On 10/5/2025 9:06 AM, DAITENGU wrote to RON LAUZON:

Right now, there are a good number of people who aren't getting paid to "protest" because the NGO money has dried up. Starbucks is closing. Minimum wage increases have forced many businesses to close, or automate.
I could go on, but you get the idea.

pfft, George Soros has been personally writing a check to me each week for years, just for

arguing with people on BBSes.

Just the same as people on the left saying I am paid by Israel for being Pro-Israel.


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I like the idea of keeping *one* streaming service going at a time.
rotate them around as needed since none of them are contract-based. We
had Disney+, Netflix, Acorn and BritBox, just added another called MHZ Choice, and get Peacock and HBO through my phone provider. We donate to
PBS and get their on demand service as a perk.

PBS Passport is the only "pay" service I have, so to speak. I have not
been able to watch anything on their service in nearly a year, though. I worked with my local channel, and PBS, tech support for a while and they couldn't figure it out. Called my cable company and the tech had me try a bunch of things, then suggested that I plug the PC directly into the modem, bypassing the router. That caused it to work.

I have checked the router settings and cannot figure out what in there
would be blocking anything when it comes to what I "surf," and unplugging the router from the modem in order to plug the PC in directly obviously cuts the rest of the network off from the internet. :(

I tried Peacock but it won't work on any of my equipment because it all
runs linux and apparently that runs afoul of whatever DRM scheme they have
in place. I might could have watched it on my phone, but I want to watch it
on TV so that was out.

We got rid of Disney+, Acorn, Britbox and MHZ CHoice are all similar,
I'm going to start rotating one of those around, and Netflix is about to
go. There hasn't been a lot that's excited me on there recently.

Some of my friends do the rotate thing. Some of them also use the free
trial period to binge watch whatever show(s) it is that they are interested
in, and then cancel. I have thought of doing that but I am not really into binge watching. I don't like to sit around for that long at a time.


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Re: RE: The Disney+ price hik
By: Matthew Munson to DAITENGU on Sun Oct 05 2025 10:57 am

pfft, George Soros has been personally writing a check to me each week
for years, just for

arguing with people on BBSes.

Just the same as people on the left saying I am paid by Israel for being Pro-Israel.

I actually am paid by Israel. sort of. I work for an Israeli company.

(Yes, what they're doing in Gaza is basically genocide. Most of my Israeli co-workers would agree with that statement)

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Re: Re: The Disney+ price hik
By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sun Oct 05 2025 09:36 am

PBS Passport is the only "pay" service I have, so to speak. I have
not been able to watch anything on their service in nearly a year,
though. I worked with my local channel, and PBS, tech support
for a while and they couldn't figure it out. Called my cable
company and the tech had me try a bunch of things, then suggested
that I plug the PC directly into the modem, bypassing the router.

it must be a router setting.
did you do a tracert?
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it must be a router setting.
did you do a tracert?

I did not at the time. The page does a couple of handoffs, one immediately after another, and I am not certain I would even be able to determine the address for one of them as it is the one where the failure occurs, i.e. I
don't think I see the site address it hands to.

Aside from opening an additional port or two for the BBS, I have made no changes to the router settings between the time it was working and when it stopped.


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Re: Re: The Disney+ price hik
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Mon Oct 06 2025 10:09 am

it must be a router setting.
did you do a tracert?

I did not at the time. The page does a couple of handoffs, one
immediately after another, and I am not certain I would even be able
to determine the address for one of them as it is the one where

so were you using an app on your tv to run it?
people had problems and had to update the app or reinstall.
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Dumas Walker wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

PBS Passport is the only "pay" service I have, so to speak. I have not been able to watch anything on their service in nearly a year, though.
I worked with my local channel, and PBS, tech support for a while and
they couldn't figure it out. Called my cable company and the tech had
me try a bunch of things, then suggested that I plug the PC directly
into the modem, bypassing the router. That caused it to work.

That is weird, PBS is just TLS-enabled web traffic. If you could surf
the web you should be able to get to PBS.


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PBS Passport is the only "pay" service I have, so to speak. I have not been able to watch anything on their service in nearly a year, though.
I worked with my local channel, and PBS, tech support for a while and they couldn't figure it out. Called my cable company and the tech had me try a bunch of things, then suggested that I plug the PC directly into the modem, bypassing the router. That caused it to work.

That is weird, PBS is just TLS-enabled web traffic. If you could surf
the web you should be able to get to PBS.

You'd think. I was using the local affiliate's website because the video player on the main PBS website does not play videos in any web browsers attempted (firefox, chromium, epiphany) on (my) linux systems.

The back and forth handoffs between my affiliate's Passport site, and the
PBS site, is where it would fail. I suspect they changed something on
their end regarding these handoffs but could never get anyone technical
enough who understood what that meant -- the best they could do was "log directly onto the PBS site."

If I had some sort of "parental controls" activated, I would expect that
might happen but, as the only restrictions I have set are for inbound
traffic (i.e. which ports are open for BBS traffic), it is weird.


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