Nope, this is the info I was looking for, thanks :)

I’m struggling heavily to find that OS to learn more about it (literally just got a google tcl tv delivered today, as my old one died last week), can you provide a link of some variety?

I was very heartened to find out that it’s just big android, so there’s likely a lot that can be done with it (but I got it to be dumb).

The only problem I found with this is that Roku knows it’s being blocked so it’ll kill some apps over time (like the Plex app) in a way that forces you to fully reinstall the app. Which means unblocking their domain and allowing them to phone home (or disabling/bypassing pihole), because the app downloads go through that domain as well.

Before I just factory reset them and denied them any internet at all, Plex would break and need to be reinstalled about every 2 months like clockwork, and it wasn’t due to app updates or anything. I know this because I did a test once; reset on one tv, and 2 weeks later on another one. The first called for an update at roughly the 2 month mark, and the other exactly two weeks later. Meanwhile an absolutely ancient Samsung tv still has a copy of the Plex app that hasn’t been updated in like 5 years (it’s a fully obsolete tv)… works fine.

My speculation is that it records the data for that period, and then breaks things you use so it can phone home when you are forced to connect it to fix it.

In Wisconsin it’s like 90/10. I’d guess probably similar.

Someone invites me to look at/pet cows, I wouldn’t even think about negative ulterior motives, cuz there’s several dozen dairy farms within a half hour drive. Tho I would assume they were angling for free help.

Now baby goats, as a draw, are 50/50. Way more likely to work, and way less common.

Edit: words cuz I’m dumb

Can I get a buffet with both?

I know buffets are poor people stuff, but I mean… I feel that’s appropriate.

Since 2020 I haven’t touched a door handle in public. Because that’s when I realized just how backward some people are (I’d managed to avoid learning that prior). I wrap my sweatshirt around my hand to open them, now. In the summer I have paper towels in my pocket.

Instead of setting them aside, I put them in a plastic baggie, write on it what they are for, and tape/magnet it to a wall or toolbox, somewhere prominent.

Works a charm for me.

Well at least it’s only for married couples. Non-procreative casual sex is still fine. (I’m not gunna read it to find out if that’s wrong, I don’t really care enough to fact-check insanity)

I guess he supports gay marriage? I’m not really sure what he thinks he’s saying here, other than “I have a breeding fetish but don’t really understand how biology works”.

I have enough popcorn to find out.

It would be fucking priceless if America only got universal healthcare as a result of executing rich people. Very character consistent.

Sad, but I mean we take what we can get and that lesson will be around for a long long time if it works…

I don’t think self defense could be stretched that far, honestly.

But that’s why jury nullification exists. His actions were legally wrong but morally/situationally not, so you let them walk.

If I serve on his jury, I’ll for sure push for nullification.

Sure he broke a law, we can all acknowledge that.

But was he wrong? (Based on the overall reaction I’d argue society doesn’t think so, and that’s where laws come from) Or are the laws, allowing things to get to a place where this is understandable behavior, wrong?

This is true, I had both living with me at the same time for years.

Sort of still do but the bitey half is more playful now (different cats)

Unironically, housing everyone is much cheaper than incarceration. But we don’t do the cheaper thing, we do the vindictive thing.

The cruelty is the point.

Iirc a lot of people also taped their device to ceiling fans and stuff to get steps (to hatch eggs maybe? Idk I never played it)

So we’ll have it directing people into circles for hours!

My last job was highly similar. It honestly would have been more tolerable (the stress) if I’d just been able to work from home… I mean it’s not the sort of job you could pretend to do if not being monitored, it was metric-driven and triggered by customer contact… so what’s the point?

They said “we want to foster communication so having people in the office does that!” Umm my department is the only one in the company that is chained to our desk…? We can’t get up because we have to be available for contacts… and when people come by to talk to us, it’s usually a bad thing because they are interrupting actual real work. To top it off, our cube cell thing was right next to the door where everyone hung out waiting for each other to go to lunch, and because we were the only department that did external contact, they didn’t even think to shut the fuck up.

I’ll never willingly work in an office again. Not just because my disability makes commuting difficult sometimes, but because the environment is just -bad-.

I bought this quantity of super worms for my turtles…

And omg it’s so much. It’s like a 5gallon bucket full of dehydrated crawlies. I wish I could get that quantity of dried river shrimp, but so so so much more expensive.

Anyway, I have no idea what I’m going to do with them… I doubt my little 3 inch turtle is going to be able to consume them in the max 10 years he has left… (I had two when I bought them, but the big female died a few months later. No idea what happened, but they were halfway to their max lifespan at the time, and she deteriorated too fast to do anything about it, so…) so I guess feeding them to crows might be a good bet. Get me a corvid following. I’ve always wanted a minion army.

When I lived down in Houston I made the disturbing discovery that cockroaches in the south of the us are much much larger than the frozen north.

I also learned that they can fly (Texas has FOUR flying varieties), and will in fact fly right in your balcony door if you leave it cracked for the cat and have a light on inside… they also don’t care about you.

With a phobia of roaches, let’s just say Texas wasn’t the right state for me…

I’m not trans, and am fairly fem-presenting, but I’ve been accused of being a man several times since this whole bigotry thing really took off… mostly because I don’t perform femininity particularly well (deep natural voice, no makeup, comfortable clothes, never interested in men hitting on me and not afraid to say so), because it’s all bullshit I don’t care about.

As a result, I’ve more or less stopped going out since I live in a very red area (of an otherwise purple state)… I’m a small woman with disabilities, I’m not confident of my ability to protect myself against large bigoted men (who are thus far the only problem I’ve had).

Now that it’s further ramping up, I’ll just stay home at all times. That surely won’t have consequences. I can only imagine what trans people are dealing with with this stuff. My heart goes out to you.

Give it a try. So much nicer.

Tangent but… Wow it didn’t even occur to me that paludariums were so named because that’s the type of ecosystem they are mimicking, rather than some guy named Paul invented a cool-style terrarium/aquarium merger… (example below)

TIL!