Corporate is an amazing and underrated show. Hoping it gets the Detroiters treatment, soon.

“I’m disabled!” Is a classic reference in my house that cannot be used in pleasant / uncultured company. It’s great to see my people are out there!

I’m not the biggest Seth MacFarlane fan, but the American Dad episode “Joint Custody” is pure classic.

I really want to pick an episode of Community, but I’m having a hard time nailing down just one. There’s the obvious answers like Remedial Chaos Theory or Modern Warfare. I just love the whole series. Maybe Basic Intergluteal Numismatics, The Asscrack Bandit episode, just because it’s so layered it really lends itself to rewatches.

Master of None has its issues, but there’s some standouts in the first season. Parents and Mornings always get me.

Thanks. I wasn’t able to through Sync so I assumed I couldn’t.

Wow I really botched that headline.

That seems to be the most logical conclusion.

Who stands to gain from this? Without undersea infrastructure the lowest latency cross continental communication is going to be through Starlink.

First good news I’ve heard in a while.

What water filter did you decide on?

That’s lame

I just use chatGPT to search now. I have a super-prompt in its memory telling it how to search and to cite sources and provide links and it is so much better than Google even though it’s using AI, too.

*The future is now, old men!

Yeah they’re subsidizing the price to get between you and reality.

Just gotta shield my media server from EMPs and we’re golden.

My pi-hole blocks SO MUCH traffic from my Rokus. Never buying another Roku again.

That’s fantastic for you, but a quick Google search will bring up plenty of articles and reddit threads of people bitching about this and other ways the Chromecast has been broken over the years.

When they released Android TV they implemented the full apps into Chromecast so it went from just a video playing client to an extremely underpowered streaming stick, without a Google TV remote a lot of the players were broken and because it’s an out of production out of support device you are stuck with whatever crippled functionality they leave us. I tried to set one up for my wife a couple of weeks ago and she couldn’t cast certain YouTube videos to it because it was prompting her to sign-in but the sign-in functionality has been broken for two years now. If your device has somehow avoided any updates you have a gem; that thing would fetch a handsome sum on eBay.

Is it still a cheap dongle that people can use to quickly share media to the screen? Yes, that’s why I have five. I’d like them to support and keep making them. I’d like them to work as seamlessly as they did 2012-2015ish.

I’ll check it out, thanks!

I have five from multiple generations, so I’m very aware. They changed this functionality on all of them. I never said they didn’t still work, and I gave a clear example of how the functionality is being nerfed.

Yes but they discontinued them in favor of Google TV, and they also heavily nerfed the capabilities by putting Google TV apps on there. For instance I now often have to pull out the virtual remote in the YouTube app to make a pop-up go away so I can watch the YouTube video I cast.

If I wanted a streaming box I’d buy or build a streaming box. If I wanted anyone with my remote control to be able to access my YouTube viewing history and all my streaming accounts I’d make it happen. What I want is a cheap dongle that my family and guests can use to quickly share media to the big screen!

Hear me out…

The Descent but it’s on the moon.