Yes, it is?

Your rant doesn’t make sense. Asking for suggestions because you’re not OK with being spied on (especially when you’re perfectly willing to absorb the hosting costs yourself or pat for a service that isn’t hostile) is perfectly valid behavior.

Smart TV hardware (and most software) is a dumpster fire.

To watch stuff?

I’d love a shield replacement (even though it’s pretty much fine), but how are you going to get streaming to work properly? Are you going to support all the DRM stuff platforms require to stream reasonable quality video in Linux?

There’s a big difference between “not correlated” and “inversely related” though. The latter is very deliberately saying that good scores are a bad thing.

There is no actual logic to having time windows to access confiscated devices that are not ever going to be returned. Anything that’s not technology is completely unaffected by that silliness.

There’s no world where a legally confiscated physical object is held to the same standard.

I don’t see the issue here.

The seizure of the devices happened with appropriate warrants, the actual search was done with appropriate warrants, there’s apparently some weird time limit on the search warrant on a seized device, and some of the maintenance involved took place outside that weird time restriction.

The actual hacking of the device and the actual search of the contents of the device were with a warrant.

What they did was perfect, and there’s no way they could have just added stuff and had it be the show it was. They stuck to the vision and nailed the fuck out of it.

But I could also sit and watch a lot of episodes of reboots 2-5000 or whatever. The chemistry of that cast playing those characters with that writing was all magic.

People are spending hours on the phone to get basic support or cancel their internet because they just enjoy the interaction so much.

So what they actually did was basically flawless from start to finish.

But give me 100 more episodes of the Good Place anyways.

I can’t comment on “space fantasy” specifically, but I like when fantasy builds complex science and engineering on top of their magic. The magic in something like the Stormlight Archive is compelling in its own right, but it’s massively enhanced by seeing how the ancient civilizations leveraged it to build advanced societies, and how they invent new things using the lower level tools over the course of the story.

A 5% refund?

That’s almost more disrespectful than nothing.

lol I have to go back to the bank (when there’s a manager, because there wasn’t last time🤦‍♀️), to turn online banking back on for my account.

It got turned off because I didn’t pick up some spam call they made.

It’s not odd. If that’s who you interact with, that’s who you’ll be friends with.

Age is a number, and friendship with someone with life experience isn’t going to hurt anyone.

The thing with that is that it’s actually a useful generalization to make in a lot of scenarios.

If you know nothing about the distinction between two possible outcomes, treating them as equally likely is a helpful tool to continue with the back of the envelope guess. Knowing this path needs 5 coin tosses to go right and this one needs 10 is helpful to approximate which is better.

Your example is obviously outside the realm where you have zero information, so uniform distribution is no longer the reasonable default. But the idea is from a reasonable technique, taken to extremes by someone who doesn’t fully get it.

It’s not the ratio.

Gamepass’s entire library of “not dogshit”, cumulatively, isn’t worth a year of the subscription to actually own. They don’t publish a meaningful number of games worth playing if they were free, and you can count the indie games (which are cheap to actually own anyways) that are actually good on your hands.

every single new game

Their catalogue is dogshit and has a very small selection of games that are even worth considering on a steep discount.

It is. His point is you can replicate the gooey texture with a cheese that’s actually edible with almost zero effort, though.

It’s an incredibly far cry from the “all” he mentioned, and it isn’t close to the best or most desirable.

I’m well aware of what it has available, and it’s genuinely not good enough to get me to install Windows if they provided it for free. But the entire reason Gamepass exists is because they know it makes them more long term than buying your games.

Oh, randomly, on a whim drawing an awful map to show off his brilliance? That’s for sure possible.

I guess RFK having no clue and calling it perfect also makes sense.

What I don’t believe is that he knows the name of anything but Israel, Iraq, and maybe Egypt.