What Are You Doing Right Now
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Felled two trees this evening. New chainsaw is working pretty well
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Trying to get an Amazon Fire TV Stick fixed.
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Playing some Minecraft with my five year old.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get an Amazon Fire TV Stick fixed.
What was broke? And which would you recommend -- the FireTV or the TV Stick?
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get an Amazon Fire TV Stick fixed.
What was broke?
Networking issues. It could not connect to a wireless network. The radio just went up and down. A replacement is on its way.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And which would you recommend -- the FireTV or the TV Stick?
I like the stick a lot, it is cheap and it does the trick. No good for games, but it does Amazon Video, Netflix, Hulu and YouTube like a dream. I have the voice activated model with Alexa, that's a neat extra feature. It's tiny and super portable. So for ~$35, it's hard to go wrong.
The Fire TV is neat and the size is great, but it is $100 for the base model (300% the stick) and $140 for the Gaming version with the controller. This version has an Nvidia Tegra K1 which is pretty nice BUT the weird Amazon ecosystem makes gaming on the unit essentially useless. So pretty much, it's no good. It's almost awesome, it's right on the verge of being really cool. But it doesn't quite make it. Storage issues, being too expensive and way too limited gaming just kill it. The stick does all the good parts of the Fire TV for cheap.
If you like the look of the Fire TV, the NVidia Shield TV is just $30 more but has twice the power, exclusive titles, 50% more memory, better controller, 4K video and the only negatives are that it is a little larger (like twice the size, still small) and doesn't have Amazon Video built in.
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I'm not a big fan of the fire stick. It isn't reliable, need to restart almost daily, the sound is general slightly off in all but Netflix and apps crash on a regular basis. My Roku stick, while slower, is much more reliable and usable.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm not a big fan of the fire stick. It isn't reliable, need to restart almost daily, the sound is general slightly off in all but Netflix and apps crash on a regular basis. My Roku stick, while slower, is much more reliable and usable.
We've had to replace two already. Maybe yours has a problem.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm not a big fan of the fire stick. It isn't reliable, need to restart almost daily, the sound is general slightly off in all but Netflix and apps crash on a regular basis. My Roku stick, while slower, is much more reliable and usable.
I'll stick with my Chromecast for Netflix. Just works and you don't have to fight some weird UI.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Started the day with about 230 PMs in my SW mailbox. Have it down under 100 now.
Being famous can be a burden at times, as it seems
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm not a big fan of the fire stick. It isn't reliable, need to restart almost daily, the sound is general slightly off in all but Netflix and apps crash on a regular basis. My Roku stick, while slower, is much more reliable and usable.
I'll stick with my Chromecast for Netflix. Just works and you don't have to fight some weird UI.
I love our Chromecast but the external device requirement drives my wife nuts. The Amazon Fire Stick's interface isn't bad at all. Very intuitive when it works.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Started the day with about 230 PMs in my SW mailbox. Have it down under 100 now.
Being famous is burden, as it seems
FTFY
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I am reminded that I should really read questions before providing answers...
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@coliver I use mine daily and it works perfectly. Have Amazon send you a new one.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm not a big fan of the fire stick. It isn't reliable, need to restart almost daily, the sound is general slightly off in all but Netflix and apps crash on a regular basis. My Roku stick, while slower, is much more reliable and usable.
I'll stick with my Chromecast for Netflix. Just works and you don't have to fight some weird UI.
I love our Chromecast but the external device requirement drives my wife nuts. The Amazon Fire Stick's interface isn't bad at all. Very intuitive when it works.
Big fan of my Roku 3. Never had any issues with it and it's plex compatible.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm not a big fan of the fire stick. It isn't reliable, need to restart almost daily, the sound is general slightly off in all but Netflix and apps crash on a regular basis. My Roku stick, while slower, is much more reliable and usable.
I'll stick with my Chromecast for Netflix. Just works and you don't have to fight some weird UI.
I love our Chromecast but the external device requirement drives my wife nuts. The Amazon Fire Stick's interface isn't bad at all. Very intuitive when it works.
Big fan of my Roku 3. Never had any issues with it and it's plex compatible.
Ditto. Ours runs almost non-stop, lol.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I feel like absolute death right now. I may need to go to urget care
That's not good. What's wrong?
So it turns out I have extremely high blood pressure. I have to go on medication temporarily and make a very serious change to my lifestyle--eating habits, exercise, everything. I feel okay today.
I had a terrible migraine yesterday (I don't get migraines). I looked up at the ceiling and everything went squiggly and I felt like I was going to puke. Knew something was wrong and I left work immediately, which sucks because I never take time off. Just started this job so they can't really know that.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I feel like absolute death right now. I may need to go to urget care
That's not good. What's wrong?
So it turns out I have extremely high blood pressure. I have to go on medication temporarily and make a very serious change to my lifestyle--eating habits, exercise, everything. I feel okay today.
Ah... good luck with that. I have been borderline for a few years now. Enough to worry about but not enough for medication yet. Genetics got the better of me.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I feel like absolute death right now. I may need to go to urget care
That's not good. What's wrong?
So it turns out I have extremely high blood pressure. I have to go on medication temporarily and make a very serious change to my lifestyle--eating habits, exercise, everything. I feel okay today.
Ah... good luck with that. I have been borderline for a few years now. Enough to worry about but not enough for medication yet. Genetics got the better of me.
I don't think I'm going to need to be on meds forever. I just need maybe a year of eating healthy. I don't want to be on medication for the rest of my life. My fiance is being a food nazi now, not that I can blame her. It's like she wants me alive or something.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I feel like absolute death right now. I may need to go to urget care
That's not good. What's wrong?
So it turns out I have extremely high blood pressure. I have to go on medication temporarily and make a very serious change to my lifestyle--eating habits, exercise, everything. I feel okay today.
Ah... good luck with that. I have been borderline for a few years now. Enough to worry about but not enough for medication yet. Genetics got the better of me.
I don't think I'm going to need to be on meds forever. I just need maybe a year of eating healthy. I don't want to be on medication for the rest of my life. My fiance is being a food nazi now, not that I can blame her. It's like she wants me alive or something.
Ugh that's the worst. I hate eating healthy. From my cardiologist exercise is a bigger deal then eating healthy. 30 minutes of hard breathing a day at a minimum is what he recommends.
