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I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen Forbes recycle that “Warning issued to billions of Windows users” headline, in various forms. Recently I saw it twice in less than a 24-hour period. I guess it gets clicks, or they wouldn’t keep doing it.

I switched over to Plasma from MATE on my work PC after MATE botched their transition to GTK3. I’ve been using kwin for years now so this seemed like the logical thing to do. I gotta say I’ve fallen in love, and it just keeps getting better. Eventually when I redo my Arch install at home, I’ll be switching to Plasma there too.

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I haven’t had a cable subscription since I moved out (unless you count the free cable (which I never used) that was included with my first apartment).

Here’s a list of the video streaming services I’m subscribed to:

• Amazon Prime
• Netflix
• VRV
• Hulu
• YouTube Premium
• Showtime (via Amazon)
• CBS All Access (via Amazon)
• Floatplane
• Mixer Premium

I have noticed that, as more and more streaming services pop up, the quality diminishes. VRV does not have subtitles for a lot of dubbed anime. The subtitles on CBS All Access proper are awful. (They’re fine on Amazon, but they’re usually not available for the first week or so that a video is available.) Netflix doesn’t support 4k on most of my devices. I can’t watch Floatplane on my TV without jumping through a ton of hoops. YouTube Premium refuses to use hardware decoding on my desktop. Hulu arbitrarily decides that I don’t deserve HD video. Hulu also tends to forget where I am in a series. I cannot use my Mixer account on most devices because it is not linked to a Microsoft account. None of these services support surround sound on my computer, the only device I have that actually has a surround sound system.

I use Wide Open West for my ISP. They were fine until recently, when I started getting a pretty consistent 16% packet loss. They’ve sent technicians out but have been unable to solve the problem. Previously, I’ve had MetroCast/MaxxSouth, and they were alright except for the fact that they gave my phone number to telemarketers. At one point, I tried to sign up for C-Spire fiber-to-the-home, and was told that everything would be ready by the time I moved in. When time came to move in, turns out that the service actually wasn’t available in that part of town, and I had been lied to.