Lka1988

Oh no!

Anyway…

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Oh fuck off, dipshits. You chose this route despite the community that built you.

Shareholders need more profits. So, shareholders.

Once again - blame the Dodge brothers (yes, that Dodge).

“Legal streaming” is just cable 2.0. Pretty soon every tier is going to have ads in order to “maintain quality of service and content”, which is just corporate-speak for “imaginary money line go up forever”.

This shit is why I pirate with zero guilt.

I mean, I can sweep better than a robot vacuum, too, but my entire main floor is hardwood. It takes a while. So I summon the robot (currently a basic-bitch Eufy 25C with no “seeing” abilities) to help out. It’s also nice to have it run at 2AM for a general cleanup of whatever crumbs that were missed or spilled and not cleaned up for whatever reason… With 5 kids, shit gets missed sometimes.

The Wyze is getting Valetudo, and the Eufy will probably be gifted to my MIL, per my wife’s recommendation. She’s a neat freak, for lack of better words, but also in her 70s, so having a small vacuum making the rounds for her periodically would be helpful.

I have the Wyze version of this robot, currently pulled apart in a bucket next to my desk. The newer robots based on the CRL-200S (including the Viomi V8, Xiaomi “STYTJ02YM”, and my Wyze WVCR200S) have clamped down hard on ADB access, requiring a sequence of button presses to boot it into FEL mode in order to fire up the ADB port for half a second. But in over 200 attempts, I just have not been able to nail it down (dmesg tallies USB connections, pretty neat). I’ve spent far too long fiddling with the current board with zero success, so I ended up just buying another board for $15 off Aliexpress, from a Viomi V6/V7. Once it arrives, I’m going to root it before reassembling the robot just to make sure it actually works.

This. My employer provides a laptop (Surface 7…eugh), and nothing personal outside of basic web browsing is done on it.

Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.

What about it? Genuinely… I’ve been using Rokus longer than Plex, what’s the issue with the Roku version?

Of course, because why wouldn’t a checkes notes entirely local operation require an internet connection?

You can also just not attach the TV to the internet

That’s what I did with the curved Samsung TV that I put in the basement for the kids. Factory reset with no internet, default input set to a specific HDMI, and a Roku (with Pi-hole handling adblocking). Roku remote also handles TV power/volume. Haven’t had any issues with it.

You can turn off HDMI input scanning on roku TVs.

Knowing Roku, they probably automatically re-enable that setting after an update.

Secondly, block *.logs.roku.com with a pihole was my solution. That TV is the single most banned traffic on my network still.

Fucking seriously. The two Rokus in my house are the two most-blocked devices.

Louis is right.

You jest, but Windows already tries to limit installations outside of the microsoft store on a default OS install.

We have an older curved 55" Samsung “smart” TV that I put in the basement for the kids. Mounted high up on the wall, out of reach of little destructive fingers.

Turns out it can be configured with a default input. When I moved it to kid duty, I cleared out all the wifi credentials (I think I just factory reset it), disabled all the “smart” garbage I could find, then stuck a Roku stick in it and set that input as default. The Roku remote handles TV power and volume, and the Samsung remote is put away with the rest of my tech hoard stuff. Pi-hole on my network removes the Roku’s ability to show ads at all. I always forget that there’s a big ad spot on the home page.

Jesus christ Nintendo

Bingo. I bought an album on Bandcamp and dropped it right into my Plex server.

You can run Plex off a RPi and those are like $20

Non-Zero Pi models haven’t been even close to $20 for a while now. Any Pi these days is gonna be $60-80 for a fully functioning setup (Pi + SD + case + power adapter), at the minimum. And I wouldn’t run Plex off a Pi Zero, those have more or less the same specs as the 1st/2nd gen Pis.

Affinity is very much not Mac-only. I bought the Windows version for my ex (back when we were still married) for her Windows PC.

Jesus christ. So glad I ditched MS. It’s like getting out of a cult - once you see it looking in from the outside, you finally realize how terrible it is.