The Octonaut

You are being tested on your comprehension of the text given, not asked for your opinion on piracy and copyright.

Nobody is disabling 4G bands except the bands they lied about being 4G in the first place?

I had them in RM. RealMedia. Incredibly bad and yet somehow fitting.

https://www.rsa.ie/

It seems to have just been a really weird way to implement an “under maintenance” page, as the site was planned to be offline this morning.

Gonna replace “surprise” with “emergent” and put this on a slide.

Downloaded: 87%
Status: Stalled
Seeds:0
Peers:670

What part of my post was complicated? I quite literally said 90% of his problem is ads…

I’m really sorry that you lack the curiosity or confidence to figure out installing qbittorrent and, uh, clicking a link, but I need you to understand that “hook your computer up to your TV and get a wireless keyboard and mouse combo” is going to be more complicated and finicky for most people. Particularly people with kids who don’t want a computer just sitting awkwardly in their living room.

Sounds like 90% of your problem is ads then. Or going to shitty sites. Get on a decent tracker - even the good old one - and have an adblocker installed

It’s 2024 man, tormenting a movie takes about 10 minutes and then you neither have to worry about ads nor connectivity for the rest of the movie

To make it abundantly clear, for most people on earth, and for most of human history, being poor was and is not a blocker to moving. In fact it’s a great enabler. Comfortable middle income people don’t move.

rich enough to move

Just so we’re clear, you’re simultaneously too rich to move (like a Guatemalan farmer) and too poor to move (like a IT graduate)?

And the ebooks automatically return themselves.

FUCK I’ve been wasting so many USB drives

Is there a good community for sideloading apps to TVs? And/or something like custom roms on phones?

I have a Samsung that seems to be Samung’s closed garden of apps rather than Android proper. They let me down on some promised features, eg Google Voice Assistant (I know, I know, sacrificing security and privacy, but I already have a Google Home listening in elsewhere) that were released in UK but bizarrely they didn’t bother with Ireland despite nearly every requirement being identical. I mean Christ, if my parent’s ancient TV can play Crossy Road why can’t my relatively recent one?

I also have an idle Raspberry Pi that could act as Android box but the motivation isn’t there when my TV is mostly just my kids going between Disney Plus and the Nintendo Switch.

I’m sorry but I have to take issue with “service is miles ahead”.

American table service is weird. It’s an uncomfortable experience for anyone who isn’t used to it. You can call it a cultural difference but it genuinely gave us a feeling of revulsion - the fake friendliness, the platitudes, the hovering near the table, the constant refilling, the fucking survey mid-meal, the attentiveness barely concealing the determination to extract your money and shove you out and get another mark on the door.

Perhaps because most of these things seem to primarily seek to recreate the experience of a slave owner and their chattel.

RIF for 7, 8 years? I am enjoying Jerboa