This is in no particular order btw and I’m only halfway through episode 4;

1. Lauren is trying to hard to be the villain and she would actually be likeable if she didn’t play so hard on the ‘I’m BFFs with Daniel aspect
   
2. Olivia is a voice of reason and rational. Love her style and she brings a semblance of normalcy to the cast. She’s also just a super nice person in general
   
3. Rasa told no lies about Lauren - she could’ve waited till after the viewing but she ain’t say nothing wrong. She’s my star of the show and I’ll ride for her every single day 😭
   
4. Daniel can go kick rocks. No need to expand. I actually liked him in the first episode too
   
5. Reme, make your money sis and run far away from Daniel - I don’t trust the geezer and he will betray her the first chance he can
   
6. Oli… sir… do better or should I say, ACT better. Avia played the jealous wife amazingly tho, props to her. Side note: she is a STUNNER 😍
   
7. Rosi is the perfect balance of fun, being a serious business babe but also a pot stirrer 🤣 perfect reality tv combo imo
   
8. Julianna… I don’t know if I like or dislike her yet LOL she’s fun and cute but at the same time, chaos revolves around her. Great to watch tho
   

Looking forward to the rest of the season but I also see a lot of potential for this as a series….

Rockies @ Athletics - Thu, May 23

Game Status: Scheduled - First Pitch is scheduled for 12:37 PM PDT

Links & Info

• Venue: Oakland Coliseum
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ALW Rank	Team	W	L	GB (E#)	WC Rank	WC GB (E#)
1	Seattle Mariners	27	23	- (-)	-	- (-)
2	Texas Rangers	24	26	3.0 (110)	6	2.5 (111)
3	Houston Astros	22	28	5.0 (108)	9	4.5 (109)
4	Los Angeles Angels	20	30	7.0 (106)	10	6.5 (107)
5	Oakland Athletics	20	31	7.5 (105)	11	7.0 (106)

	Probable Pitcher (Season Stats)	Report
Rockies	Ryan Feltner (1-4, 5.69 ERA, 49.0 IP)	No report posted.
Athletics	Joey Estes (1-1, 9.35 ERA, 8.2 IP)	No report posted.

Division Scoreboard

SEA @ NYY 09:35 AM PDT
TEX @ PHI 10:05 AM PDT
^{Posted: 05/23/2024 06:00:00 AM PDT}

I’ve been thinking about the unique charm of Spanish horror films and whether any of them should be remade in Hollywood. Spanish horror often combines atmospheric tension with deep storytelling, making them unforgettable. But could Hollywood remakes do them justice?
The Orphanage comes to mind—its blend of supernatural elements and emotional depth could resonate widely if remade carefully. And while [Rec] already got a Hollywood version with Quarantine, there are plenty of other gems to consider like some these ones: https://creepybonfire.com/horrortainment/tv-and-films/best-spanish-horror-movies-films-that-chill-and-thrill
Of course, there’s a risk of losing the essence that makes these films special, while Spanish horror dive deep into local folklore and cultural nuances that Hollywood might miss, turning profound psychological horror into just another jump scare fest...which would be a disaster!
But still, with the right director and cast, some Spanish horror films could truly shine in Hollywood. Imagine Guillermo del Toro revisiting The Devil’s Backbone or an American take on Julia’s Eyes.
What do you think? Are there any Spanish horror films you’d love to see Hollywood tackle?

Hi FortiPeople
One of our internal departments have requested the ability to be able to stream video and audio from smart devices such as Android phones/tablets and iPhones, to wireless speakers and smart TVs supporting Chromecast.
Setup looks like this at the moment; Fortigate 500E with FortiOS 7.0.15 FortiWLC-200D with software 8.5-2 FortiAP FAP-U-321's running matching software with controller Dedicated VLAN configured in the FortiGate, spread to all FortiSwitches through FortiLink This particular VLAN is set to IGMP Snooping ON and does NOT block intra-VLAN traffic. In FortiWLC the ESS Profile for this is configured as Dataplance Mode: Tunneled and Configured VLAN Only, matching the VLAN on the FortiGate. We have enabled Allow Multicast Flag and Multicast-to-Unicast Conversion.
So far so good. Clients are getting IP addresses from the VLANs DHCP and can communicate according to Firewall Policies.
The issue we're having is that the devices cannot use features like "casting" to an Android TV with built-in Chromecast.
I wanted to humbly ask this forum if anyone has an idea about what we could be missing in the setup to make this work?
BR pZ

DUBAI

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• The Real Housewives of Johannesburg canned 'via email with no explanation'' (News 24)

Links to this week's episode discussion posts:

• VPR S11E17🍸
• The Valley S1E10 🏘️
• RHONJ S14E3 🍝

Theme Month: "Anomaly of the Week, Part I"

Episodes in which the crew encounter or are impacted by some sort of spatial anomaly.

Episode: "Parallax" - VOY, 103

Airdate: January 23, 1995

Teleplay by Brannon Braga; Directed by Kim Friedman
Brief summary: "Investigating an apparent distress call, Voyager becomes trapped inside the event horizon of a quantum singularity."
Background: The story came from Jim Trombetta, a staff writer on both DS9 and VOY. Prior to those shows, he wrote for Miami Vice, The Flash, and The War of the Worlds. Brannon Braga joined the franchise during pre-production for TNG's fourth season, eventually writing, co-writing, or creating the story for 109 episodes of TNG, VOY, and ENT, plus two films. Post-Trek, Braga has worked on Threshold, 24, Cosmos, The Orville, and more.
Kim Friedman had a lengthy career in television directing with work on episodes of Alice, Dynasty, The Love Boat, Babylon 5, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and more. She directed ten episodes of DS9 and VOY.
Guest cast: Martha Hackett appeared as Seska in thirteen episodes of VOY. She also played a Romulan in two episodes of DS9 after having lost the role of Jadzia Dax to Terry Farrell. Outside the franchise, she appeared in Hill Street Blues, Touched by an Angel, Never Been Kissed, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and more.
Josh Clark played Joe Carey in seven episodes of VOY after having first appeared as a tactical officer in the TNG episode "Justice." Outside of Trek, he appeared in episodes of Cheers, LA Law, True Detective and Westworld.
Crewman Jarvin is played by Justin Williams. He also appeared in films and TV shows such as Dante's Peak, Flight of the Intruder, The X-Files, Babylon 5, and more.
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If I cast a playlist or album to AppleTV or my Bose speaker, it won’t play the next track. It plays fine when in my car. Is there a setting I need to change or is this a glitch?

Ecco tutto quello che sappiamo attualmente sulla seconda stagione della serie tv remake live-action di One Piece.
Quando potrebbe uscire la stagione 2 di One Piece? Dopo le ultime novità sul cast di One Piece, proviamo a fare il punto della situazione sui prossimi episodi della serie tv remake live-action di Netflix.
Prosegui la lettura

Scoprite tutto ciò che dovete sapere sulla quarta stagione di The Witcher, la famosa serie tv fantasy di Netflix.
Dopo la pubblicazione del primo teaser trailer di The Witcher 4 arrivata questa settimana da Netflix, facciamo il punto della situazione sulla prossima stagione della famosa serie tv fantasy.
Prosegui la lettura

I have a mi q1 tv and today morning when I switched it on, it is showing only a black screen with a backlight nothing comes on tv. I tried casting a youtube video and sound comes but no picture. Is this because the screen had broken down. Do I nee to replace the screen or is there is any other fix?
I tried contacting mi customer care but all of their numbers aren't working. Can anyone help me out with a number that works.

This post is long overdue as I just kept procrastinating to do this for the longest, but finally, it's here.
The start is kind of tricky to figure out but the end is very easy. The start is most likely going to be with Richard Nixon's inauguration on January 20, 1969 and the end will be the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973. I know early-mid 1969 does kind of seem like a stretch to include the transition (although some are even willing to start the 1970s in 1968, so maybe not a stretch after all), unlike late 1969-1972/early 1973ish, as that period still screamed "60s" in many ways with Woodstock, the Moon Landing, and such, but I think even that period had enough "70s" things to exclude it out of the "core '60s" territory, especially by the time you hit the summer of '69.
I know most will disagree with the timespan but this is just my opinion. This is gonna be much longer so this will probably be done in two or three parts, one again.
Let's begin.
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The inauguration of Richard Nixon - January 20, 1969

After the chaotic year that was 1968, with the incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson not running for a second time, Richard M. Nixon had narrowly defeated Hubert Humphrey, the incumbent vice president, in the presidential election. Nixon became the first non-incumbent vice president to be inaugurated as president, something that would not happen again until Joe Biden in 2021. I'd say this is appropriate to begin the transition into the tumultuous decade that was the 1970s.
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Sly and the Family Stone's 'Stand' album releases - April 1969

In the spring of '69, soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone released their fourth album Stand. Written and produced by lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, Stand! is considered an artistic high-point of the band's career. Released by Epic Records, just before the group's celebrated performance at the Woodstock festival, it became the band's most commercially successful album to date. This album was another sign of the 70s era that was beginning to emerge with its soul and funk rock sound.
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Lew Alcindor becomes the #1 pick for the NBA Draft - April 7, 1969

The 1969 NBA draft was the 23rd annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on April 7 and May 7, 1969, before the 1969–70 season. The first overall draft pick this year would be none other than Lew Alcindor (or later, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, as we all know him as) from UCLA for the Milwaukee Bucks organization. This would be the changing of the guard for the National Basketball Association as the veteran Boston Celtics dynasty were about to come to an end while a new dynasty has officially been born.
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The Boston Celtics win the 1969 NBA Championship - May 5, 1969

After defeating the highly-favored Los Angeles Lakers team of Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, and Jerry West, the aging Bill Russell-led Boston Celtics team win the 1969 NBA World Championship Series to end off the 1968-1969 NBA season, acquiring win their 11th championship as an organization. This was a significant Finals series as this marked the end of the Bill Russell Celtics dynasty that began in 1956. This would be their final championship as a team as Russell would retire shortly after this playoff series.
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Star Trek ends with the "Turnabout Intruder" episode - June 3, 1969

"Turnabout Intruder" is the twenty-fourth and final episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Arthur H. Singer (based on a story by Gene Roddenberry) and directed by Herb Wallerstein, it was first broadcast on June 3, 1969. In the episode, a woman switches bodies with Captain Kirk and then tries to take over command of the Enterprise. This was the last original episode of Star Trek to air on NBC.
"Turnabout Intruder" not only marked the final appearance of all main and supporting cast members of the show but also the last appearance of regular background actors David L. Ross (Lieutenant Galloway), William Blackburn (Lieutenant Hadley and DeForest Kelley's stand-in), and Roger Holloway (Lieutenant Lemli and James Doohan's stand-in). The episode drew Nielsen ratings of only 8.8, in contrast to rival shows Lancer on CBS and The Mod Squad on ABC, which gained ratings of 14.7 and 15.2 respectively, a drop of over fifty percent since the show premiered. Cultural theorist Cassandra Amesley states that this episode is "agreed to be one of the worst Star Trek episodes ever shown" by Star Trek fans.
The original Star Trek series ending would be another shedding off of 60s culture.
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Brian Jones dies - July 3, 1969

Rolling Stones star Brian Jones passes away at the age of 27 in the summer of 1969 after reportedly drowning in his swimming pool. Long story short, a lot of theories would surface surrounding his death years later saying that he was killed. And more importantly, this would be the beginning of the "27 Club" deaths that would occur with 60s musical acts between 1969 and 1971.
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The Apollo 11 spaceflight to the moon - July 20, 1969

Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and they spent about two and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing.
Humans walking on the Moon and returning safely to Earth accomplished Kennedy's goal set eight years earlier. In Mission Control during the Apollo 11 landing, Kennedy's speech flashed on the screen, followed by the words "TASK ACCOMPLISHED, July 1969". The success of Apollo 11 demonstrated the United States' technological superiority; and with the success of Apollo 11, America had won the Space Race.
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The Manson Family murders - August 8 to 10, 1969

The Tate–LaBianca murders were a series of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family during August 9–10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, United States, under the direction of Tex Watson and Charles Manson. The perpetrators killed five people on the night of August 8–9: pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her companions Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski, along with Steven Parent. The following evening, the Family also murdered supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, at their home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.
On the night of August 8–9, four members of the Manson Family – Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian – drove from Spahn Ranch to 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, the home of Sharon Tate and her husband, film director Roman Polanski. The group murdered Tate (who was 8½ months pregnant), and guests Jay Sebring, a celebrity hairdresser; Abigail Folger, heiress to Folgers Coffee; her boyfriend Wojciech Frykowski, an aspiring screenwriter; and Steven Parent, an 18-year-old visiting the guest house caretaker. Roman Polanski was not home as he was working on a film in Europe. Manson was a cult leader and aspiring musician who had tried to get a contract with record producer Terry Melcher, who had previously rented the house.
The following night, those four people, in addition to Manson, Leslie Van Houten and Steve "Clem" Grogan, committed two more murders. Manson had allegedly said he would "show them how to do it". Linda Kasabian drove the group to 3301 Waverly Drive. Manson left with Atkins, Grogan, and Kasabian in the car and told the others to hitchhike back to the ranch. Watson, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten killed the couple in the early morning hours of August 10.
The Tate–LaBianca murders "profoundly shook America's perception of itself" and "effectively sounded the death knell of '60s counterculture". Additionally, the ritualistic nature of the murders laid a foundation for the rise of the Satanic panic.
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The Woodstock festival - August 15 to 18, 1969

Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted more than 460,000 attendees. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite overcast and sporadic rain. It was one of the largest music festivals in history and became synonymous with the counterculture of the 1960s.
The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as a defining event for the Silent and Baby Boomer generations. The event's significance was reinforced by a 1970 documentary film, an accompanying soundtrack album, and a song written by Joni Mitchell that became a major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort.
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premieres on CBS - September 13, 1969

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is an American animated comedy television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning cartoon schedule on September 13, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of a long-running media franchise primarily consisting of animated series, several films, and related merchandise. This show played a huge impact on Generation X "70s kid" culture (although the original 1969-1970 series has a 60s vibe to it as well).
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The Brady Bunch premieres on ABC - September 26, 1969

The Brady Bunch was a new series that premiered on ABC for the 1969-70 fall season. It starts with the episode "The Honeymoon", which gives this description on Fandom:
"Michael Brady, an architect and widower with three sons (Greg, Peter and Bobby) marries Carol Ann Martin, a mother with three daughters (Marcia, Jan and Cindy). Mike and Carol have a chaotic backyard wedding, in which the boys' dog, Tiger, chases the girls' cat, Fluffy. Mike and Carol admonish their children, yelling at them to go catch their pets. The newlywed couple goes on a honeymoon later that day, while the children sit at home thinking that their parents hate them. While on their honeymoon, Mike and Carol realize that they were too hard on their children, and they decide to bring them along on the honeymoon. They also bring along Alice (the housekeeper), Tiger and Fluffy."
This show would give another huge sign to 70s culture as a whole.
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Sesame Street debuts - November 10, 1969

In the fall of 1969, “Sesame Street,” a pioneering TV show that would teach generations of young children the alphabet and how to count, makes its broadcast debut. “Sesame Street,” with its memorable theme song (“Can you tell me how to get/How to get to Sesame Street”), went on to become the most widely viewed children’s program in the world. It has aired in more than 120 countries.
The show was the brainchild of Joan Ganz Cooney, a former documentary producer for public television. Cooney’s goal was to create programming for preschoolers that was both entertaining and educational. She also wanted to use TV as a way to help underprivileged 3- to 5- year-olds prepare for kindergarten. “Sesame Street” was set in a fictional New York neighborhood and included ethnically diverse characters and positive social messages.
Taking a cue from “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,” a popular 1960s variety show, “Sesame Street” was built around short, often funny segments featuring puppets, animation and live actors. This format was hugely successful, although over the years some critics have blamed the show and its use of brief segments for shrinking children’s attention spans.
From the show’s inception, one of its most-loved aspects has been a family of puppets known as Muppets. Joan Ganz Cooney hired puppeteer Jim Henson (1936-1990) to create a cast of characters that became Sesame Street institutions, including Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Grover and Big Bird.
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The 'David Bowie' album releases - November 14, 1969

Originally released in the UK, David Bowie's self-titled album would be his second studio album released, which would be titled under the genres of folk rock and psychedelic rock. Space rock was another genre that this album experimented with due to its only released single "Space Oddity", which came out in July 1969 to capitalize on the Apollo 11 Moon landing, received critical praise, and was used by the BBC as background music during its coverage of the event. That song is considered to be one of the most musically complex songs he had written up to that point, it represented a change from the music hall-influenced sound of his debut to a sound akin to psychedelic folk and inspired by the Bee Gees.
David Bowie has received mixed reviews in later decades, with many finding a lack of cohesiveness. Bowie himself later stated that it lacked musical direction. Debate continues as to whether it should stand as Bowie's first "proper" album.
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The Altamont Free Concert takes place - December 6, 1969

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway outside of Tracy, California. Approximately 300,000 attended the concert, with some anticipating that it would be a "Woodstock West". The Woodstock festival had taken place in Bethel, New York, in mid-August, almost four months earlier.
The event is remembered for its use of Hells Angels as security and its significant violence, including the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter and three accidental deaths: two from a hit-and-run car accident, and one from a drowning incident in an irrigation canal. Scores were injured, numerous cars were stolen (and subsequently abandoned), and there was extensive property damage.
The concert featured performances (in order of appearance) by Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY), with the Rolling Stones taking the stage as the final act. The Grateful Dead were also scheduled to perform after CSNY, but shortly before their scheduled appearance, they chose not to due to the increasing violence at the venue. "That's the way things went at Altamont—so badly that the Grateful Dead, the prime organizers and movers of the festival, didn't even get to play," wrote staff at Rolling Stone magazine in a detailed narrative on the event, terming it, in an additional follow-up piece, "rock and roll's all-time worst day, December 6th, a day when everything went perfectly wrong."
Many people would mark this event to be the end of the cultural 60s.
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The 'Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5' album releases - December 12, 1969

Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 is the debut studio album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band the Jackson 5, released on the Motown label on December 12, 1969. The Jackson 5's lead singer, a preadolescent Michael Jackson and his four older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon, became pop successes within months of this album's release. Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5's only single, "I Want You Back", became a number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 within weeks of the album's release. The album reached number 5 on the US Pop Albums chart, and spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the US R&B/Black Albums charts. To date, the Jackson 5's debut album has sold estimated 5 million copies worldwide.
If none of the events that described previously had transitioned us into the 70s to any of you, then this certainly did.
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MAS*H releases in theaters - January 25, 1970

M*A*S*H (stylized on-screen as MASH) is a 1970 American dark war comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr., based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. The picture is the only theatrically released feature film in the M*A*S*H franchise.
The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. It stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy, and in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson. Although the Korean War is the film's storyline setting, the subtext is the Vietnam War – a current event at the time the film was made. Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, who saw the film in college, said M*A*S*H was "perfect for the times, the cacophony of American culture was brilliantly reproduced onscreen".
M*A*S*H became one of the biggest films of the early 1970s for 20th Century-Fox and is now considered one of the greatest films ever made and also won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, later named the Palme d'Or, at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
This film was a another huge sign of 70s culture as it inspired the television series M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972 to 1983. Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly, was the only actor playing a major character who appeared in both the movie and the TV series. Altman despised the TV series, calling it "the antithesis of what we were trying to do" with the movie.
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Paul McCartney announces his break from the Beatles - April 10, 1970

On April 10, 1970, when promoting the release of his forthcoming solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he is taking a break from the Beatles, the legendary rock band he had been a part of for a decade. It wasn't that much of a surprise. The Beatles spent the better part of three years breaking up in the late 1960s—and even longer than that hashing out who did what and why. By the spring of 1970, there was little more than a tangled set of business relationships keeping the group together. Each of the Beatles was pursuing his musical interests outside of the band, and there were no plans in place to record together as a group. But as far as the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs. No one had yet gone on the record with a definitive break-up statement. Paul, for his part, hedged his bets.
By year’s end, Paul would file suit to dissolve the Beatles’ business partnership, a formal process that would eventually make official the unofficial breakup he announced on this day in 1970.
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The Kent State Massacre - May 4, 1970

In the spring of 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics.
In The Ends of Power, Haldeman (1978) states that the shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration. Beyond the direct effects of the May 4, the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep political and social divisions that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
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Jimi Hendrix passes away - September 18, 1970

On September 18, 1970, American musician Jimi Hendrix died in London at the age of 27. One of the 1960s' most influential guitarists, he was described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."
Hendrix's death was reportedly due to him aspirating on his own vomit, later dying of asphyxia, while intoxicated with barbiturates. At the inquest, the coroner, finding no evidence of suicide, and lacking sufficient evidence of the circumstances, recorded an open verdict. Dannemann stated that Hendrix had taken nine of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage.
Jimi Hendrix's death was another huge blow to 60s culture and he would be another number added to the new "27 Club" list of celebrities that would continue with none other than.....
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Janis Joplin passes away - October 4, 1970

On Sunday evening, October 4, 1970, Joplin was found dead on the floor of her room at the Landmark Motor Hotel by her road manager and close friend John Byrne Cooke. Alcohol was present in the room. Newspapers reported that no other drugs or paraphernalia were present.
According to a 1983 book authored by Joseph DiMona and Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi, evidence of narcotics was removed from the scene by a friend of Joplin and later put back after the person realized that an autopsy was going to reveal that narcotics were in her system. The book adds that prior to Joplin's death, Noguchi had investigated other fatal drug overdoses in Los Angeles where friends believed they were doing favors for decedents by removing evidence of narcotics, then they "thought things over" and returned to put back the evidence.
Noguchi performed an autopsy on Joplin and determined the cause of death to be a heroin overdose, possibly compounded by alcohol.
Joplin's death, just like Hendrix's, was a huge blow to the more optimistic culture of the 1960s, and the 27 Club list of celebrity deaths are continuing.
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Other events that also had an impact that happened around this time period (give/take) that I could not fit on this list:

• Richard Nixon wins the presidential election, defeating incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace (November 5, 1968)
• Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower passes away (March 28, 1969)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival's hit single "Fortunate Son" releases (October 1969), which was arguably the quintessential Vietnam War song.
• Pink Floyd's fourth album Ummagumma releases (November 7, 1969)

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And this will conclude the first part of this transition. Stay tuned for the second part to this.
I hope you enjoyed it and I would appreciate it if you would comment on these.

Strap in, cause this one's a doozy. I wouldn't believe it myself, if I hadn't lived through it. Cast: me (obvious), Ex (my ex-boyfriend)
So, I was 28 when I met Ex and was recently recovering from a severe depression caused by an abusive “friendship”. Ex was still attending college and is in his (now our) local military. During the six months we “long distance dated”, most of our time was spent chatting, playing games online together, and watching TV shows together (we’d use one of our ipads and would facetime so the other could watch as well). I was terrified to go back to college, but did for this guy.
After busting my butt forty hours a week and working myself to the bone for five months, I moved out across the country to be with my man. Things were great for a few months, with us going on in-person dates now and both of us felt like we were on cloud nine. For the most part I was happy with how things were going, and so was Ex. We had even been discussing marriage, and he kept insisting that he would propose to me as soon as his family had “sorted themselves out”.
I won’t go into details about his family situation, that’s his business not mine. I’ll leave it at this: since the death of his father, Ex felt that stepping up and taking the place of his late father is “his responsibility as the most mature sibling” (his words, not mine). This is important later.
So, we’d set two tentative wedding dates, both of which got rescheduled at the insistence of Ex's mother and siblings. After the second one, I saw a pattern start to emerge, and wasn’t happy with it. More and more, Ex started backing out of commitments for various family-related things and/or school stuff. I kept hearing “I’m busy with classes”, “my siblings need me”, and things like that. Ex always promised he’d make it up to me, but he rarely did. It had gotten to the point that I was literally asking for one hour a week with him, which is 1/168 of his time for each week – and, as you can probably guess, he didn’t.
For those who don’t know what the love languages are, I’ll sum them up: Spoken Word, Physical Touch, Gift-giving, Acts of Service, and Time Spent Together. My two primaries are Time and Touch, so you can probably see what Jerk's actions were telling me: that I don’t matter, that he couldn’t be bothered with me. Before I moved across the country, he would always call me beautiful and shower me with verbal affections and we were lovey-dovey with our words, so I thought Spoken Word was his love language.
Skipping ahead to March 2023 – after the second time he backed out of wedding date.
Due to a stomach flu, I'd opted to take a hot shower and sat down afterwards due to feeling dizzy. I didn't think much of it at the time due to how tired I was from all the vomiting. However, after sitting down, I fell the rest of the way and was unable to move on my own, to the point that I could barely reach my phone near me. I tried calling Ex for five minutes, until I realized my phone battery was about to die. So, I called my mom across the country to see if she could reach out to him. Soon after I told her what happened, I blacked out. I’m in and out of it for a while, shivering helplessly on the bathroom floor and also trying not to puke my guts out (again, had a stomach flu).
I later learned (after a few more similar episodes while healthy) that this was one of six variations of seizures and that I'm now prone to them. And yes, having a seizure in the middle of fighting off a stomach bug is extremely painful.
The next solid memory I had after my first seizure was of the door unlocking, and me calling out for help. I didn’t care who it was, only that someone had come to my rescue. To my surprise, the people entering weren’t my man at all, but my new roommate and one of my best friends. They helped me get dressed and warmed up, which was their first priority. While they did so, they listened in horror as I told them what happened – though, to be fair, we didn’t know I was prone to seizures back then. Then, when they asked what time this happened, I told them the approximate time I’d called my mother.
Turns out, I’d been on the bathroom floor for two hours by the time they’d arrived. What was more, I later learned that that dizzy spell was all the warning I would get prior to a seizure. Not fun, and I've been very lucky to have a dog that's unofficially trained to alert me to one hitting. She's been a very good girl, and has even alerted me to a seizure hitting when I felt no warning signs or any kind of stress. With doggo's help and warnings, I haven't been badly hurt by a seizure yet due to already being seated or lying down when they hit.
Anyways, back to ex-boyfriend.
Ex, when they called him, didn’t answer the first few times. He refused to come help, citing he was helping watch his underage siblings (the two youngest were ages 9 and 15 at the time). His other siblings that were of age were home, but couldn’t be bothered to help. Perhaps the most painful part of the situation was that I could hear him playing video games in the background throughout the phone call. What was almost as hurtful was the way I would choke out his name desperately for reassurance, and all Ex would say was “I’m watching my siblings, I can’t come help you”. At that point, I just wanted to hear reassurances from Ex that I would be alright, not have him there with me now that help had arrived. After everything was resolved with the seizure-illness combo, I told him such, and he shrugged it off citing that "you're okay now, so it all worked out".
Finally, in august of 2023, I’d had enough. We’d been scheduling a date together for three months so that we could have some time together, just the two of us. Ex backed out of that with less than three hours’ notice with the same excuses of needing to help his family. The trip to the fair we’d been planning on visiting together was cancelled, much to my dismay. When I heard he had taken his siblings to the fair instead, I’d finally lost all patience I’d had with his family and the situation that they hadn’t solved in nearly six years.
I admit, after a year of hearing the same excuses on repeat from Ex, I lost my temper and went off on his mother. I was hurt, frustrated, and didn’t understand why I wasn’t “good enough” for their family. I desperately wanted answers after a year of the same excuses repeatedly, and went off on her in the hopes of finally being heard. I ranted to her about my frustrations, and tried to demand information about why Ex kept cancelling out dates to be with her other children. To her immense credit, his mother stayed calm about the whole thing, and told me that she didn’t know what was going on in his head with that either. She explained what she did know and filled me in on why she was always so busy. Though still hurt and no closer to having answers, I apologized to her and explained why I was so distraught. She wasn't too happy with any of us that day - me or any of her kids.
In turn, my 30 year old boyfriend went off on me, ranting at me like I was a disobedient child that had thrown a tantrum. To be fair, I had thrown one in a way at his mother, albeit non-violently. He didn’t give me a chance to talk, or to explain anything. He just ranted at me for more than an hour and left telling me that we would take a break and reevaluate things once the school semester was over (it was about a week before the next college semester started). For the next couple hours I was in shock, and only snapped out of it when my roommate called my best friend for backup to help bring me back to reality.
It took them a few hours to coax me back into “real life”, at which point I had a meltdown. After I managed to get my emotions back together, I contacted Ex and told him that we were done. I told him I’d had enough of feeling like a “side piece” with his sole focus on being anything except me. I needed until April (about eight months, give or take) to get back in the dating game after what I’d gone through. Ex, on the other hand, started dating someone new just as soon as the school semester ended, and either broke up with her or got ghosted. Now, however, he is talking marriage with his newest girlfriend that he started dating less than six months ago.
On the one hand, I would never, EVER want to take him back after how I got treated. I’m still in therapy and struggling with depression because of how I was treated. I think of what he did, and I know he was emotionally abusive. He was also controlling, now that I think back on it. and, to be honest, I’m fairly sure his family wouldn’t have been respectful to me had I married into their family.
On the other hand, I can’t help but feel extremely hurt after hearing that he’s with someone else. I can't help but wish this relationship will fail as well, and hope that he'll learn how much his actions can (and do) hurt others around him.
I don’t want to get revenge on Ex, I know that’s not fair to either of us. I know revenge is a double-edged sword, unless it's just "the best revenge is living well" adage. I’m not saying I was perfect, we both had our faults in how things went down between us. But I can’t help wishing his new girlfriend won’t accept any proposal he will give to her. I know (from mutual friends) that Ex (who’s now 31) hasn’t changed or learned anything from the breakup. Those same mutual friends, however, have told me that I’ve made more progress (mentally and maturity-wise) since this March than he has.
I can’t help but wish that my ex-boyfriend won’t get married after how he treated me. Does that make me the AH?
TLDR: I (30F) and my ex (31M) dated for nearly two years, during which he left me helpless alone after a seizure for two hours. I broke up with both my ex-boyfriends after realizing that they were emotionally abusive and/or neglectful. Despite breaking up with them to protect myself, I can’t help but wonder if my not wanting them to be happy makes me the AH.

Its Series 6 day!
Firstly SUPER THANK YOU to u/LulusMum for helping organize the document. You should see it now- its incredible!
Taskmaster has led to find some of my favorite comedic work (stand up specials/TV shows etc) done by the alum. I would avoid one-off appearances on panel shows (Bob Mortimer on WILTY would be fine because of the sheer amount of material, but single appearances are harder to keep track of)
Its obviously super hard to keep track of that so I was going to make a little document based on what y'all recommend of the contestant's work beyond TM. Doing it by person will take forever so I thought by series would be a good start.
As series go by I will keep updating this https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6O7dEy2--bhjD41JD8lyC_tjgErpah9EO2A_TQ4OO0/edit?usp=sharing (S1-4 are here- S5 will be added shortly- if I missed something lmk!)
So series 6 cast:
Liza Tarbuck
Alice Levine
Asim Chaudhry
Russell Howard
Tim Vine

I'm planning to buy Deco M4 and setup IoT devices with it. In my research, i found that Deco didn't support separate SSID for 2.4 and 5Ghz, the only option is to use 2.4Ghz Guest network to run IoT devices.
I want to know if anyone have any problem with this setup ? Can it work properly with smart home hub (Google Nest, Smartthing or even Home Assistant) ?
And does main network and guest network have the same ip address ? Can i connect to the main network and play LAN game with someone connect to my guest network ? Same for cast phone screen from main network to TV on guest network ?

Back when XO Kitty first released I felt like online spaces were saturated with criticism towards the show’s portrayal of Korean culture, but solely from koreaboos. I never really saw any Korean people talking about it, so here’s my perspective as a Korean American who loves the show! (Content warnings for discussions of orientalism, sexism, homophobia, reproductive rights)

1. Frequent usage of Korean in dialogue. Up until very, very recently, American film and television has been quite stingy with usage of foreign language. The “one-inch tall barrier of subtitles”, as Parasite director Bong Joon Ho calls it, has proved to be a difficult hurdle for Western audiences to overcome. Nowadays, with the booming popularity of kdramas, people are more used to hearing Korean on TV, but there is still that subconcious divide of “Korean belongs in Korean films, and English belongs in American films.” The film Minari, for example, was categorized by the Golden Globes as a foreign film despite being set in America and directed by an American, solely because the majority of the film is in Korean. Having Korean spoken multiple times in nearly if not every episode of XO Kitty was a welcome surprise for me. While it totally makes sense narratively for Korean characters to speak Korean in Korea, it’s a huge step forward for American television.
   
2. Casting of Korean actors. While casting Korean actors is probably necessary if you’re including lots of conversations in Korean (see above), XO Kitty could have easily cast actors of any East Asian descent and re-written their characters converse in English. (Randall Park, a Korean actor, was cast in Fresh Off the Boat, and Simu Liu, a Chinese actor, was cast in Kim’s Convenience, both with little or no complaint.) Taking care to cast Korean actors is really huge, especially since Jenny Han famously had to fight to get an Asian actress to play Lara Jean. So I was really impressed and happy that they took this step. (As a personal note, I don’t mind that the Covey Girls aren’t played by Korean actors, since I remember what an achievement it was that they cast Asian actors at all.)
   
3. Nuanced portrayal of queerness in Korea. LGBTQ issues in East Asia are a tricky topic. I tend to see only two perspectives ever discussed: 1) the romanticization of East Asia as “the home of BL/GL” by Western queers and an ignorance of the conservative culture, and 2) a condemnation of East Asia as backwards compared to the enlightened West, while ignoring the existence and struggles of actual queer Asians living in their native countries. As a queer Korean American myself, it’s heartbreaking to see such an important topic pigeonholed in either direction. However, watching XO Kitty felt like a breath of fresh air. The story addressed the very real homophobia of Korean culture while still centering the experiences of the queer people who live there: Q reminds Kitty that Korea is not as accepting of his sexuality when she tries to matchmake him in the cafeteria, and Yuri struggles the entire first season to hide her sexuality and relationship from her mom. My compliments and thanks go out to the writers and sensitivity readers who worked on these scenes; it warmed my little gay heart.
   
4. Tidbits of traditional Korean culture. Aspects of traditional Korean culture are sprinkled naturally into the story, from the Chuseok celebrations to the fan dance in hanbok, and become integral to the plot. This in particular made me thrilled, as the reason I got into the “To All the Boys” franchise was because I heard that Jenny Han had fought hard to have an Asian female lead. Unfortunately, when I watched the first movie, I was disappointed to find there was very little Korean culture referenced in it, and that Lara Jean’s mother — her one tie to her culture — wasn’t even present in the story. Comparatively, XO Kitty is bursting with Korean culture, while still feeling accessible to American audiences.
   
5. The subplot of Jina’s preganancy tying into women’s rights in South Korea. Women’s reproductive rights are an especially huge issue in Korea (I remember being aware of it and reading/watching info about it as early as middle school, and I grew up in a pretty traditional/conservative setting). The subplot of Jina’s pregnancy serves as the kickstarter to more conversations about this topic. Though not discussed at length, the repeated emphasis of how important it was that Eve let her use her name demonstrates how heavy the stigma — and social punishment — for teenage pregnancy would be. Young Jina’s fear of her pregnancy being discovered also parallels Yuri’s fear of her sexuality being discovered, tying mother and daughter together in an intergenerational conversation on Korean feminism and queer rights.
   
6. Subtle nod to the cringeness of koreaboos. XO Kitty’s inclusion of Madison Miller was a classy way of saying the writers were well aware of the West’s narrow-minded obsession with Hallyu. Madison’s shameless declaration of her playlist being exclusively kpop and her wide-eyed obsession with being in Korea at all earns her some judgemental looks. For me, this was one an early, funny, and unfortunately relateable sign that Koreans had actually been in the writing room. It’s worth noting that Madison isn’t a bad person — just overzealous and a tad bit ignorant — which is a fair enough characterization for me. More importantly, the inclusion of a koreaboo character is another way of affirming that XO Kitty is a Korean story for and by Koreans, rather than another contribution to the rose-tinted Western gaze on Korea.
   

Sorry this got so long, and way longer than I intended. Obviously XO Kitty isn’t a perfect show, but I rarely (if at all) see these aspects of it praised. I want to shed light on them because I don’t think non-Korean fans are aware of these points, or might think they lack the proper background to comment on it. In the end though these are only my opinions, and others might disagree. But I’d be happy to answer other questions about my personal thoughts on XO Kitty! 🩷🩷🩷

I'm a 30-something guy and I was never interested in VR as it was either too expensive for me or just not powerful enough to spend so much money on something that was at the time just a gimmick. But after seeing some of the video on the Meta Quest 3 pass-through especially this one and reading the reviews I decided to bite the bullet and I bought the Meta Quest 3 128gb with a Kiwi powerbank strap. I’m writing this post using the Virtual Desktop app + Passthrough
This is a post for people that are on the fence if they should buy a VR headset. It will be a long post with first impressions, pros and cons, review of certain apps (not games) and a couple of questions to the community as I’m not able to solve everything on my own.
My PC: Legion 7 2021. 3070, 64gb, Ryzen 7 5800h

Why I bought Vr in order of importance:

1. Multitasking while using Passthrough. Doing dishes, folding cloths, doing chores, cooking, ironing 10 shirts. Mostly watching youtube and having whatsapp/messenger open next to the video
2. Multitasking in front of my PC on a huge screen. I wanted to sit in the middle of a video loop forest and work on 2-3 monitors (Excel, SQL, youtube, Discord etc)
3. Watching youtube and movies on a huge screen while sitting comfortably on my couch (I only have a small old TV at home)
4. Being inside the 360 pictures I took during my trips using the Pixel Sphere setting + watching 360 videos
5. Playing games like Elite Dangerous, Subnautica (waited for a VR headset before playing this game), Star Wars Squadrons, Walking Dead SS, Into the Radius, HL Alyx
6. Chatting in VRchat
7. Trying "interesting videos" if you know what I mean...

Stuff that I bought years ago which work with my Quest 3 and I had no idea it will work in VR

1. Logitech Mx keys and mx keys mini. I have 2 BT keyboards and both are supported by Quest 3 as it shows them in 3D in the official meta apps. Pretty cool not going to lie.
2. Steelseries 9 headset – It has an audio jack which I connect using a short 3.5mm cable to the headset so I can have 3 audio sources at once. One from the PC using the dongle, One using BT from my phone and one from the headset using the audio jack. Magic
3. Chromecast 4.0. It’s fun to see what my gf is seeing while she is playing. This is how I can see that the quality of the passthrough on the casted video is better than the passthrough that you see in the headset.

First impressions

1. The headset is really well made but the basic straps are really looking cheap. It was a good idea to buy the kiwi pro strap.
2. The first time I powered it on and played the game “first encounter” I had a big grin like when I was 10 and unboxing the Sega Genesis. The first experience is incredible, my gf compared it to “It’s like seeing the internet for the first time”

The Pros:

1. Really good resolutions so you can read small text clearly
2. The headset is light enough to use it for 2-3 hours without neck pain.
3. How quickly you just power it on and start using it. It takes about a minute to power on, enter pin, open Virtual desktop and use my PC on a huge virtual 70 inch screen
4. The headset is “small” what I mean by that is that you can easily transport it. I had no issues transporting it in the a case in my backpack.
5. The build-in speakers are shockingly good. I’m normally using my headphones but without them the headset is very useable just on the speakers.

The Tips:

1. The hand tracking is really nice but you don’t have to use the two fingers click. You can just tap the buttons with your finger.
2. I used the Sidequest to update the texture size and mhz but I don’t really see any difference. Is it better to use the QuestGamesOptimizer? And do you really need to reapply it everytime you power the headset?

The Cons or “maybe I’m doing something wrong and need your help”:

1. There are artifacts in my headset when I use it for more than an hour and while looking at the floor. It’s like old CRT snow and it appears for a millisecond – I wonder if it’s because of the changed texture size?
2. The passthrough doesn't look in real life as clear as on the videos even if I'm in a super bright room. When you record what you see inside the headset the recording is much clearer than what you see. You can't read your PC monitor, you can't read your smartphone screen.
3. The FOV is not as wide as I expected. I would compare it to a very tight snorkelling mask
4. The headset will not remember your most used positions. Each time you will use the headset you will have to set the boundaries or the sitting position again and again.
5. The battery is fine. I didn’t expect for it to work for 5 hours but 1h30 is a bit lacking. With a 10k powerbank strap you can go up to 2h30.
6. The blacks are not as deep as I expected. I watched the whole Shogun Tv show on the Vr headset and when there were scenes in the dark I could not see any details all the while when some of the scenes had dark and bright scenes the black was “dark-grey”
7. I wear glasses and when I set the headset to the perfect position my glasses are touching the lenses and creating like some sort of condensation or smudges exactly in the middle top of my field of view – it is annoying
8. Multitasking in front of the desktop is still not it. I’m looking for an app where I will be able to use my 2 physical monitors, to have a portal passthrough to see my drink and keyboard, be able to create a virtual monitor and have minimal lag (either on wifi or cable). None has it. I tried 4-5 apps and none is perfect, you can read more about it below.
9. I bought the Syntech Link cable and 80% of the time it doesn’t work (doesn’t see the Meta quest app) and it charges too slowly the headset.
10. The amount of interesting 360 videos on youtube is very small
11. I assumed that the Quest 3 will also work in the dark as it has IR tracking? But apparently it doesn't have the IR light (you have to buy it). But then I read that even with the IR light you can't use the passthrough in dark like with the Quest 2
12. Prices on the Meta store. The Climb for $30?! Fruit ninja 2 for $25? Beat Saver for $30?! I'm sorry but these are not games like Fallout, God of War, Uncharted or Total War where hundreds of devs worked for years on the music, graphics, story, UI/UX...
13. The VRchat – tried it, never again. I expected it to be 70% trolls but not 95%.
14. Can’t use one controller and one hand at the same time. It’s either controllers or hands after you laid the controllers flat.
15. All “interesting videos” are 30GB+ or are paid. Way too much hassle for a 15 minutes job. IT should be more accessible and cheaper.

The Apps

1. The meta software/launcher:

• You can't have a floating window follow you. You have to grab the window EACH time when you move from room to room. Is there a solution for this? Why can't I move from the fridge to the iron board to the sink without having to grab the window each time?
• You can't delete uninstalled apps? How is this a thing in 2024? I tried an app for 5 minutes and now it will always appear in my launcher?
• You can't pin more than 2 apps at the bottom?
• You can't switch apps on the fly? You have to close one to use another?

1. The Productivity apps to use your desktop

• Virtual Desktop app
  
  • it lags (Wifi 5ghz 500-855Mbps). I can’t have twitch or youtube playing at the same time of writing this review as it lags.
  • Only one screen - at the time of writing this review I haven’t tested the beta version so I can’t say how’s the quality.
  • Biggest con: There are no “portals” for your desk. It’s either full passthrough or you don’t see your keyboard/mouse
• The meta Remote desktop Beta
  
  • Can only use one screen
  • Has no portals
  • Doesn’t see the Logitech MX keyboard
  • Can be used in a window which you can bring with you around
• The meta Horizon Workrooms
  
  • It sees the MX keys keyboard
  • it has a portal to see the desk
  • Biggest con: YOU CAN”T RESIZE THE SCREENS
  • It will show your hands if you are typing as 2 little portals
  • The resolution of the monitors is bad
  • You can add virtual screens
  • The virtual environments are really basic and there are only three of them!
  • It also routes your audio and it’s spatial audio. So if you turn your head the audio will stay in one place. Can’t be changed to use PC audio.
• Immersed
  
  • Many great environments –360 still pictures!
  • Can set portals and desk portal!
  • Multiple monitors but two days after I bought the headset the devs of Immersed decided to block the use of the app If you have more than 1 monitor. Uninstalled on the spot.
• Vspatial
  
  • Environments are really bad.
  • The UX has good ideas but it looks very basic
  • Can’t move the screens around – just in one plane around you
  • Has a portal so that you can see your desk
  • Can show multiple monitors
  • Biggest con: I think it renders a fake mouse pointer and due to this it lags. It is not showing the mouse from the PC but it is rendering its own cursor. Very hard to click anything.

What's next?

• Buy a better cable to connect to my laptop to be able to play games from Steam VR or buy the AirBridge and try Elite and Squadrons.
• Try sideloading some apps and Android apks that I bought in Google play store
• Try a dedicated video player to stream videos from my Emby or PC. I heard that 4xvr is good? But it’s 30 bucks!

Thank you for reading