ATV is the only box I recommend. I’m anti-Google, don’t trust Amazon (and now their service is going to do ads on a paid Prime membership), and Roku has major privacy issues at least in the past. Curious why you’re seeking an alternative to Apple.
Retail managers are about the dumbest people I’ve ever worked with. All they know how to do is boss people with passive/submissive personalities around (poorly) and make up rules when things go awry. Also shifting blame onto others is a key skill in retail management.
Also, be wary of relying on anything blocking ads on streaming services this way. They will likely serve them within the video stream, so not network-blockable.
The industry argument for that is “you’re stealing our potential revenue”. I personally subscribe to one streaming service. That’s it. If what I want to watch isn’t on that, I hoist the anchor and set sail.
The predictable way that video streaming services became content islands and actually a worse user experience than cable really shows how the industry would rather provide worse experience and cash grab than attract more customers naturally. By contrast, I can subscribe to one music service, and listen to literally every artist I can possibly want to. As soon as video streaming does that (at a reasonable price), piracy for video will plummet like it did for music.
that’s a shitload of lines of math to write out/work in your head. I learned percentages of x as: 6 * 45 / 100 = x (2.7) If you picture both as fractions, you multiply the opposite and then divide by the other number to get the missing one (x). Hopefully Lemmy renders this well…
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The way I learned it was multiply diagonally and then divide by whatever is opposite diagonally to x.
I once automated a co-worker out of a job with a 13-line bash script. I felt guilty on a human level, but they were also awful so that guilt faded pretty fast.
Within reason, yeah. If the video industry came out with a platform that had all you can stream and all the content in one place, but wanted $150/month for it, that would be a pricing problem. My ceiling is more like $40-50/month.
Drafting/tailgating is always something I’d fought companies on. If I’m responsible for physical security, arm me to protect myself when I go and challenge someone and things go sideways. Usually the conversation ends there, but one time I actually did threaten to take it a step further when someone tailgated me, and I told them to stop, or I will call the cops for them trespassing. That someone was a board member without a badge to the building. Good thing tenure and security policies override a board member trying to get me fired. They stopped pushing the aggressive anti-tailgating policy after that.
With security teams, I always find that they are gung-ho about implementing systems and policies, but evaporate when challenged to enforce them or actually do the real work related to those policies (like monitoring cameras, staffing for physical access security, etc.).