No.

Yes!

XZ1 Compact with LineageOS checking in! I never want to change from this phone, and I’m already scared about what’s gonna happen when they shut down the 4G networks in ten or fifteen years.

And if the party says that there is not four but five, then how many?

I can’t remember who, but Somebody once told me, “The years start coming and they don’t stop coming.”

Yeah, I remember checking out Gab / Dissent a while back, because I’m against censorship. All of the comments were just racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQIA+. No rhyme or reason, just hundreds or thousands of crazy people screaming into the void.

Did you know that babies born underwater can spend their entire lives down there?

I’m fine with people calling piracy theft, if it means they’ll pirate more.

I just hope I can buy a graphics card without having to sell organs some time in the next two years.

“I’m New Clippy. I’m here to help you, like it or not!”

*Brent.

Two gigs in the same weekend? Who’s going to keep an eye on the smoker?!

Most of my passwords are based around strings of characters that are comfortable to type, then committing them to muscle memory. There’s a few downsides to this:

• If I need to log in to something on mobile and don’t have a proper keyboard with me, it’s tough to remember which symbols I’ve used

• I share some of my logins with friends and family for certain things, if they call and need to re-enter a password, it’s usually impossible to recite it to them over the phone (most of my shared logins have reverted back to proper words and numbers to make it easier for the others)

• If I lose an arm, I’ll probably have to reset all of my passwords.

But yeah, words alone provide plenty of possibilities. There’s a reason cryptocurrency wallets use them for seed phrases.

What was the third thing on the list? I’m invested in your rivalry now.

From the Australian fair work ombudsmen:

When overpayments occur, the employer and employee should discuss and agree on a repayment arrangement.

If the employee agrees to repay the money, a written agreement should be made which sets out the:

• reason for the overpayment

• amount of money overpaid

• way repayments will be made (for example, cash, cheque or electronic transfer) and how often (this has to be reasonable).

Granted, this is generally for overpayment of wages and not specific to redundancy pay. There may be clauses in their contracts with varying terms that allow them to reclaim, but I’m just some dude on the internet.

Scraping through a website at the scale they are talking about isn’t really viable. You need access to the API so that you can have very targeted requests.

This is why reddit changed their API pricing and screwed over everyone using third party apps. They can make more money selling access to LLM trainers than they could from having millions of people using apps that rely on the API.

My money is on them being re-enabled after every update.

No drawbacks for my use case, but there are a few quirks.

Some apps that I’ve dabbled with might show vertically, but most of the Android TV compatible apps were fine.

Some apps seem to expect a touchscreen input, and don’t really show what’s highlighted or selected very well, so navigating with just a TV style remote control can be tricky. I have a mouse and keyboard that I also use, definitely the easiest option.

Lastly, the Shield is a pretty powerful device, so I always kinda feel like I’m not using it to its fullest potential. I haven’t really tried any gaming with it, I don’t use it as a media server or anything, just a simple stream box. That’s less of a quirk with the device itself, and more an issue with me feeling like I should be putting it to better use.

Happy to answer any other questions you may have!

I have an Nvidia Shield running LineageOS.

The setup process wasn’t too bad, but the Shield might be more money than you want to spend.

I use it for Netflix and Plex, as well as Spotify, with no problems. It tells me that Netflix is not optimised for the device, but plays fine. I’ve heard that Netflix may limit it to 720p, but the quality is as good as you can expect from Netflix anyway.

Plex works perfectly, can stream 4k from my media server with no issues. I will eventually transition to Jellyfin, once I convince the 4 other households that have access to my Plex library to sort themselves out.