benbristow

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by benbristow 1y ago
No Sponsorblock (so doesn't block ads by creators themselves, the cliches like NordVPN/SquareSpace etc. you have to manually skip) They also keep upping the price every so often. SmartTube is free. I had YouTube Premium via a VPN
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by benbristow 1y ago
Grooveshark, that's a name I've not heard in a while... But even Spotify are putting the price up this year. I bet if something like that happened, it'd quickly soar to $0.2 an episode in the next year, then slowly creep up m
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by benbristow 1y ago
Yes, no ads from Google's side and ads by creators themselves (e.g. Raid Shadow Legends, SquareSpace, Manscaped, NordVPN etc. etc.) get skipped via a community-sourced database called Sponsorblock. https://sponsor.ajay.app&#
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by benbristow 1y ago
But that's a conspiracy theory! Why would they ever do that? ... come back to this comment in a year.
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by benbristow 1y ago
Too many services nowadays. Was fine when it was just Netflix, had mostly everything, no ads, full quality. Nowadays Netflix price has gone up, additional plans for 4K/no-ads, anti-account sharing and less content as content now has go
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by benbristow 1y ago
SmartTube on Android TV. Brilliant, makes YouTube usable, Sponsorblock baked in.
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by benbristow 1y ago
Conspiracy theories nowadays are about a year away from being conspiracy fact. Digital ID is being HEAVILY pushed by the Labour government in the UK. Scary times.
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by benbristow 1y ago
Top tip, if you're in a hotel room you can often put any card like item (e.g. loyalty card) into the slot and it still works. This works at a lot of chain hotels. Not every hotel, but a lot of them. In the UK this works in most Premier
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by benbristow 1y ago
No, only if you're outside of the UK or if it's an international break when international teams are playing (World Cup, Euros etc.) on a Saturday at 3pm. Outside the blackout games are on TV as per usual.
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by benbristow 1y ago
It's a mess but the main flows just about function so it makes money.
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by benbristow 1y ago
I think there is a general support but it is weaning with people skirting around the rules nonchalantly, and TV companies wanting to make more money. It is a running joke of people "going to France for the day" in fanbases (code f
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by benbristow 1y ago
To answer your last question, yes. You would have to go watch your local lower non-league team if you wanted to watch football. I suspect your London friends are using VPNs and/or illegal streams, or simply just following scores or wat
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by benbristow 1y ago
The idea is that between around 3pm and 6pm every Saturday, outwith international breaks when international teams play (e.g. World Cup), no TV station in the UK is allowed to air live football. 3pm is the main kick off time. The idea is tha
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by benbristow 1y ago
A lot of hotels I've been to recently have a HDMI port baked into the row of plugs and switches above the desk. Handy. Might be worth getting a male to female HDMI extension cable to make it easier to plug in.
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by benbristow 1y ago
If you go into any pub in the UK and say fire stick, people assume it's not legit content you're using one for. They're infamous for allowing people to watch football (soccer!) games illegally on Saturday at 3pm when the TV b
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by benbristow 1y ago
NordVPN have an app on the Store and so do others.
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by benbristow 1y ago
All Amazon apps are buggy and broken. The Amazon shopping app is awful, a bunch of put together web pages hanging on for dear life. Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else.
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by benbristow 1y ago
They may as well stop selling them. I doubt many people are going to buy a Fire Stick to watch Prime and Netflix when you already can on any standard Smart TV. It's harder to buy a dumb TV now than it is a smart one. Never mind if you
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by benbristow 1y ago
They'll find another Android based device to use instead. The main reason, at least around the people I know, people buy Fire Sticks is to watch football/soccer at 3pm on a Saturday (there's a UK wide blackout to encourage fa
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by benbristow 1y ago
For Tinder if you're on desktop you can use the website (tinder.com), don't believe that blocks selecting text.
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by benbristow 1y ago
In some ways a good thing, no? Shows you've got work to do on optimisation for large audiences. A free stress test (unless you're on a host that charges per hit or bandwidth excess), as you will. Did load eventually for me, though
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by benbristow 1y ago
Server error
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by benbristow 1y ago
Probably in preparation for them forcing users to use AI search. https://mashable.com/article/google-ai-mode-search-default-r...
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by benbristow 1y ago
Looks cool, but definitely a security team's nightmare. Putting an API key into some random HN'ers hobby project is a bad, bad idea, whoever you are (not saying you're a bad actor, but a zero-trust policy would agree with me)
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by benbristow 1y ago
Still no Windows support for Zed, meh.
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by benbristow 1y ago
Let the LLM review the issues and resolve the issues. LLM all around, hail Skynet.
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by benbristow 1y ago
I'll drink to that. More state sponsored propoganda to make us miserable. They don't like you having a few drinks with friends and speaking truths. It makes you hard to control and govern.
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by benbristow 1y ago
Microsoft Edge on Android now also supports some extensions, one being uBlock Origin. Seems just as powerful as the real thing. And has the benefit of using the Chrome engine.
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by benbristow 1y ago
It's a shame the Pixels don't have IR sensors. One of the most underrated features that some Androids have - I was in a hotel in Poland this year and it had Aircon in the room (and was rather warm), but there was no remote. The IR
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by benbristow 1y ago
Yes. It's the new AI powered Scareware blocker. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/01/27/stand-up-to-s...

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