I use Ersatz like others mentioned and it works fine, though I don’t fully understand how everything works. Following a guide was enough to get several channels setup, but since I also have an antenna and HDHomerun set up, I had to also use xTeve to combine the real and fake programming guides.

This works as expected in Emby (which means it probably also works in Jellyfin), but in Plex it breaks the guide as the channels get all mixed up with respect to their programming data meaning I never know what I’m going to be watching when I click on it. If you don’t have an antenna set up already, this probably won’t be an issue for you.

If you can afford it and plan on staying a while, buying is the way to go. I’m in NW Oregon and waited to buy because I was nervous and thought I “needed 20% down to avoid PMI” and essentially missed out on an extra 1000sqft for the same price by waiting. Putting 10% down, my PMI was $40 a month, which is chump change in the grand scheme of things, and has already been removed due to increased value and payments.

Even still, buying in 2019 when I did, I’m in so much better shape now than if I’d continued renting. Rent would probably be $500-$1000 more each month, and I wouldn’t be gaining equity on top of that.

Of course nobody has a crystal ball to make it 100% risk-free, but this is still a pretty solid strategy, and you live in an in-demand area in case you ever wanted or needed to sell, so you should be fine. If the interest rates go down substantially, refinancing is also a good idea.

That’s like saying 3D TVs are mainstream. We all saw how that turned out.

Worse, he’s from the 90210s and his name is Shannen Doherty.

Jesus Marie, they’re minerals not rocks!

I didn’t watch the whole video but based on the article, it appears this guy is just putting up christmas lights using off the shelf hardware and software? He isn’t hacking anything here and this hobby is already pretty common anongst those with the money and electronics experience to build it.

Tom Betgeorge works in this industry and is pretty renowned for doing massive displays using all this same stuff every year and uploading it to Youtube.

People hate Nintendo for being a shitty company but I really enjoyed Zelda Echoes of Wisdom. Prior to that though I think the last game I actually enjoyed was Horizon Forbidden West from two years ago.

I honestly can’t blame them for this because that glass does look pretty sick under a blacklight.

And the company was probably like “well how could we have known?” and probably faced zero consequences in true American fashion.

I was just listening to the QAA podcast episode about witch hunts in the middle ages, and those women literally all died because some random neighbor’s cow stopped producing good enough milk.

They just produced this interesting discussion that I consumed for entertainment. What about me?

Sudden wide-spread crackdowns lead to a lot of backlash. Corporations aren’t going to do this because there’s no legitimate benefit to them for doing it. Additionally, the left-wing gets very little representation in the US at least so why stoke anger and resentment when the right is already controlling everything?

IANAL but it seems akin to the antitrust case against Microsoft for bundling their own web browser in with Windows or movie studios also owning theaters and giving preferential treatment to their own films.

Some would argue that this is precisely why they ‘outsource’ just like mobsters do. It gives plausible deniability.

I think that’s just a coincidence because it was also just after buying Oculus and developing the Quest 2 which sold like hotcakes. I think things fizzled out because everyone I know, myself included, got tired of VR after a couple weeks because the software just isn’t there and it can be quite isolating to use.

My friends parents had a 32" CRT in their living room on a massive stand and us kids had to lay right in front of it when watching TV which was always a little terrifying because it would have crushed us to death had it ever fallen.

I can’t give you much technical help, but I’m fairly certain that if you’re seeing washed out colors on an HDR rip, it means Plex isn’t actually playing in HDR and is instead transcoding it down to SDR as this is (or at least used to be) a common issue with it.

If you check the administrator tab in a browser to see the playback information for the stream (or with something external.like Tautulli), does it show that the file is being direct played? That’s where I’d start. It could be something with the file, subtitle usage, Plex itself, the client you’re using it watch the file, or a network issue that’s causing the problem. I used to ignore HDR content entirely as I had similar issues, but with the TCL and LG TVs we have now, both using Roku, HDR content plays (locally) without issue. Remote play doesn’t work but that’s because we have atrocious upload speeds with Comcast.

This is what I was going to suggest too. It should be pretty effective.

That’s what irritates me about people like OP’s argument. I vaped to get off cigarettes but I don’t necessarily want to quit nicotine. They conflate all the terrible aspects of smoking with vaping and then point to people not quitting vaping as “proof” that it doesn’t work. Not everyone who picks up vaping is trying to quit nicotine.

The logic is flawed here because vapor and smoke are completely different things. You wouldn’t conflate the steam coming off a pot of boiling water with the charred remains of that frozen pizza you forgot about in the oven an hour ago would you?