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thunderlounge

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  1. They’re still the same people, whether they have a conference patch or not.
  2. To be fair, Blue still coughs it up in Dallas, too.
  3. Playing around with the channels dvr setup. It’s a temp setup for testing, and if it’s acceptable I’ll go through and set it up proper. Right now I threw the server app in a VM on one of my proxmox boxes, and gave it 1TB of space on my NAS for recordings. I’m just playing with the “TV Everywhere” side of it, which is plenty to test with. Downside is TV Everywhere apparently doesn’t do sound in 5.1, only stereo. Not sure why, but probably to save bandwidth or some stupid shit. Initial impressions are favorable. Lack of 5.1 isn’t good for the streaming cable channels, but is what it is. It records well, and the DVR aspect is really good overall. It reminds me of Tivo in that regard. It also marks commercials and gives you a skip button on playback. Not every single channel can be viewed through “TV Everywhere”, but any I cared about were there. Even 3/4 of the local channels. Of course the one missing was the main local one I watch. Fixable with OTA, so not an issue, and I’m just making a note about it. Wife rolled her eyes about it. She’ll get over it once she realizes she would essentially be getting her Tivo features back. Next test I’m planning for it is to switch providers, and see how it handles all that. Looking for things like recording continuity, channel availability and priority, etc. If that is all copacetic, I’ll start building out a more permanent solution, spring for an attic antenna, and get the HD HomeRun for the OTA tuner.
  4. Ran into exactly that type of shit several weeks ago. The voice was good, not gonna lie, it even had me for a bit. Had to go to a wedding our last bye week, and they had a bank of rooms reserved. Easy enough. Call the front desk, have them book it. So I call the local number, says it’s so and so hotel, someone will be with me shortly. Guy comes on, I tell him I need a room from the wedding block. Says he isn’t able to do that, have to call the event people to book. Gives me the number, I call, it wasn’t the right place, so I call the local number again. Same thing. I try explaining to guy that it wasn’t right, he’s not having it. So finally I said well who the fuck can I talk to besides you? *click* Hung up on me, huh? I call back, asked why I was hung up on, and if they do that to all their diamonds? Sir, I’m an AI agent and you used profanity. <Ralphie finding out about ovaltine and marketing the hard way gif here> I call back, then kept hitting 0 while it was talking until it finally put me through to the front desk.
  5. 7k for 4 cars? No blowjobs or anything else with it? High end, dwi’s, kids, some of all 3?
  6. Let us remember that this fiasco is contributed to, in part, by those nice contracts the SEC gets so we get paid.
  7. Shouldn’t they call a doctor?
  8. It’s the weirdest thing for sure. I’ve had a script for prilosec for 20 some years. Thought it was just a bad roll of the dice. However I’ve very recently found out that I have Burn Pit Exposure from my time in the ME, and 90% or better of what ails me can be caused by….. yep, burn pit exposure.
  9. Your solution lies within the problem.
  10. Damn, sorry to hear that. Mine knocks it out really well, but I can tell if I miss a dose. Probably a good thing it works for me as I never could figure out exactly what would set it off.
  11. Prilosec once a day.
  12. The Tennessee Aquarium is really good. Ruby Falls is always on our list as well.
  13. Are you saying slorch is tor?
  14. By your numbers, if they need $10B/yr off 50M subscribers, that works out to about $16/mo/subscriber.
  15. Video was a little off on framerate in a couple spots.
  16. Also of note, the power is going to be different as well. -c has more juice. Might be better to get a dc usb-c plugin for her to use.
  17. You let your wife drive your car? Brave mother fucker right here.
  18. Mentioned this in the FB board’s yttv/mouse thread, and I’m still working out the details, but overall I’m going to implement a local dvr solution using channels dvr server. In general the setup will be something like this: antenna—>HD Homerun->Channels DVR Server<-“cable” streamer Devices then use the channels app. So this combines OTA and streaming channels into one menu, and you record from there. You don’t need a cable streamer, but we're lucky to get the 3 main channels OTA here. End result is that when the time comes again to swap streaming cable providers, it’s all under the hood and the end user (read that as wife) won’t know the difference. Now to figure out the what and how of it all.
  19. No shit. Miami says hello, and several others.
  20. While sports has good coverage, their remaining channel offering was missing some prominent stations, last I looked. So it depends on what you’re after, and whether or not they are missing other channels you want.
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