I don’t understand how they can keep it blocked for so long. After 3 days, I’d have a Pringles can my roof aimed at a friend/relative who wasn’t blocked…

They’re already appending ads to the front of the video. Instead of appending an ad at key frame 1 they append the ad at key frame 30,000.

It has to know which blocks to chose to get the next part of the file anyway. Except the next part of the file is an ad. So yes there is overhead but not for the video stream server. It doesn’t need to re encode the video. It’s not any more taxing than adding the non skip ads at the beginning that they already do.

It wouldn’t cost any CPU with custom software that Google can afford to write. The video is streamed by delivering blocks of data from drives where the data isn’t contiguous. It’s split across multiple drives on multiple servers. Video files are made of key frames and P frames and B in between the key frames. Splicing at key frames need no processing. The video server when sending the next block only needs a change to send blocks based on key frames. It can then inject ads without any CPU overhead.

I wish there were more Nickel Iron (Edison) home battery options. Those run for over 100 years and are perfect for a home where size/weight don’t matter.

Oops! I confused my old Nexus 6 with Pixel.

Are you running Graphene? I stopped using my 6 because Google stopped security patches. Fortunately the newer Pixels now have 5 years of updates.

15 year olds drinking beer during lunch at school isn’t a thing. 15 year olds tiktoking through lunch is.

Yes c++ == c. That’s the point Bjarne Stroustrup made. It is the C language but then it’s better.

Nowadays they’re not completely compatible. But originally it was a preprocessor that created the C equivalent to be compiled. You could write C++ that compiled with a C compiler as long as you didn’t use the extra features.

???

If c = 1, then c++ = 2

#include <iostream> using namespace std;

int main() {

int i = 10;

cout << i++ << endl;

cout << i << endl;

}

postfix ++ increments the variable.

Google “have you seen Kyle”

And here I thought I came up with an original joke.

The sandbags need to be this high. Everyone got it? Now everyone show me how high!

Sony can’t have your electricity cut off if you pirate. Because electricity is a utility.

ISPs want it both ways. They want the legal protections of a utility without the obligations.

The solution is to give them the legal protection they want by declaring them a utility.

“Law enforcement officers typically have fairly broad leeway to place someone in handcuffs during an interaction if they believe that it’s necessary to protect themselves from harm. In those cases, they can do so even if the person being handcuffed hasn’t been arrested.”

“When a search warrant is being executed”

https://www.northernillinoislegalteam.com/blog/2021/04/when-do-police-have-the-right-to-handcuff-a-person/

Handcuffs do not mean an arrest.

Some people take tabs vs spaces too seriously.

Was he arrested? I don’t see follow up. It only says he was handcuffed which would be standard until they know what’s going on.

Do you actually use their “recommended” view?

Do you primarily watch Plex live TV or their other ad supported movies?

Have you helped an older relative with computer problems over the phone?

If you could set the default, it wouldn’t be a problem.

My biggest complaint is that it defaults to “recommended” instead of “library” which means for new users (family members you are trying to help remotely) don’t see the videos in your collection but instead a random unordered list to scroll sideways.

After you select library to see everything, it doesn’t save that view as default unless you go into settings and change it to remember changes.

A new annoying feature they added is when setting up a new account, the default is to send every video you watch to all friends/family unless you select disable. So you can’t even setup quickly by putting in a user/password and being ready to go. You have to talk family members through setup or everyone with access to your Plex will get email spammed with everything that person watched.

I have home videos on my server and this means lengthy phone calls to family so they can actually see the videos.