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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-07 (Friday)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:36:49 -0400
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:25:02 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> On 3/8/25 9:20 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> 
>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Friday, I had to give exams to 3 classes, so that took most of the day.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>> 
>>>> I watched the first two episodes of daredevil born again. I don’t get the
>>>> glowing praise for this.
>>> 
>>> To elaborate, this had a truly staggering number of commercials in it, all
>>> of which were inserted randomly and awkwardly.
>> 
>> Did you watch this on Disney+? Or Hulu?
>> 
>> I've heard nothing but bad things about Hulu with ads, which is why if I 
>> have either Disney+ or Hulu, it will always be the ad-free version.
>> 
>
>Hulu (with ads).
>
>Ads not with standing it’s an amazingly incompetently programmed streamer.
>
>It will routinely auto play a different show rather than the next episode
>of the show you were watching. And if it does show you another episode of
>the same show it will just as often go backwards as forward.
>
>If you leave it on pause for more than five minutes (in fairness, the five
>minute limitation is built into the 4K Firestick max, and you can’t get
>around it) it goes to screensaver and here’s what you have to do to resume
>playing:
>
>Press the back button.
>That brings up some unwanted menu options so you have to press the back
>button again
>Keep doing that until it finally takes you back to Hulu
>Hulu will launch the profile page and you will have to choose who’s
>watching
>Hulu will then take you to a welcome page and then auto go to home
>which has no useful options like resume.
>Tab left to get to the side menu
>Tab up to get to search
>Select search and tab right through the keyboard because you can’t get
>around it.
>The seventh click takes you to the column for “trending searchs“ in this
>case trying to get me to watch the rookie 
>tab up to select trending searches.
>Tab right to select recent searches.
>Tab down and hopefully get to show you were just watching.
>Click on that show.
>Click on that show again to go to the show.
>Click down to go to episodes.
>Click down again to actually get into the episodes
>click up or down to get to the episode you were watching
>Finally the one thing it does right is if you can find the episode you were
>watching it remembers and lets you resume.

Sounds awful

>Repeat the above process every time you get up and go to the kitchen to get
>a drink

How big is your home that it takes more than five minutes to get a
drink? ;)