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In my day ...

Milo Willamson
The_Chief said:
Even purchased content on streaming services is at the mercy of the service: the service can pull that content offline at any time, for any reason. The buyer has no recourse because that's in the terms & conditions they agreed to (usually without ever reading them). That's why I buy physical media: DVDs and Blu-rays. Our player is offline and not connected. Why? Ad fillers. You put a 20-year old DVD in a connected player and you'll get previews for 5 or 6 upcoming movies! I didn't buy the disc to watch commercials for new crap. You know what, though? Any time we want to watch that movie, we don't have to go online, access our paid content, and hope something is still there. We pop in the disc and enjoy my homemade popcorn.
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And it is yours, without purchasing anything from Google TV!
Rico ANDROID said:
Well! In MYYYY day , we didnt have to "rent/steam" music by subscription..... we OWNED it .... and all that for 1CENT
(..... then a collection acgency got the rest.. 😆)


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Had a lot of them, and still have the copies of my albums too!
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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

The_Chief
It's pretty sad that our U.S. Congress is so impotent that it can't pass something as simple as eliminating Daylight Saving Time (which was an idea cooked up by Dr. Benjamin Franklin - as an emissary to France, he published an essay on the economy of candlelight... as a JOKE! Leave it to some bureaucratic numbskull to take it seriously and turn it into national policy).
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Gboard sneaking in again

R
I think I at least figured out the keyboard problem. When I clear settings, it unfortunately brings back that worthless goo garbage and I end up wasting time deleting it. I think it also puts that lousy thing on instead of the Fossify one. If I go ahead and change it back it's not that big a deal. By the way, I have gone with Open Camera. I doubt it's really spyproof but still an improvement over that crap, I hope.
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Interesting Articles.. post some interesting articles that other might enjoy.

rootabaga
Hopefully I can get this posted before t

www.bleepingcomputer.com

New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones

A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, dubbed "SMS of Death" and tracked as CVE-2026-58882, that lets attackers remotely disrupt cellular service or crash phones by sending a specially crafted text message.
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Any Time is Grillin Time

olbriar
I'm smoking what I call a Swiss meatloaf tomorrow. It will have two pounds of lean ground beef that I bought on sale. ( ground beef without some fat is tasteless to me ) I'll mix in an egg, chopped purple onion, sliced mushrooms, crushed white cheddar cheez-its for breading, and brown beef gravy. I'll finish the loaf with a brown gravy glaze. I think I'll smoke it at 250° or 275°. I'm guessing somewhere around a two hour smoke. I'll call it done when I see 160° internal temp in the thickest part of the loaf. I'll fix some whole kernel corn to go with the loaf.
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Tell me a joke...

The_Chief
Dave asks a woman on the street if he can bite her breasts for $100.
"Are you crazy? No!" she says, and walks away.
He runs around the block and meets her at the next corner. "$1,000 to bite your breasts."
"No! I'm not that kind of woman!"
He runs around another block. "$10,000. Just one bite."
She stops. "$10,000? Seriously? Okay, fine... but just once, and not here."
They go into a dark alley and she takes off her blouse and bra. Dave goes crazy: kissing them, squeezing them, burying his face in them. But he never bites.
Finally she gets annoyed. "Well? Are you going to bite them or not?"
"Nah. Costs too much."
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E-Bikes

olbriar
The weather is stuck on sixty three degrees and the overnight rain is still sitting where it fell. I am thinking about going riding in spite of it being wet and cooler. I don't anticipate any traffic lol. It is all my fault. I stepped outside to determine the amount of clothing I needed to ride and it started sprinkling. .... sheesh!

I never got the chance to ride. It stayed cool and boggy all day. Bummer
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