Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-07 (Friday)

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:25:02 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 3/8/25 9:20 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
 

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On Friday, I had to give exams to 3 classes, so that took most of the day.
 
What did you watch?

 
I watched the first two episodes of daredevil born again. I don’t get the
glowing praise for this.

 
To elaborate, this had a truly staggering number of commercials in it, all
of which were inserted randomly and awkwardly.

 
Did you watch this on Disney+? Or Hulu?
 
I've heard nothing but bad things about Hulu with ads, which is why if I
have either Disney+ or Hulu, it will always be the ad-free version.
 

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Hulu (with ads).
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Ads not with standing it’s an amazingly incompetently programmed streamer.
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It will routinely auto play a different show rather than the next episode
of the show you were watching. And if it does show you another episode of
the same show it will just as often go backwards as forward.
>
If you leave it on pause for more than five minutes (in fairness, the five
minute limitation is built into the 4K Firestick max, and you can’t get
around it) it goes to screensaver and here’s what you have to do to resume
playing:
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Press the back button.
That brings up some unwanted menu options so you have to press the back
button again
Keep doing that until it finally takes you back to Hulu
Hulu will launch the profile page and you will have to choose who’s
watching
Hulu will then take you to a welcome page and then auto go to home
which has no useful options like resume.
Tab left to get to the side menu
Tab up to get to search
Select search and tab right through the keyboard because you can’t get
around it.
The seventh click takes you to the column for “trending searchs“ in this
case trying to get me to watch the rookie
tab up to select trending searches.
Tab right to select recent searches.
Tab down and hopefully get to show you were just watching.
Click on that show.
Click on that show again to go to the show.
Click down to go to episodes.
Click down again to actually get into the episodes
click up or down to get to the episode you were watching
Finally the one thing it does right is if you can find the episode you were
watching it remembers and lets you resume.

Sounds awful

Repeat the above process every time you get up and go to the kitchen to get
a drink

How big is your home that it takes more than five minutes to get a
drink? ;)