TNX.
I ran into the zip code thing with PBS. I've always had iffy over-the-air reception. Well, it mostly went away. So, I tried to use the PBS site and it won't let me watch local content because I'm in the wrong zip code (maybe this explains the iffy reception ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ). It's not clear to me how it "knows" my zip code. I do live IN the city of Sacramento.
Regardless, I found out that the episodes of, for example, America's Heartland that KVIE sends over the air are around 2 years old. And they repeat a lot. I can watch the new stuff for free at the America's Heartland site. With all the changes going on, its hard to say how long that will last.
Basically, I found out that I don't need KVIE. I can do better on my own.
It's beyond me why they would want to restrict online viewing in this way anyhow.
--
-Gary
It is a simple thing to make things complex,
a complex thing to make things simple.
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 02:19:30PM -0700, bob r wrote:
> A great third party tunneling / VPN that seems to work well for me on Ubuntu
> is SurfShark. I buy one license and it works on all my devices, like my
> Android, my laptop running Ubuntu and my wife's iPhone. Great for if you are
> on vacation and you want to be protected while using public Wi-Fi. And you
> don't feel like burning up all your minutes from your mobile carrier.
> There are some other interesting advantages as well like if you need to
> convince a service that you are in some completely different zip code then
> where you really are..
>
> On May 16, 2025 1:16:59 PM Gary
saclug@garymcglinn.com wrote:
>
> > I just spent about 4 hours setting up a pubkey ssh authentication. The
> > problem was that my sshd was no longer accepting pubkeys generated on my
> > remote system using rsa or dsa. I finally tried an ecdsa and everything
> > worked.
> >
> > Running ssh -v, -vv, and -vvv didn't really help because it just fails
> > silently. You have to figure out what a message offering the private
> > key as the public key is important and then make a guess that something
> > bad happened there because the authentication process continues. There
> > are other messages earlier in the chain that make is seem like it can't
> > find files.
> >
> > I spent a lot of time confirming file permissions. My books didn't
> > agree with a lot of what I found on line. Which is right? A lot of
> > thrashing around there.
> >
> > Granted, I'm retired and doing all this for fun. Well sort of. I do
> > like to use a lot of this stuff and I find it helpful. But when
> > something I, "know how to do" and is suppose to make my life easier and
> > simpler, takes a lot of time, I need to reevaluate my approach.
> >
> > Your average person just buys a 3rd party tunneling/VPN service and goes
> > from there. Which is great if you are running Windows.
> >
> > I think it is time for me to consider my approach and how I am spending
> > my time and money. This just isn't sustainable.
> >
> > I'm not saying things were better "back in the day." There was
> > definitely a time when it was hard to do a lot of things. We had
> > "install fest" for example. Documentation was nonexistant. Then, it
> > seemed like for awhile, things were pretty good. Things just worked and
> > there was documentation and you could get information.
> >
> > I think there was a definite peak in usability. Or is it just me?
> >
> > Maybe I'll start by figuring out a minimum set of functionality that I
> > need and take a fresh approach from there.
> > --
> > -Gary
> >
> > It is a simple thing to make things complex,
> > a complex thing to make things simple.
> >
> >
> >
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