Emptiness

https://www.cats.org.uk/cats-blog/why-do-cats-chatter-and-chirp-at-birds

Yep, Scandinavia here signing under this as well. Well written!

The alternative launchers available for set top boxes are pretty good. Biggest feature is they’re completely ad-less.

Smarttube for set top boxes like Nvidia shield etc: https://smarttubeapp.github.io/

Does anyone know of a speed test where you can set it up to run by itself regularly and push a notification to a channel (like pushbullet or similar) when the speed is below a certain threshold?

Just today spent way over an hour setting up a Chromecast with Google TV at father in laws today. Factory reset that thing four times. Used every wifi connection I could find and finally got it working by hot-spotting my own phone and setting it up.

Not buying more Google. It’s just hot garbage at this point.

Starship Troopers

I’m still confounded by workplaces that run the old nineties way of VPN handshake by browser. Clunky, clumsy just straight up bad digital workplace setup.

There is no reason to not do it the modern way where all the handshaking and connecting is done under the hood, hidden from the user. At the most you as a user should only see the tiny little systray icon switch how it looks.

But instead use…?

[this is where you add your constructive options]

Shitter TV. Only spelled differently.

Yes, TRaSH is the way! Come my brother, the seas are ours!

“The beatings will continue until morale improves!”