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Dbeasy

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  1. See you boys next year.
  2. Glad they solved their red zone problems with innovative play calling.
  3. I guess the second half could be just as futile as the first offensively, but something doesn’t seem right. The offensive scheme, the play calling, the QB play, looks remarkably weak. Is it really that bad, or for the first time is Sark trying to save some things for the second half? I doubt it, but I guess we’ll find out shortly.
  4. I completely believe this. For years I had to figure out my own complex Excel formulas to do various things. It required a lot of focus and brainpower. Now I just ask ChatGPT and spend a few minutes debugging its wrong answers. Way faster and easier.
  5. Holy shit they just showed Arch throwing in pre-game and I’ve never seen a quicker release in my life.
  6. During the internet bubble I turned down a job in the Northeast for an executive job with tech startup that included 2% stock options where the current company value was hardly anything. The options vested immediately on change of control. They were bought in 3 months for $4.5B. My payout would have been just under $100M.
  7. I can’t reconcile his reputation as a good defensive coordinator, with that dumb look and sound. How can someone who sounds and looks like a complete doofus be a good defensive coach? I’m terribly vexed.
  8. I have Roku and Firestick. I can’t get Fanduel regional sports in Austin for the Astros. They are considered the in-market team here.
  9. Is it as easy to setup and use as it sounds? What app? Just an Apple TV the latest?
  10. So, I've spent the last few days researching and trying out all of the different streaming options to replace my current U-Verse service (headed to $225/month). It's a great service, but it's anywhere from $80-120 more per month tham other streaming options. Functionality-wise, the U-Verse offering provides the most content, especially key state of Texas sports content (Spurs, Mavs, Rangers, Astros), but it's just gotten too expensive. It also has movie channels and some other desirable stuff. I reviewed Hulu + Live, Fubo, DirecTv, Spectrum (a bit), Sling, and cobbling together OTA with ESPN Unlimited, Fox One and HBOMax. The results were disappointing. 1. Fubo - the Elite sports service wasn't bad. The UI is decent, but they flat out lied during the sign-up process of the cost. It's actually $128/month, not $113/month, after the free trial and first month $30 discount. They don't have a lot of non-sports content, but the sports content was excellent. I was just so pissed off about the blatant lying about the price, I cancelled during the trial phase. 2. DirecTv - jesus these people are idiots. There are two different streaming options, the website is a mess, you can't figure out which streaming offer is which, you can't get the final price of what it actually costs. I roughly estimated it at $135, but who knows. For one of the streaming options, there are contracts and they treat you like shit, just like a traditional cable company. Screw that. 3. YouTube TV - pretty nice experience. The UI has a few limitations, but is manageable. However, I have to say goodbye to Astros coverage. This is probably where we are headed. $82/month. For Spurs and Rangers I'd have to add other streaming services (Fanduel, Victory+). 4. Spectrum - people in my neighborhood are constantly complaining about outages. I didn't look at them closely. I want to keep AT&T internet because I have free HBO right now. 5. Sling - too limited. Can't get much of anything we want. 6. OTA, ESPN Unlimited, Fox One, HBO Max - this has some potential, but I'm not ready for the UI hell this would cause, the wiring issues for OTA, and the lack of certain commercial channels. So, to summarize, the option is to either pay $225 and get Astros, Rangers, Mavs, Spurs, and Movies, or switch to YTTV and lose all that but only pay $82+tax. If I didn't go with YTTV, I might go back to Fubo.
  11. Fellas. You know better. The Pickens trade didn’t cost much and it wasn’t about winning. It’s about what Jerry wants, which is glitz and glam, as he told us all in the documentary. As for Dak and Cee Dee, that’s just a whole bunch more of glitz and glam, which costs a bunch more money. Jerry Jones’ sole criteria for success is billions in his pockets, not fielding a competitive football team.
  12. Look, what he got for Micah was insufficient. Another Dallas GM got fleeced. But…I have always had questions about Micah. He fades during the season often. He’s weird. He’s a tweener. And yes at times Micah made an incredible impact. For that type of money, I want someone who’s more consistent. And, the Cowboys are a mess overall. It’s not like they are headed to the playoffs. This is a very average team. This franchise is going nowhere.
  13. What the hell does “rotate it” mean? I’m so out of the loop.
  14. In my earlier post I didn’t mean to imply OSU wasn’t an elite program prior to Meyer. I was responding to a specific post about OSU the last several years. I’m well aware of OSU’s long term success. As I’ve mentioned on other threads, I was born in Columbus in OSU University hospital, my dad was on the OSU faculty, and his handball playing partner for several years was Woody Hayes. At an early age I was a massive OSU fan. Fortunately, I made it to Texas at a young age and successfully was re-programmed to root for the greatest college athletic programs in the country. An unfortunate byproduct of this was the development of a deep dislike for my former favorite team. I kept waiting for the OSU program to finally drop down to a lower level of success. I really thought post Meyer would be it.
  15. OSU has remained good for a long time due to a lot of fortunate events. They got Meyer who is not only an excellent coach, he’s a top tier cheater. That laid the foundation. Day has been riding that for a long time, combined with the weak schedules over the years that are top heavy. Michigan was down for a long time. Penn St was down and coached now by a guy who can’t beat a good coach. They’ve recruited well under NIL because they have strong financial support. The biggest surprise for me is that I thought Day was an above average coach, and yet he’s been able to pull out some big wins. Not sure how. Something just doesn’t add up.
  16. I also just pulled out two OTA antennas, both with pre-amps, and thrushes around the house with the antennas, and a Samsung tv, to see if I could get good enough reception anywhere in the house or walk in attics that I could use to feed the HDHR. What would I lose with no encryption for 4k OTA? Edit: I assume without jelkyfin I can’t get dvr functionality? I experimented with plex a few years ago and found no value for our needs with a lot of technical confusion. I don’t want to go down that path if I can avoid it.
  17. I really think this post needs to be split into even more paragraphs, especially with no capital letters at the beginning of each.
  18. Let’s hope that Thomas being on the team lights a competitive fire under Spieth to get his shit together next year, giving how close they are.
  19. Yes. Good picks. Burns can get on a roll. I’m good with this.
  20. So I've never heard of HDHR, but it looks like a direct competitor to Tablo? What is Jellyfish for?
  21. Do the poor reviews assume the connection between the Tablo and the router is wireless, or is it also slow for a wired ethernet connection? My house is already wired with Cat 5 in all the rooms, so I can just plug the Tablo into an ethernet port in an upstairs bedroom.
  22. Self quote. I found an article that indicates the Tablo can connect to your router network via either wifi or wired. This could be a game changer. That means anyone can stick an antenna wherever in the house the signal is the best, but then see local channels on any TV or device in the house via wifi. I assume the wifi connection doesn't hose up the 4k OTA signal? So, if the above works, then you just buy ESPN and Fox direct to consumer offerings and you have 90% of what live tv offers, minus the bs channels no one watches.
  23. I’m confused how Tablo works. I connect an antenna via coax to tablo. Does tablo connect to my router wired or wirelessly? If wired, can I just plug it into an Ethernet port that is in an upstairs bedroom? Then how do I watch that on an LG TV either directly or with Roku or fire stick? When I download the app to one of those three devices how does it find the stream on WiFi? The tablo just rebroadcasts on WiFi?
  24. Ha, tried to look at a DirectTV streaming subscription. The website is so confusing and misleading, you literally can't figure out what your bill will be in the future. It's a total bait and switch. Undeterred, I decide to call them. 20 minutes and three callbacks later, after clicking through a maze of voice menus that didn't work properly, I was UNABLE TO REACH SALES! I'll say that again. They are so fucked up they can't even take a call from someone who wants to buy their service. Fuck that. I've dealt with that bullshit from AT&T for years. I ain't doing it anymore. Then looked at Fubu. Pretty good channel coverage. Don't like the lack of two local channels. Maybe could live with it. The lack of Food Network for the wife is tough. Maybe. I thought about the DNS hiding approach with MLB, but I just don't want to deal with that hassle all the time. Maybe someday the Astros will pull their heads out of their asses and make their games available to more people, like the Rangers have done this year.
  25. Thanks. This is consistent with what I saw on the website. NBC and CBS are local affiliates and Fox and ABC are national feeds.
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