I kinda do this, except I don't pick it up. I'm just sick and tired of having useless junk lying around, so when I see something I want I consider if I'm actually going to use it or if it will just be relegated to a drawer somewhere. If I haven't been missing it (ie. it's an impulse purchase) I will almost always just leave it be and move on. I don't need all this junk.

If it is something I decide I need, then I consider if it should be this thing, or if I should try to find a good quality version instead, since what I usually find is in the supermarket where it's almost universally cheap junk. That also grants me more time to decide that no, I don't need this thing after all.

Now that multiple people have mentioned Serenity I feel I need to mention Peacekeeper Wars as the wrap-up for Farscape. It was basically two seasons crammed into three hours, so it was somewhat rushed, but it wrapped up the show nicely and is a great watch!

What does the potato look like to you?

It's just a matter of what it is. The end product is still garbage, but to me enshittification is the process of making the platform worse by one way or another monetising the users, like adding ads and promoting content that while not in the interest of the users will retain them (such as ragebait on Faceboo). In this case they make the content worse because they believe it will attract customers.

Which Lion King characters though? Did she elaborate what the ai had told her?

I run it off my Home Assistant. The images are stored on my Western Digital MyCloud EX2 Ultra (which is kinda crap, but works) on a RAID1 volume, which is mirrored onto a similar NAS in the other end of the house. Ideally it should be off-site, but I haven't been able to find a good spot yet.

I'm not sure that's really enshittification. It's not so much a way to deteriorate the service to make money as it is an attempt to accommodate the habits of the viewers. I totally agree that we're getting super bad content that's only mildly entertaining if you're doing 2-3 other things while watching, but that's the demographic they believe they have.

2026.2 broke Marantz receiver integration. This sounds like a small thing but I use it extensively when playing music. Anyway, within a day it was patched and will be rolled out in 2026.2.1. Such a great response!

Sorry, the Nvidia Shield. It's super old, but still best in class.

I'm self hosting Immich. I honestly get much better results from their search than I do from Google photos. It's not quite as mature, but it's definitely good enough!

90% sounds low...

Kodi running on an (old) Nvidia Shield Pro, reading from a NAS via dlnr. This works nicely and I don't get any quality degradation... Except for HDR+ which the shield doesn't support and I was stupid and bought a Samsung TV, which is bad for numerous reasons, but also this one.

And of course, we are now closing in on the decade since it was released, and still no viable replacement.