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From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
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Subject: Re: Palemoon is da Greatest Browser
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:52:23 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-11-17, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
>
>>> I just rented a movie,
>>> one I'd seen several times before, including new in a theater in 1998,
>>> but an old favorite, one relevant to my life these days, "The Truman
>>> Show" starring Jim Carrey.  Would be trivial to boot up my Fire TV
>>> device, and stream it to my TV, but slight drawback there, the audio
>>> would be through my TV's relatively lo-fi speakers.  By opening a
>>> Chrome window for Amazon Prime Video, dragging it across to my TV as a
>>> second monitor, and letting the audio flow into my computer speakers
>>> and subsequently into my headphones, I get a real "theater"
>>> experience, in my chair in my room.
>>>
>>> This is what you are missing, with your retardo [barebones Linux from scratch] setup, dumbass [Larry/Russell].
>>
>>Rent a movie?
>>Are you a boomer?
>>Asking for a friend.
>
>
> Uh, you are aware that you can do that *ONLINE*, right?  Try reading
> what I posted.  I don't even have my DVD player, here.  I don't have a
> DVD drive in my computer.  It's all in the cloud, dummy.  I paid under
> $4 to watch the movie, instead of purchasing it for life or buying a
> physical disc.
>
Ok.
Fair enough.
I was referring to the term "renting a movie"


-- 
pothead

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