roku is more than just the hardware, or even the 'app' platform (where i'm guessing most of their revenue comes from). they have original content and a decent ad-supported service of their own. and you don't need their device to watch.. works in browser.
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yea, it can be. sucking-up your own internet connection, that you're also paying for, to watch 'satellite' tv. i bet she didn't get a discount for that, either. cheaper for them though, satellites are expensive, bandwidth is cheap (for them, anyway.. what they charge customers most likely doesn't reflect that).
i have ad and script blocking, plus a few other things. if a site doesn't work. big deal, i'll go elsewhere.
certain news sites in particular don't seem to understand that they are not the only one with 'the scoop'. lock an article behind a paywall, i'll just click and drag that headline, then right-click and search. boom a dozen other non-paywalled sources for coverage of the same story, some with your exact article, even.
my tv is less than a year old. four firmware updates (allowed through the pihole to try to fix an audio bug.. but no luck there yet) so far and now the 'smart' bits are laggy and slow. the one app that i started to actually like over its web site can't handle more than a few hours now without freezing up (the tv needs to be restarted to 'fix'). it was fast and fine and could run for days on end before. at the rate its performance is deteriorating, it'll be unusable before its 2 year warranty is up.
which is all by design, i'm sure. yea, you might 'force' me into another tv, but you can't make me buy another one of your pieces of shit.
if it gets any worse, the tv is getting factory reset and never touching the net again. i might be able to salvage a few years out of it as a monitor before some cheap sub-component inside dies.
what they mean by that is they haven't got the hotels on all the spaces yet.
bing may not be succeeding in the browser or mobile search space, but microsoft is doing everything they can think of (and get away with) to leverage windows' dominance in the OS space to trick, con or force users into bing searches directly from the OS (that display in the OS or forced into edge), as well as shoving bing-delivered, ad-infested clickbait content in front of users eyeballs whether they want it or not.
mine just jacked the rent again, more than doubled now in three years. it had gone up a grand total of one time over the previous 20 years (a whole $20) before he bought the building (pretty cheap, too).
i knew this shit was gonna happen, soon as i saw that notice of the building being sold three years ago to an llc with "investments" in the name. the previous owners were also tenants themselves.
so, like half (more?) of current 'open source' isn't, then? because it lacks in one or the other.. or both?
probably takes a bit of effort to keep windows built-in spell checker from working in it.
abiword's basically a dead project for windows and macos. the linux version i think saw an update a couple years ago.. but i can't get to the site (abisource.com) now at all to check.
i use wordpad a lot for viewing docs (loads faster, uncluttered ui). occasionally writing them... and more than once instead of notepad for a text file (on a system without a notepad alternative available) because i needed more features.
i have a few clients that use wordpad as their 'word processor', lack of spelling check be damned.
microsoft must have run out of excuses for specifically not including one in it, seeing how recent windows has spell check baked-in to the os itself. so instead of losing a few dozen sales of office home and student or 365 by making wordpad just a little bit better for those who use it, they're gonna be the assholes and take it out completely and push everyone to the damn cloud app or a 365 sub. fk 'em.
whole lot a good it did, too.