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All I know is that Lexus Texas (that is what TX means to me) sounds like the name of a porn star. Is that the message Lexus wanted me to take away from their advertising and branding?
Alexis Texas was so goddamn hot. One of the best asses in porn.
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A tank with the maneuverability of a Porsche.
What happens if you answer wrong?
You get sent to ad prison for re-education.
Re-aducation
you do reset if you failed after that, you have to rewatch the film from start
How many? Turn off TV, unsubscribe from Hulu rows.
Aaaannnnd this just resolidifies my decision to not engage with streaming services. What a load of shit.
These companies are insufferable.
Can’t be quizzed over ads if you pirate everything.
Piracy is a hassle, the convenience of streaming made the cost worthwhile. They’ve forgotten this. Once the cost outweighs the convenience, the hassle won’t seem like such a hassle anymore.
Only upfront effort. Downloading is almost as much of a hassle as choosing what to play tonight.
Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.Back in my day, it was a much more involved process.
Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.
Do people really rewatch stuff that often?
Fair game as in “What do I watch today” because the movie was already pre-loaded.
As a person who uses stremio; not only is it not more of a hassle than streaming services, it’s WAY less. Astronomically so. You set it up once and you have literally everything
It’s not a hassle at all. I use my phone to tell my computer what I’m interested in watching. It automatically downloads that, and when I’m ready to watch something it streams to my TV. After I’m done with it, my computer removes it.
Kodi, Seren add-on and a debrid provider like Premiumize gets me better service than any streaming provider. Multiple source streams on any show in the last couple decades and every movie way earlier than is available from any source I’ve ever seen. If its not available as a cached stream, I can queue a torrent file at their end and stack them up until I’m ready to watch it, but I’ve rarely had to do that.
To be fair, the last time I flew the jolly Roger was over a decade ago. Finding a stream/torrent that:
- Wasn’t potato quality
- Had seeders
- Wasn’t shut down since last time
- Wouldn’t give you a virus
- Was actually the thing you were looking for (I did not have sexual relations with that woman)
was a much more time consuming process.
The only streamer I’ve ever paid for was Netflix but I only got a few years out of that before it became easier to pirate again. Frankly, the Arr suite is a pain in the ass compared to the above method.
You can pirate the ads and quizzes
A friend of mine in college pirated a japanese show which included the ads. The first episode seemed to have subs with legitimate translations. The rest of the season the subtitle author had fun and changed them to make fun of the ads. It was pretty funny.
There were no quizzes though…
I would love to watch that.
There’s oodles of torrents on one of my private trackers labeled WOC—With original commercials. I LOVE THEM, such a fascinating look into my childhood.
I refuse to watch any commercials made since 2006.
I was wondering how I should prepare for the tests
I found the answer! It’s https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-cancel-hulu-subscription
And while you’re at it, you should also try this:
Okay, let’s not go mad. This is a streaming service. They are greedy assholes but they aren’t actively killing people.
Meh, I like this better.
Full refund.
They went full ret*rd, I want full refund.
(I know you can cuss on the internet, but that word has some baggage…)
That baggage still exists even if you leave out one of the letters.
It was my best effort of using the word in a joke and trying not to offend anybody.
There’s no such thing as a joke that doesn’t offend anybody. If you want to tell a joke, tell the joke. If you want to be universally inoffensive you would probably need to become a lurker.
Je suis en retard aujourd’hui
Should have gotten up earlier
do they make you keep watching the ad until you get it right?
When Hulu still had ads when you bought a subscription, I swore I would never pay them ever again. That was around 2014. I have stuck to it, and every year I am reminded why. Fuck Hulu.
Drink verification can to continue
Shove it up your ass to make daddy happy
Insert verification dildo and yell McDonald’s when you climax to end commercial.
“Our’research has determined that we can fill up to 90% of the visual field with advertisements before inducing seizures!”
Corporations all genuinely want to be that guy so fucking bad, just because they think that if they do become him, they might actually starry to finally feel something… anything. Or they think if they become that guy their father might say "I love you " for the first time or some other sad “this is why I’m a serial killer” shit.
I have one TV for my PC monitor and one for, well, TV. Both hardwired to the network, no external network access. Wrote a quick PS script to switch from one to the other or both, made it into an EXE with buttons, très chic. Everything streams off a crappy USB drive “RAID” array. OpenVPN server with Digital Ocean, hosted in Amsterdam, $6/month. DONE.
I’m not on some crusade against capitalism, I simply choose not to participate in bullshit like this.
tl;dr: STEAL YO SHIT.
Its honestly getting to the point now where doing these home setups are so much simpler than owning these proprietary streaming boxes which have everything locked up to serve you ads or just steal data in general.
Hooking a PC up to the TV even to watch the paid services is probably better at this point.
Throw in an ad blocker like a Pi-hole. Life changing. FFS, $10 a month on AWS and you can spin a Lightsail instance, or roll your own on a toaster.
For over a decade I’ve been watching TV Series and Movies from a Media Box connected via Ethernet to my home NAS (which is generally an old notebook or even my router - once I got myself a decent router - with some external hardisks), which is actually a pretty simple network to set up using Ethernet Over Powerlinr adaptors (which were already good enough for it back when they only did 20 Mb/second and now that they’re 1000Mb/s will handle even the huge resolution lightly compressed stuff that one can now find as booty out there).
The setup has been recently upgraded to a Mini-PC with Lubuntu and Kodi, which is in my living room (right next to my Internet router to which it is connect with Gigabit Ethernet) and is also my home NAS and Bittorrent server over always on VPN, with a wireless remote for using in my living room to control Kodi (so it works the same as a TV Box for watching media) whilst the background stuff I control from my main PC remotely using a mix of web interfaces and ssh command line.
I had never had this good an environment for TV entertainment and I’m not even using any of the *arr suite or Usenet to source content so a lot of it is really just doing the same stuff as a decade ago but with better hardware and a more modern UI for media playing and (most importing) a way faster Internet connection.
Anyways, the point I’m making is that nowadays one can actually upgrade a little bit from your setup (which, by the way, is superior to what I had before my Mini-PC upgrade) cheaply and even get themselves very close to the same experience as the corporate stuff (media box with remote and a nice UI to play stuff from a media library) whilst maintaining maximum control and getting no shit from enshittification.
PS: I couldn’t recommend more getting a wireless remote if you want to just be able to sit down on your sofa and have a no hassle media box experienced (even whilst behind sits a far more complex home infrastructure that what people who outsource that side of things to the likes of Hulu have). It real helps with having a shit-free under your total control entertainment experience without sacrificing the part of that experience that comes from having a modern interface for media selection.
Instead of a wireless remote
Check out Unified Remote app on Play Store or Apple. It’s rock steady . Never have issues. It’s one of the few apps I’ve ever paid for.
Basically control Your desktop from your phone. including text-to-speech for typing. It simply hands down a must have.
Before this Mini-PC TV Media Box I had an actual dedicated TV Media Box which lasted for maybe a decade, and at some point its remote broke, so rather than throw the whole thing out I made my own IR-translation box with a WiFi-Enabled micro-controller (so it had an IR emitter pointed at my TV Box and that was controlled by some software running on the microcontroller that exposed a REST interface on the WiFi) and also made my own Android app to remote control the TV Media Box via that translation box.
A dedicate remote and a remote control app on a smartphone or tablet are just not the same thing in practice.
Whilst I don’t tend to have my phone on my living room, I do have a tablet there, but a dedicated remote is much more straightforward to use because it just directly works with zero delay: there is no need wake it up and unlock it like I would my tablet, I will never need to switch apps like I do on a tablet if I was using the tablet for something else, the user interface in a dedicated remote is as standard and familiar as it gets, and that remote can just stay there in my living room all the time for anybody to use just for that purpose alone whilst the tablet will move around to be used for other things and even taken away from home.
The smartphone/tablet remote control app is a more flexible option that can pack-in as many or as few controls as one wants, but that is a tradeoff for it being overall more of a hassle, less practical and slower to use for the most frequently used commands. Ultimately I just want to select a video and start it, possibly stopping it or pausing it, with the least hassle possible and with no unrelated tasks (like getting the tablet from somewhere else, having the unlock it or switch tasks on it) getting in the way.
So in my experience, having tried both ways, the dedicated hardware remote is a superior option which is why I recommended it.
I wish I was technically savy enough to do any of this.
Unfortunately I am cursed, I break shit and hate having to spend hours working out what’s fucked on my computer.
TV’s wifi card shit itself, problem solved pulled out replaced.
Computer wouldn’t boot cause reason number 432 (actually the flash on the MB said fault reserved for future fault finding) hours of struggling.
Perhaps you’re a bogon emitter like my wife?
Learn more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_bogodynamics
Charles Stross put it succinctly in The Atrocity Archives:
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
This explains why computers suddenly start to work when help arrives. Becoming a bogon sink takes much suffering and practice. You’re already on the path.
I kept reading this as bogan too haha
Capitalism’s going well…
nightmare
