Today I’m donating my streaming sticks. I got a ONN brand 2k one I bought for 15 and I got an Amazon Firestick 4K I got for $3 from a thrift store because they didn’t know what it was.

And I love the concept of stream sticks, I really do. Too fucking bad that corporate interests got in the way and now everything has to have a bundle of ads at every damn turn. Not even some of the things I’m subscribed to is free from ads because this is the future apparently, we’re here.

Shame because I don’t want to let these go and even if I were to subscribe to Netflix’s ad-free subscription, that’s only one source. Why do that when I can just grab a long HDMI cable, plug it into my desktop and to my TV and I can watch everything that’s there, without ads because of the extensions I use to block ads.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
    101·
    5 days ago

    Hey man/girl/w/e,

    I’m repressing the boomer thing to tell you it’s going to be all right. I can’t promise that.

    I can just say that fighting the system is hard, I tried. Try work with it sometimes and see how that works out.

    Also don’t let anyone tell you thingsa are/aren’t suitable. What makes you happy is very important to you. I started playing tf2 when I was in my late 20’s and met a lot of people and had a blast.’

    I feel, though, that my examples might not mean much to you now, and that’s ok. Just know that I felt like what you described here and I managed to get it a bit better (i’m in my 40s now). Not everything is great, but I hop eyou find someone you can share some of your life with, that makes it easier.

    Boomer out.

    btw your username is great