Re: Re: Browsers
By: Bogomips to Boraxman on Fri May 02 2025 07:24 am

I think i used a web browser and just entered Newgroup://alt.whatever? never used a third party program

Netscape Communicator would handle those URLs - it had a news client, chat client email and HTML composer all in one.

There's a modern-ish program called Mozilla Seamonkey that was designed to look/feel like Netscape Communicator, unfortunately it doesn't run on my BBS box.

It was a cool idea in the late '90s. I used to set up an office with a Linux box running internal IRC and NNTP servers, along with IMAP/SMTP, and people would use Communicator as groupware. Worked pretty well, and was all free.

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: phigan to Bogomips on Fri May 02 2025 11:34 am

There's one thing Roku has over the other options. You can get a remote (or app) that you plug headphones into and can then hear the audio of whatever you're watching. You can't install your own apps on it, though, only from their own "store". FireTV and GoogleTV and the Android based stuff beats Rok on all other functionality, IMO. Walmart has somewhat decent Android boxes,

Apparently, Firesticks support IPTV, which sounds like a great way to get basic channels over the internet. I don't have many local stations available over the air, so I'm thinking about this should I get rid of cable and go with AT&T Fiber.

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: Nightfox to phigan on Fri May 02 2025 12:53 pm

I have a Roku with a remote like that, though I haven't plugged any headphones into it.

With the roku app, you can also play audio through your phone's bluetooth.

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bogomips on Fri May 02 2025 02:58 pm

In San Francisco, they built a huge television tower called Sutro tower that you could see from most anywhere in the bay area - if you couldn't see it, you could just point your antenna the same way everyone else's was pointed.

Recently I was thinking about the motion of the Earth and wondered how that could affect the reception of TV and radio broadcasts. The broadcasts go straight out from the antenna, but since the Earth is contasntly moving, surely nobody can really be in the direct path of the signal. But I suppose since the broadcast signals travel at the speed of light, any difference in position due to the Earth's motion is probably miniscule by the time the signal reaches you.

I wonder what the broadcast signals would look/sound like from a point in space though.. As the broadcast source would be constantly moving and rotating, I'd imagine there would be some sort of affect (doppler or similar?)..

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: phigan to Bogomips on Fri May 02 2025 11:34 am

the Android based stuff beats Roku on all other functionality, IMO. Walmart has
somewhat
decent Android boxes, Onn brand, for under $20.

Thanks, I have to go to walmart this morning anyway. Not looking forward to it. EBT card weekend, and I get annoyed looking at all the buggys full of garbage food.

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: Nightfox to phigan on Fri May 02 2025 12:53 pm

Shield is that RetroArch (the console emulator) is supported on it. I've installed that with some ROMs, and I have an 8BitDo bluetooth controller I u

There's a really cool Kodi add-on for games. Not sure if it's works or not, but you can use it to pick any game and it will download it for you and run it in an emulator. It can also be told to just go out and fetch a random game.

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 02 2025 04:15 pm

though.. As the broadcast source would be constantly moving and rotating, I imagine there would be some sort of affect (doppler or similar?)..

It is still a thing with radio as with sound, but from what I understand it is more prominent with higher frequency ranges.

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: phigan to Bogomips on Fri May 02 2025 11:34 am

the Android based stuff beats Roku on all other functionality, IMO. Walmart has
somewhat
decent Android boxes, Onn brand, for under $20.

Found the Onn brand today on sale for $12. Am very pleased with it so far. What I can't stream I can always just switcht the input to my OTA anntenae <sp>.
Thanks for the heads up.

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: Bogomips to phigan on Sat May 03 2025 11:14 am

Found the Onn brand today on sale for $12. Am very pleased with it so far. W I can't stream I can always just switcht the input to my OTA anntenae <sp>.

That's awesome. Is that for the stick or the little box?

Definitely install Kodi and check out some of the add-ons for it, like the Pluto add-on that shows up like IPTV channels under the TV "tab".

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: Mortar to Nightfox on
Tue Apr 15 2025 02:10 pm

Yup. Cable had been available in my area since 1980-81.

Growing up in the '70s we could see the cable tv tower from our livingroom, but it wasn't available to our address.

Growing up in the 70's in a town of 500, cable was something we
knew existed, but that was it. :-) The few people in town (literally
could count them on one hand) that had a dish would get TBS and
such. :-)

If we went to my aunt's house in the next town, my sister and I
would go into the seldem used 'sitting room' and watch cable,
including the local cable access that was a clock in a room
with a camera that would oscilate betweeen it on one end and
one on the other end with 'advertisement' papers/flyers in
between that you could see as it went back and forth. :-)



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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: poindexter FORTRAN to phigan on Fri May 02 2025 15:03:07

...should I get rid of cable and go with AT&T Fiber.

I'd first check and see if there were any alternative providers. Probably save some bucks. 'Sides, "T&T" is part of their name, so something's gonna blow up, like their rates.

Also, have you ever thought about ditching cable TV altogether? Really, is there anything you watch on regular TV now that couldn't be watched online? Of course, you wanna keep the Net connection, which will save you a few bucks a month.

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: phigan to Nightfox on Sat May 03 2025 07:41:51

There's a really cool Kodi add-on for games. Not sure if
it's works or not...

Then how do you know it's "really cool"?

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Re: Ditching Cable
By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 04 2025 11:57 am

Also, have you ever thought about ditching cable TV altogether? Really, is there anything you watch on regular TV now that couldn't be watched online? Of course, you wanna keep the Net connection, which will save you a few bucks a month.

I don't think it's always just cable vs. online streaming. There are TV shows on over-the-air broadcast TV I watch sometimes, and I think some of it is hard to find on streaming services. One TV show I like to watch is Jeopardy, and I'm not sure if there's a streaming service that plays each new daily episode.

There are a couple other game shows I like to watch sometimes, such as Beat Shazam (music game show) and Family Feud. Similarly, I'm not sure of a streaming service that has each new daily episode.

There's also a local channel in my area that has Whose Line Is It Anyway? And there's a new season that started up in September 2024.

And of course, broadcast TV is free. It seems like broadcast TV is generally ignored by a lot of people these days, and I'm not sure why. Maybe a lot of people don't like commercials - but there are commercials on cable TV as well, and even on some streaming services. I have a DVR, so I can record the over-the-air TV shows and skip commercials if I want to. IMO, you can't beat free content. However, sometimes the over-the-air signal reception sometimes isn't great (and it seems random), which can be an issue. Much of the time, the signal is good, but occasionally the signal is bad and the recording of the show ends up looking scrambled - sometimes it's bad enough for the recording to be unwatchable, unfortunately.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: phigan to Bogomips on Sat May 03 2025 02:00 pm

That's awesome. Is that for the stick or the little box?

Definitely install Kodi and check out some of the add-ons for it, like the Pluto add-on that shows up like IPTV channels under the TV "tab".

I got the stick model and Pluto already d/l, will check kodi tomorrow. Im not used to all those choices. only had like 12 channels with the OTA to choose from.j
Thanks again

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Re: Ditching Cable
By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 04 2025 11:57 am

...should I get rid of cable and go with AT&T Fiber.

I ditched cable last year and went fiber, Now I stream stuff.
I save $90 a month roughly and the intenet is way better, 1g up and down.

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Mortar wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Also, have you ever thought about ditching cable TV altogether?
Really, is there anything you watch on regular TV now that couldn't be watched online? Of course, you wanna keep the Net connection, which
will save you a few bucks a month.

I can't find a good solution for local news, surprisingly. I only get
one channel with an HDTV antenna, have been wanting to try IPTV but
haven't had the time to play with it.



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Re: Ditching Cable
By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 04 2025 11:57 am

...should I get rid of cable and go with AT&T Fiber.

I ditched cable last year and went fiber, Now I stream stuff.
I save $90 a month roughly and the intenet is way better, 1g up and
down.

Yeahbut.... what about the channels you can no longer watch. Discovery, History, *many* sporting events, local news.... etc.



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Re: Ditching Cable
By: Denn to Mortar on Sun May 04 2025 09:17 pm

... A man walked into a library and said: "I hope you don't have a book on reverse psychology."

"I went into a book store and went to the help desk and said: I'm looking for a book called How To Handle Rejection Without Killing.... do you have it?" - Stewart Francis

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: Mortar to phigan on Sun May 04 2025 12:25 pm

for games. Not sure if
it's works or not...

Then how do you know it's "really
cool"?

Typod and missed the word "still" in
there. Not sure if it STILL works.

I've used it a few times. Not much of a
gamer, though.

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