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After a successful setup of my music streaming server over the weekend I instead detail an amazing story from my local high school. If you had to stand outside for hours during a fire alarm, would you be BRAZEN enough to order Postmates? My daughters high school pulled it off and is one of the many reasons why I believe in the next generation. Contact obscurednarration@gmail.com  Get behind the scenes Twitter - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau Instagram - https://instagram.com/domcorriveau Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/obscurednarration Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Subscribe If a daily is just too much for you, I have a single RSS feed that com

Its the end of the week for the podcast and I want to start a new trend. From now on each Thursday I'm going to offer a weekend project to complete. This could be setting up a new server or doing something IRL. Each week this is a chance to come up with something fun to do and a reason to experiment. This week my offering is to set up a self-hosted music streaming server. In my old man rant against paid streaming like Spotify, the only way out is to build my own... With blackjack and hookers. Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes Twitter - @domcorriveau Instagram - @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Subscribe If a daily is just too much for you, I have a single RSS feed that compiles all the daily sho

Exclusives for gaming has been a thing for a long time. Although I've been hard on walled gardens all week I'm kinda soft on gaming exclusives. In this episode I really try to convince myself gaming exclusives are bad but for me I'm already on an exclusive... Steam. Valve has given Linux gaming so much goodwill I really fight to find a problem with other exclusives. At least we got it better than OSX! Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes Twitter - @domcorriveau Instagram - @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Subscribe If a daily is just too much for you, I have a single RSS feed that compiles all the daily shows into a single audio file. This comes out each Friday and is a streamlined episode of all

You know what the absolute worst scenario is for exclusives? When both subscriptions and hardware are paired to make the ultimate pain in the ass. In this episode I express my fears of what could happen with Apple's new News+ service gets exclusives that are locked to their hardware in addition to their service.  Its time I play a little conspiracy theorist! Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes Twitter - @domcorriveau Instagram - ]@domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Subscribe If a daily is just too much for you, I have a single RSS feed that compiles all the daily shows into a single audio file. This comes out each Friday and is a streamlined episode of all the daily shows combined into a single

After SEVERAL weeks of being on a hiatus (finally wrapped the Miami Vice podcast!) I'm back with more hot takes and permanently back for these daily podcasts. To kick things off this week I spent some time over the weekend really thinking about Brian Acton's advice to delete Facebook and really look at my reliance on their apps. Naturally, this lead me to review my usage of WhatsApp and how to diversify myself away from the FAANG services.  Over the weekend I took some time to set up a XMPP/Jabber server with great success! This was a fun way to experiment and I think I'm going to stick with the self-hosted chat, that was incredibly easy to set up. XMPP Server - Prosody IM Read more   Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans.  obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes   Twitter - @domcorriveau Instagram - @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music   "Werq",

All this talk about saving money, owning physical media and finding free ways to stream has me thinking about making budget decisions. Sometimes we feel shame when we have to cut our budget so deep, but its okay. You're making the right decision.  In this short episode I discuss how I feel when I've made that decision before and how to still feel connected to the modern world. Read more  Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes  Twitter – @domcorriveau Instagram – @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music  “Werq”, “Basic Implosion”, “Meanwhile in Bavaria”, “Pixelland”  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Miami Vice Podcast  Back in 1984, Miami Vice changed the TV landscape not only for the

Following up from our conversations last week I take a look at the classic question: Physical or streaming? For me, which is a personal choice, its physical media.  In this episode I defend my position but still see why streaming is so popular. The key in all of it is everyone is allowed to make their own choice. I've gone extended periods without access to the internet, so owning physical copies of things is my preferred method. To each their own... Read more  Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes  Twitter – @domcorriveau Instagram – @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music  “Werq”, “Basic Implosion”, “Meanwhile in Bavaria”, “Pixelland” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Miami Vice Podcast  Back in 198

Everyone is  busy signing up for streaming services and buying ebooks they’ll never  read. You know who’s got your back? The library. You know who doesn’t  judge you? The library. You know where its cool to hang out on the  weekend with free wifi? The mother-freaking library. If  you haven’t been to the library in a few years, its time to go back.  Aside from magical tomes that make you imagine shit that’s not real  (books really are magic) they also have DVD’s and Blu-Rays. Plus, many  have partnered with services that offer streaming music and movies for  free. Of course, just about every library works with the Overdrive app  (which you can sideload to a $30 Amazon Fire tablet, the cheapest of  all devices) with will let you download ebooks and audiobooks. Read more  Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes  Twitter – @domcorriveau Ins

More and more places are giving away free TV shows and movies as an ad-supported service including IMDB, Roku, Pluto TV (who got recently acquired) and even Plex.  Today I'm taking a look at the high level view of these services and what it means to people without a bank account or credit card. I'm also extremely skeptical of Plex's decision to get into this game. Is there a conflict of interest adding commercial services and a way to host your maybe-illegal personal collection of DVD's? Read more  Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes  Twitter – @domcorriveau Instagram – @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music  “Werq”, “Basic Implosion”, “Meanwhile in Bavaria”, “Pixelland” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ M

Hi pals, I am on the road today so I have a road show. Being on the road has me thinking about streaming services including the plethora of options, cost and of course the KonMari effect on owning versus streaming. All of that is coming up this week. Today I'm taking a deeper look at subscription fatigue. With every service having their own subscriptions and trying to watch everything, should you reconsider signing up for traditional cable?  Also, are you even a cord cutter? In my opinion, cable replacement services doesn't qualify you for the cord cutting club. Read more  Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes  Twitter – @domcorriveau Instagram – @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music  “Werq”, “Basic Implosion”, “Meanwhile in Bavaria”, “Pixelland” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commo

Last episode of the week and today we're looking at feature phones. Across the world there are many versions of feature phones but its mysteriously difficult to find one here in the US. There are lots of flip phones and even a few Android Go devices. Could a sub-$50 feature phone with Maps, Gmail, WhatsApp and Instagram be useful to people? I think there's a huge market segment that manufacturers are missing out on. Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes Twitter – @domcorriveau Instagram – @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music “Werq”, “Basic Implosion”, “Meanwhile in Bavaria”, “Pixelland” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Miami Vice Podcast Back in 1984, Miami Vice changed the TV landscape not only for the  d

At CES there were a number of home assistant devices announced. What caught my eye were devices that adapted dumb devices and added smart assistants.  Today lets discuss how these adapters can make it easier for more people to adopt the tech, get comfortable with it and reduce the amount of obsolete products.  Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes Twitter – @domcorriveau Instagram – @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music “Werq”, “Basic Implosion”, “Meanwhile in Bavaria”, “Pixelland” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Miami Vice Podcast Back in 1984, Miami Vice changed the TV landscape not only for the  decade, but for generations of police drama’s since. Miami Vice’s  cultural impact on TV was not only

Stories were all the rage in 2018. They showed up on all Facebook properties (take that Snapchat!), Skype (don't worry, they're gone now) and even YouTube.  Stories have a place on social media, they're just not being used in the right places. Today I make the case for Stories on Twitter and in group chats. Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes Twitter – @domcorriveau Instagram – @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music “Werq”, “Basic Implosion”, “Meanwhile in Bavaria”, “Pixelland” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Miami Vice Podcast Back in 1984, Miami Vice changed the TV landscape not only for the  decade, but for generations of police drama’s since. Miami Vice’s  cultural impact on TV was not only with

After more than a year away, I'm back with my first podcast episode. This show will air 4x/week (Mon. - Thurs.). To kick off the week lets talk about how many unread text messages y'all have. I toss around a few ideas why there are so many unread notifications on people's screens and try to get to the root of the problem.  Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes Twitter – @domcorriveau Instagram – @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music “Werq”, “Basic Implosion”, “Meanwhile in Bavaria”, “Pixelland” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Miami Vice Podcast Back in 1984, Miami Vice changed the TV landscape not only for the  decade, but for generations of police drama’s since. Miami Vice’s  cultural impact on TV