Joke’s on you, Google! I uninstalled the Play store weeks ago!

This comment seems to imply that at least some titles won’t function after the delisting, perhaps related to servers, perhaps not.

Which version, pro or tube? My 2015 pro is a champ, including in Kodi. Adding the Samsung SSD a few years back was a game changer though. Boot time dropped to 7 seconds, and no trouble with h.265 and even 1080 AV1.

Edit: To OP, I currently host my files on the shield local drive and watch with Kodi. I used to have a NAS, but am living leaner lately, and local works fine. Can easily move files to it over the network

Hey, that’s me! I’m (Lemmy) famous!

I don’t see anything describing any kind of cessation of activities. Can you share what you saw?

When I was in college, one of my instructors used these “clickers” that cost students $40 per semester to rent. They used radio to allow submitting realtime quiz answers during class.

iClicker.

F#$* those things.

Faculty at the two higher eds I worked as staff at hated the cost of books and student materials too, and tried their best to keep them down. Most of them. Publishers like Pearson and Cengage started doing things like discounting teacher’s editions and/or including curriculum (slide decks, all level of evaluatons and more) in exchange for becoming the learning portal and getting their hands on that sweet, sweet PII and marketable data, not to mention the yearly rolling editions of their student texts with single-use portal key codes.

This free market correction sure is taking its time…

Makes sense. I think it was 720p media

IIRC it was 720p content. VLC was how I was playing the files until I upgraded from 19.x to 20.x

AV1 works fine since Kodi 20.x on my Shield 2015.

Happy to help

Maybe because I only bother with 1080 for the past year, but I used to regularly watch my 30GB 4k 10-bit files with no trouble, even streamed from my NAS.

Show their age how? My 2015 pro is still awesome on GF Experience v8.x with GFN, Kodi and SmartTube. Installed an SSD a few years back and breathed new life into it.

The KIA app has three trackers in it. (Can’t scan the latest version, however) Not exactly a lot by contemporary standards, but more than many. Two of my banking apps have 7. One weather app has 10. The apps I respect have none or only a single tracker, and only for crashlytics, and still optional.

Must be checking if you copied a phone number, but still creepy.

https://walledculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Walled-Culture-the-Book.epub

Free book about copyright and IP stealing our culture with great citations and examples.

They pay wall hardware encoding, and possibly other features, like high resolution formats.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/amazon-jacks-up-price-of-ad-free-prime-video-by-2-99-starting-in-2024/

News broke on this a few months ago, and I jumped ship. Their failed music app is another reason I ditched their ecosystem. Kept crashing; music would pause mid-song; couldn’t play downloaded music offline without a data connection.

Video service had such poor title coverage and nothing compelling for the price. As many others have said, the value proposition didn’t work. Enshittification is in full swing. Sail the high seas.

Didn’t the show runner say that the dumb public was to blame for the failure of the show?

Edit: he blamed dumb Americans.

Baginski said, “When a series is made for a huge mass of viewers, with different experiences, from different parts of the world, and a large part of them are Americans, these simplifications not only make sense, they are necessary.”

Its still on Google Play for now

Kodi has made my setup dead-simple: File server running on TrueNAS serving my library over SMB/CIFS and Kodi does all the “management” on the client side (which really is just my watch progress and metadata), so my server is just a dumb box of disks in RaidZ1. I have only one client, and as for configuration, I just created two media objects in Kodi: TV and Movies, and the rest is default other than the unrelated IGAL setup.

I like what I read about the arr’s and Jellyfin, but until my current setup feels cumbersome or insufficient, I’m sticking with it.