Fucking this exactly. Far too much effort

If you want Dolby Vision you’ll need a device like the Shield, Roku, Google Streamer… the codecs are locked to those devices for reasons

Hit Cancel instead of Reply after typing a response to that moron. 9/10 it’s not worth the effort and your life will be better for having moved on.

Yeah a Samsung Odyssey

The cost of ingredients have gone up anywhere from 75%-300% from corporate greed. Flour went from $1/Lb to $5/Lb. It’s actually cheaper in some cases to buy the mass produced version of things like bread.

TL;DR: You can only lower you consumption so much before you starve

Headphones/ear buds. It really comes down to your use case. If you listen to podcasts and audiobooks 90% of the time then you only need good enough which is typically around $40.

That’s why I went ahead and got one of those 49" Samsung displays. I use it probably 300 days a year and I’ll likely keep it for 10 years like my old ones. I could have saved money but this was a luxury that I can easily justify by how often I use it.

It really doesn’t matter. Sleep on whatever you’re comfortable on. If that’s a $60 walmart inflatable or a $4k luxury silver lined mattress, whatever gives you the best sleep is right for you.

How are you using 21kWh/day heating a small home? Do you have any insulation at all?

so just not eat at all then?

And they’re only $50 for the actual Hitachi model. Always assumed it would be far more expensive.

And it really didn’t make the ending any better… I didn’t feel rewarded after that slog. Personal victory maybe?

Expeditionary Force is a fun sci-fi saga with great narration and lots of funny bits. If you’re not paying attention and miss half a chapter it doesn’t really matter too much. Book 7.5 is a full cast epic production with a few well known sci-fi actors.

If you’re looking for something that’d you’d get at the pharmacy for $10 then Jack Reacher is pretty fun for the first 10 or so books. I find the most interesting bit being that they’re contemporary and basically released annually with the first being released in 1997. You can see the technology change and the world around Jack change. I tapped out after book 20 or so but it was an enjoyable enough experience.

It’s possible, and can be done at home. You need to literally freeze the RAM very quickly (typically with CO2) and transfer it to the new system. Then you dump the contents of the stick and hopefully find an encryption key.

I relatively recently upgraded from a Pixel 6 and constantly try to use the squeeze feature that doesn’t exist on my new device.

Nokia phones in 2000 could record your voice for any command you wanted. The voice command reliability of those phones is beyond superior to what is offered by today’s voice assistants.

That doesn’t protect anybody who’s on a scam site though.