LanyrdSkynrd

joined 2 years ago
[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The smug ignorance of Bill Maher makes me so fucking angry

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I use PIA because it was the cheapest on their 3.3 year plan, and it has a good node geographically close to me with port forwarding. I only use it for torrenting, so I don't care if it's a CIA Honeypot or whatever.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You usually need to grab most reality shows on the day they air because nobody seeds them after a few days. I recommend using some kind of rss feed setup, either through sonarr or with your torrent app.

Showrss.info is pretty good for beginners. It allows you to make a customized rss feed that has the shows you want in the formats you prefer. I checked and they have house hunters. This won't help with back episodes, but at least you can start accumulating the new ones

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I think the only way it will work is if you connect via Bluetooth(if the echo dot can do that). Casting basically just sends a URL to the device and it fetches the audio feed itself. Since xmanager isn't on the echo, it can't block the ads.

I have the same issue when playing through my Google Home's. I tried looking for a domain to block through my router, but I couldn't find one that wouldn't also block the music.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what the shopkeepers privilege is, an immunity to false arrest claims when they have suspicion you've stolen something.

The two cases I found, the judges decided that refusing to show the receipt was enough to provide that suspicion

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The customer sued the store civilly for false arrest after security held them.

If you called a cop they would say, "it's a civil issue" because cops don't do shit when businesses do crime to consumers.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was at BJ's wholesale, where they always check every receipt. Usually it's just a cursory glance, but one day they had some cop wannabe checking off every item on the receipt, causing a huge backup. I pushed my cart past the line and left. The guy chased me out into the parking lot, took my plate number and told me he was calling the cops. Nothing came of it, but it embarrassed the shit out of my partner.

I went home and did a bunch of research. From what I found, there aren't a lot of cases that addressed the issue, but I found a two civil cases where people were physically detained after refusing to show their receipt. They sued for false arrest and their cases were both dismissed. I'm not a lawyer and there may be newer case law on this.

I hate the checks, but it isn't worth it to me to risk dealing with cops when I'm not getting anything from it and making someone else's job harder.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Checking receipts when you leave a store. They have cameras everywhere and they can access my receipt through their computer system. I already paid, this is my stuff, they shouldn't be able to detain me without suspicion I stole something.

I don't raise a stink with the poor person checking receipts, though, because I am not an asshole.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember being in 4th grade and my teacher taught us about the formation of Israel. That night I mentioned to my dad about how Israel was made by taking the land of other nations. My dad was like, "How do you think America was made? It was made by stealing other people's land".

To this day I have no idea if my dad was being based or justifying the existence of Israel. Probably the latter, knowing my father, but I'm choosing to believe it was the former.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

It appears to be a browser plugin that bypasses those countdowns that paying link shorteners use to force you to look at ads. Sites like adf.ly

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

For my Honda Accord you needed to buy a dealer installed addon(called home link IIRC) to get the garage door buttons.

Home Assistant works pretty well with Android Auto. If I had a garage door I'd connect it to HA with esphome and access it that way.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Most of the tubs I've had in america are too small for me to actually use. Both too shallow and too short. Half my body would be out of the water.

My last bath was also around 10 years ago in a hotel that had a nice deep tub.

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