this morning. It’s only just reached freezing point at 10 am. Before that it was in the mid twenties. I went out to Wally World. Everything seems really cheap. You could buy a decent hammer for seven bucks. It’s all coming from China I suppose. This morning I will be talking about computers and tech stuff (kind of). If this is boring for you, don’t say you weren’t warned. For the past two days I’ve been trying to get an Android TV box to work. It’s a lot of time to waste on a stupid device that just broadcasts mostly garbage but it’s the challenge of the thing.
Question Time is Sikh, man
These little boxes have largely taken the place of cable TV for many people. They come with apps that you can use to watch a lot more content than what is available from you typical cable provider. I could never understand why I had to pay a cable company for content where I had to watch commercials. Probably about 15 years ago I just stopped paying for this crap, and switched to an Android TV box.
Now I can watch French, UK or Australian TV without ads. Not that I’m sitting in front of it all day, but sometimes I like to see what people are doing in other parts of then world, and not through the eyes of CNN. To cut a long and boring story short I decided to upgrade my TV box. The remote had stopped working and I was getting tired of getting up to change the channel using a wired mouse. The new one that I bought had more memory too, so that was a good thing. The only problem with it was that it wouldn’t install my VPN app and it came with built in non removable advertising.
70 y o Google guys have their minds on their 27 y o GFs
Imagine your laptop, desktop or phone with continual promotional content for TV shows that you aren’t ever going to want to watch, that it is impossible to remove. It’s on all the time. Somehow these motherfuckers have figured out how to force this garbage on to everyone whether they like it or not. It is possible to install another app to get rid of this stuff, but it’s on the device by default.
We’ve made it easy for you to have no choice at all
The other dead giveaway is that the remote for the thing has three big buttons on it. Google Play, Netflix and You Tube. Two of those three are owned by Google. In other words it’s something that is a force fed delivery service for these big three purveyors of things that I’m not interested in. I’m particularly annoyed with Google which appears to be slowly turning to shit. A few months ago I started getting these capture challenges every time I tried logging into my email. I don’t even get this crap when I’m doing online banking. It’s fucking annoying and there is no explanation for it. This morning I couldn’t even log into my email at all! Fucking stupid as shit cazzo’d to the max, Google was telling me my browser was unsupported.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. This browser literally works perfectly everywhere.
Amazingly, I haven’t ever have any problems with any other website using this same browser. Did some imbecile Google have outsourced to in India perhaps, deploy some code that is now blocking it? The first Youtube video I looked for advice was some Indian fellow who sounded like Hrundi Bakshi in the Peter Sellers movie “The Party”. At this rate Google will completely collapse under it’s own weight. I think the fellows who founded it are no longer involved in the day to day operations, or they’re focused on Ai or something. The whole thing will fall over sooner rather than later in my opinion.
After this horrible waste of time, this s probably the last Android TV box I will ever buy. I can do all I want to do and more on a minimal Linux desktop which will be far more efficient and user friendly. If Google goes the way of the Dodo I don’t care, because it’s rapidly turning to shit anyway. Goog Fuckle.
Good Day