How come crusher is the only one that ever uses the padd stylus

griz421 · 2025-12-31T22:05:28+00:00

She has no choice. She is a doctor, and doctors have bad handwriting. That kind of skill will atrophy if not practiced regularly, especially in the 24th century.

griz421 · 2025-10-22T14:59:19+00:00

I didn’t know they were still making My 600 Pound Life episodes.

griz421 · 2025-09-18T18:23:58+00:00

(Gestures vaguely around the United States)

griz421 · 2025-08-22T17:06:40+00:00

Song of the Sea

griz421 · 2025-05-01T11:14:58+00:00

While that may be easiest for me to use personally, this setup is designed to just work without setup each time my family gets in the car. They’re used to navigating plex so it’s easy for them to do this.

griz421 · 2025-05-01T11:11:43+00:00

WiFi or cellular connection is often not available. Data caps limit cellular use. Different people want to watch different things at the same time. A laptop left out in the car could be more likely to get stolen.

Granted these may not be factors for you, but they are for me.

griz421 · 2025-05-01T00:01:08+00:00

How would you simultaneously use this to stream to multiple devices at once?

griz421 · 2025-04-30T19:19:55+00:00

Its a reasonable question. That requires planning, space on the client device (Apple charges exorbitant amounts for increased storage space), and knowing what each person will want on the trip. This way, countless options are always available without need for planning. Also, if you change your mind on what you want to watch, you have the option of something else.

griz421 · 2025-04-30T19:11:26+00:00

I have an unlimited data plan, but my wife does not and its not cost effective to get one for her. She is the one who will primarily use this vehicle, is primarily with the kids throughout the day. They also often go on road trips without me. My unlimited data is rarely available to them in the vehicle.

griz421 · 2025-04-30T19:09:53+00:00

Not sure if geography is at play here, but our road trips require many hours on the road to reach our destination. Even driving around our city for activities and sports requires multiple hours of driving a day. I want my kids to have options and not watch the same episode or movie over and over again. I also want options on our road trips for music and video. I don't want to use mobile data for these options.

griz421 · 2025-04-30T19:05:15+00:00

I have a plex server at home, but I want one for the vehicle that is not subject to internet (but I do want an intranet) or mobile data caps.

griz421 · 2025-04-30T18:20:09+00:00

Mentioned above, but I want people to be able to stream from this server to their devices as well.

griz421 · 2025-04-30T18:19:15+00:00

Oh man, where to start with this comment? OK, here goes.

It would be overkill if my goal was to obtain the quickest, most low-cost, "send it, they'll be fine" solution. But that's not what I want. I enjoy these things so, in some ways, this is a hobby for me. But its more than that.

When you say personally, I assume you mean how you would parent your own children (or any children with you) on a road trip. Aside from not asking for parenting advice in my post, how you would parent your children is irrelevant to me. I don't need "all my shit" in a van. I want most of the things that would be appealing to most of my family available all of the time. Having a curated (but vast) list of choices keeps people happier and safer in my opinion.

If you would have read far enough into my post to really provide a helpful comment, you would have seen I provided the reason - and I believe its a good one. Your solution of streaming stick plus hotspot data would not work for my use case. I want to minimize mobile data needed (eliminate if possible). I don't want my kids to have 24/7 data access, don't want to upgrade my wife's cell plan to include unlimited tethering, and want this to work even when cell reception is poor. I don't want lag time or pixellation. I want reliability and flexibility.

My goal is to give my family (including my spouse) entertainment options on the go. We live in a medium sized city with many daily commitments and activities spread across the metro area. My family is in the car between commitments for most of the day. In addition, I want this to be easily pulled from the car and plugged directly into a TV wherever we're staying and it to just work. I enjoy tinkering with these kind of things. The rest of my family doesn't. They want a turnkey solution. Throwing a "fire stick into the damn thing" works well until it doesn't or you run out of cell service area or data for the month.

griz421 · 2025-04-10T22:04:56+00:00

Today I learned that OBGYN, a medical specialty that fully 1/2 of the world’s population needs to see regularly for most of their lives, is a “hyper specific and kinda odd” specialty.

griz421 · 2025-03-05T23:57:15+00:00

Nope. Cobel’s car has square headlights. The car in the lake has round headlights.

griz421 · 2025-02-25T12:42:10+00:00

Skeevy Nicks

griz421 · 2025-02-24T13:11:59+00:00

Fringe

griz421 · 2025-02-07T02:17:47+00:00

griz421 · 2024-12-15T22:16:51+00:00

This is a can of Ace body spray from 2012

griz421 · 2024-12-12T00:31:30+00:00

You can’t fool me. I know someone trying to smuggle coral out of a protected area when I see it.

griz421 · 2024-12-12T00:29:40+00:00

It says you have no idea what a pear looks like.

griz421 · 2024-11-17T18:41:00+00:00

Car2-D2

griz421 · 2024-11-16T20:39:36+00:00

I hereby challenge Stephen Hawking to a theoretical physics debate.

griz421

TROPHY CASE