I still like my chromecast a lot and it’s near 6 years old. I stream all my illegal movies and shows through it so I’d say it saved me thousands by now
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Dealing with people who have a problem with me, but will refuse to tell me why. Either tell me, so we can discuss it or stop wasting my time. I no longer have the patience with the whole "read between the lines" bullshit.
I'm still trying to learn this. It bugs me knowing someone has some problem with me, yet won't tell me what it is. It's the not knowing why that kills me.
On the flipside, some people irrationally like me, and it's really irritating.
wanker!! j/k. your ok. your cool :)
DNC
Slackware Linux. For a while I thought, when it boots up KDE with a browser you're basically done, and it's kinda cool running the oldest surviving Linux distro.
The simplicity under the hood is kinda cool, too.
But every single thing I tried to get working on top of the base install (Flatpak, Steam, Slackbuilds, energy management, etc...) was a fight, and at some point I thought "fuck this, all these issues were solved 15 years ago by others."
Yeah, I get you. I hug very hard to the more popular Linux distros to be more user-ready than what feels like 98% of the rest of the Linux distros out there. Where you've got to have a Google search ready at every turn in hopes enough information is connected to resolve any and every problem you may have because you picked a distro that either isn't supported well or poor documentation or everyone else gives it zero fucks.
Windows. I am tired of the constant enshitification. I was waiting for it's end of support because of games and the extra work needed to make them work on Linux (had to have the support of two friends who know Linux to try and get my steam to actually recognize my games and run them with proton, and it took 3 nights of help to find the issues and then fix them to get it working consistently) but I am so glad I'm doing this now, I'm already enjoying Linux more than windows and the issues I'm having are because of companies like discord not making streaming unnecessarily a pain
America
- Rombas. I had a knock off, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but it was just easier with a regular vacuum, and faster. I also feel like a normal vacuum, currently, does a better job
- Streaming services. I got lazy, but them breaking apart everything into services has gotten me back to basic. Laptop and an HDMI I cord, I can handle the rest. 🏴☠️
- Working. However, I recently changed departments, so that will keep me quiet for awhile.
Lemmy.
Stremio+Torrentio+Real-debrid and a computer hooked up to your entertainment center like you proposed. One and done, wam, bam, thank you ma'am.
My mum.
My job. I resigned earlier this week after 8 1/2 years.
Congratulations! I am working out my notice period of my job right now, I am taking December to regroup and will begin job hunting in January. It feels so liberating!
It does. Not sure your situation, but I have a mortgage and two little girls. It’s a big risk, but I’m betting on myself.
Regardless of the uncertainty about the new year, it’s the first time I’ve felt any sort of positivity for the longest time.
Good luck to all of us.
Mortgage and three cats (plus a clingy stray and three chickens outside). Luckily the husband has a good job so we're ok.
I always try to live my life imagining this all being a memory to my elderly future self, and thinking about how I'd be reacting to it. Am I feeling strong pride or regret about my choices? Is there something that feels like it matters right now that will totally be forgettable in the grand scheme? It really helps me when I encounter difficult decisions, and it's how I realized that I need some time to realign myself with the things that bring me joy.
Best of luck to you, I have a sense (knowing nothing about you) that elderly you is SO freaking pumped that you're doing this.
i'm about to do something similar and for a job that is a 56% percent pay cut for me; but it's as far away as i can find from the profit seeking evil that has characterized my most recent jobs while still employing my skillset.
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Doordash and other similar services. My order is wrong 9 times out of 10, and the price isn't justifiable. I'd rather save the frustration and money and just make ramen or similar meals when I've been smoking or drinking and shouldn't drive to fulfill the munchies.
Yeah...GrubHub is so fucking expensive that I'm surprised they're still in business.
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My gripe is with the androidTV/roku/etc being built into the TV. Just give me a big monitor that can switch inputs, that's it. I install TVs for work and I can't count the amount of times the TV is just trashed because the software is screwed up and you aren't even able to switch it to HDMI1 and carry on like it doesn't exist. It's hot garbage, keep that shit on little HDMI sticks that you can throw away without throwing away the whole TV. Seriously, your TVs life gets cut in half if you have a whole OS on it. Bring back dumb firmware.
Dumb TVs exist, and they're 5x the price of smart TVs.
Ads and data mining subsidizes the hardware cost. If you want cheap TVs you get spyware and ads.
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I hear you on the streaming sticks. 10 years ago, you could throw a Chromecast in your suitcase, plug it into a hotel TV, and cast anything you wanted from your phone. Now, if you try to do that, you have to set the Chromecast up through the Google home app, tell it what "room" it's in, but then you can't cause you arent at your "home", so you have to set up a new "home", and then that doesn't usually work, so you just quit and read a book instead.
So, I have a 1st gen chromecast and a travel router and when I'm in a hotel I just connect the travel router to the hotel internet, and my chromecast is ready to go, no need to setup the chromecast every time and I don't need to sign into my streaming apps every time either
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I think I’m at my wit’s end with “smart” things.
Roomba? It takes less time to just vacuum the place than it does for the fucking vacuum to realize it’s been humping the same chair leg for most of its battery charge.
Assistants?
“Hey Google, open the bedroom blinds”
“Sorry, that device hasn’t been configured yet”
“Hey Google, open the bedroom blinds”
“Sure, turning 2 lights on”
“Hey Google, open the bedroom blinds”
“Sure, opening the blinds”
Roomba? It takes less time to just vacuum the place than it does for the fucking vacuum to realize it’s been humping the same chair leg for most of its battery charge.
If you are willing to put in some work, Valetudo is fantastic: https://valetudo.cloud/
My two robot vacuums have been working for 5 years with no intervention other than emptying the bin every 2 weeks and dusting off the sensors when it complains.
Assistants?
Same as above, if you are willing to put in some work, Home Assistant includes a voice assistant and they ship devices now with everything preinstalled so you can plug in and go: https://www.home-assistant.io/green/
Smart-anything is just a dumb novelty design because rich techie users are about as wowed as dangling plastic toy keys infront of an infant. Nearly nothing is anymore useful when it becomes 'smart' and largely gets that title because of it's capability to connect to the internet and just become another app for data-farming services to nag you over.
These things are just also another way to rob people more money because they're going to have more models, the company is going to talk down to you for being filthy and not upgrading. You're going to spend a lot of time dealing with a lot of variables that people already have presented for having a smart device and this is where the argument of "old is always better" comes into play.
I gave up on “smart” devices after giving them zero chances. I’ve never bought one.
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Google. It's been a long process but I've been degoogling little by little for a multitude of reasons.
McDonalds. It's the shittiest fast food place and maybe the most unjustifiably expensive.
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The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. I just can't get into them at all. I've tried half a dozen times and just got bored after a few hours of gameplay time.
I've accepted that I just don't like them. Games should be fun, not feel like a chore to play.
I've had to drop Monster Hunter World, it's a game that I was so enamored by to play, had it on my wishlist for months and months. Seen many of my friends play it. I really dig what's there. I finally had it gifted to me by a friend and I gave it an honest try.
Who at Capcom, decided it was the best idea to not give that game a way to pause the game or skip the cut scenes? Like, I hope that person is fired because that is how you just brush away all of the patience one has for waiting for things to finally give you back control.
And it's because of that, I now have to leave it collecting digital dust.
There were also many popular games that people have recommended so highly to me before that I just got and tried playing and ended up not liking. I ended up finding myself revisiting free games, older games and vice versa than playing what people recommended me. I'm sorry but a lot of AAA games are just boring experiences that have drained all of the good ideas that could've been much more.
My issue with MH was the extensive grinding. Getting a full set of armor from a monster could take dozens of kills, with each kill being 30-60 minutes. If I knew I could get it after a flat 10 or even 20 victories it'd be fine, but you're at the mercy of 5% drop rates sometimes.
For me it's Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I just gave up again after bouncing off it for like the third time. On paper it's exactly the sort of thing I should be into, but that game just doesn't respect your time.
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Keeping in touch with people. I have no idea what causes it but people just stop talking to me. I've lost touch with so many friends and family members over the years that in a lot of ways its just not worth the effort to make new ones. Which gets pretty lonely but I don't see an alternative.
I realize that part of it is my fault as I'm not the best at keeping up with people either, but I at least make the effort with the few friends and family I'm trying to keep so I don't lose absolutely everyone. The only exception is work colleagues and my mother who I have a strained relationship with.
I'm sure the work colleagues will fade if I ever leave the company, as has happened every single time before. I'm sure you can guess why my relationship with my mother isn't something I necessarily want to improve.
I've received multiple reasons that people never message, usually some variant of forgetting to respond due to being too busy. But what's especially frustrating are the people that say, I think of you often and things of that nature, but that never seems to translate into, "let's see how they're doing by reaching out". Adding to this is how I've never had much luck making friends so it's not like I've ever had a large pool to draw from.
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