

- Tech company gets acquired by massive company for a ridiculous sum of money
- Site never really generated much revenue
- Parent company demands cuts
- lays off workers, ahem sorry, removes redundant positions
- re-org
- gets rid of physical assets by moving to the cloud claiming savings despite it almost always being more expensive and worse than running your own.
- lay off more employees claiming move to the cloud behind schedule and over budget
- blame the economy
- probably something with AI
- hire a more ‘global workforce’
- re-org
- RTO mandate to make the highest paid employees leave after they trained their replacements overseas
- voluntary severance package
- another round of layoffs
- re-org
- quarterly report showing highest profits in company history
- worst compensation bumps in company history
I have had several firetvs which I really can’t recommend anymore. I don’t mind roku with jellyfin client and an adblocker like pihole except the garbage “daily trivia” options that pop up on the sidebar that you have to hide once a week is annoying. Currently use an Nvidia shield with a custom launcher isn’t a terrible experience, except for the fact that I have to reboot it all the time because it’s glitchy as shit and it was overpriced.
I’m tempted to next try the NUC with that fancy KDE big picture mode I saw get a facelift recently.
Oh, and tried one of those virus ridden chineese android boxes. Also do not recommend.