deliriousdreams

Would you like to see the picture of how I found it?

I like this idea for a lot of reasons. The inclement weather one I see in the comments is definitely one of them.

But it also puts me in mind of some of the clever ways I’ve seen posts and reflectors used to give the impression (when say you’re driving at night and only see them out of the corner of your eye) of a person standing there, until you look at them properly and then they look exactly like what they are.

There’s one in particular in a neighborhood where I used to live that to this day if I drive by it, my hindbrain says “HUMAN” and I really don’t understand why because the post looks nothing like a human when I look at it properly. It’s magic.

Yeah. I wasn’t sure it would work for your use case necessarily, but I did remember seeing that a version of the Walmart onn box was available in Europe, so I didn’t want to discount it altogether.

Either way I do hope you find what you’re looking for and if I come across suggestions that might work I’ll try to post them here.

Possibly? I don’t know for sure because I can’t find a store front selling it, but it does appear that these devices are region locked and that there are people in Asian countries sharing ways to end around the region lock.

No. It looks like it has a different name.

https://tv.mythomson.com/en/Thomson-Streaming-Box-Plus/270

To be fair, I believe that’s the “Walmart” one op talks about in the post. I believe they do sell a version of this same set top box in the UK and possibly other parts of Europe. So it may be a viable option still.

Probably.

Your vacuum doesn’t go under furniture more than likely so to clean under there you quit being a janitor to become a furniture mover?

I guess it’s turtles all the way down.

A fair assesment. Except that you have to (and should be) cleaning the upright vacuum as well. Vacuum fires are no joke.

Yeah. I’ve got an 870 that’s still cleaning. It gets stuck under furniture and needs to be rescued at least once a week, and last week it lost its ass dustbin somehow mid clean, but it’s still kicking.

On the other hand I own 3 different raspberry pi’s. One for Home Assistant, one for Pihole, one for booting the server computer when I’m not home if I want to stream a movie from my library.

There was a point where tires were expensive but they lasted a long time because so few people had cars and they didn’t drive them often. So two brothers who owned a tire company were trying to figure out how to sell more tires to the few people who owned cars.

The answer was to get them to wear their tires out faster by providing a list of places they could visit that would warrant the expense of wearing down their tires.

So the stat rating was more of a "this place is worth a visit/road trip system. And they published this list and it caught on and then restaurants wanted to get Michelin stars for the notariety and the essentially free press.