A lot of comments describe trying to build something better and abandoning the problem. (Including my own) It is nice to hear the different issues, use cases, requirements and workarounds.
For me, I have an electric standing desk from IKEA, and a FlowFitness walking pad. Very pleased with that, since I can fold it and roll it out of the way with the wheels, once I want to sit down.
I use the Lifespan TR1200. I also have a cheaper Titan Fitness one, and at least with the case of the two of those you definitely get what you pay for. The Lifespan is much quieter and wider.
That said there might be better stuff on the market now as I purchased a while ago.
I've opened 200+ panes across 3 monitors, broadcast to all of them to update a configuration and saved.
That saved me a lot of time, either building automation or ssh-ing to all of them one by one.
I took all my grad school notes and audio recordings in Evernote. I even paid for additional storage. Then they decided to abandon loyal customers and charge subscription for just syncing additional devices. I've since moved to the notes app. One less subscription for me.
Same. Notes isn’t quite the same product — can’t easily clip webpages, create annotations, tags, etc, but largely I don’t have as much a need for that anymore!
I’m just worried about exporting my data before they go out of business, but to put into what? Is there any good, ideally open source, alternative that can accept Evernote as is?
I know a lot of people use One Note, might be worth considering. My use-case is not that heavy right now, so just it is just notes for me at the moment.
I was spooked away from OneNote. I mistakenly deleted an entire notebook on their iOS app with a single swipe and press. Bizarrely, the notebook was completely irrecoverable. Not only that, but the desktop version of OneNote, which previously had the same notebook, automatically synced the deletion. I laughed at how efficiently I was being screwed. This was a couple years ago. I reluctantly switched back to Evernote.
I’ve also had trouble with OneDrive. I like most Microsoft software, but MS needs to rework its schema for auto-save products. They’re seamless 99% of the time, but come with the black swan risk of catastrophic failure at the worst time. I’d rather just ctrl+s and email backup copies to myself.
Just for the Roku itself or are ads in "channels" blocked as well?
I only rarely watch anything on TV but the girlfriend complains quite a bit about all of the (often repetitive) ads on Hulu -- and I'm pretty sure we even pay for it.
Deploying Pi-Hole has been on my to-do list for a while but if it can block ads on Hulu I'd move it up to the top of the list!
Hulu is a mixed bag, that's not going to stop with Pi-Hole.
If you're using the "live tv" on versions of the app that support it, you will see ads, you may see replacement ads on "recorded" tv as well, which are often replaced in blocks by hulu's injected ads. Some can be skipped, others can not.
If you have "live tv" you may lose access to those shows you would have access to for the regular streaming, still available on platforms not supported by the current apps with live tv (android tv in particular).
If you have streaming only, there are two tiers for that as well. The lower tier has ads. The higher "ad free" tier still has some (fewer) ads on some networks.
Hulu also has third party network options and "value add" options, which is annoying as well.
I mention all of this, because my GF is a reality tv junkie and the only reason I even have Hulu + TV at all... I've gone back to my seedbox, nas and kodi.
I use a good digital tuner (HDHomeRun) hooked up to my rusty old 1950's rooftop antenna usually using KODI as front end, it's awesome and satisfies my live TV need which is very minimal. I couple that with real-debrid which offers plentiful and reliable supply of cached 4K (actually high bit rate) torrents and it's a much better experience than any of the alternative, crappy, ad-laiden streaming services I've paid for. Once KODI has seamlessly integrated voice control it will be in a league of it's own. I'm not sure how services like real-debrid can work out such great licensing terms to allow their offer of such affordable, ad-free and limitless content catalogs but I assume it's a very technical, economy-of- built-for-scale redundant kubermnetes based on-demand cloud container architecture benifit that wouldn't interest me anyways so I'm not even gonna try and understand it ;-)
A couple of tips if you try again:
I don't understand the real-debrid "points" system and didn't really care to disect it, just payed for premium service directly through their website and that's been sufficient.
Multiple devices are allowed but it's IP siloed and if connecting from multiple IP's simultaneously, cannot confirm but redditors report that will get your account banned rather promptly although obvious workarounds like a VPN etc exist, never tried.
There's been a lot of work done that add new interface, host/account/stream handeling features to various addons recently. Just tried a recent version of 'Gaia' and was pleasently surprised.
Most newer addons use URLResolver for a central config source and include links from their interface to do the device authorization for rd.
I prefer speed and simplicity so I disable every host/provider except rd and set max sources to single digits.
Content discovery is relatively non existent using most addons (a perk IMO, there's no shortage of places
to discover content without inserting an ad server into the TV's interface)
Flashing LibreELEC on to cheap ARM (android TV Boxes) devices makes for a cheap, stable, simple client device.
A Fire Stick/TV or similar might allow for easy voice search but I'm too stubborn in my love of FOSS (I secretly enjoy configuration nightmares) to try it ;-)
There's a plethora of similar premium hosts and services (using rd and premiumize is a popular suggestion) but rd is enough for our needs so far.
Look on the 'Addons4Kodi' subreddit to see what the kids are using nowadays
> the girlfriend complains quite a bit about all of the (often repetitive) ads on Hulu -- and I'm pretty sure we even pay for it.
Hulu Plus has two offerings, an ad supported one for $5.99/mo, and an ad-free one for $11.99/mo. I subscribe to the ad-free one, and if you watch more than a couple hours of Hulu a month I think it's worth it (but I can't stand watching commercials, so maybe other people find then less onerous).
I pay for the ad-free, live-streaming Hulu and there's still ads. My movie was interrupted with an ad for an erectile dysfunction pill, drove me crazy.
Maybe there's a bug in the live streaming setup that Hulu offers then? I just pay for ad-free Hulu, and I haven't seen an ad from them since a week after they announced that plan (I didn't head about it immediately, but I upgraded as soon as I did). I've watched in a browser, the on the Roku, and on an Amazon Fire TV.
Everything, including apps.
Although, recently YouTube has been bad for me. Earlier i would almost never see ads on YouTube. I just pay Hulu more, so I've not tested that.
I just broke down to pay the $x/month for ad-free youtube. I watch a lot of streams with regular updates (Tim Pool, Keto Connect, etc). I get far more value from YouTube than I do from Hulu... that's just me though.
I gave up on most internet radio stations - not because they run ads, but they often only have one ad, which they run over and over and over and over ... It drives one mad.
And many other nationalities through Global Entry (GE includes TSA Pre), plus Canadians and Canadian permanent residents via NEXUS (which includes GE and through that also TSA Pre).
There was a time where what you say was true, but they've broadened access.
Ads and Tracking are two different things. Just because you don't see ads related to the tracked data in spotify does not mean that information is not used by the third party elsewhere.
If pay spotify and you listen to metallica, you might not get ads on spotify, but you might get a link to Metallica merchandise on another website.
The overwhelming bulk of Spotify's revenue comes from paying customers, not advertisers. And for those who are too cheap to simply subscribe, the majority of "ads" are pleas to subscribe (because selling advertising is not the business they want to be in).
The GP's claims are nonsense, discounted by the most cursory investigation. Trotting out some tired rhetoric about advertisers being the real customer to explain away an unwillingness to pay the most trivial of amounts is just embarrassing for everyone. It's especially ironic given that so many are both trying to justify not paying for a worthwhile service while also trying to justify ripping off the same service because...ads, or something.
I am a paying customer for multiple streaming service. I pay more for ad-free experience on Hulu.
My problem is not with Ads, my problem is with Tracking, which is not the same. That is what I was saying, not endorsing ad blockers.
Agreed, we regularly do 500+ MB/s bytes out on 12 broker cluster and we've tested more than twice that. We've seen brokers handle close to 5GB/s before performance degraded.
1. Create a shared family calendar 2. For things that need to block work calendar, invite my work email to the event.