u9 & Netflix

@jpl69 Excuse my ignorance, when you say on Minix do you mean on the U9 exclusively or on other Minix boxes as well?

That's actually great news! It means we can finally put this Netflix thing to bed at least on one device. It has been hampering the acceptance of the Minix Media Hubs. So many people tunnel visioning on this Netflix tempest in a teacup thing. Everyone is focused on the Emporer's clothes .... and he is naked! We are missing the big picture ... *pun intended

Personally I would prefer a colonoscopy to 1 hour of Netflix. I suffered through 2 months of it when I was visiting my son in Silicon Valley. I couldn't find half the shows or movies I wanted and when I did, they didn't have the right season grrrrr. You would have had to wait months until they bought the rights to that season. Meanwhile, you had to watch quickly a certain season before they deleted the whole thing Arghhhhhhh! He also had regular Big Cable.:eek: It was like Chinese water torture...... drip, drip, drip, 7 to 9 commercials every 15 minutes. We will now interrupt this program for a few minutes of the tv show! I wanted to smother The Fox News My Pillow Guy with one of his own pillowso_O I wanted to scream, but I sat there politely and suffered in silence. When I got home, I binge-watched and got caught up on all my shows and movies.:D Ahhhhhhh! Relief!!!

Of course, I understand that change is sometimes difficult and there is an element of uncertainty. Better the devil we know, than the one we don't.

Just remember that with Netflix you are seeing only a small part of what's really available out there. The Netflix quasi-monopoly controls a portion, but not all, of the world's distribution rights, so it's harder, but far from impossible, to find anything but the endless superhero blockbusters or remakes that they churn out, day in day out.

There is fantastic content that is out there just waiting to be seen. Take examples like Schitt's Creek, or Anne With an E, we were watching it long before Hollywood discovered it. You can choose what they want you to watch or enjoy what you want to from a true World Media Market.
 
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yeah, you really take me the joy of helping and share the knowledge on this foruns!
Please take that speech to facebook.
Let me just add that i'm Portuguese from Lisbon and you can imagine that here Netflix doesn't have even half of Silicon Valley's content, but i'm happy with it. I wish i had time to enjoy more of it.
 
Thanks @jpl69 you are too kind! Flattery will get you everywhere:) As for Facebook, sorry, no can do. My wife was the only one who had an account which she hadn't used in years so I deleted it!!! Take that Zuckerberg!!!:giggle: There is just too much political disinformation, hate, and privacy intrusions. Read the book 1984 if you haven't already.
 
Jolga77 said:
@jpl69 ...I would prefer a colonoscopy to 1 hour of Netflix...
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Cheers for the phylosophical remark that left me wondering.

It crossed my mind that probably we all know what you are referring to. However change is only possible when you are free to choose, and many times you are free to choose when you are allowed to be free.

Take into consideration that this forum is populated with users from all over the world that, differently from Canada, don't have access to the same level of freedom that you can still, and hopefully for very long, benefit. Recent actions in the neighbour country to yours put many common users in panic regarding their usual activities, as common people got stalked by the authorities in regard to their freedom to daily choosing.

Others, by their own ethics don't wish to go certain ways that contour legal rights and rules that are confined by more restrictive laws, and fear for the unknown of exploiting certain greyish possibilities.

Critisizing people for what they wish to do is always a walk over a thin ice layer, as diversity in the world exists. Even in a free country, rules apply and if you wish to benefit from content you should probably follow the rules, as a good boy scout, as that is how societies thrive since Greeks and Romans taught us to.

IMO I don't think cleverness or expertise to go around those rules and principles should be extensively proposed in this forum because it will affect its diversity and diminish the good will of those that are not so privileged to others.
 
CybeRider said:
Cheers for the phylosophical remark that left me wondering.

It crossed my mind that probably we all know what you are referring to. However change is only possible when you are free to choose, and many times you are free to choose when you are allowed to be free.

Take into consideration that this forum is populated with users from all over the world that, differently from Canada, don't have access to the same level of freedom that you can still, and hopefully for very long, benefit. Recent actions in the neighbour country to yours put many common users in panic regarding their usual activities, as common people got stalked by the authorities in regard to their freedom to daily choosing.

Others, by their own ethics don't wish to go certain ways that contour legal rights and rules that are confined by more restrictive laws, and fear for the unknown of exploiting certain greyish possibilities.

Critisizing people for what they wish to do is always a walk over a thin ice layer, as diversity in the world exists. Even in a free country, rules apply and if you wish to benefit from content you should probably follow the rules, as a good boy scout, as that is how societies thrive since Greeks and Romans taught us to.

IMO I don't think cleverness or expertise to go around those rules and principles should be extensively proposed in this forum because it will affect its diversity and diminish the good will of those that are not so privileged to others.
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Well put mate lol ;).

Otherwise @Jolga77, can't help but notice an ongoing pattern of replies to threads created by other forum members to specifically ask for help with their MINIX devices suddenly becoming a bit of a soap box for the common theme of apparently having Netflix burned in the streets mate ;)!! (Along with Facebook, cable/satellite TV service providers, or whoever was up next lol?)

Some light-hearted banter or some threads occasionally drifting away a little from the original discussion rarely does any harm. But "dayum" (as the phrase is often phonetically uttered in your general region lol ;).)

Talk about going off on one (or two, or three, or four, or...... ZZZZZzzzzz) ;). At least try to maintain a degree of relevance if you can :). Others may be reading through these threads looking for specific information only to discover an apparently angry novelist letting rip hehe ;).
 
There seems to be a misconception about where I'm from. For the past 7 years, I have been living in Mexico full time and God willing, will continue to do so. Therefore, I am subject to the same benefits and limitations as anyone living in a developing nation. So I am not at this moment, a Privilege Canadian, but merely a landed Immigrant in a foreign land who is here at the pleasure of his gracious Mexican hosts.

Next, if my posts have offended anyone I am very sorry, they were never meant to... after all, at the end of the day, I am Canadian:)

I think my initial objective was unrealistic, I really liked the T5 and the forum was the best one I had ever seen, but it appeared very quiet. many lurkers, but not many posts from new people. I also didn't realize that maybe it was a good quite forum and you liked it that way. People have a problem and the kind people here help them, short and sweet in and out, next problem.

I wanted it to be like the NVidia Shield forum, before it deteriorated, very busy with lots of chatter between the members. Kind of like a tech marketplace. I wanted to shake things up a little bit, as I am wont to do, I went a little too

I am a Type A personality and definitely an acquired taste. It appears that I have unwittingly stepped on some toes with my posts and have upset the delicate balance that exists here, I have a plan of action to rectify this.

I will step back. Not post any more humourous *or trying to be, reviews. I will only lurk, no suggestions or comments, and when and if I have a question I will ask it concisely. Then when the unpaid, kind peeps in here help me, I will politely say thanks and retreat back to lurking as most do. So no harm, no foul. The forum will go back to being what it was, I.E. a great place to get tech help.

Note to Moderators

if you want to delete all my posts I will definitely not take any offense. As a matter of fact. please do, they were just an experiment, a pipe dream if you will, and it went awry. They were not really technical in nature, as I have very little experience with Android Boxes or writing reviews, so no useful information will be lost.

How does that sound?
 
Jolga77 said:
...There seems to be a misconception about where I'm from...
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As far as I'm concerned, as long as you are from planet Earth, I won't change a comma from what I wrote. I should probably had made a better search in your posts to find out more about it, if I cared. I didn't.

I also don't know if you offended someone, all I could see was a user being close to humiliated about his eventual shortness of horizons and eventual dubious choices as if you should be concerned. His replying didn't seem very happy, as mine wouldn't for sure, and I realised that you needed help.

Well, I am here to help, all I can carry as a tool is a personal opinion. Sometimes it works, and it helps, other times it is just a waste of our time, to my own grief.

One of the reasons why many of us are not very talkative might be the fact that it is hard to express ourselves in a different language than the one from our motherland, yet we try to put up our thoughts the best way we can to help solve as many situations as possible. Being such a multicultural forum humour can sometimes be very badly understood, I myself am still finding my ways in the field after some years, as you can see.

I do regret having been so much down to the detail of writing Canada, dont even recall where I got that idea from, when I really had in mind Casagambodia. I hope that is not the main thing you retained from my helping words, but once again I might be mistaken.

Moderation is far above my capabilities, deleting your comments will imply deleting mine and other users too. That is why we should pay attention to what we write down in this boxes. Thank you for coming back, I hope we will have the chance to further share better moments discussing what really matters to the forum participants, as we did in the recent past.
 
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Jolga77 said:
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I will step back. Not post any more humourous *or trying to be, reviews. I will only lurk, no suggestions or comments, and when and if I have a question I will ask it concisely. Then when the unpaid, kind peeps in here help me, I will politely say thanks and retreat back to lurking as most do. So no harm, no foul. The forum will go back to being what it was, I.E. a great place to get tech help.

Note to Moderators

if you want to delete all my posts I will definitely not take any offense. As a matter of fact. please do, they were just an experiment, a pipe dream if you will, and it went awry. They were not really technical in nature, as I have very little experience with Android Boxes or writing reviews, so no useful information will be lost.

How does that sound?
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You might want to visit the Off Topic section of the forum where I'm sure your very humourous posts will fit in better :). As you surmised the main aim of the technical part of the forum is to provide help for Minix device users from Minix device users(y)
 
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