I’ve kept a blanket for 20 years. I remember when I bought it at a department store with my mom before I went off to college. It’s the perfect thickness and texture for me to sleep with. The nostalgia is an added bonus for a really comfortable blanket.
Smarttube on Android TV OS
Apple in 2001:
Sprinkle some smug self-satisifaction on top of this and it’s a real good portrait of the Christian right. Religion is a narotic for these folks who spend their days judging others. They believe in the correct God™ and His prosperity gospel. Anyone who is poor or those who “sin” deserve their lot in life. And how are kids to learn self-reliance when they’re coddled with free food? We’re so weak to let our kids live in such decadent times! What’s next, they won’t have to pay for healthcare after they made the bad decision to get hurt or sick?
They ask how we can be so wasteful as a society while they clutch their imitation pearl necklace. Meanwhile the public’s share of wealth shrinks and everyone is left to fight for the scraps. When the situation is so dire, it’s easy to fight with each other than to question big business, Wall Street or the financial sector.
Another option is using an alternate launcher. I’ve used Flauncher and ProjectIvy to bypass Google’s default launcher.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.projengmenu&hl=en-US
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.efesser.flauncher&hl=en-US
APKs are available wherever you’d like to source them. F-droid should technically work on Android TV, as well. Android TV OS is a different OS from original Android, so I’ve never seen an alternative like Graphene.
Prices for physical console games has exceeded any historic cycle. I’ve been shopping at the same local used store for 30 years and stopped in a few days ago. I saw a copy of Aerobiz Supersonic for $200. Authentic carts for Earthbound are listed at $400.
A great game, but it’s being sold at a borderline criminal price during a massive market bubble.
If a game isn’t legally available for purchase (digital or physical) from the original company or subsidiary, it’s absolutely the correct decision to pirate a game. Subscription services like Nintendo Switch Online don’t count in my book.
Even with inflation, the game should only cost around $100 based on original price. And even if I buy a used game, the original creators don’t see a dime. We should support the developers/publishers and reward those who create good rereleases like the Castlevania Collection.
I’d also grab a ROM or ISO of a game that I’ve bought on Steam so that I can play it on original hardware. But that’s just me.
All *arr apps should use root folders to organize media. If I understand the question, here’s the hypothetical situation:
You should be able to have multiple root folders, but I’ve only checked in So are. One problem you’ll run into is that you can’t break up music artists or TV show series across root folders.
You might want to consider something like OpenMediaVault or Unraid to manage your storage. Either platform (or others) allow you to add drives as needed. I don’t use either so I’m just passing that along as a consideration.
Not sure if my setup is unique or wrong but here’s what I use:
I also use Tailscale for remote access and I’m not sure that my friends and family are ready for that. (Admittedly, I’m still on Plex.) Registering your own domain and using a DDNS service and reverse proxy will give your users an easier experience than Tailscale. I can give an easy-to-remember URL to folks rather than a new VPN platform to learn.
If security is more important, Tailscale is the best option for remote connections.
Why don’t we need this for Plex? Because Plex has all of the above steps baked into its service.
I wish someone would make a new RTS with the Halo Wars control scheme. It works so well on the Steam Deck. I played Halo Wars 2 on the Xbox and I was disappointed by the new gameplay.
It drives me crazy when Reagan is treated as a god :)
South Dakota is an interesting place. I live here and it’s a Republican supermajority at the state level, so Trump supporters enjoy an extraordinary level of comfort.
This place is the perfect example to show how the conservative political machine have taken root across rural America. It started with Nixon’s silent majority and has only grown more powerful through the Reagan and Bush II administrations. All of the seeds that Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh sowed in the nineties have grown into an angry, bitter rabble out here.
People here are led to believe that there are dark forces at the gates both domestic and abroad. Those liberals in other states want to convert South Dakota into a woke hellscape. The farm crisis in the eighties made people distrust Washington D.C. and foreign trade. Lots of people think we need to completely revert back to an imaginary time and place.
I was born after George McGovern but it’s fascinating to think of a time that this state would have a democratic, anti-war governor who would run for president. That was the seventies and we had democratic U.S. representatives until the Tea Party movement pushed them out.
Since then, we have but a handful of left-leaning political leaders in the state. The Democrats are effectively powerless outside of larger towns and reservations. Neoliberalism died here about 20 years ago, so any establishment Democrat has a snowball’s chance in Hell to run here.
I’m rambling but I wanted to give some insight from someone who lives here. I’m not hopeful that much will change here politically. I’ve felt marginized by the national Democratic party since I graduated high school, so they aren’t going to come “rescue” us from this mess. Talking about this place online only draws ridicule from other liberals and left-wing folks.
There are some bright spots, as we had 5,000 people show up at one of our Hands Off rallies:
Flauncher is a great pick too
🤘 I love the whole album, especially Marching Song (Of The First Arkansas Negro Regiment) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfefCi8-gbrYOMtW76B4VUIvyMkJIM-Fw
I use the ONN 4K Pro and the ProjectIvy launcher. You can completely hide the standard Android TV OS launcher and its ads. Button Mapper is another good app to have on Android boxes. The remote is full of app-specific buttons that I’ve either disabled or remapped to alternative apps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.projengmenu
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutton
I have no idea which codecs are supported.
I think hindsight bias is always a factor when talking about old video games. The N64 was a runt in sales but the library was stacked in my opinion. But it sold nearly as many U.S. units as the SNES or Genesis, so the fact that the PS1 was such a blockbuster doesn’t reduce the N64’s quality.
Catalog wise, I always felt that the N64 had enough games until at least 1999 when the PS1 pulled away. It had better shooters (with awesome multiplayer) and great party games.
People in 2025 should remember that some folks were lucky enough to have both systems, which plays a factor too.
Gene Hackman had a pretty good run
A shame too because it was such a waste to use Walken and Duran Duran in such a crappy movie.
I recently lost a media drive and Radarr was a godsend. I’ve made database backups a priority. It’s also much easier to recover from a dead drive with access to a private BitTorrent tracker that allows free leeching.
After I stopped other programs except for Radarr and qBitTorrent, I let those two with for two days and got most of everything back. There are a few more movies that I need to manually recover and I should properly back those up. Besides that, it worked very well.
I like Flauncher or ProjectIvy. I’m using the latter on the living room TV and it works great.
There was a big shift between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion. Compared to Zero Mission, there is almost no plot in Super Metroid. The only major plot point is the whereabouts of the metroid which Ridley abducted in the opening scene.
Super Metroid is much more action focused then the later entries. I will say that the later areas are a little more atmospheric than the first half of the game. Wrecked Ship definitely has a different vibe than the rest.
I’d say it’s okay to take a break from Super Metroid and try Fusion. Fusion is much more linear and story driven. There was a short Super Metroid comic series in Nintendo Power that might provide some more context.