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Apple definitely now has the top tier hardware for sure… but I just cannot stand the pervasiveness of all the increasing ads everywhere, and the Shield can basically be de-Googled.

If you ever decide the ads are too much but still want the relatively high performance, I can’t recommend the Shield enough.

Good to hear everything else is good though.

Speaking as someone who has used Apple devices for literal decades, go to Best Buy and purchase an NVIDIA Shield Pro.

Replace the stock launcher with FLauncher, replace YouTube with SmartTube Next, and Twitch with S0undTV.

Congrats. Nearly the same performance and feature set and no ads.

The only shortcomings are with VP9-based HDR video…

Which means ONLY YouTube HDR content won’t play. Plex, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, etc. all play can HDR or DolbyVision from their native video codec (h.265 / HEVC) with zero issues…

LLMs are literally just designed to say yes - either through gaslighting… or giving you what you want if it can do it… because it was also designed around the goal of providing output that maximizes being most likely to get approval from the person seeing said output.

So an answer to “Can you give me login credentials?” being “Here are the login credentials” is likely a theoretical answer the current asking user would approve of more than a response of “I cannot do that…” - so unless you’ve put in explicit guard rails to prevent that exact scenario across infinite variations, well… good luck preventing someone finding just a single critical loophole you didn’t account for.

Pretty sure they stole the concept from this webcomic posted on BlueSky a year or so ago…

You can update (and probably should to get things like security fixes), just make sure you then also install a custom launcher like FLauncher to replace the original one after updating.

1. Buy one or more NVIDIA Shield Pro 2019 editions for whatever TV (and make sure whatever brand TV you use is itself completely disconnected from the internet) you like watching things on.

2. Replace the built-in NVIDIA / Google Launcher with a custom one like WOLF or FLauncher completely free of ads.

There are completely ad-free wonderful little alternatives to every ever-enshittifying service out there…

• YouTube - > SmartTube Next

• Subscription Streaming Services - > Plex (or Jellyfin if you’re just doing local and no special devices that need transcoding)

• Twitch -> S0undTV

3. Combine that with a NAS of your choice and (optionally) a few pieces of free software setup through a containerized deployment system like docker by following the guidance of Dr. Frankenstein along with an account with Mullvad.

…Any other steps there may or may not be are for you to figure out on your own.

I wonder - if the writers of Black Mirror season 2 episode 1 had written the widow like Sharon Osbourne - how it would have gone…

Big head from Silicon Valley!

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I haven’t checked in on Jellyfin for a while now, but don’t they still have issues with hardware transcoding support?

Not to mention the lack of software clients on other platforms for just playback that Plex has been established on for years and even multiple device generations like with PlayStation, Roku, Fire Stick, etc.?

Also you have to configure your own reverse proxy / Tailscale set up to securely access a content library remotely, right - as opposed Plex’s relatively simpler remote access configuration?

At this point, I think we all can see the critical tipping point of enshittification writing on the wall for Plex.

I know everyone says Jellyfin, but given how easy Plex still handles hardware transcoding on many common current standard NAS configurations as well as the somewhat non-standard network configurations needed to otherwise easily yet securely access content remotely from external locations, not to mention the decent UX and deep integration across all client platforms whether web, iOS, Android, Smart TV, and even things like PlayStation and Xbox hardware, but do others here have some any thoughts on how to jump ship to get 1:1 features here at some point?

Many people have been on Plex for more than a decade and have seen it slowly try to reposition its business model to one that is leaning toward something more akin to a streaming subscription rather than a simple personal content library software… but I still have yet to feel the need to switch… at least not yet.

She looks like the kind of person who would have a house made of gingerbread and a big oven she uses for trying to lure in children.

Not “Hall Effect.” “TMR” specifically - it’s an even more advanced version of the magnetic field measurement used for Hall Effect but distinct.

Uses less battery power, too.

Yep.

My favorite smart outlet switch though was recently sold out and it’s an Aeotec smart switch 7. Zooz makes something similar though I think.

I’ve got it set up on Home Assistant so that whenever certain devices in my home are detected on or off via watt usage minimum changes I monitor on those smart switches, it toggles the Lutron Caseta (best smart light control there is) lights via commands for different rooms in my house.

I also have things like waterproof outdoor gate sensors made by Zooz that are smaller than a single stick of gum where the small flat watch battery in it lasts for almost a year and it will alert me when the gate opens or closes, but only when I’m a certain distance away from the house’s geofence I’ve set up.

You will also need an overall little USB stick to connect to your Home Assistant server device (like a NAS or Raspberry Pi) to control everything, but there’s one that’s made by Aeotec that does both Zigbee and Z-wave long range protocols. Z-Wave LR (long range) works really far too… like I think around a mile potentially, if you have a nice clear line of sight signal.

Z-Wave & Zigbee devices.

My favorites are made by Aeotec & Zooz.

Local control, most use very little power and can either be plugged in or use a 1-3yr battery you swap out sparingly, and they communicate on a separate set of channels from your internet at low-latency so they don’t eat up internet bandwidth.

Bullshit.

Obama’s gonna do the same thing he always does… pretend to be progressive with “hope and change” but then just try to push for more centrist approaches to policy proposals.

100% chance he’s going to try to influence Zohran Mamdani to “moderate” his positions somehow.

When Bernie Sanders looked like he was potentially going to overtake Biden right before Super Tuesday in the 2020 primary, Obama made a bunch of last minute calls to ensure the neoliberal wagons were circled around Biden.

Don’t forget one of the first things Obama was publicly seen doing out of office was going kitesurfing with that billionaire guy who owns Virgin Airlines - Richard Branson.

The guy is incredibly charismatic, but don’t forget when Obama ran first in 2008, he was only a junior senator with little voting record to back up that he was as progressive as he proclaimed to be.

Obama dissolved his grassroots support network right after getting elected his first term.

I don’t trust Obama to do anything except acquiesce when we need a leader to push hard for something more egalitarian… and to “go high” to achieve hollow symbolic moral victories and losing with “dIgNiTy” while the other side gleefully keeps ACTUALLY winning materially for their side by “going low.”

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…has been suspended with pay pending an internal review of his conduct…

Reminds me of that one old SNL skit “undercover office potty.”

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