Asklemmy

43936 readers

404 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

104

What are you just done with after giving it so many chances? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 days ago by NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

100 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Hellinabucket@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If my kids didn't go do crazy for happy meals I'd never spend a dime there.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can just buy the dam toys you know

[–] Hellinabucket@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The price of the you alone isn't worth it, the kids will happily eat the food and it's less than 6 bucks for a meal and a toy for them.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

The price of the you is always worth it. Don't undersell the you.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah they've got that market cornered for sure. I've got an 18 month old, so all that to look forward to.