecast

20 Europbux or 17 Freedollars gets you a Read Debrid subscription for a year.
Tie it into Stremio and you’ve got everything right now.
Tie that into rclone and you’ve got yourself a fancy ‘backup’ for all those things you’ve streamed.

No VPN required.

$9 for the device - Vuse is the brand
Approx $7 per “cartridge”

$14 (on average) for a “Breeze Pro” disposable vape.

So it’s cheaper, but about the same as regular cigarettes. Even worse, quality control on the cartridges is shoddy at best and I wind up moving the coil from a decent cartridge to one that failed less than 1/4 way through. At this point it’s rare to have a coil last as long as it should.

Best way to save money is to quit. Dropped alcohol last year and THC before Thanksgiving.
Nicotine is next on the list, here’s hoping for a cheaper new year.

+10 for being able to take a document right from the printer and rub it all over without the ink smearing.

Can’t read “Cotton” without thinking of the fiddy men he traded for his shins.

The first credit score was introduced in 1989, Apple computers was founded in 1976.

Apple was the first company to create and profit from data harvesting.

Pandemic Legacy is a great game.

With no “global delete” option, couldn’t users just poison the well with GDPR requests (Article 17: Right To Be Forgotten)?

Instance owners “allegedly” run on charity and donation, so 4% of$0 is still $0.

It’s really hard to be motivated for a company that takes time from your work day to announce record profits only to turn around and decline raising wages to match.

I can’t find anything about VCR’s blocking; I did find a bunch saying the opposite.

There were copy protections that prevented a VHS -> VHS copy being made of some movies. Easily defeated, but they did exist.

My scenario was recording an Over The Air transmission onto VHS using a VCR; not making a backup copy of a movie you purchased on VHS.

Edit: I do recall a campaign against VHS recording of TV shows, but didn’t it ended basically saying “Broadcast public == public domain”?. That actually led to copy protections in VHS tapes.

Let’s get crazier.

Our current favorite show is Bob’s Burgers, it’s a comfort show we fall asleep to. Prior to signing up with real debrid I got tagged for downloading a 2 year old episode.

We pay for Hulu. We pay for YoutubeTV. We have a working OTA antenna (for when the internet goes out).
My math says I have 3 licenses, yet still illegal to download?

Here’s what it’s showing me:
$3.26 for 15 days.
$4.35 for 30 days.
$9.79 for 90 days.
$17.40 for 180 days.

I did the 90 days to try it out for $10.
3 days of “playing around with it”.
Day 4 it was linked to StremIO on my Chromecast.
Day 5 it was linked to my NAS through rclone.

Things got weird when we went digital.

1. It’s perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a tape off the radio. Yet it’s illegal to download a better copy?
2. It’s perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a VHS tape off the TV. Yet it’s illegal to download a better copy?

+1 for Real-Debrid + Stremio + Torrentio

Tack on rclone for copying them locally. (The Bob’s Burgers Archive must grow)

South Park did it.