What are you using for the streaming services? Netflix etc? A web browser?

If so, that's a complete non-starter; it fails the ease of use expectations of watching TV of the wife using a remote control to turn it on and make it go. (and honestly it fails my own expectations for that matter too; having to reach for a keyboard or mouse to watch a movie or stream a show is just clunky). It also limits you from watching content in 4k.

At the moment, I've got a RokuHD of some sort on one TV, and an nvidia shield on another one. Plex, netflix, f1tv, and a couple other things on both of them. The TV remote can fairly seamlessly control the TV/soundbar and the attached box and it works well, and passes the usability test, but both devices are still more ad-laden than I want.

I've also got computers and consoles hooked up to TVs for gaming and what not, but i find them utterly miserable to use for streaming. Their is no app for linux that I'm aware of. And even the app for Windows is regularly just complete ass to use, and its a PITA to switch from plex to netflix and back etc, and using them with a remote control is pretty trashy. So I've been using the aforementioned boxes for streaming as the least awful way to run things for some years now.

But if there's a better way now, I'm listening.

Have you ever heard a single person, including plumbing professionals, call them "copper-phosphorus pipes"?

No. Because that's not how the English language works. You're the one who is too lazy and ignorant to figure out how people actually communicate in society.

Hint: The systematization your mind wants to apply to everything is not absolute. You need to figure out when to relax the formal logic rules when they start to result in absurd outcomes.

I don't know if it's still strictly true, but they used to say that all of the antimatter that has ever been produced by humans has had enough combined energy to warm up a cup of coffee.

You win this year's Nobel Prize for pedantry.

So according to you, I can't call the water pipes in my house "copper", since 0.05% phosphorus was added to the material to accomodate brazing.

Which version of FSD, and was it HW3?

I saw two robots. :-)

The Moon is target practice. We need to get away from innovative bespoke engineering, into industrial mass production with continuous improvement. To do that we need to fly often. Mars just doesn't have the launch window availability. The biggest part of the challenge is that we were born in the bottom of a deep well. To toss enough stuff out of the well for a long journey is critical. Boosters that reliably fly on time often and cheaply enough to get ships and fuel out of the well. Ships that carry fuel into orbit and return over and over since the vast majority of the material we need to send out of the well isn't payloads or ships, it's fuel. Kilotons of fuel. Once the factories and processes are set up for that going far beyond the Moon is fairly easy. But with a narrow opportunity every two years that's not going to happen in a human lifespan. It's not enough refinement cycles per year.

I see this accelerating the Mars objective, not deferring it.

As an irrelevant side not, the producers of Sesame Street did issue a formal statement on the subject:

"They're puppets and puppets don't have a sexual orientation."

Two words: Robot packages. :-)

(Not package robots, which Amazon already has.)

I don't mind an optional fob to open the door, though I rarely use mine. I don't like it being required (no door key) and I don't like keyless ignition.

Why does this change make sense? Because you can't plant a flag and wave your dick if you're up there in zero G orbiting a planetoid.

You have to be standing on the surface, and that is what China is on track to do in a few years.

Why do they call it insurance?

Agreed, but, unfortunately, that kind of quaint thinking will only really matter (again) in about 2.5 years -- maybe starting in 8 months, if we're lucky. /cynical

Nice and a good father/son activity.

I have always been mechanically inclined and started with a used Kawasaki G5 100, with its engine in pieces, that my mom said I could have because she didn't think I could get it back together. Silly mom didn't know about official service manuals. Then it was my first car, a used '69 VW Beetle - basically one wrench, four 17mm (I think) bolts behind the fan housing (that are almost impossible to reach, designers should be forced to work on their creations), a tug on the exhaust pipes and the engine drops out. Then a Suzuki 380GT, a 3-cylinder, 3-coil, 2-stroke with an oil injector - which was very fast (like 110+ MPH fast, which is "yikes!" on a bike). But I settled down when I met Sue. It's been three Hondas since then: a 1-year used '87 Prelude Si, sold for my '01 Civic Ex (more safety features and better gas mileage), then a '02 CR-V Ex for Sue. I have Honda Service Manuals for the latter two (Civic: printed, CR-V: PDF). That said, I stay away from the heavy work or things that need special tools.

Thanks! Don't know why that guy went off on me.

Also, I've talked with several people who like cars the way they used to be - buttons, knobs, etc and fewer gadgets. I'm also not a fan of keyless ignition, which now seems to be everywhere -- I've rarely even used the keyless entry fobs on my current cars. Don't get me wrong, there have been many safety improvements since my cars were built in 2001 and 2002, but I still like mine the way they are and I like manual shifting. And they've both been paid off since 2003. I just had the CR-V painted and the mechanic said, "60k miles and a manual, ya, I'd keep it too." :-) There are now only about six vehicles you can get with a manual - Honda sells two: Civic Type-R and Civic Si, which are both more car than I need and more than I'd want to spend. The 2001 Civic still gets about 41 on the highway, so not to bad for a 25yo car. The 2002 CR-V still only gets about 28, but it was my wife's, who died in 2006 and it has sentimental value -- plus I can't put a cabinet in the back of my Civic. :-) I don't need my cars to be smart, I need them to be reliable and maintainable (by me *and* mechanics). Also, the Internet says the best auto theft deterrent now is two words: stick shift. :-)

As a final thought, and something I think someone else pointed out, I have intelligence and capability in my phone, which I can take with me, so why would I want a separate one in my car that stays with the car?