1. Netflix used to have popular movies and TV shows that were either more prominent (unsearchable/algorithmically curated view is NOT advantageous) or simply are no longer available due to planning or competition from other services.

2. HBO Max is absolutely destroying Netflix (and other services) in quality content--both created as well as curated.

3. HBO Max started coming 'free' with my mobile phone plan whereas Netflix is raising its prices and offering me less quality content.

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I realize it's not an easy solution on the content side, but there are other opportunities for Netflix to really make a dent in their losses, but for whatever reason they're just not doing it.

You're not wrong; however, no company is completely faultless in the asshole category. Roku is trying to squeeze more money out of their platform, including through monetization of their customers.

While I have no doubt Google is pulling shit, Roku is no better and we shouldn't believe a word they push out when they are in platform contract negotiations like this. It's not the first time Roku has been in this situation and it won't be the last.

Not arguing this method works; it does. Just know that Affiliate marketing tactics are generally a SUPER small portion of a marketing budget (1% or smaller in many cases)--because they don't really work all that well to do anything except attract new customers for a one-time purchase.

It also tends to do well only with retail marketing, because you aren't going to get promo codes for other types of businesses. There are many different types of marketing which go above and beyond the limited scope of retail.

WSJ: You wrote that value or creative worth shouldnâ(TM)t be measured by time and that youâ(TM)ve never paid attention to the hours people are working. Yet many people at Netflix describe it as a 24/7 lifestyle. Does the lack of work-life balance or potential for burnout concern you?

Mr. Hastings: Coming back to the athletics, think about a coachâ(TM)s view: Itâ(TM)s not how many hours you spend in the gym, but how well you play. But if youâ(TM)re going to play at an elite level, youâ(TM)re probably in the gym quite a bit. Itâ(TM)s just not the goal state. The goal state is the effectiveness.

He has the capability to change his thinking, as he's proven in the past, but he really needs to get on the ball and fast if he wants to keep his 'great sports team' analogy.

Maybe before 2016 but it's been the same experience since. I have absolutely 0 problems using it and I deal in data.

School is 10 miles away as the crow flies and there's no busing from our neighborhood. They're 8 and 10. How do you suppose I teach them to get home?

I'm not scared but what you said just isn't always practical.

I enjoy some of the theaters which have responded favorably to in-home theatres.

1. There's a local theatre that runs newish and old movies together on a single screen. They have real buttered popcorn. The movie prices are appropriate to what I want to pay ($5/adult).

2. Marcus Theatres has a local theatre which is smaller than the AMC, has much better seating, allows purchase online w/o fees, and has food and beer.

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The AMC theatre in town is dirty, the employees surly, and it's fucking expensive for old-school seats. My money goes to Marcus if I'm really interested in the first-run major experience. AMC is a dinosaur in the market and this accelerated their inevitable death for not keeping up with the market.

Do people pay for multiple streaming services? If so, why? I cut TV out in 2008 and used Netflix until last year when we got Disney+ instead. People should continue moving away from TV and into other options; otherwise, they win.

Note: I don't consider Amazon a streaming TV service fee and use it, especially now, for almost all of my shopping as well as music streaming.

The NFL needs to drop their deal with DirecTV and allow for full streaming of all games, especially out of market games, without blackouts.

Most people no longer have cable and broadcast is spotty at best for most. Sure, I could potentially watch my local market team on broadcast TV, if I had a rooftop antenna, but being I live under home regulations which forbid them, I am stuck streaming.

With the availability of free HD streams from users, many of which are better than anything I've seen elsewhere, including Amazon's Thursday Night coverage, I see no reason to make the shift unless a reasonably priced alternative is provided with the same or better quality.

This is a no-brainer and a terrible business decision by ALL professional sports, especially the NFL and MLB, and they need to get their shit together.

Zoom was well known prior to this but saw almost no media coverage prior to state lockdowns. Why is there a sudden interest in everything that is wrong w/Zoom's application rather than the ease of use in getting it up and running as well as their seemingly immediate attempts to clean up what has been found?

Is this like the negativity around Tesla? People invested in other technologies and their related companies are pissed about the uptick in share price and their attempts to bring it back down or are these issues really that important?

I have business class cable through Charter/Spectrum. Modem power supply went out after 7 years. Called up and their stupid phone tree told me to go to the local store to get a new one. I did but because I'm a business class customer they couldn't give me a modem there claiming the modems are different.

I call up and they said they'd have to roll a truck to replace the modem because they provide a better level of customer service to business class users. Problem was, I didn't want them to roll a truck; I just wanted the fucking modem.

I asked if I could just buy one and have them provision it over the phone. No, they MUST roll a truck they claimed. Said the modems are special for business class customers.

I finally am at home during their windows, by requirement, and they come out. He fucks around outside for an hour before coming inside and insisting he needed to rerun lines. I refused, saying it's the modem, just replace the modem so I can get to work. He ends up giving me a new modem, calling up and provisioning it over the phone after waiting on hold for 45 minutes.

Guess what? I got the same modem as everyone else.

Sigh.

If anything, may lower bandwidth. YouTube viewing totaled 60GB over the last 7 days in our house. It was >50% of our total usage with my wife and I on Zoom and Hangout video conference calls 8-9 hrs a day.

It depends on your use case. I find that for random day-to-day searching it's entirely fine; however, if I am looking for something for work (e.g. Google would return highly relevant StackOverflow content), DDG is just not up to snuff.

Thankfully, I can just do a !google and get the results I would expect w/o passing what I don't want passed to Google.

I realize I'm in the minority within my office, let alone within Slashdot; however, I just don't have any problems with the keyboard.

I use a 2017 MBP 13" and no external anything, except power. I spend so much of my day not at my desk, it doesn't make any sense to use additional peripherals and be switching back and forth all the time.