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@expertsleepers dammit! I literally got a Rings clone two days ago.

@doctroid @synthdiy I have a MT Volts waiting to be built, but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I think I prefer the light-up sliders on Voltages.

@shezza_t @theronster I have a nostalgia for the 70s too, but not to the same extent. Though it’s probably as strong a feeling given that I was 3 years old when the 70s ended!

@MarkXA I’ve been doing that my whole life. I should get my ears pierced

What’s that sound, you ask? I suspect that is the sound of a bunch of week long trials converting to actual subscriptions for @ivory. Sounds good!

@theronster I’m nostalgic for the 80s in such a weird way. I was only a kid but I look back fondly as though I lived it as an adult.

@theronster @gruber @Waustin you’ll know that Google are getting in on it when you get asked “select only photos containing this actor to prove you are a human” on every website login.

@theronster I am right there with you. I also can’t listen to radio. I don’t want to hear inane shite from DJs, or songs that I would not personally have chosen.

I don’t particularly like listening to individual songs either. Sometimes I’ll listen to a curated playlist, but usually it has to be albums.

@theronster I know this is going to sound weird but I’ve found that not everyone is like you and me. They’ll put up with sub quality trash without doing anything about it.

@theronster no it means they don’t know or care how to do it. They’re not worried about 720p or ads.

@theronster well, my children are “adults” as far as YT is concerned. The YT kids stuff is too restrictive in general. It was easier to create them accounts with older birthdates.

@theronster pirating works for me, but not for the rest of the family.

@theronster I’ve also got YouTube premium, but all my research to date has shown that it’s fruitless. Everything suggests that the ads and content is cohosted.

I went family plan for YT Premium, just tk make sure the kids don’t see the ads on their own accounts.

@theronster you might have noticed it too, but the NowTV app for AppleTV is so shit that sometimes it stops responding to the pause button on the AppleTV remote.

@theronster likewise have All4 ads blocked, but not ITVX. I did have the ITVX ads blocked at one point but they changed something (probably what you said).

Blocking ads on All4 was “the most useful thing you’ve ever done with your life” according to my wife.

@theronster I might be imagining it, but I think my PiHole is blocking the ads. The PiHole can’t increase the Ps beyond 720 though.

@shezza_t I need to get back there. My dad is going in March and I’m annoyed that he didn’t ask me to go with him!

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