DCLonghorn

Visually powerful. Way too many of the coolest elements of the book and older movie/miniseries left out. I was hoping part 2 would rectify that but it didn't. I rewatched 80s Dune and there was more story in the intro expositions and opening scene than 2 DV movies. But like he said, he was making a love story. But like mentioned above, DV has me rereading the book. I was absolutely shocked to learn that there are now over 20 Dune books. The son and Kevin Anderson (wrote some popular Star Wars novels) have been prolific.

Main circuit board failed... Keep those old analog appliances!

@Vic Mackey☝️☝️

MLB.tv free for the season via T-Mobile is available in the T-Mo Tuesday app now [mention=1398]Vic_Mackey[/mention]. It's only through the season, so heads up next year... No preseason ball.

Apologies @Vic Mackey, it's not in T-Mo Tuesday today. Went back to an email and it says starting March 28-April 3.

Totally unrelated/related, but the announcers in last night's Japan v Mexico World Baseball Classic said that 63m people watched the Japan v Korea game...in Japan alone. That's a serious wow stat... And mildly relevant comparatively as huge dollars are thrown around for rights to CFB games that get 7-10m viewers.

MLB.tv will be in the T-Mo Tuesday app...on...Tuesday.

Another NVM detail. Hulu Live only allows two concurrent streams and doesn't allow watching in a different location, and limits how many times you can change your home location. (If anyone knows of a workaround, let me know). This blows up Mom in Houston and kids in college using the family YTTV. Another low key advantage for YTTV. Sling Blue pretty limited too, but Blue+Orange allows three streams. Anyone know how Sling works in two locations? Home network locals shown in second location? Mom gotta have here Marvin Zindler local news. RIP.

It made me realize just how many stops and commerical breaks there is in NCAA tourney hoops. It tried to take a picture of the four streams and waited until all four games were showing. I never saw four games on at once, and rarely three. I gave up and took a photo of commercials. It is very cool though.

To exemplify how fractured streaming and cable is, I have a damn spreadsheet to track all the various services, the cost, and the discounts. I knew that if YTTV upped the price and Hulu didn't match, that for the first time, Hulu with Live TV, which includes the full Disney bundle, would be cheaper for me than YTTV and the Disney bundle even with the various discounts, which seems to collectively be slowly going away. The Disney bundle has become cheaper straight out than the various piecemeal discounts and freebies from cell providers. Hulu Live TV with all bundles (with ads) is $69.99, and YTTV+D bundle will soon be $85.98. $75.98 with T-Mo discount. Since I really only watch sports on YTTV, might as well jump to Hulu despite their crappier DVR and UI. EXCEPT... I just noticed that my local ABC channel is not offered on Hulu Live. Damn. I realize Mouse doesn't own their own affiliates, but it's perverse that I can't switch to Mouse for streaming TV bc they don't offer Mouse ABC in my market. And fucking around with an antenna for one channel, albeit a very important channel for \m/ football to save $6 a month isn't worth it to me...yet. or the $10 a month over Sling+Blue+Orange+Sports+antenna. Yet. They got us sports fans. I have to have a full cable/cable replacement and three additional streaming services to watch my two sportsball teams that are must watch. Oh well. Take my money fuckers. They fully knew this before the price increase, but YTTV really is still the best for sports and the price while so much higher than in the recent past, is still a comparable or better deal. Fuckers. Still *way better than the $165.65 from DirecTV circa 2018.

YTTV said they will eventually let us pick the channels, but not yet.

MLB channel requires a cable provider log in to watch on MLB.tv, so no if you have YTTV. But I never noticed that since I just fire up the game I want. I don't live in my MLB teams market so I've never run into blackouts.

American Express Blue Cash card...nice cash back on all purchases... Up to 5% on some. Minimum 1% on all. If you'll use it for travel, look at travel points cards.

T-Mo gives MLB.tv for free and $10 off a month for YTTV, if that's enough to switch. They also give one year of Paramount+ for free (champions league) and free Netflix if on the higher plans. Free Hulu for old Sprint people instead of Netflix.

This now pushes YTTV well past Hulu with Live TV added to Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle. It was within a couple of bucks now, but that is with a $10 discount from cell phone. Hulu already cheaper without the discount, now $8/month more for YTTV. I love the YTTV DVR, and the UI. But not that much. And like above, I pretty much only watch sports on YTTV, so can deal with slightly less quality with Hulu. But I'll wait a bit to see if Hulu follows suit and raises prices. I need one or the other for sports. Fubo and Sling don't have all the needed channels for the price.

NECROBUMP! Today is a good day to get your Wordle on.

Since it wasn't relevant to the OP, I left out the part where almost all the shit appliances that died or needed several repairs were Samsung. All shit. Fridge, microwave, stoven, washer, dryer.

I mentioned in another thread a couple days ago, I went with a higher end (than I would have otherwise bought) Miele dishwasher due to shit experience with a Kitchenaid before that, despite it being top rated on Consumer Reports. I was very happy with the Miele DW, it got dishes cleaner than I've ever seen...didn't realize all glasses had a haze until put next to one washed in the new DW. Had to wait several months during the supply chain fun to get one. It was worth it. It showed up and was installed in early July. The fucking thing died last week. No power...no circuits tripped. Miele didn't last as long as the crap-ass Kitchenaid. Warranty service (in a big city) can't get to me for weeks. Unrelated to mountain needs...everyone keep those old ass appliances as long as you can. My parents are still rocking appliances from when I was a kid. I've had to replace everything at least once, most of them more than once...or twice...or thrice. Redid kitchen in 2018/2019. Every single appliance (also replaced W/D) was CR top rated. Every single appliance failed, multiple times. My kids still have to defrost the freezer likes it's the fucking 50s. And now they get to wash the dishes by hand. Don't worry, they know how...because of the previous crap appliances. The microwave turns itself on...sure hope that faraday cage is sound. Rant over...sorry. Enjoy the mountains may man.

Well fuckety fuck fuck...pricey ass Miele DW purchased in July died yesterday. Friendly support arranged for warranty repair....three weeks from now. Worked fucking great...really great...until it didn't.

I keep trying to repost your avatar but it just doesn't work!

Click on this bitches! @mdmost not sure it's the web site or my tablet, but I have to type in any text before posting the link to get it to wondertwin activate. Otherwise it just posts link text. Thanks for the help.

@slmandel: ION/Scripps Sports is not involved in the Pac-12's TV negotiations, a source with direct knowledge of the situation tells @TheAthletic No idea how you smart fuckers post the clickable image of a tweet.

Not so fast ION/Scripps

Same issue I had. Ran for a minute and stopped. Unfortunately there are a dozen things that can cause that according to the Googles. Drain clogged, vent fan, heating element, circuit board, soap dispenser, etc. Newer models turn off if anything in the diagnostic check at the start of the washing comes back wrong. Even if it's something benign like the water isn't heating up (when it could wash it cold) or the vent fan flap won't open (but you could air dry after the wash). Up to you to decide how many of those things your willing to hunt down and replace one at a time before it's not worth the overall cost. Also not sure this is still an issue, but supply chain issues with parts was a pain in the ass as well. And we had to wait about 9 months for the new DW to become available. We got it July 2022.