Both points are bad. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The Internet was created to be run by millions of servers and works best that way. Funneling everything through one company is just a bad idea in general.

I keep several IPTV news streams going at once. 4+ is good for me.

So just to put this out there. I’ve been testing single-board-computers running Android and Linux and streaming multiple IPTV streams at the same time and the Fire TV (I have the 4K Max) beats the Raspberry Pi 4, Odroid N2 + & Intel NUC 7 i5 CPU w/ Intel GPU). I know that they’re cheap as hell but they actually perform better in my specific use case than other Android or Linux platforms. I can stream 5 or 6 1080 IPTV streams simultaneously on the Fire TV, while 3 or 4 is the max on the others.

btop doesn’t update all of the characters for me after a while if I leave it open for a long time, and eventually it stops updating altogether.

I’ve got the 10" kindle that I resurrected a year ago with a new battery and jailbroken & several 6" kindles (one jailbroken) but I recently got a cheap chinese e-ink Android device (Xiaomi Inkpalm 5) and I like it a lot better than anything else that I’ve had before. My primary use case is RSS/news reading, not books. I side-loaded the Feedly Classic APK onto it and except for the “smooth scroll” feature of it (which takes several screen refreshes instead of just one - and subsequently uses up like 3-4 times more battery just because of the smooth scroll feature), it’s really almost the perfect device. I’d love to find a larger e-ink Android device and figure out somehow to get rid of the smooth-scroll feature of the Feedly Classic app. If I could do that, it’d be the perfect device. :)

I just opened my protonmail account for the first time in years and it’s really nice! Lots of great UI stuff now!

I never use mine…

Midjourney prompt: ((scared villagers running away)) from a giant (steampunk) robot towering over a cluttered cobblestone street, running towards the camera, dieselpunk style, sketch, warzone, many pipes and cables, billowing black smoke, rusty, rain, dreary, wet, mist, extreme detail --upbeta --s 250

Less Diesel-Punk-y, but my daughter and I liked the picture more because of the feel of it… LOL

#stablediffusion

Could it be related to the silicon valley bank going under maybe?

Suuuuure

I was renewing mine at age 50 and the lady at the DMV said, “don’t you think we should change your license to say grey hair?”. That was the day for me.