Today I’m donating my streaming sticks. I got a ONN brand 2k one I bought for 15 and I got an Amazon Firestick 4K I got for $3 from a thrift store because they didn’t know what it was.

And I love the concept of stream sticks, I really do. Too fucking bad that corporate interests got in the way and now everything has to have a bundle of ads at every damn turn. Not even some of the things I’m subscribed to is free from ads because this is the future apparently, we’re here.

Shame because I don’t want to let these go and even if I were to subscribe to Netflix’s ad-free subscription, that’s only one source. Why do that when I can just grab a long HDMI cable, plug it into my desktop and to my TV and I can watch everything that’s there, without ads because of the extensions I use to block ads.

    • Lenny@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Congratulations! I am working out my notice period of my job right now, I am taking December to regroup and will begin job hunting in January. It feels so liberating!

      • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        32 minutes ago

        It does. Not sure your situation, but I have a mortgage and two little girls. It’s a big risk, but I’m betting on myself.

        Regardless of the uncertainty about the new year, it’s the first time I’ve felt any sort of positivity for the longest time.

        Good luck to all of us.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      24 hours ago

      i’m about to do something similar and for a job that is a 56% percent pay cut for me; but it’s as far away as i can find from the profit seeking evil that has characterized my most recent jobs while still employing my skillset.