TV streaming STARTED fragmented. Just it was all bundled together in a cable subscription. The (ineffective) moderator in that were the cable companies like Comcast, who were always trying to negotiate the price of a channel down. Suddenly with streaming, you could start your own service and getting dropped by someone like Comcast wasn’t the death sentence it used to be. The TV content creators are dealing with the end user for the first time.

The music industry long ago learned they get better sales when all their vynal/cassettes/CDs are available at Kmart/Walmart/Best Buy/etc. The music industry DID fragment a bit with online streaming, but those quickly failed. And the artists soon realized that being cool and exclusive to iTunes lead to less money for them.

If you have old coax cable already in your walls, MOCA 2.5 devices can be used to turn them into 1 Gig Ethernet.

In tech, nothing is for life.

But, I would recommend something you can install OpenWRT or OpenSense. If sorting out hardware isn’t for you, I have a Ubiquity UDM Pro and love it. I miss some of the fine tuning of OpenWRT, but the extra security features on the UDM seem worth it to me.

“Be objective as freedom dies, damnit!!!”

Will he immediately surrender to Putin?

He is living in the past.

Meh. Our big bombers are always in range of anyone in the world because of midair refueling.

The heady days of using Copy-b and Copy-c in the Commodore 64 days. Back when floppies were really floppies.

Tesla was overinflated because it was run as a software startup, where they had money pouring in from venture capital. They had money coming in, but it wasn’t simply from sales. Let’s see if that stalls too.

But wasn’t his Tesla shares used as collateral for the Twitter financing? If Tesla tanks enough, won’t his Saudi banking backers raise hell?

Paying contractors for work already done? You know that upsets Trump.

Of course, the Gilded Age wasn’t great for regular folks.

Media outlets still can’t bring themselves to blame Trump and Republicans.

Excellent stewardship, Microsoft.

/s

Dems and Bernie will talk about it, but they won’t DO anything about it.

Translation: He’s not black or a woman.

The problem is everyone demands the “morally superior” entity be PERFECT. One small misstep and you’re on par with North Korea.

Well press. Get nasty.

Are your stations actually encrypted? Because mine were working fine until recently as many stations encrypted as the NFL playoffs started.

Or maybe you’re just s-p-e-c-i-a-l!

Meh, my Plex server is slowly failing anyway because it’s on 17 y/o hardware.

How do you manually upgrade to the beta?