Latest thing I noticed is at least with the home devices you can no longer get who/what band is playing.
It only tells you the song name. The band/artist is the primary reason I ask, not the song title.
Ya, all you have to do is install something different on every device you own/watch YouTube on.
You also, have to be technical enough to side load, or compile revanced etc... I've heard over and over that ubo keeps having updates/changes to keep yt ads down.
I actually am technical enough to do those things, but both doing and managing these various apps across multiple devices in my house is a lot of work. Or, I can just pay for the music and TV I watch.
For the record, I also have and paid for GrayJay app on my phone and do also use it on occasion. We have used smart tube TV in the past because when my son was younger Google had shit parental controls and we couldn't allow his child account to access regular yt (restricted). I've got it side loaded on both our Nvidia shield and gtv devices. Too bad it doesn't work on android TV, or my wife/sons iPhones.
I had no idea how big of a city Pompeii is. And before I hype it up too much. If I went when I was 20 I probably wouldn't have appreciated it the same as seeing it at nearly 50.
There's just a ton of interesting facts about it. The technology they had , how they handled plumbing, warming their houses, stone streets with raised crosswalks. You can see the wagon tracks worn on the stones in the streets. And standing there looking at it while understanding this was a bustling city 2000 years ago.
I guess seeing "David" was pretty surreal also.
We stayed in Rome near a subway terminal and could walk/train all over the city. Which was fun too.
I'm atheist, however still quite enjoyed walking through the Vatican.
There really is an unlimited amount of things to see there ::)
100% Pompeii. I'd go back to see the rest of it. We were there a few hours. I'd plan on spending a day there.
Rome was cool, so much history to see but Pompeii was #1 for me .
Slightly less gouging
I've got amcrest and I integrate them into HA via mqtt using blue iris.
But amcrest cameras need something like pihole to help block all their taking to the home base
Ya, my TV is actually 'smart' but I use the Nvidia shield through an AV receiver which feeds 5.1 speakers and the TV.
There are android apps (I could side load) on my Nvidia shield, but like I said I don't mind paying for something I use , and use a lot.
I can tell you why I do. I watch more YT than anything else (on my TV), and don't want to watch ads, or play cat and mouse games trying to prevent them. I also listen to a lot of music, and use YT Music. I pay for the family plan, since we all listen to music, and my son and I watch a lot of YT (very different videos on YT however :) )
I get, there's a growing group of people that think everything should be free, but I'm OK paying for something I use a lot, to remove ads. There should, however be more controls for paid users, like controlling whether or not you see creator ads, shorts, etc...
This was me :) live at about 900' flew in for work, picked up my rental Jeep and drove up to pikes peak
Didn't get sick but could walk like 5 steps at a time before needing to catch my breath. Hung out for a bit came down and went up to Longmont. Had a nice headache for a couple days.
Second trip out I skipped pikes, but also acclimated way faster. No headache, and got in some great hiking.
Would be amazing to experience this in person!