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  • We had to read "The Call of the Wild" by the same author. Every few chapters the main character, a dog, would wax poetic for a few paragraphs about how addicting the warm, salty taste of human blood was in his mouth.

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    What is your favourite breakfast food?
  • Breakfast sandwich. Eggs, ham, steak, and cheese on a poppyseed bun. Honorable mention to the humble breakfast burrito version too

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    The 10 worst superhero movies of the 2010s, ranked
  • Yeah I'm with you. It wasn't a good movie, but I wouldn't quite call it the worst, just kinda bad. Now Fant4stic? That might be the worst movie I've ever seen, period.

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    Earbuds
  • Just my anecdote, but 15 years back or so when Bluetooth earbuds weren't a thing yet, I bought a new wired pair every six months or so at least. Even when I'd run the wire under my shirt and stuff the slack in my pocket, eventually it would get caught and yank the earbuds out of my ears. When that happened too many times, the connection between the wire and the jack or buds would deteriorate.

    I've actually never lost a Bluetooth earbud. I buy ones with the little wings so they actually stay. I don't have connection problems unless I'm on the opposite side of the house from my phone, so granted I'll switch to my trusty 30m long wired earbuds in those cases. I've also never had a battery die in one of these. As I type this I'm wearing a pair of Sony Bluetooth headphones that I bought at least 5 years ago, maybe 6 or 7, and as far as I can tell they work as well as they ever have.

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    Inaccuracies
  • I never thought about doing it that way, so I counted in binary with my right hand... Tricky but oddly satisfying

    Edit: shit, I'm getting faster at this. I might have to convert

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  • TL;DR if the Roku app is failing to play back some videos recently, try turning on "Text Subtitles Only" in playback settings

    So I'd been having this issue where certain videos would fail to playback in the Roku player (but only on Roku, playing from the Android app, the browser, or directly all worked). The video would get stuck buffering at 33%, but after a minute or so it'd finally stop with "There was an error retrieving the data for this item from the server". Transcoding issue? I'd been trying to figure this issue out for a few hours over the course of a few days. I don't recall having this issue before mid-December, and as I learned today apparently there was a big update to the Roku app.

    Anyway, my first real clue was using "ffmpeg -i video.mp4" to compare the codecs of a known working video and a not working video. The non-working video was showing an issues with subtitles. So after poking around in the Roku client's settings I saw the "Text Subtitles Only" option in playback settings, and enabling it worked!

    Hopefully someone sees this and it saves them a headache. I had to postpone my personal movie night like three times trying to figure this out

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    Pretty much title. Sometimes I want to see new content, sometimes I want to go back and look at old content. It's a little exhausting having to jump into settings to hit that toggle, and it would be really cool if we could switch it from the top bar or in the three-dot menu in the top bar

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    Scrolling down hides them, scrolling up they come back. I like being able to see more content at a time, it'll make the app feel less claustrophobic.

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