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Today I'm donating my streaming sticks. I got a ONN brand 2k one I bought for 15 and I got an Amazon Firestick 4K I got for $3 from a thrift store because they didn't know what it was.

And I love the concept of stream sticks, I really do. Too fucking bad that corporate interests got in the way and now everything has to have a bundle of ads at every damn turn. Not even some of the things I'm subscribed to is free from ads because this is the future apparently, we're here.

Shame because I don't want to let these go and even if I were to subscribe to Netflix's ad-free subscription, that's only one source. Why do that when I can just grab a long HDMI cable, plug it into my desktop and to my TV and I can watch everything that's there, without ads because of the extensions I use to block ads.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Those bosses in my game that I keep dying on

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Goddam traffic in cities skylines

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Corporate media

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Try appletv, a pirate ship and plex

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It worked well for me until at some point the audio in Plex was slightly off and there was no way to adjust anything in this damn app. I was not alone with this issue but they never did anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I hate how corporate Plex has become. Instead of making their apps better, now it's how many "free" services they can try and get you to use.

All I wanted was my hosted media. And to easily share that with family without having to manage user accounts.

I run jellyfin along side it, but Plex still gets the most use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think my brain shut off because I read this like β€œHas Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like”

[–] [email protected] -5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I think my brain heightened in response because it's telling me "this asshole I'm replying to is an ignorant moron, so I'll block them and I think anyone should too".

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Trying to draw using vector programs such as Illustrator. Prior to settling on my beloved (Paint Tool SAI) I tried to use Illustrator, and despite the benefit of being able to blow up a drawing without losing quality, it just never sat right with me and always felt awkward.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Depends on the style, I think. If it requires any kind of gradient shading or texture, pixel editing software. If you can get away with just lines, colors, and solid shading, vector is good enough but it'll be easier on pixel editing software.

Nowadays I just work on massive files so that I can shrink them to size.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
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