Welp, I specifically bought a Roku device a few months ago just to use YouTube.

I ran into major issues using Fire TV's YouTube app. The app would fail to get past the initial loading screen and hang forever. It would typically require 2-3 device restarts to work again, and even then it would only work temporarily. I tried completely resetting my Fire TV, relogging in, etc but never managed to get it to work properly). YouTube is the only app I've had issues with on Fire TV.

Google also discontinued YouTube's great web browser experience, which was almost identical to the app, that you could load in Fire TV's web browser.

I did the same thing, youtube recently dropped support for the older AppleTV and I had no interest in shelling out extra money for 4k or the option to play games i'm never going to play.

This TV set-top box arms race is so stupid. The smart TV apps stopped working so I got an AppleTV. That stopped working so I got a Roku. When that stops working I guess i'll just go the full PC route with a NUC and a nice interface like Kodi.

> Welp, I specifically bought a Roku device a few months ago just to use YouTube.

We have Rokus (a 4K Ultra in the living room and a TCL Roku TV in the bedroom), as well as a 4K Chromecast, and until we got the Roku Ultra we had a Nvidia Shield TV. We keep more than one type of device specifically because it is inevitable that a provider (Roku, Amazon, Google) will drop a service we enjoy. This actually happened with the Shield which is why we replaced it with a Roku; it was no longer working with Emby at all, and it was flaking out on certain other services. It could have been just a case of bad hardware but it was flawless for two years straight until one by one services stopped working on it.

This is also why I have a Mac, a couple of Windows PCs, a Linux workstation, and a BSD laptop. When one of the above can't do something, one of the others can.

I have a (newer) Shield TV, and it works fine with Emby. That is, assuming you're talking about the self hosted Emby.

Mine was the first gen Shield, and I never could figure out why it stopped working properly with my (self hosted, local network) Emby server. Even after a factory reset and trying a different Google account it never worked right. No issues whatsoever with the various Roku devices in our house and at my mom's and SIL's houses.

It's for the YouTube TV app, not the YouTube app. So you should be good with the regular YouTube app if that's what you bought your Roku for.

Nvidia Shield and AppleTV are both quite good and the YouTube app works great on them

Not that I'm aware of. The only alternative would be to permit shorting if the user has a Long Put for defined risk protection.

You could always to a synthetic short through buying a Long Put, but time (and often volatility) decay become a factor (for shorter term trades).

Correction: Should be Long Call for the first scenario: defined risk protection (for shorting), not Long Put.

Seattle permits retailers to charge 5 cents per large paper bag.

When you say that you clean with a steamer, do you mean something like a garment steamer?

See my post below. The principle is similar, but implemented on a device for that purpose: a steam cleaner. There's also a cloth attached to scrub dirt. Hospitals use this regularly.

I tried to sign up for Coinbase back in July and kept running into problems during the id verification step (at some point, they thought I was under 18). I tried to work through their customer support, but only received automated messages.

Eventually, I gave up and went somewhere else.

I tried to sign up for an account there as well. Process and verification were just garbage. Never worked with a dozen tries, different IDs, etc. Wouldn't recommend.

If you're looking for something new to listen to, 99% Invisible is also a fantastic podcast.

There's the exclave Point Roberts, Washington (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0408/feature7/), which falls ever so slightly south of the 49th parallel.

I once visited Port Roberts just to see the border crossing. I drove in from the Canadian side, parked my car, and walked across the border into the U.S. without being challenged. No one asked for my passport. As far as I could tell, no one even noticed that I had crossed the border. But when I tried to walk back into Canada the Canadians gave me a pretty hard time and almost didn't let me back in. It was an interesting experience.

I've visited there too. Drove in both directions, seemed like not a big deal.

I heard that kids there go to school in Blaine, which means 4 international border crossings every day!

The YouTube channel WonderWhy has a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLxZiiuaXs) on complex international borders wrt enclaves and exclaves.

I love Takeout. Given how much of our lives is invested into digital platform, I wish every Internet company had something similar to Takeout for user data.

This is why I started giving businesses and retailers my Google Voice number, instead of my personal number.