Kodi is all about flexibility. By forcing people into an Android only box you're the one ignoring the point, not me. Part of what makes Kodi awesome is its ability to load other programs from it's 10 Foot Interface.
I'm not the one who wrote this plugin so the fact it exist means it's on-topic about Kodi and about the original point of my posts, which is we have the ability to have an all-in-one unit except for content providers being pricks. Limiting the selection to Android to get around it isn't a real fix.
I've done that, or sort of sucks, mostly because Netflix isn't navigable via keyboard. It is the way I did it for a while though back when I was still running Mac OS on that machine. Guess I could try it again, just don't like switching to the crappy little trackpad when the keyboard remote I have works so great otherwise. On the PS3 I have the BluRay remote.
I pretty much stay up to date on Kodi. I'm running it on hardware I re-purposed, not one of those already setup for piracy boxes from online, in fact I'm running it on an old Mac Pro.
Not a single bloated plugin doing stuff I don't want it too. Yes - I do have a plugin that matches my file names to online databases the themoviedb.org and thetvdb.com, but I can very easily not use them, I really like my scrapper info being there.
Even getting into advanced stuff with Kodi isn't necessarily out of reach. I am not a programmer and I've altered plugins I wanted to use that pulled video anonymously or with a shared account to actually put my own paid-for credentials in instead of a generic shared account. That particular program probably should have had a way to do it without editing scripts, but the fact I did and I can't claim to actually know any programming languages means something.
Kodi is one of the most configurable things I've ever come across, that's part of WHY there are so many piracy plugins for it, they're not hard to make.
If content creators don's want people pirating their content they can make it more easily accessible.
I would LOVE to have a Netflix plugin that works with Kodi so I didn't have to switch inputs and start my Playstation.
I USED to have a an app that could play Amazon video without having to switch inputs and turn on my Playstation, but Amazon actively thwarted the software that only worked if I paid my Prime anyways.
I would love it if I could just watch Hulu from Kodi without having to switch inputs and turn on my Playstation.
Really I could just leave my Kodi box running and watch all of the movies I paid for by streaming it from the Kodi box to the Playstation, but let's face it, Kodi has a great interface.
I CAN play a bunch of PBS stuff legally on my Kodi box, I can play some random stuff from various local TV stations that have an accessible on-ramp, including some national networks,100% legally. That's not quite as slick as using the Playstation, but it's not horrible.
TO fix the problem you don't have to start giving everything away for free, but not being pricks about APIs would fix a lot of it.
My original Evo 4G WiMax model went from 12 hours to close to 60 of standby after rooting it and putting an alternate ROM on it. That Nascar app, college football app among others that always ran killed it.
YES! Virtual bullshit inputs, I like the idea. Yeah, you're right, I would totally consider those programs for apps that ask for permissions they don't need. I keep my quantity of installed apps down due to crap like that. I quit playing Angry Birds years ago when they first started wanting access to my call log and address book.
I know about that. I hate working on a phone screen enough as it is that I don't usually do that. I just hold it against Facebook and I know that anyone that can't wait until I get to a desktop to see what they sent me can contact me in about a dozen other ways.
If you want me to believe you DON'T listen through my Mic when just having your crap installed runs my battery down 40% faster - even when I'm not using it - you're on the wrong track.
IF you want me to believe you DON'T listen through my Mic but you just about break your neck trying to force me to install your chat app after I remove it by making it so that mobile browsers can't access chat anymore, you're on the wrong track.
IF you want me to believe you aren't spying on me in general and you feel the need to try to force me to install your normal app by making streaming video unavailable if I use a mobile browser you aren't convincing me.
I had their crap years ago. One of the first things I did after rooting my HTC One M8 was remove the crap that was put on their by HTC and/or AT&T.
Now that I have a Pixel it didn't come with a Facebook app, and I haven't installed it on this phone - ever. I do have other social network stuff installed, like Minds, Google +, and a couple of others. I'm pretty sure Google spys as bad as Facebook did, only it does that with Google + installed or not, and I'm pretty sure it has less battery impact.
I bought my wife one of those $50 Amazon tablets mostly because she wanted something like that just for Facebook and chat, the battery life was so pathetic she didn't ever start using it regularly. Now that the Facebook crap has been removed our son uses it for hours on end on road trips watching his kids shows. It's scary how long that battery lasts without Facebook software on it.
No Facebook - if you want to convince me you're not just there to spy on me you'll stop working with manufacturers to put your shitty software on phones in a manner that it can't be removed unless you're geeky enough to use the Android Developer kit and do some ROM flashing to get rid of it. I'm suspicious of ANYTHING that presents itself as mandatory. You'll also make your crap to where it doesn't run unless I start it. You literally make hardware akin to useless. I laugh at the people I see running around having to charge their phones all the time because they shit they have running on it constantly runs their batteries down. I don't carry a power bank and I laugh at people who do. Bullshit apps like Facebooks are what kills battery life, for the most part modern phones running a stable OS build without extra bullshit have incredible battery life.
Used to we had to get new computers to run the latest software and to keep up. If your computer was five years old in 1995 you were working on a joke.
I have an 11 year old computer in my computer as an HTPC - it supports plentiful RAM, has four cores and plenty of storage room with room for upgrade. I've got a computer that's about eight years old that I'm using for gaming - and I don't have to stick with just ancient stuff, even most modern games that aren't boundary pushing first person shooters run fine on it. In fact I just ordered a used but more powerful than what it already has video card for the HTPC.
I can buy brand new computers that are NOT as powerful as either of those systems. Sure they'll use less electricity and probably in a smaller form factor, but I can still buy ones that aren't as powerful. That speaks volumes.
It's time to start building "heritage class" computers that are meant to work for decades instead of cast asides. Instead of a visit to Geek Squad so they can try to build you a new computer it's time to visit something more akin to a jewelry store to keep PCs running and doing smaller long term upgrades.
My parents have a Boston Terrier that is stout, and now in her older age is even quite hefty.
We have a Boston Terrier that is basically a cat. She's a bit lanky and has completely different markings. Per Google they're the same dog.
I'll go ahead and share for reference. If storage were unlimited I would load up all my old photos too, but I would quickly overload my space. Too bad there's not a "pay once keep forever" option on space instead of a regular bill.
and the fact insurance adjustment can take a while expect October to outshine September. Yes it has a bit to do with a shift in mindset, it also has a LOT to do with shit-tons of cars with water up to the windshields in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.
I got it used shortly after the original Pentium came out. I loved it. Real mechanical keyboard with slightly smaller than normal keys, it was actually EASIER to type on than a normal keyboard. First IBM compatible PC with 3.5" floppies if I'm not mistaken. The half-height LCD screen made Battle Chess hilarious to play with all the little short-fat chess pieces. Using the function key was exceedingly easy and made far more sense than it does on a modern Think Pad, not to mention it wasn't where the Control Key is today, or in the way at all.
Mine is now literally in a museum in Tempe if I'm not mistaken. I sort of miss it, I would like to have it back. If I had it back I would use it for writing, real writing, I've started novels before - had everything stolen, long story. Put MS Works 1.05 for DOS on this thing and you can't ask for a much better word processor without the distraction of a modern PC.
I used to hit used media stores like Hastings and FYE those stores seem to be going out of business. Half Price Books is still around and has a good selection. I've bought music at garage sales and thrift shops.
There's at least 7 good ones here, I couldn't read all the titles due to the glare - Buy it Now price $15, free shipping, take the ones you don't like to Half Price Books or give them away otherwise. http://r.ebay.com/rUsgkB
Buy disks, rip, compress, keep it with you. (disks are super cheap on the used market these days)
Streaming = Provide me bandwidth random store or eatery so that I may stream music into my head for your roof is metal and my phone signal does not penetrate well.
Storing your own music = Hackers took down the ENTIRE INTERNET and cellular network? LOL I've got this.
Having played with Google Glass I have to say it's pretty cool in many respects, there's certainly some first and some potential - but it's not much. By the time you're done with the new it's a creeper cam with head-mounted caller ID and an awkward Bluetooth headset.
HTC's V.R. team has a great head-mounted video game display that's not useful for all the time / daily wear.
Put these two together and see if you can make something genuinely useful in a real-world environment without making the wearers look like glass-holes.
Nothing racist or anti-gay there, it's just a very large metro. The yuppie colonies and the gay district are both 30ish miles away - yes - Houston is that big, that's a little far to drive to spend that much money on something that Kroger or Randal's both are likely to have these days in the hippie isle. I rather like the hippie isle, good cereal and good root beer.
You're obviously into FPS games. I don't play those like I used to, they mass produce them these days and though there's some good ones out there they've failed to lure me in as of late. Closest thing to an FPS that really lured me in recent years wise is Portal.
What has captured the spirit of a little later FPS's now considered classic, such as Unreal Tournament but isn't even an FPS is Awesomenauts. It's got the team play and cooperation mid-era FPS's and I love it.
I like platformers, my first system was an Atari 2600, but of course I adopted Mario as soon as I could. Giana Sisters games fit into that category well. I'm also playing A Boy and His Blob, a modern take on an NES game I had back in the day. The new one is sort of a kids game, but I'm really loving it. Super Meat Boy is an action platformer with very good yet unforgiving controls.
Something that scoops up the old space shooter genera then amplifies is into something awesome beyond all expectation is Beat Hazard. I have no idea how many hours I've spent on that between the Android and Linux versions.
If you liked Adventure games and Final Fantasy turn based strategies it's hard to beat South Park the Stick of Truth. Just don't play it when your kids are around.
The Torchlight games are a shoe-in for anyone who liked Diablo - actually made by the same creators.
They keep remaking and reimagining games of our era - you can usually find something to revisit.
If you really want something with old school herky-jerky make you sick to your stomach if you spend too much time on it games you can always try Goat Simulator. I have to limit my time on that one.
Costco seems to offer the ability to cover those needs far more economically than Whole Paycheck. The fact they don't even have Whole Paychecks in this city other than in the gay district and a couple of yuppy colonies keeps the temptation to waste my paycheck on items that are rapidly becoming available at the "normal" grocery stores, and not just in the ever expanding hippie isles makes me wonder if it's worth looking at. Even Wal-Mart has organic stuff under their own Great Value label these days.
On another note, using hardware a bit longer is common in older people (I'm not 40 until next month though).
I got the original GameCube used off of eBay, what? 15 years ago? With my purchase I got a stack of pretty good games to go along with it, among the games was also Animal Crossing. I showed it to my mother who fell in love with it. I actually gave her a GameCube with a copy of the game. When the Wii was newer she bought a Wii and I traded her a copy of that Animal Crossing for her copy of Mario Kart that came with hers.
Both of my parents use the Wii for watching Netflix and the like. Even though my mother has quit playing Animal Crossing in the past year and half or so (I think it's because she finally filled up the museum, aquarium, and just decided it wasn't worth it on other things like the last paintings she hadn't managed to get yet - also she filled up all four houses etc...) they still use the Wii for Netflix watching. I don't think the year matters much in their case. They do have a more modern BluRay player and an HDTV in the living room, but the bedroom is still an SD CRT.
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Kodi is all about flexibility. By forcing people into an Android only box you're the one ignoring the point, not me. Part of what makes Kodi awesome is its ability to load other programs from it's 10 Foot Interface.
I'm not the one who wrote this plugin so the fact it exist means it's on-topic about Kodi and about the original point of my posts, which is we have the ability to have an all-in-one unit except for content providers being pricks. Limiting the selection to Android to get around it isn't a real fix.
That's pretty cool. I use some in-home Steam streaming, both with Steam Link and client to client. I may look at this one a bit.
I'll plug my nVIdia card and game controller right into that.
Where do I put my five hard drives of content and nVidia card on that FireTV again?
Someone has a comprehension issue.
I've done that, or sort of sucks, mostly because Netflix isn't navigable via keyboard. It is the way I did it for a while though back when I was still running Mac OS on that machine. Guess I could try it again, just don't like switching to the crappy little trackpad when the keyboard remote I have works so great otherwise. On the PS3 I have the BluRay remote.
Uhmm, say what?
I pretty much stay up to date on Kodi. I'm running it on hardware I re-purposed, not one of those already setup for piracy boxes from online, in fact I'm running it on an old Mac Pro.
Not a single bloated plugin doing stuff I don't want it too. Yes - I do have a plugin that matches my file names to online databases the themoviedb.org and thetvdb.com, but I can very easily not use them, I really like my scrapper info being there.
Even getting into advanced stuff with Kodi isn't necessarily out of reach. I am not a programmer and I've altered plugins I wanted to use that pulled video anonymously or with a shared account to actually put my own paid-for credentials in instead of a generic shared account. That particular program probably should have had a way to do it without editing scripts, but the fact I did and I can't claim to actually know any programming languages means something.
Kodi is one of the most configurable things I've ever come across, that's part of WHY there are so many piracy plugins for it, they're not hard to make.
If content creators don's want people pirating their content they can make it more easily accessible.
I would LOVE to have a Netflix plugin that works with Kodi so I didn't have to switch inputs and start my Playstation.
I USED to have a an app that could play Amazon video without having to switch inputs and turn on my Playstation, but Amazon actively thwarted the software that only worked if I paid my Prime anyways.
I would love it if I could just watch Hulu from Kodi without having to switch inputs and turn on my Playstation.
Really I could just leave my Kodi box running and watch all of the movies I paid for by streaming it from the Kodi box to the Playstation, but let's face it, Kodi has a great interface.
I CAN play a bunch of PBS stuff legally on my Kodi box, I can play some random stuff from various local TV stations that have an accessible on-ramp, including some national networks,100% legally. That's not quite as slick as using the Playstation, but it's not horrible.
TO fix the problem you don't have to start giving everything away for free, but not being pricks about APIs would fix a lot of it.
My original Evo 4G WiMax model went from 12 hours to close to 60 of standby after rooting it and putting an alternate ROM on it. That Nascar app, college football app among others that always ran killed it.
YES! Virtual bullshit inputs, I like the idea. Yeah, you're right, I would totally consider those programs for apps that ask for permissions they don't need. I keep my quantity of installed apps down due to crap like that. I quit playing Angry Birds years ago when they first started wanting access to my call log and address book.
I know about that. I hate working on a phone screen enough as it is that I don't usually do that. I just hold it against Facebook and I know that anyone that can't wait until I get to a desktop to see what they sent me can contact me in about a dozen other ways.
If you want me to believe you DON'T listen through my Mic when just having your crap installed runs my battery down 40% faster - even when I'm not using it - you're on the wrong track.
IF you want me to believe you DON'T listen through my Mic but you just about break your neck trying to force me to install your chat app after I remove it by making it so that mobile browsers can't access chat anymore, you're on the wrong track.
IF you want me to believe you aren't spying on me in general and you feel the need to try to force me to install your normal app by making streaming video unavailable if I use a mobile browser you aren't convincing me.
I had their crap years ago. One of the first things I did after rooting my HTC One M8 was remove the crap that was put on their by HTC and/or AT&T.
Now that I have a Pixel it didn't come with a Facebook app, and I haven't installed it on this phone - ever. I do have other social network stuff installed, like Minds, Google +, and a couple of others. I'm pretty sure Google spys as bad as Facebook did, only it does that with Google + installed or not, and I'm pretty sure it has less battery impact.
I bought my wife one of those $50 Amazon tablets mostly because she wanted something like that just for Facebook and chat, the battery life was so pathetic she didn't ever start using it regularly. Now that the Facebook crap has been removed our son uses it for hours on end on road trips watching his kids shows. It's scary how long that battery lasts without Facebook software on it.
No Facebook - if you want to convince me you're not just there to spy on me you'll stop working with manufacturers to put your shitty software on phones in a manner that it can't be removed unless you're geeky enough to use the Android Developer kit and do some ROM flashing to get rid of it. I'm suspicious of ANYTHING that presents itself as mandatory. You'll also make your crap to where it doesn't run unless I start it. You literally make hardware akin to useless. I laugh at the people I see running around having to charge their phones all the time because they shit they have running on it constantly runs their batteries down. I don't carry a power bank and I laugh at people who do. Bullshit apps like Facebooks are what kills battery life, for the most part modern phones running a stable OS build without extra bullshit have incredible battery life.
Used to we had to get new computers to run the latest software and to keep up. If your computer was five years old in 1995 you were working on a joke.
I have an 11 year old computer in my computer as an HTPC - it supports plentiful RAM, has four cores and plenty of storage room with room for upgrade. I've got a computer that's about eight years old that I'm using for gaming - and I don't have to stick with just ancient stuff, even most modern games that aren't boundary pushing first person shooters run fine on it. In fact I just ordered a used but more powerful than what it already has video card for the HTPC.
I can buy brand new computers that are NOT as powerful as either of those systems. Sure they'll use less electricity and probably in a smaller form factor, but I can still buy ones that aren't as powerful. That speaks volumes.
It's time to start building "heritage class" computers that are meant to work for decades instead of cast asides. Instead of a visit to Geek Squad so they can try to build you a new computer it's time to visit something more akin to a jewelry store to keep PCs running and doing smaller long term upgrades.
My parents have a Boston Terrier that is stout, and now in her older age is even quite hefty.
We have a Boston Terrier that is basically a cat. She's a bit lanky and has completely different markings. Per Google they're the same dog.
I'll go ahead and share for reference. If storage were unlimited I would load up all my old photos too, but I would quickly overload my space. Too bad there's not a "pay once keep forever" option on space instead of a regular bill.
and the fact insurance adjustment can take a while expect October to outshine September. Yes it has a bit to do with a shift in mindset, it also has a LOT to do with shit-tons of cars with water up to the windshields in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.
That was my first computer.
I got it used shortly after the original Pentium came out. I loved it. Real mechanical keyboard with slightly smaller than normal keys, it was actually EASIER to type on than a normal keyboard. First IBM compatible PC with 3.5" floppies if I'm not mistaken. The half-height LCD screen made Battle Chess hilarious to play with all the little short-fat chess pieces. Using the function key was exceedingly easy and made far more sense than it does on a modern Think Pad, not to mention it wasn't where the Control Key is today, or in the way at all.
Mine is now literally in a museum in Tempe if I'm not mistaken. I sort of miss it, I would like to have it back. If I had it back I would use it for writing, real writing, I've started novels before - had everything stolen, long story. Put MS Works 1.05 for DOS on this thing and you can't ask for a much better word processor without the distraction of a modern PC.
You know how I know more people hate the head Cheeto than like him?
I saw it on Facebook!
I used to hit used media stores like Hastings and FYE those stores seem to be going out of business. Half Price Books is still around and has a good selection. I've bought music at garage sales and thrift shops.
There's at least 7 good ones here, I couldn't read all the titles due to the glare - Buy it Now price $15, free shipping, take the ones you don't like to Half Price Books or give them away otherwise. http://r.ebay.com/rUsgkB
Buy disks, rip, compress, keep it with you. (disks are super cheap on the used market these days)
Streaming = Provide me bandwidth random store or eatery so that I may stream music into my head for your roof is metal and my phone signal does not penetrate well.
Storing your own music = Hackers took down the ENTIRE INTERNET and cellular network? LOL I've got this.
But the closest one is in CtPaTown. Unfortunately I live in SoDoSoPa. I would have to drive 30 miles to get to CtPaTown and it's just not worth it.
Having played with Google Glass I have to say it's pretty cool in many respects, there's certainly some first and some potential - but it's not much. By the time you're done with the new it's a creeper cam with head-mounted caller ID and an awkward Bluetooth headset.
HTC's V.R. team has a great head-mounted video game display that's not useful for all the time / daily wear.
Put these two together and see if you can make something genuinely useful in a real-world environment without making the wearers look like glass-holes.
Nothing racist or anti-gay there, it's just a very large metro. The yuppie colonies and the gay district are both 30ish miles away - yes - Houston is that big, that's a little far to drive to spend that much money on something that Kroger or Randal's both are likely to have these days in the hippie isle. I rather like the hippie isle, good cereal and good root beer.
You're obviously into FPS games. I don't play those like I used to, they mass produce them these days and though there's some good ones out there they've failed to lure me in as of late. Closest thing to an FPS that really lured me in recent years wise is Portal.
What has captured the spirit of a little later FPS's now considered classic, such as Unreal Tournament but isn't even an FPS is Awesomenauts. It's got the team play and cooperation mid-era FPS's and I love it.
I like platformers, my first system was an Atari 2600, but of course I adopted Mario as soon as I could. Giana Sisters games fit into that category well. I'm also playing A Boy and His Blob, a modern take on an NES game I had back in the day. The new one is sort of a kids game, but I'm really loving it. Super Meat Boy is an action platformer with very good yet unforgiving controls.
Something that scoops up the old space shooter genera then amplifies is into something awesome beyond all expectation is Beat Hazard. I have no idea how many hours I've spent on that between the Android and Linux versions.
If you liked Adventure games and Final Fantasy turn based strategies it's hard to beat South Park the Stick of Truth. Just don't play it when your kids are around.
The Torchlight games are a shoe-in for anyone who liked Diablo - actually made by the same creators.
They keep remaking and reimagining games of our era - you can usually find something to revisit.
If you really want something with old school herky-jerky make you sick to your stomach if you spend too much time on it games you can always try Goat Simulator. I have to limit my time on that one.
Costco seems to offer the ability to cover those needs far more economically than Whole Paycheck. The fact they don't even have Whole Paychecks in this city other than in the gay district and a couple of yuppy colonies keeps the temptation to waste my paycheck on items that are rapidly becoming available at the "normal" grocery stores, and not just in the ever expanding hippie isles makes me wonder if it's worth looking at. Even Wal-Mart has organic stuff under their own Great Value label these days.
Too little too late.
On another note, using hardware a bit longer is common in older people (I'm not 40 until next month though).
I got the original GameCube used off of eBay, what? 15 years ago? With my purchase I got a stack of pretty good games to go along with it, among the games was also Animal Crossing. I showed it to my mother who fell in love with it. I actually gave her a GameCube with a copy of the game. When the Wii was newer she bought a Wii and I traded her a copy of that Animal Crossing for her copy of Mario Kart that came with hers.
Both of my parents use the Wii for watching Netflix and the like. Even though my mother has quit playing Animal Crossing in the past year and half or so (I think it's because she finally filled up the museum, aquarium, and just decided it wasn't worth it on other things like the last paintings she hadn't managed to get yet - also she filled up all four houses etc...) they still use the Wii for Netflix watching. I don't think the year matters much in their case. They do have a more modern BluRay player and an HDTV in the living room, but the bedroom is still an SD CRT.