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Me too

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Me too, but you could pause it and it would load the whole video. Now pausing it only loads the next little bit and there is no way (probably is some way I'm not familiar with) to have it download and not buffer anymore.

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CALM DOWN

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If you use the entire length of an American football field endzone to endzone that is accurate. However, most people would use the length excluding the endzones which is 100 yards. Which would make it

100 yards = 91440 mm
91440 mm / 9 mm = 1/10160 of a football field

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This guy actually owns his technology.

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Like others in the thread my smart devices only talk to locally hosted home assistant. I use a few automations to make things easier. My favourite is being able to run open garage door while approaching my house. It opens the garage door and unlocks the door from the garage to the house. I could manually do these steps but it is nice to be able to carry whatever directly from the car to the house without needing to unlock the door.

The other nice one is automating the holiday lights. I would forget to turn them on or off regularly. Since adding the automation they turned on every evening and off around bedtime every night. I have used one of those light sensor units in the past, but it would often get covered in snow and stop working until I remembered to brush it off.

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Did that earlier

Not only does this happen with TV/movies I get it with everything. Whether or not I'm trying to pay attention.

The worst is being unable to process a word or two when someone is talking. I've tried all sorts of strategies, almost always the person talking restarts from the beginning and I cannot process the exact same bit. I've asked a speech pathologist I was seeing about it. She had not heard of it and said she couldn't find anything the next week either.

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AAAAAAAAAAHH

They look great but, aside from canadian geese, are some of the most aggressive birds I've come across. Once while running on a regularly used pavement path one came and attacked my head. Another time on a different way more well used walking path over a marsh I was repeatedly dive bombed and screamed at to the point I yelled back, "I'M ALLOWED HERE TOO!" Which of course did nothing to help.