I was in a hotel just this week. Got in late, after traveling all day, so I flipped on the tv. I pulled up the guide and clicked a channel that sounded interesting. It was in a commercial break, after 1 commercial I brought the guide back up. I scrolled through hundreds of channels with the crappy hotel remote control. The entire time, the commercials were still playing in the background. I eventually made it down to HBO at the bottom of the list and picked a movie that had just started a few minutes ago. The outrageous length of the ad break from the first channel was unbelievable. Easily more than 5 full minutes. Why do people put up with it. And why do people PAY for the “privilege”?

My source was a map posted to Reddit in July 2024. However after doing more research, Wikipedia reports it is now actually 16 states.

Emphasis mine:

February 2024: the Attorney General of the state of Texas sued Aylo/Pornhub for allegedly not obeying the state’s legal age verification law.[141][142][143] As of March 2024, Pornhub and other Aylo-owned websites have blocked access in Texas, due to the adoption of an age verification law which usually mandates age verification through the use of an identity document. In states where Pornhub is blocked, which also include Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Florida, Nebraska, Indiana, Kansas, Idaho, Kentucky, and Oklahoma; a message is displayed featuring pornstar Cherie DeVille criticizing such laws.[

Posted above but I will put it here for visibility also.

Texas is the largest state to be affected by the pornhub ban, and Texas makes up 9% of the US population. Including all 12 of the states with pornhub restrictions, the total is actually 24% of the US population. Those are big enough numbers to swing stats.

Now you have to consider which users are more likely to know how to use a VPN on their system and realize that a lot of traffic is being re-routed through other states and countries.

That’s not true. Texas is the largest state to be affected by the pornhub ban, and Texas makes up 9% of the US population. Including all 12 16 of the states with pornhub restrictions, the total is actually 24% of the US population. Those are big enough numbers to swing stats.

Now you have to consider which users are more likely to know how to use a VPN on their system and realize that a lot of traffic is being re-routed through other states and countries.

Good advice for anything really. If it ain’t broke, especially something I trust to automate so much of my life now, I always wait a day or two to see the reactions before diving in.

I’ve only ever bought one car new and that’s exactly how it happened for me. Shopping in December, dealer had just one of that model year left. It was very well loaded but I had come to them saying I was only looking for something mid range. I’m the end I paid the mid range price I was hoping for but with a lot of extra bells and whistles. There’s a lot to be said for timing and patience in the car world.

Of course that was pre pandemic and everything now is getting squeezed. I’m not sure the same rules apply.

Counterpoint: sucking blows.

I actually answered a trivia question just last week about flotsam and jetsam. Hearing my answer, my wife laughed. “The bad fish from the little mermaid?”

So you’re not alone.

Unnecessary crossover? Sure, I’ll give you that one.

Two of the worst shows in (sic) television?? Absolutely not.

That’s the one!

For a while, there was a patent on it, at least in he US. I remember having to root a Sony phone to enable the fingerprint reader on the power button about 10 years ago.

I only have marques brown’s comment to back this up, but he said the two stage camera button doesn’t do anything yet but it’s coming in a future update. I’m baffled how Apple feels okay releasing this new hardware without the software to support it.

Feels like the wrong use of this sub community.

7.0.57. I’ve had no android issues with this version. I don’t feel like I’m missing any features by refusing to update.

Meh. Nova is the best launcher in my opinion but I’ve already been version locked to the last release before this company bought it. I’ve basically given up in anyone else replicating the features I want. So I’ll be using this version of Nova until Google finally breaks it.

Just like the sub on reddit, the data in DataIsBeautiful apparently doesn’t actually have to be beautiful.

That’s me too. I was a family subscriber for years. Some of those years it was just myself on there too. But the price hikes and interface degrading was infuriating.

Nova, reluctantly, lives on.

Congrats on the new Subaru. I also happily paid for the app using the introduction 3 year plan. Hit me up when you hit year 4 and see the REAL price tag they charge.

The ridiculous (and strangely beautiful) form factor is the only reason we’re talking about it. At this point, if you want to launch a product and get eyeballs on it, you partner with Teenage Engineering and lean into whatever comes out as a result.

It’s probably not going to be an actually useful device but it would have been even less successful if it was an app.