Let’s also not forget Google wants you storing your photos on Google Photos, listening to music on YouTube, buying / renting movies from the Google Store, and streaming from Google TV.

It isn’t just YouTube. It’s their whole ecosystem.

By the way, I have a NAS setup. Was it pricey? Sure. But it cost about what it would to watch the NFL this year, and should last several years.

Hey clip. I believe I stumbled on it from something Kevin Smith did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_CSo1gOd48

My name is Boxxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOExl5doR2A

Star Wars Kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU

The Easter Bunny Hates You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzGSQwVa9I

Everyone Else Has More Sex Than Me Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzMt1oqMFdo

And the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENnAa7rqtBM

Four Chords (Yeah! Fuck off chicken little!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

If you have a ‘normal’ house and keep up with cleaning, a cordless should be fine. The portability and lightness are awesome.

If you have a dog or cat, results may vary.

If you have two labs, you’re going to want to throw the thing out the window every time you use it because it clogs every 3 minutes.

Yes, even the “pet” version.

Yup - but still. That should have happened before the big final “show us how you work” interview.

If not, then the founder should have been in those interviews.

A friend of mine went through 7 rounds of interviews for a senior position in a tech company.

The sixth round was actual work, coming up with a preliminary plan for their first 90 days at the company in the position. It took them about a week to pull together and finalize.

The last round was a 15 minute discussion with one of the founders (who has since moved to the board and isn’t involved in the day-to-day any more).

About 30 minutes later they got a call from the recruiter saying they “weren’t a good personality fit with the founder” and they offered the role to somebody else.

Wasn’t expecting to see that.

Any time you hear Republicans argue 18 year olds shouldn’t be able to vote, and they want to increase the age to 21/25, tell them “OK - then anybody over 65 isn’t allowed to vote either.”

Not sure what he thought would happen when an electric car manufacturer aligned with the “we love fossil fuels” party.

Saw a great take earlier on another website.

The guy who said he was going to “cure us of the woke mind virus” is now saying he’s getting out of politics because “people were being mean to him.”

The irony.

Hmm - I have a Pixel as well. I’ve been blocking / reporting but they seem to come from tons of different phone numbers. And for some reason the Pixel lets them leave a voice mail if they’re blocked / known spam.

Only just started using it, but Mullvad has open the doors to their new search engine.

https://leta.mullvad.net/

It pulls results from Google.

Mullvad Leta uses the Google Search API as a proxy, caching each search. These cached results are shared amongst all users, reducing costs and improving privacy. This service is user-supported and doesn’t rely on ads or data selling.

Our browser extension simplifies access. Once your account number is set in the settings, there’s no need to log in each time. To protect against correlation attacks and manage costs, searches are cached for 30 days, possibly resulting in slightly outdated results.

I hear you. One of those ‘you shouldn’t have to pay for a service like this’ moments.

In a moment of weakness, I signed up for Incogni. I was getting 3/4 phone calls a day that weren’t leaving messages and it was getting overwhelming.

I will say, somewhat anecdotally because I’m too busy to crunch the numbers, but it doesn’t seem like the spam email, phone calls and text messages I get have dropped dramatically. My wife too.

Is there a service out there that’s the opposite of Incogni?

Just looked and sure enough it was installed on Jan. 22.

Nothing screams “spyware” like installing an app without notice and providing no context for what it does whatsoever.

Btw this has been installed by “More than 1 Billion” devices, so if you have an Android devices the odds are pretty flipping good you have this.

You know, I was going to shit on you because it was a completely different stadium. But then I realized I often call the new home of the NY Giants Giants Stadium.

I have YouTube TV and only use it for sports.

I’ll go one step further and say I haven’t watched a new, regular network television show in at least a decade. Who has time to watch 20-something episodes each season - with much of that time spent on fluff story lines that only exist so the show can fill a time slot for 22/23 weeks a year?

Here’s a great example: Lost.

At the time it was amazing. But there was also a lot of unnecessary BS in there because, frankly, they needed to fill time. If you go and look, almost all of the top rated episodes for the series were the last handful of episodes at the end of the season.

Now imagine if they took that show and made 10/13 episode seasons out of it.

I think you could make the same case for most network TV shows. Even if they were amazing at 23 episodes, they’d be even better at 10 or 13.

A great example IMO is Friday Night Lights. Amazing show overall, but that first season was just too long. Then because of a variety of reasons, they moved to 13-15 episodes a season (instead of 23 in season one), and the show excelled.

If you’re looking for a VPN, check out Mullvad.

It’s just €5 / $5.25 / £4.15 a month. They haven’t changed that price since launching in 2009. So they’ve also been around a while. Does everything you need a VPN to do. And they’re based in Sweden, which seems to have some good privacy rules. They also don’t keep logs.

“Frankly I was a little bit disappointed in 1986 when we moved from a six-day week to a five-day week,” he added.

“I was not very happy with that. I think in this country, we have to work very hard because there is no substitute for hard work even if you’re the most intelligent guy."

Funny how the out of touch billionaires keep pushing this line of thinking. The guy is on record saying he doesn’t believe in work / life balance and is currently pushing for a 70 hour work week in India.