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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I managed to buy at the bottom of the interest rates, but before prices truly skyrocketed.

    Because of some other life circumstances, I ended up having to move a few months back and finances just weren’t there to hold onto it.

    Having to rent again has been the most mental health destroying financial back step I think I could have ever taken. I pocketed a nice chunk of change, but it’d only be enough for a ~5% down payment in the current town.

    Hoping to get back to owning some day, but not hopeful that that day will be soon.


  • While not the newest content, it recently caused me to find and finally watch the classics Boyz in the Hood and Training Day, and this weekend I intend to watch Vice. It was also because of Netflix that I first found the new Pussy in Boots movie, Blue-Eye Samurai, and Delicious in Dungeon (I generally loathe anime so those last two are fairly significant).

    I think Inside Job and Narcos are Netflix only content? I thoroghly enjoyed both of those (and totally understand why people hate them for canceling Inside Job). My wife enjoyed/enjoys (she’s doing a full rewatch ATM) of Orange is the New Black. The two of us also just finished binging Kim’s Convenience.

    They also just added some other big name content that were (I think?) Exclusive content on other platforms - specifically thinking Dune, Whiplash, and Joker.

    Between discovery and availability, Netflix adds value to my life in my opinion.

    100% respect for people who disagree and have contrary opinions and/or are outraged at their handling of exclusive content (ngl, I’m not happy with them canceling Inside Job). But it’s good enough for me to keep around - that, and my wife is super NOT technically inclined, and I’ve yet to find a solution outside of a standard streaming deal (read as: anything involving sailing the high seas) that meshes with her willingness to work with it.


  • This is more feel than empirical data, but Netflix feels like they’ve gotten markedly better over the last 2-3 months.

    I get the subscription as part of a membership on some other things, but would not have paid for the service the way it’s gone over the last ~2 years. That said after seeing the recent improvements, if my access to Netflix was cut off tomorrow, I’d probably shell out for the lowest non-ad tier of service.

    However, mad respect for the people out there keeping the P2P/torrenting communities alive.

    Edit: spelling errors