But you’ll still have to STFU and not act “suspiciously” (be properly subservient lil serfs) around “feddle gummint” thugs.
Streaming TV
Seriously considering dropping the TV portion of our cable service. Oh, my Wonder Woman would have to delay watching some of her shows–on Hulu or some such. But for the most part, the TV I’ve been enjoying recently has been stuff streamed on Amazon Prime (*whispered* or downloaded from YouTube *heh*) like Top Gear or various BBC “cop” shows or Amazon’s offering of “Under the Dome”–a new episode each Friday*.
Mostly, my leisure “entertainment” budget (time and $$) is consumed by books, but it’s nice to have a wide variety of interesting TV, movies, etc. The only thing is watching my bandwidth consumption, since my cable provider has put a cap on all users–yeh, different caps for home and business users, but caps all the same.
*Yeh, it’s a CBS show, and I don’t watch CBS, but since it’s w/o the commercials and CBS doesn’t get my bandwidth, I’m letting this one slide by my boycott (of not watching CBS). Gray area. *heh*
Opera Software Tells Its Longtime Users to Pi$$ Up a Rope
[One wag who viewed this–but who did not comment here; what’s up with that?!?–commented that at least Opera isn’t telling longtime, faithful users to pi$$ into the wind. . . Yeh, funny. Almost]
Opera 15 is out–a three-step jump from 12.16–and it sucks dead bunnies through a straw and explosively sharts them out.
Dafq?
80% of the cool features that differentiated Opera from run-of-the-mill browsers like, well, ALL the other browsers, are *pft!* gone! In place of the almost infinitely customizable, tweakable, full-featured browser that was the joy of its faithful users, it’s now a dumbed-down version of. . . Google Chrome! Yep. Despite two (or maybe three) new “features” which are better suited to a Fischer-Price “My First Computer” user, the new Opera 15 is actually less functional than Chrome, of all things! Chrome! The previous fav of users who belong in Assisted Computing Facilities (“Here, dearie, let me make that mouse click FOR you. . . “) Heck, it’s an even worse browser now than Internet Exploder! Worse than Internet Exploder 10 on Win8!!!
!@#$%^&*
A list of features and capabilities present in Opera 12.1 and absent in Opera 15 is just too long and depressing to catalog. It’s as though Opera Software ASA has decided that its only hope for expansion–nay! for survival!–is to cater to a market segment with an average IQ of 80 and the attention span of an ADHD toddler on crack cocaine.
Other than that, it’s juuuust fine. . . *gagamaggot*
Fungi, Flowers-n-Flies, Oh! My!
Oh! *!#@$%* this summer rash that has me singing the Leprosy Song (“Leprosy, all my skin is falling off of me; now my ankle’s hanging from my knee; oh, leprosy came suddenly. . . “)
Luckily, mowing and weed-eating does eough of a number on my nasal passages and lungs that the other allergens and irritants take a back seat while I’m doing yard work. It’s just later. . .
Oh, well.