Know_not_Scotty_does

Ford in the 00s used 7mm head bolts on their coil packs iirc, right next to sae fasteners... I will never understand that.

A totally valid option I had not considered. Imo, the solution needs to be controlled by a standard remote. I tried for a couple years to get my family to use a media pc that used a media keyboard and no one would touch it. I turned it into a server and streamed to emby and now they will use it but only after I showed them it works even when the internet is down.

No doubt. The market is shriveling up for people who want a new tv that isn't garbo. Outside of commercial displays which are like 3-4x as expensive and have lower image quality, I don't know of anyone making dumb tvs in a 55" plus size. Yes, you can opt not to hook them up to the internet but in a house with non-tech people, its a huge hassle to get them to want to use anything other than the built in apps. Even diy set top boxes running on a pi or shield are not as user friendly for kids or grandparents.

I basically left it vanilla after switching the launcher and borking the updates. We use emby for our home streaming but I am always looking for extra functionality

I will 100% jump over to it if that does turn into a thing

Oh cool, I'll have to checkout those other tools!

When I lived at my old house, the interstate (a mile away or so) switched from sodium lights to LEDs and the light bleed was bad enough that I could have done precision yardwork at night. Even with blackout curtains, I could see the outline of my door at night. It was miserable.

This needs to stop being framed as a problem caused by the individuals that the individual can fix by using less. In both of the articles I have read on this they talk about families using less, not watering lawns or washing their cars but the reality is, that even if every on in CC stopped using water for anything other than drinking, the industrial users would still drain the reservoir. Blame needs to be placed where the problem was caused and it needs to be fixed by those who use/caused it.

Abbott will do something to protect the industry at the cost of the citizens. I guarantee it.

I have a HiSense TV and use ADB AppControl to disable/remove the telemetry or forced updates, and Projectivy Launcher to get a home screen/launcher that doesn't show ads. Both are free and work really well. I don't see trash on my homescreen anymore.

Counterpoint: I bought one and its very nice hardware, its new so (hopefully) it will last a while, supports native hdmi, and supports wireless controllers out of the box. I paired it with an everdrive x7 and the 8bitdo controllers so the entire package is new and works like a modern console.

I sold my og n64 in like 2000 so re-aquiring that setup would have cost me nearly as much and would have been time consuming to modify to what I wanted.

Yes, it isn't original hardware so if you care about the experience of the power switch clicking on or some other tactile quality of the original, it isn't that. For me, the games are the memories I wanted and this was simpler and works better than an emulator (I tried a bunch of them and never got them where I could tell my kid to just go play and have him be successful at finding the emu, picking a game, using the controller on his own).

The audiobook is excellent as well. I am excited about the movie.

I have 1, 10 ounce cup of black coffee around 7:30am every day. More than that I get jittery and have trouble sleeping. The last time I had an energy drink was probably 2019 and I could only have a couple sips of it before I felt like I was going to take off into the air.