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I have never been so sure of ANYTHING as when loving YouTube asks me for the 49 billionth time whether I want to try YouTube red
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Rhyno posted:Dallas here I come. We're full. Imagined posted:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/ Only part way through it, but dang that's not an outlandish extrapolation.
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Aug 26, 2021 18:30
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kastein posted:I have never been so sure of ANYTHING as when loving YouTube asks me for the 49 billionth time whether I want to try YouTube red I signed up for it when I got ankle surgery, under the (correct) assumption that me and YouTube were gonna grow real close until I could walk again. Worth the money.
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Aug 26, 2021 18:36
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YT Red seems like such a bad business decision for them; with paid no-ads eventually the only people still watching adverts will be the ones with no disposable income 🤷♂️
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Aug 26, 2021 18:41
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Got my covid test on sunday, still don't have the results. Really helpful, that test
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Aug 26, 2021 18:42
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Darchangel posted:Only part way through it, but dang that's not an outlandish extrapolation. Cory gets decried as a doomsayer and alarmist all the time, but I fear he's more right than wrong.
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meltie posted:YT Red seems like such a bad business decision for them; with paid no-ads eventually the only people still watching adverts will be the ones with no disposable income 🤷♂️ I think you underestimate the depths to which business will stoop in order to squeeze blood from a stone.
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meltie posted:YT Red seems like such a bad business decision for them; with paid no-ads eventually the only people still watching adverts will be the ones with no disposable income 🤷♂️ And unable to install an ad-blocker for some reason. KozmoNaut posted:Cory gets decried as a doomsayer and alarmist all the time, but I fear he's more right than wrong. I've met him briefly and listened to him speak when the convention I volunteer at hosted him as Author Guest Of Honor. He was interesting (in a good way,) and seemed to be a decent person, genuinely concerned about such things. Of course it's hyperbole to an extent, but not so far as to be completely unbelievable. edit: I forgot to add to my previous post: Rhyno - what's the occasion for visiting Dallas, if I may ask?
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Aug 26, 2021 18:55
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Darchangel posted:And unable to install an ad-blocker for some reason. to loop back to the smart TV topic, it's a bit difficult to adblock on one of those without twatting about with a pihole
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meltie posted:to loop back to the smart TV topic, it's a bit difficult to adblock on one of those without twatting about with a pihole Market opportunity. Now just build it "smart" for the Edit: Also somewhere in there you became what you hate and set out to prevent in the first place. Data is the one ring, no mount doom to cast it however. trouser chili fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Got my covid test on sunday, still don't have the results. Really helpful, that test That's super annoying. I took a rapid antigen test at 12:15 and got my results back while I was eating lunch. You might have luck with the home testing kits that you can buy at the pharmacy or on Amazon.
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But I thought the rapid tests are super inaccurate? [e] Ugh, some american service members were just killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport.....Here we go Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Aug 26, 2021 19:19
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They can false-positive for original recipe SARS and false negative for people who have had SARS-Cov-2 for more than 8 days, but they're good enough for a vaccinated traveler to get into Iceland and that's my objective.
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Darchangel posted:
My best friend moved here about 5 years ago, we were here for his wedding in 2019 and I haven't seen him since. I also desperately needed a mental health escape and he invited me so here I am. We just hit some comic and toy stores which was good for my soul. Tomorrow BBQ!
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enjoy the trip it sounds fun!
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Imagined posted:A few weeks back I heard someone relate the following as a truism: there are two kinds of Laserdisc players today: ones that are broken, and ones that have been repaired. Confirm/deny? Confirm, they also multiply. I initially bought one that was minty goodness but then needed a new belt not long into it's life. Then I was given two more players...which are currently broken and I'm too lazy to fix. meltie posted:to loop back to the smart TV topic, it's a bit difficult to adblock on one of those without twatting about with a pihole I run a side-loaded cracked Youtube Premium app. No ads ever. ALso a cracked YTMusic so no ads in middle of my playlists. Youtube are VERY good at getting around PiHoles. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Aug 27, 2021 |
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The Door Frame posted:I use my Samsung smart TV as my primary device for streaming Netflix and stuff. The only problem is that the thing is a little buggy and will reset the sound every few days so that it comes out of the onboard speakers instead of my soundbar. And sometimes it will turn on my PS4 when it switches to "game mode". I actually like the crappy Samsung TV channel program because they have Rifftrax as a channel and it's the perfect background noise We have an early Samsung 4k smart TV as our main TV. Most of the apps on it either don't work anymore, or are so slow that they're pointless (Plex takes about 10 minutes to load, about a minute to respond to each button press... Netflix is chopping as hell even without 4k now, etc), so it has a Roku 4k hooked up to it. And an antenna. Gotta say, the built in TV guide for the over the air stuff is pretty neat, I didn't expect it to have that. It's still a bit sluggish, but it's better than blindly flipping channels. The built in clock sometimes jumps by an hour in either direction though, which obviously throws off the guide by a lot. Rhyno posted:Dallas here I come. I'm sorry. Make sure to check out I-635.  The intersection at I-30 and I-35E is also a blast!
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Rhyno posted:Dallas here I come. Whataburger, In-N-Out, Culvers. In that order.
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Humphreys posted:Youtube are VERY good at getting around PiHoles. Owned by a advertising company that created one of the major browsers and also one of the major OS platforms as well as a major contributor to many open source projects Yup, they would be.
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Aug 27, 2021 06:07
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Pihole can’t block Youtube ads for a much simpler reason, the ads are served from the same servers as the video you’re trying to watch. Block them with DNS and you can’t watch anything at all.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Whataburger, In-N-Out, Culvers. In that order. Dude no.
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On your Android TV: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeLegacy On your phone: https://github.com/YTVanced/VancedManager YMMV, warranties are void, etc
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Can vouch for vanced, highly recommended. By vouch for i mean someone other than Google are probably harvesting my data but I don't see YouTube ads anymore.
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Smart TV and amazon/android/apple/roku TV dongle pro tip: bring them with you when you travel or if you're going to spend some time in the hospital, also bring a cheap universal remote. We brought our fire stick to the hospital and it made extended stays a lot more bearable when you had something other than lovely daytime tv to watch. It also saves you from forgetting to log out of the smart tv at the airbnb. I looked at a pihole last summer but never followed up on it, maybe I'll add that to the winter project list. On the other hand if it doesn't block youtube ads I'm not sure it's worth the time.
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I spent ages loving about trying to get a pihole working before realising my lovely ISP block me from changing the necessary settings in the router and I couldn't be bothered getting a new one.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Whataburger, In-N-Out, Culvers. In that order. why the gently caress would you tell someone to go to a California chain and a Wisconsin chain in Dallas whataburger is good though, that's legit
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NitroSpazzz posted:I looked at a pihole last summer but never followed up on it, maybe I'll add that to the winter project list. On the other hand if it doesn't block youtube ads I'm not sure it's worth the time. Aside from ads, you can also use it to block tracking and analytics, if it's on a separate DNS domain, you can block it. Including in apps etc. where you can't use an adblocking plugin. Your choice of block list determines how restrictive you want it to be. Alternatively, use nextdns.io, it's basically a cloud-based pi-hole. AdGuard is another option. I use a pi-hole at home, and nextdns on my phone, when I'm out in the world. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Aug 27, 2021 |
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I spent way too long trying to set up pihole only to end in failure We are actually getting a TN whataburger right on the way back to my moms…not life changing but I like it when I’m in Florida or on the way…the spicy ketchup is legit for fast food.
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One of the best meals we had on a recent vacation was a Five Guys burger at the Atlanta airport, but that may have been a case of hunger being the best spice as much as anything else. I will say the guy at the counter was way nicer and more chill than anybody has a right to expect a person working a fast food job in an airport with a constant 500 yard line of customers to be.
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A good burger transcends all. I am under no illusions that Whataburger is life changing but after a long drive, or days at the beach eating seafood grabbing a big bag of burgers and onion rings there has always been great. Luckily it’s just far enough away that it will be an every few months experience still. We have a five guys in town it was good when it opened and went…might take the kids again this weekend
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Five Guys is good because they are consistent across the board. Yes a bit expensive but who cares, still way better than anything cheaper. The best cheaper option is making your own.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Five Guys is good because they are consistent across the board. Yes a bit expensive but who cares, still way better than anything cheaper. Over here people often scoff at the prices of Five guys but will happily go to a pub and order an incredibly mediocre burger and fries for the same money if not more and then pretend like they didn't just get ripped off.
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It was a decent value on a layover even at $11 with the airport markup because they gave you unlimited free refills, self-service. Also better value if you like all the fixings since they charge you the same whether you want them or not. If you're a 'meat and cheese only' guy it would be a bit of a rip.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Over here people often scoff at the prices of Five guys but will happily go to a pub and order an incredibly mediocre burger and fries for the same money if not more and then pretend like they didn't just get ripped off. And then pay a tip on top of that too. There are a few burger places around here that require you being waited on, chains like Red Robin (horrible), other "burger pubs" as well and by the time you get your bill and tip you could have gone to five guys twice and gotten a much better burger and WAY better fries.
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So far we've had Dugg Burger and a fired pizza that I forgot the name if. BBQ is today!
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I don't like Five Guys. Tried several times, several different stores. Their consistency is true, it's like a Budweiser or Big Mac - you know what you're getting. It's just that in all of these cases what you're getting is crap.
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The worst burger I ever had was a White Castle vending machine burger at a Greyhound bus station somewhere between Kansas and Indiana, which does go some way toward disproving the 'hunger = best spice' hypothesis. There was no amount of hunger-spice in the world that could make that thing good.
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trouser chili posted:I don't like Five Guys. Tried several times, several different stores. Their consistency is true, it's like a Budweiser or Big Mac - you know what you're getting. It's just that in all of these cases what you're getting is crap. See, the problem with McDonald's and other fast food places is they are not very consistent tho, at least not here. The quality of a Big Mac can vary between store to store, and there are some stores that are so bad that you avoid them completely. Whether it's lovely management, employees, who knows, but I've been to many different five guys across the state and they have all been right on par. Taco Bell is another one that is very consistent through all their stores. I'm not trying to say five guys is great, but overall I like it because I know what I'm gonna get consistently. Still looking for that GREAT burger place but haven't found it yet.
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Five guys is one of the only fast food places where I can get a decent meal that's gluten free, dairy free, and HFCS free, so they're basically my favorite now. The price is annoying compared to McDonald's or something, but for the quality and volume of food you get from it, it's fair
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