American TV commercials are viscerally disturbing to me at this point.

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American TV commercials are viscerally disturbing to me at this point.

I got a TiVo like 20 years ago and got used to skipping them, and have been doing only ad-free streaming for about 15 years.

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@ryanc I think I lost count how many life time service subscriptions I purchased for TiVos over the years. I basically had two (or more) of each kind for OTA/Cable starting from the Series 1 up to the Series 4.

Fucking love them. And I'm moving into an area without CableTV and I discovered an oooooold series 4 I own (but never activated service on) can't be activated.

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@xabean I only ever had a series 1 that I modded the shit out of, but it was nice.

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@ryanc yeah, the prom hacks, and TiVoApp hacks were nice.

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@ryanc the funny thing is I actually met someone in meatspace after they laughed their ass off at me from destroying a $800 TiVo with a radioshack soldering iron, trying to desolder the prom. I lifted *so* many pads. It was horrific.

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@xabean The only hardware hack I ever did was installing the semi-officially supported ethernet card.

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@ryanc ne2k ISA cards were like GOLD then, man I'd nearly forgotten about that mod.

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@xabean my recollection is that ne2000 was widely despised, though supported everywhere

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@xabean Looked it up, apparently the Linux driver was just kinda dodgy.

I remember when you could get rtl8139 cards for like $10 though, it was amazing.