You can quit streaming services and go to the library to borrow new movies instead.

I quit streaming services around 4 months ago, determined the exact maximum streaming quality every device I own can handle, used a $60 used office PC from craigslist, admittedly I haven’t fully figured out how to get subtitles to work without transcoding, but I just need to sit down and figure it out at some point. I direct stream all of my content from a 10+ yr old PC and it uses less than 5% cpu while watching a 4k movie. I could stream to easily 5-10 PC’s and still likely be able to do software maintenance on the PC at the same time. That and with how jellyfin looks like a streaming service, with no transcoding it’s better than any streaming service. Nearly every streaming service you use is transcoding on the fly instead of storing 20versions of each video for direct streaming, direct streaming a previously encoded asset will always deliver a higher quality viewing experience.

Me forgetting AI can be used for such things: “dang that was a well written email, and how clever to turn it into a bullet point so quickly, better up my game…”

Time to gush. Levar Burton to me as Geordi LaForge was a hero to me as a child. As a white dude, it never occurred to me Geordi was black, he’s a guy, he’s super smart, he’s cool, and someday you just knew that guy was gonna be an awesome captain. Levar Burton is why I wanted to work with technology, Geordi is who I pictured myself as when I was a kid tearing apart, or fixing(much less fixing and mostly breaking back then, but that’s how it starts). Levar Burton is almost solely responsible for my initial wonder at science. He stands easily shoulder to shoulder with Mr Rogers.

Earl Gray. Hot.