dmtalon @ dmtalon @infosec.pub

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My whole house audio runs off a product Google no longer makes unfortunately (Chromecast audios).

There's, no like-for-like new version, and no good replacement that I've found. Thankfully, this was a fixable problem and they fixed it vs. Just EOLing them.

I'm in the same boat. I'd say that my current setup is still not back to 'normal' since the issue with the certificates on the second gen devices.

I was able to cast to a CCA yesterday for a few hours after rebooting it again.

I have, over the years gone all in with the CCAs which is great when it works but sucks being tied to google. I have 11 active running CCAs connected to two separate 12 channel amps that have wired speakers throughout my house.

I use Google Mini's in those locations with their default speaker set to the CCA feeding that room's speakers. I also have groups "Basement" "Upstairs" "outside" etc that allow me to group them into larger zones. This is all very awesome when it works, but like we found out last week falls apart when there's a problem on that house of cards.

We can via apps directly manually 'cast' from YTM or Spotify or whatever (podcast app) or just ask the mini in the room to play music or play music on 'group speaker name'.

I got here from 'Casatunes' which when I was using it, was a PCIE card you installed in a windows machine and then installed their software (that ran on IIS) and it created a web service where the PCIE card (a soundblaster) had 6 3.5mm jacks (6 zones) as output, and then the software allowed you to assign 4 different inputs. Biggest issue I had with it, is as I moved from Sirius XM to streaming the service I opted to go with wasn't supported. Eventually I migrated to the CCA approach.

I'd love a way to setup 11 Pi's (although not at today's prices) with some open source protocol that replaced googles casting. The problem then would be getting some local speaker (google mini) to interact with it, or even your phone (spotify/ytm to 'cast' to that open protocol). Whatever the long term solution it would need to be easy to use or nobody but me will use it.

spin up a second pihole docker and upgrade them separately so they can failover to the other one while upgrading. I do not have an issue with 20min lose of DNS after updating my pi.hole docker, but I did spin up a second one when I wanted to try unbound+pi.hole and just kept them both up/running.

I wouldn't notice

I pay what I consider a pretty affordable price for this ($65/yr), and support HA dev community. It also allows auto-syncing devices to my Google Assistants. No affiliation but an easy way to get something more and give a little back.

https://www.nabucasa.com/

I was able to go into the mobile app of my bank and unenroll my email (only thing enrolled). Hopefully that did it. When I go to "Zelle" now it asks me to sign up.

Ya, when I read the title, I thought you could just stop at Intelligence.

"US Hits Pause on Intelligence". full stop

Without doing any research, I'd be hard pressed to believe they didn't support trump all the way.

I actually don't mind paying for stuff I use or get value from.

I do have smartyoutubetv Installed on both an Nvidia Shield and a Google TV, I originally did it when my kid was on a child account but couldn't sign into the Google yt app. I kinda wish Futo would make a TV version of Grayjay I'd probably use it.

I use premium for both YouTube and yt music and it's our primary music streaming service too. I even have 11 CCA (Chromcast audios) powering rooms all over the house where we listen to ytm from.

There are a few apps you can get for like Google TV (nvidia shield etc..) Like smartyoutubetv. But they've gotta be side loaded. So you need to install some way to get the APK on the device. It's all doable, but it's a pain.

I'd prefer just paying and losing the ads. Since I'm dreaming, I'd also like a check box to remove shorts all together from my experience.

The only problem I have with the premium subscription is the lack of ad control from the content creator. They should have to put them into some kind of wrapper that I, as a premium member can decide to enable or not. As a paying subscriber I should be able to watch it 100% ad free without going through sponsorblock, which is a big pita to do on set-top boxes.

I will sit through ads of the people I watch that are small and trying to make a buck above YT's pittance. OR, maybe YT could share a little of that sweet sweet profit with them and then not allow them to do their own ads (hahahahaha)

Guess it might be time to disable zelle on my bank. I've used it I think twice with people I know but I guess we're left to take our protection into our own hands by just not being willing to use a flawed system with not enough safeguards.

Remove the references to trump and this has been Bernie's message for a long time.

Those that listen to him got it in plenty of time.

The problem is, the mentally blind people that voted for this administration weren't ever going to hear that message, much less comprehend it.

Who said there were no "perks" being a minority in the United States

<sigh>

No I was angry but wanted a clean online space that I was kinda stuck on due to remote family...

Edit: I am more angry now so you're not technically wrong

<sigh>

Since 2015 ish I started unfollowing both left and right side friends because of political talk from people on my friends list on Facebook. I really have pruned it to be only people that post stuff they're doing. Same for people that only forward stuff. (News or whatever).

I broke down and posted about yesterday on my feed with a link to a YouTube video of the press conference. Expressing how utterly disgusted I was.

It's a minor thing but it should make it very clear how I feel and the line we crossed with that display.

Most embarrassed I've been to call myself an american. And I'm a veteran.

Absolutely disgusting.

Ya Elon is getting his money just like the GOP now. He's not worried about what you think

Taco Bell started scamming people a long time ago by charging more for their "food" and primarily giving you lettuce and a shell.

If I order, and pay extra for a GRILLED CHICKEN soft taco, I don't want .1oz of chicken, 3oz of lettuce, and 6 thin pieces of shredded cheese.

I swore that place off years ago even though it WAS one of the fast food joints I would visit on occasion.

Their damage was already done with that CEO statement (for me), since after those remarks I cancelled my VPN plan with them. I'm not someone who's going to then follow them around and post negative comments on their Mastodon, X, reddit account whenever they post. I'm just going to walk away.

So, they will move to where their base is, just like trump did and they can sell there stuff to a smaller percentage of the market if they want. I will never understand why a company would actively try to cut their sales base in half or whatever.