Casey Liss

But yeah, that's my plan to ride it out.

The very, very short version is I was thinking about maybe just cruising along with paying Verizon for cable service, even if I don't use their new IPTV app or anything like that, and just using TV Everywhere online.

in order to stream things and suck it into channels via TV Everywhere.

But in the last week or two, Disney has pulled all of their channels, including, importantly, ESPN and the associated properties, off of TV Everywhere.

So I don't know what I'm going to do.

I suspect that, if anything, what I'll probably do is upgrade my Disney Plus package to include ESPN and all that for sports, and then maybe pay for Peacock for Bravo and one or two other channels that we watch, and then

Maybe that'll be it.

No, and I didn't use an antenna for local stuff, but it's a bummer, man.

It's a bummer.

All right.

Yolink alternatives.

Joe writes, you were talking about Yolink sensors, I guess it was last episode, whatever it was, 16 weeks ago when I last spoke to you too.

And Joe continues, and I wanted to share that Ikea has come out with some new matter over thread devices that are mind-bogglingly cheap.

They have a leak sensor for about $8, a scene controller for about $6, and a motion sensor for about $8.

I think they have a contact sensor as well as some light bulbs, but I haven't bought any of those, says Joe.

So far, I've had these for about two months, and they rock solid.

I especially like that these are all integrated with HomeKit, so I just need to go to one place to look at the status or inspect alerts, which, by the way, these three products, and I cannot speak Swedish, are called ClipBock, Bilressa, and Migspray, which I did literal translations of the three of them, and allegedly, as per Google Translate, they are called Scrapbook, Car Trip, and Mosquito Spray.

Something may have been lost in translation there, but then maybe not.

Anyways, but that is good to know.

I have heard through some acquaintances that these are, at least at first glance, pretty good to corroborate what Joe has said.