While administering to my blog in Blogger a few minutes ago, I realized I have been a dedicated watcher of NEWSMAX for almost 5 years. In the beginning it was on cable at the firehouse and part of my subscription with my Dish Network satellite package. It got yanked from the FD cable and I lost it on Dish when I cut back my subscription. I have been paying $49.99/year for a few years for an online subscription so I can watch it live any time I want, or stream shows I missed. It is back on the firehouse cable, but I usually have it streaming on my laptop in the bunk room office in a little pop out panel on the screen over everything else. I also get to watch it on my phone using the NEWSMAX app. So every time I happen to be somewhere garbage like CNN or MSNBC is on, I will not be part of their captive audience. And now that I have moved our cell service from Verizon to Pure Talk, I have all the data I could ever possibly use so they cannot restrict me from watching over their Wi-Fi. Although I do also have PCMatic's VPN service so I could watch or lookup whatever I want bypassing their restrictions.
A word about Pure Talk; with Verizon, I was paying $163.14 per month for 10GB of shared data, and my phone was well past end of life where my wife's was close to it. I was losing apps due to security issues with the long gone Android 8. Replacement phones were stupid expensive. We are now paying $95.47 per month for 25GB per line and we both got brand new Samsung A26 phones on Android 15 for $99.99 each. The phones each got an additional installed 512GB SD card and do everything we want them to do. The network coverage is so much better since we are no longer locked to Verizon and we can connect to 5G (not at my house, we just use 5G Wi-Fi anyway) when available.
So far so good.
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