disney, please stop spamming me

I dropped Disney+ when they notified the world how they were going to jack up their monthly fees to view their streaming service. I’d already grown “fatigued” with all the MCU and Star Wars content that was flooding the service, so all I needed to pull the trigger and leave was that cost increase announcement. That was back in August (see link below).

Then in November Hulu and Disney+ announced a dual deal, as well as a cheaper advertising supported tier, so I signed back up, ostensibly to watch all the content on Hulu. And there’s been quite a bit of it. Disney+ came along for an additional $2.99/month, so I wasn’t too annoyed to have them back.

But you’d think that it was Disney+ that was the king of the duo if you look at all the spam advertising they’ve sent me. This latest was from ABC, a legacy TV channel I absolutely loathe. And what are they advertising at the top of the spam advert? An episode from their dumber-than-a-bag-of-hammers Golden Bachelor. I will have been married for 40 years come this July. The idea I want to watch some old fart get married is so far from anything I want to watch as to be totally alien. At this point in a human’s life, marriage means absolutely nothing unless there’s money and a pre-nup involved. Otherwise just shack up and be happy in each other’s company. Take all that money you’d spend on a formal wedding and elope to some really nice vacation spot while Earth’s climate still allows for such excesses.

I’ve clicked the link to be removed from all ABC advertising, so hopefully nothing else will come in from ABC. But this isn’t the first such spam advertising email from a Disney “property,” and I don’t think it’ll be the last. I wrote above that I thought $2.99 for Disney+ wasn’t going to be such a big deal. Now I’m not so sure.

Links

shedding sunday — applications and subscriptions

micropython 1.22 is released

View of WiFi page on iPhone 11 Pro Max

The MicroPython organization released version 1.22 on 27 December 2023. I missed it until today because it was Christmas time and I was, believe it or not, taking time off from some of the nerdier aspects of software development. But I downloaded it today and installed it and for once in a very long time it worked straight “out of the box.” I didn’t have to download source and build an image myself. What’s more the binary I downloaded for this board has been built to support octal addressed PSRAM, something that’s been missing completely since version 1.19.

So far everything seems to work, especially my stand-along WiFi access point (see above) written entirely in MicroPython. I obviously have a lot to do investigating it, and I will given enough time. By the way, the full version shows that this release was build with Espressif’s ESP-IDF versoin 5.0.4. Espressif has released a 5.0.5, but I can attest that MicroPython will not build with 5.0.5. So if you want or need to build from MicroPython source then make sure you have the proper toolchain installed.

For the curious this is running on an ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 N8R8 (8 MiB non-volatile flash, 8 MiB PSRAM).

Links

MicroPython Downloadhttps://micropython.org/download/ESP32_GENERIC_S3/